This exhibition, jointly hosted by the Castle Gallery in Inverness and Tore Art Gallery on the Black Isle, will provide an opportunity to show and promote the work of some of the best artists living and working in the Highlands. It will include pieces from both established artists and emerging talent.
31 August 2007

COLIN MARR, the director of the Eden Court Theatre, yesterday unveiled plans for the reopening of the Inverness building following a major refurbishment.
31 August 2007

For the next two years school pupils in Shetland will have the opportunity to handle replica Egyptian artefacts from National Museums Scotland. Museum on the Move (MoM): Ancient Egypt is a touring learning resource which has been developed by National Museums Scotland in partnership with Shetland Museum and Archives, Renfrewshire Council and East Ayrshire Council.

30 August 2007

The ‘little fest in the west’ Loopallu is very very proud to announce that Franz Ferdinand will be headlining the final night of this years festival.
29 August 2007

The Caithness Arts Festival will take place this year from 8th—22nd September 2007.
29 August 2007

During the months of October and November there are some exciting events and workshops for the young (and not so young!) at Inverness Museum and Gallery.
29 August 2007

John Goldie appears for his first time in Phipps Hall on 28 September as part of the programme co-promoted by the Beauly Arts Group and Highland Council.
29 August 2007

Sun may not have been a feature of this year’s British summer, but a new exhibition entitled 'Dark Sea and Red Sail' (1 Sept 2007 – 24 May 2008) at the Fergusson Gallery will transport you to the sunny south of France.
29 August 2007

As part of the Blas Festival, on Monday 3 September the Atlantic Voices concert will take place in Ardross Community Hall featuring the Mary Jane Lamond Band and the Kathleen MacInnes Band.
28 August 2007

A free showing of Al Gore's celebrated film, "An Inconvenient Truth"at the Gable End Theatre on Thursday, 6 September, represents an open invitation for the people of Hoy and Walls to look at the arguments and form their own views.
28 August 2007

One of Scotland’s best-known contemporary artists, Alastair Fiddes Watt, is exhibiting “From a point of view” at The Watermill in Aberfeldy from 8th September to 2nd October 2007.
28 August 2007

A spectacular concert featuring fifteen top international singers and musicians playing alongside over forty young Highland Fèis students, is to be staged as one of the key events at this year’s Blas Festival, the leading Gaelic and Traditional music event staging 53 music events across 48 venues in the Highlands.
28 August 2007

Go behind the scenes with Scottish Ballet!

A unique sneak-peek ‘backstage’ with Scotland’s National Dance Company.

'Art on Site' An exciting photographic archive of the Shetland Museum construction.

With three weeks to go “Drams in the Field”, the Glenelg Music Festival (Drams), announces its line up and for the first time a Family Day during the day on the Saturday. Over the weekend of the 14th & 15th September the festival will be held on Bernera Farm. Continuing the success of last year the community run not for profit music festival is working in partnership with the Glenelg & Arnisdale Development Trust (GADT).
24 August 2007

The Scottish Arts Council today confirmed its support for two initiatives aimed at raising the international profile of Scotland’s dance and theatre artists.




24 August 2007

As part of their  tenth birthday celebrations, An Tobar is inviting every artist who has exhibited with them over the past ten years to donate a piece of artwork for their winter exhibition.

The project, Reflections from the Well, is intended to reflect the breadth of work supported by An Tobar and as part of the project a fund will be established to support future Argyll artists.

If you have had work exhibited at An Tobar and would like to get involved please contact Lee Hendrick at exhibitions@antobar.co.uk

This year's Black Isle Words Festival gives everyone an opportunity to meet and hear a number of well-known, popular writers.
22 August 2007

The Traditional Music and Song Association is delighted to be part of this year’s BLAS festival promoting 3 concerts featuring the cream of talent on the traditional music scene. Both organisations are excited by this partnership which allows them to showcase the wealth of talented young musicians we are so fortunate to have in Scotland.

Following the news that 2005 Orkney Blues Festival would be the last. A small group of blues enthusiasts and local businesses got together to keep the spirit of blues music alive in Orkney. A new committee was formed and a very successful blues weekend took place in 2006.


21 August 2007

People working in the creative industries of Shetland have been invited to gather at Lerwick Town Hall on Thursday (30 August) to explore the industry's potential to become one of the top five economic sectors in Shetland.
21 August 2007

Skye based Young Films has employed web-aware school leaver Mairead Martin to using her blogging skills, to promote the first Scottish Gaelic feature film to show in commercial cinemas in the UK, Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle.
21 August 2007

An exquisite and moving physical theatre duet, The Ballad tells the story of a young couple who, by a chance meeting, are destined to be bound forever by love. Inspired by the storytelling, imagery and yearning of traditional Scottish ballads, it combines theatre with aerial work and live music. The Ballad was originally created as a co-production with The Lemon Tree in 2005. It returns now by popular demand.


