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HI-Arts Cultural News archive from October 2004
Music Training Weekend comes to Shetland

Shetland Arts Trust is to host a major music training weekend on Saturday the 20th and Sunday the 21st November in Islesburgh Community Centre as part of their ongoing Music Development Project.
27 October 2004


Financial Boost for Young Music Making

Shetland Arts Trust has been awarded a grant of £16,500 from the National Foundation for Youth Music to promote a series of music workshops and concerts for young people throughout the islands over the winter months.
27 October 2004


Highland Storytelling Festival looks to the North

This year the 6th Tales at Martinmas Storytelling Festival will be held from 11-14 November.
26 October 2004


Chris Stout Click for full size imageChris Stout Quintet to play Shetland

Shetland fiddler Christopher Stout, of Fiddlers’ Bid fame, is due to make a return visit to Shetland for two much anticipated concerts, on the 12 & 13 November 2004.
25 October 2004


Ten Film Premieres for Inverness Film Festival

The Second Inverness Film Festival (11-15 November 2004) has been launched with an impressive line-up and programme.
25 October 2004


Invigilating The Land

In November the work on show at An Tobar's main gallery will be Ursula Ziegler's installation 'passing'.
22 October 2004


Community Play inspired by MacCrimmon Pipers moves up a gear

A script development project funded by The Highland Festival and the Scottish Arts Council with in kind support from Eden Court has been taking place in Skye and Lochalsh since May 2004, led by Kati Kozikowska, out-reach drama worker for Eden Court and cultural co-ordinator for the area.
22 October 2004


SOUND HERITAGE: recent and 20th Century music by British Composers

HEBRIDES ENSEMBLE is part of TUNE UP – a dynamic season of music tours from September 2004 to August 2005, supported by the Scottish Arts Council, to take some of the best Scottish and International musical talent to the places that other tours don't reach.
22 October 2004


Unique taste of the Highlands in new festival

Session A9, the Glenuig piping MacDonald Brothers, Gaelic singer Margaret Stewart and participants from 3 Highland Fèisean will soon be joining forces in Blas – a new festival giving a unique taste of traditional Highland culture – to be launched on Saturday 13 November simultaneously in 3 venues across the Highlands.
20 October 2004


Edinburgh International Festival brings award winning Education team to the Isles

The Edinburgh International Festival will arrive in the Western Isles to present its flagship Education project, Bank of Scotland Connecting to Music, to 10 to 12 year olds from 26-28 October 2004.
20 October 2004


te POOKA Click for full size imageSecrets of the Forest: Untold Tales of Hallowe'en

A spectacular performance of live storytelling, theatre, masquerade, circus and music for all ages, set deep in the heart of a Scottish forest, presented by te POOKa from 28-31 October 2004.
20 October 2004


Capital Comedy Highland tour

Edinburgh based Capital comedy is staging its first Highland tour this weekend (22-24 October).
20 October 2004


Carols by Candlelight

Scotland's leading professional vocal ensemble specialising in early (medieval and renaissance) and contemporary music, Cappella Nova, will be performing its popular ‘Carols by Candlelight’ at Scone Palace on Sunday 19th December.
20 October 2004


Birds of Paradise Theatre Company requests your help for: Our Land – The Publication

Birds of Paradise Theatre Company is creating a play on land reform entitled Brazil 12 Scotland 0. To compliment the Spring 2005 tour they are creating a publication of peoples' stories relating to land ownership and community buy-outs and are looking for real-life experiences from the public.
20 October 2004


LANDFALL exhibition opening at Taigh Chearsabhagh

An exciting new exhibition, curated by The Changing Room in Stirling, opens at Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre on 16 October 2004.
20 October 2004


Book Festival is the Opening Chapter of a Highly Successful Event

Organisers have hailed the first Inverness Book Festival as a highly successful and popular event.
11 October 2004


Strathspè Away with Dannsa

This year the Strathspè Away festival promises to be better than ever when it kicks off from 12-14 November at Kingussie.
08 October 2004


Get Moray Crafty workshops launch

A year long programme of art and craft workshops will be launched by the Made in Moray Arts & Crafts Co-operative in Elgin on 31 October 2004.
08 October 2004


Blether! - A writers' gathering

Blether!, a writers' gathering will take place at 7-10pm, Friday 8th October 2004 at The Bothy, Hootananny’s, Inverness.
08 October 2004


Incredible but True

The Incredible String Band will play the Spa Pavilion on Thursday the 4th of November.
07 October 2004


£5,000 Stipend announced for ‘Poet for Scotland’

Scotland’s national poet, or ‘Scots Makar’, will receive an annual stipend of £5,000 from the Scottish Arts Council, it was announced today, National Poetry Day.
07 October 2004


CLAN

CLAN is showing in Gallery 1 at Perth Museum and Art Gallery for the duration of the Royal National Mod, from Friday 8 October until Saturday 16 October.
07 October 2004


Shetland to feature on Promotional Music CD

Shetland musicians of all persuasions are being invited to submit tracks for possible inclusion on a compilation CD which is aimed at promoting music from across the Highlands and Islands.
06 October 2004


The Skye Jazz Weekend

This weekend (Friday 8 and Saturday 9 October) the Isle of Skye will create the sort of Jazz buzz associated with Islay and Bute.
05 October 2004


Three Ships and Lighthouse (c.1934-8) by Alfred Wallis, 32 x 46.5 cm, Oil on card Click for full size image
Three Ships and Lighthouse (c.1934-8) by Alfred Wallis, 32 x 46.5 cm, Oil on card
Out of Place: Works from the Pier Arts Centre in Orkney

A new exhibition at the Dean Gallery this winter will give visitors a rare opportunity to view works of art normally only seen by visitors to one of the UK’s most northerly islands.
05 October 2004


MOD crest Click for full size imageRoyal National Mod returns to Perth

Am Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail (The Royal National Mod) is Scotland's premier Gaelic festival of the Gaelic language, arts and culture and this year will be held in Perth from 8-16 October 2004.
04 October 2004


JAM Studios

JAM is a new independent artist’s studio, which will be opening in January 2005 in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis.
04 October 2004


National Poetry Day – Poetry on the Road

Three Arran poets are taking to the island road this October 7th to celebrate National Poetry Day.
04 October 2004


Wrap Up Warm: It's Ten Weekends in Winter!

Pitlochry Festival Theatre is delighted to announce the programme for its second Winter Season.
04 October 2004


The Vikings are Coming!

The sixth Tales at Martinmas brings another entertaining mix of stories, music and song to venues across Ross & Cromarty from 11th-14th November.
01 October 2004


Changing Faces

Film images of Merkinch mums and their children will feature in a special outdoor event to be held at the Kessock Court North flats on Saturday 13th November (changed from 6th) – weather permitting!
01 October 2004



 

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