BARRY GORDON welcomes the imminent launch of the debut album from clarsach duo Gillian Fleetwood and Freya Thomsen.
19 August 2008

EUAN MARTIN and Northings’ cartoonist DAVE SMITH have two shows running at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, which may be a first for a Highland Theatre company.
01 August 2008

ALLAN HUNTER sets the scene for a film festival where love of cinema is the only motivating factor.
01 August 2008

August 2008 venue profile - Glen Urquhart Hall, Drumnadrochit.
01 August 2008

FRANK MCCONNELL tells NORTHINGS about the latest developments in the work of his Black Isle-based Plan B company, including a run at the Edinburgh Fringe for their new show, Parallel / Parallels.
01 August 2008

FEATURES: The Duplets (Barry Gordon), Euan Martin, Ballerina Ballroom Film Festival (Allan Hunter), Glen Urquhart Public Hall, plan B (Frank McConnell)
01 August 2008

PETER URPETH chatted with the Lewis-born fiddle maestro back on home ground for the Hebridean Celtic Festival.
31 July 2008

SUE WILSON looks at the increasingly fractious – and perhaps not yet fully resolved – debate over the proposed Mareel development in Lerwick.
09 July 2008

SUE WILSON meets the author of the first full-length travelogue of Shetland since the Victorian era.
01 July 2008

AN TOBAR has made itself into an essential part of the Isle of Mull community and the wider Scottish arts scene in the 11 years since it opened.
01 July 2008

GEORGINA COBURN examines the extraordinary work of Glenferness-based artist Daniel Kavanagh.
01 July 2008

ROB ADAMS reports on significant recent developments at the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music in Plockton.
01 July 2008

PAMELA BEASANT reports on a fascinating collaborative project from the Northern Isles
01 July 2008

KAREN EMSLIE reports from Shetland on a new artistic contribution to one of the most pressing current debates in the Highlands & Islands – windfarms.
01 July 2008

FEATURES: Alasdair White (Peter Urpeth), Mareel, Lerwick (Sue Wilson), Ron McMillan (Sue Wilson), An Tobar Arts Centre, Daniel Kavanagh (Georgina Coburn), National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music (Rob Adams), Mailboats (Pamela Beasant), 2 Lge 4 ZE / 2 Small 4 the PLANET (Karen Emslie)
01 July 2008

SUE WILSON catches up with a songwriting alliance forged in Ardgour.
12 June 2008

ROB ADAMS reports on the Celtic round of this month’s Nòs Ùr song competition for minority languages around Europe.
11 June 2008

Win a copy of RUNRIG's new live DVD.
01 June 2008

SUE WILSON reports on the Wrigley Sisters efforts to find a new home for their culture centre in Kirkwall.
01 June 2008

A gallery of artwork by Eugenia Vronskaya.
01 June 2008

GEORGINA COBURN talks with Highland-based artist EUGENIA VRONSKAYA about the evolution of her latest body of work now showing at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London.
01 June 2008

FEATURES: Eugenia Vronskaya (Georgina Coburn), Nòs Ùr song competition (Rob Adams), Queen Anne's Revenge (Sue Wilson), Wrigley Sisters' Centre of Music (Sue Wilson)
01 June 2008

MORAG MACINNES considers the poetic identities revealed in the work of three women poets based in Orkney and Shetland.
21 May 2008

KAREN EMSLIE considers the work of Shetland photographer Mark Sinclair
09 May 2008

WILLIAM WILSON sets out the case for Lyth Arts Centre in the wake of the Scottish Arts Council’s decision to withdraw funding from the Caithness venue.
07 May 2008

Artists are doing it for themselves - the HI Arts Virtual Dinner Party
01 May 2008

CHRIS LEE of Moray-based Wildbird reports from his first visit to MipTV in Cannes
01 May 2008

Northings catches up with BRUCE MACGREGOR at Bogbain Farm, near Inverness.
01 May 2008

FEATURES: Bruce MacGregor Interview, Lyth Arts Centre (William Wilson), Mark Sinclair (Karen Emslie), MipTV (Chris Lee), Three Voices (Morag MacInnes), Virtual Dinner Party
01 May 2008

RODY GORMAN pays a poetic tribute to the late Simon Mackenzie, actor, writer, theatre director and Gaelic activist.
28 April 2008

GEORGINA COBURN previews a new book and exhibition marking fifty years working in ceramics for Durness-based artist Lotte Glob.
15 April 2008

IAN STEPHEN, the Lewis-based writer, artist and sailor sets the scene for this month’s Three Islands Workshop on the island of Hoy.
01 April 2008

GEORGINA COBURN outlines the progress made in the latest phase of refurbishment at the Timepan centre in Helmsdale.
01 April 2008

FEATURES: Floating Stones - Lotte Glob (Georgina Coburn), Ian Stephen Interview, Timespan (Georgina Coburn), Tribute to Simon MacKenzie (Rody Gorman)
01 April 2008

NORTHINGS hears about the work of Highland Council’s Màiri Mhòr Gaelic Song Fellow, Dingwall-based singer FIONA MACKENZIE.
01 March 2008

FEATURES: Fiona MacKenzie interview
01 March 2008

IAN STEPHEN considers an audio visual performance from Shetland by poet Robert Alan Jamieson as perceived from another island.
02 February 2008

ALISTAIR PEEBLES completes his two-part celebration of the re-opened Piers Arts Centre in Stromness.
01 February 2008