20 August 2007

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."- Igor Stravinsky
Where does crime end and art start? ‘Lifting' is a show at Peacock Visual Arts exploring instances where art gets into the realm of the morally uncertain. The results are humorous and poignant revelations on the complexities of social ideas of ownership, originality and copyright.

The exhibition contains work by various international artists, is curated by Atopia Projects and runs from 25 August until 29 September.

Cellorhythmics – composer/jazz musician James Hesford and a Kazakh born virtuoso cellist Alfia Nakipbekova came to Papa Westray on the 10th August to play two concerts.


16 August 2007

“a wonderfully contentious commentary …on 21st century Gaeldom.”
—Malcolm Maclean, Gaelic Arts Agency

Hebridean people have been marginalised from Scotland, from their own Gaelic language and from their own land since Culloden. But that could all be set to change. Land buyouts combined with an unparalleled wind and marine energy resource mean the Outer Hebrides could become the powerhouse of a new ecologically conscious Scotland.


16 August 2007

A unique and vibrant, family-orientated Gaelic language gathering comes to Ullapool in the form of “Tional” on 1st and 2nd September.
16 August 2007

The inaugural winner of a Scottish award celebrating the best Gaelic children’s books will return to her roots later this month with a guest appearance at the Faclan Hebridean Book Festival.
15 August 2007

Andrew Greig, Nicola Morgan, Lesley Glaister and Lin Anderson will be hot-footing it from the Edinburgh Book Festival to join other authors in the brand new Community Hall in Boat of Garten on 1 September 2007 for Boat’s first ever Book Day.
15 August 2007

Faclan, the 2nd Hebridean Book Festival, is at An Lanntair from 29th August - 1st September 2007.

15 August 2007

Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers make a welcome return to Inverness for two shows on 18 September 2007.
15 August 2007

The fourth Inverness Book Festival (1-5 October 2007) will feature an exciting line-up of acclaimed authors including Iain Banks, Tom Devine, GP Taylor, A-L Kennedy and Lance Price.
14 August 2007

Due to popular demand, Ullapool Composer James Douglas and his ensemble: 'The Glorious Company...' return to The Macphail Theatre in November 2007.
14 August 2007

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra will be joined by Chinese guitarist Xuefei Yang and conductor Alexander Shelley for the final SCO Highlands Tour of 2007, with performances of music by Rodrigo, Haydn, Stravinsky and Fauré in Stirling Castle's Great Hall (Thursday 6 September), Kingussie's Badenoch Centre (Friday 7 September) and Thurso High School (Saturday 8 September), where the SCO will perform as the opening event of Caithness Arts Festival.

10 August 2007

The construction of the new Production Centre for Mull Theatre is beginning, at Druimfin, just outside Tobermory on the Isle of Mull.
09 August 2007

Timespan gallery, Helmsdale is currently exhibiting works by Scottish artists Charles MacQueen, Christine Woodside and Sian MacQueen.
08 August 2007

For the first time, this August Edinburgh International Festival takes a Festival show on a short tour around Scotland as part of an initiative from new Edinburgh International Festival artistic director Jonathan Mills.


07 August 2007

The leading Gaelic and Traditional music festival in the Highlands has published its 2007 programme of events detailing 53 shows across 48 venues in the region.

07 August 2007

A unique and vibrant, family-orientated Gaelic language gathering comes to Ullapool in the form of “Tional”. On 1st and 2nd September the Gaelic language will take the centre stage at the MacPhail centre thanks to Clì Gàidhlig, the organisation promoting and helping adult learners of the Gaelic language. Participants can take part in a variety of activities, but they will all be led in Gaelic with translations where necessary.


07 August 2007

Lindsay Boyd - 2007 graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee will be arriving in Cromarty on Friday 3rd August to take up residence at The Stables for the month of August.

02 August 2007

Composer James Douglas (based in Ullapool), gave the World Premiere of his ‘Inverness Cathedral’ on Thursday 26th July at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral in Inverness.
02 August 2007

The Board and Company of Scottish Opera are delighted to announce the appointment of Italian conductor Francesco Corti as Music Director.
02 August 2007

As part of their 'No Hall Too Small' tour of the north, the unique country 'n' western duo of Hank Wangford and Reg Meuross will be in Orkney for dates at Woodwick House on Wednesday, 22nd August, at 7.30 p.m. and at the Gable End Theatre, on Thursday, 23rd August, at 8 p.m.
01 August 2007

Call for entries that inspire environmentally-friendly living. Now in its third year, the Scottish Eco Prize for Creativity has opened for entries for its 2007 award.
01 August 2007

The Cromarty Group will hold their 31st annual exhibition at The Stables, Cromarty from Saturday 18th August through to Monday 27th.
01 August 2007

A campaign is growing for a new Scottish anthem.
01 August 2007

Fifteen year old DMFOban was originally a birthday party and this year it took place across Saturday 28th & Sunday 29th of July. Scotland’s most exciting independent festival basked in glorious sunshine over the course of an incredible weekend.
01 August 2007