FIONA HAMPTON, the director of Highland 2007, reflects on the strengths and weaknesses of the Highland Year of Culture.
01 February 2008

FEATURES: Fiona Hampton Interview, Robert Alan Jamieson (Ian Stephen), Piers Arts Centre 2 (Alistair Peebles)
01 February 2008

THE FIRST EVENT of its kind in the Highlands, Hi-Ex! will bring a host of comic artists and exhibitors to the area in an exciting two day programme of screenings, talks, interviews, panel discussions, workshops and an exhibition of original comic art. GEORGINA COBURN spoke to organisers Vicky Stonebridge and Richard Clements.
24 January 2008

GEORGINA COBURN discusses plans for a new Highland Gallery and Museum with the Chair of the steering group, Professor Duncan Macmillan.
15 January 2008

FEATURES: Duncan Macmillan interview, HI-EX! (Georgina Coburn)
01 January 2008

Journal Archive - Issues 55- (2008)
01 January 2008

An Open Letter from Arts Correspondent GEORGINA COBURN.
19 December 2007

IAN STEPHEN is determined that this summer’s St Kilda – A European Opera won’t be the last word on the a musical depiction of the island’s story.
11 December 2007

GILES SUTHERLAND considers the life of work of Hamish Henderson in the light of a new biography by Timothy Neat.
11 December 2007

JOHN BURNS concludes his series on participating in BBC Scotland’s Highland Lives project.
11 December 2007

05 December 2007

GEORGINA COBURN examines the way in which the new Eden Court complex incorporates art and design as part of the fabric and resources of the building.
05 December 2007

SUE WILSON caught up with DONALD SHAW ahead of his second festival as Artistic Consultant of Celtic Connections, Glasgow’s major annual celebration of Celtic music – and a lot more besides.
03 December 2007

HENRI EDWARDS profiles the Elgin-based company.
01 December 2007

FEATURES: HITN Profile-Red Shoes Theatre (Henri Edwards), Hamish Henderson (Giles Sutherland), Highland Lives 3 (John Burns), Eden Court Art Project (Georgina Coburn), Inverness Gallery Consultation (Georgina Coburn)
01 December 2007

SUE WILSON caught up with the venerated Lochaber fiddler and teacher Angus Grant on the release of only his second recording in 30 years.
20 November 2007

GEORGINA COBURN explores the work of artist Geoff Broadway, the second contributor to The Other Side of Air project in Inverness.
07 November 2007

COLIN MARR tells Northings what the new Eden Court has to offer.
02 November 2007

FRANK MCCONNELL traces the origins and current directions of the Black Isle-based dance company.
01 November 2007

IAN STEPHEN reports on a gathering of Scottish island writers in Brittany that will have ongoing repercussions.
01 November 2007

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS will draw on local Cairngorm legends as well as environment in an artistic illumination of a section of Glenmore Forest Park.
01 November 2007

FEATURES: Between Two Worlds (Kenny Mathieson, Diane Maclean, Malcolm Innes, Bob Pegg), Geoff Broadway (Georgina Coburn), HITN Profile: Plan B (Frank McConnell), Aonghas Grant (Sue Wilson), Ouessant Festival (Ian Stephen)
01 November 2007

Photographs of Del Whitticase and The Other Side of Air Arts & Spirituality project.
02 October 2007

GEORGINA COBURN speaks to DEL WHITTICASE, the first artist in residence as part of The Other Side of Air – Arts & Spirituality project, about his work in the Merkinch community and the installation of his work ‘System’ at Trinity Church in Inverness.
01 October 2007

JUDI MENABNEY accepted Northings’ invitation in last month’s Editorial to explain the current reconstruction of the Education, Culture, and Sport division at Highland Council.
01 October 2007

STUART BROWNLEE sets the scene for this month’s inaugural Dràma Na h-Alba showcase in and around Inverness.
01 October 2007

ALASDAIR SATCHEL looks to create imaginative theatre through his Dunoon-based company.
01 October 2007

FEATURES: Del Whitticase (Georgina Coburn), Drama Na h-Alba (Stuart Brownlee), HITN Profile: Perhilion
01 October 2007

GEORGINA COBURN considers the important work produced by Allison Weightman in the often undervalued medium of ceramics.
25 September 2007

KAREN EMSLIE considers the work of award-winning Shetland playwright Jacqui Clark.
18 September 2007

ROXANE PERMAR reflects on the recent visual arts exchange that brought German artist Oliver Gather to do a spot of dog watching in Shetland.
18 September 2007

ROB ADAMS catches up with fiddler DUNCAN CHISHOLM ahead of the premiere of his Blas commission, and found him in unusually hyperactive mode.
04 September 2007

RODY GORMAN describes his participation in the Poet to Poet project in Israel and Cove Park.
02 September 2007

EUAN MARTIN and DAVE SMITH formed Right Lines Productions in 2003 in the wake of their successful collaborations for the Highland Festival.
01 September 2007

GABRIELLA HOCKNEY was part of the community cast in the National Theatre of Scotland’s production The Elgin Macbeth this summer, and shares her experiences here.
01 September 2007

FEATURES: Argyll to Israel (Rody Gorman), Right Lines Productions (Euan Martin and Dave Smith), The Elgin Macbeth (Gabriella Hockney), Oliver Gather in Shetland (Roxane Permar), Jacqui Clark (Karen Emslie), Allison Weightman (Georgina Coburn)
01 September 2007