Ceòlas has just returned from a visit to Feile Iorras in Co. Mayo in Ireland thanks to the support of Iomairt Cholm Cille.
31 July 2008

The Inverness Council for Voluntary Services (CVS) are proud to be launching a new initiative throughout the Inverness-shire area.
31 July 2008

The Watermill Gallery in Aberfeldy is hosting an exceptional exhibition from 20 September to 10 November 2008 with work for sale by some of the best-known international figures in modern art. From Picasso to Warhol, and Hirst to Hepworth.
30 July 2008

Caritas Music Publishing is delighted to exclusively announce that one of Scotland’s leading Composers James Douglas, is holding a magnificent celebration Concert for his new work called ‘The Ullapool Experience’ at The Macphail Theatre, Ullapool on Thursday 21st August, 7.30pm.
30 July 2008

To celebrate its 21st anniversary The Kala Chethena Kathakali Theatre Company one of the world’s foremost Indian dance companies presents a UK tour of Kathakali: classical dance-drama from South India during September to November 2008.
30 July 2008

Orchid enthusiasts and keen gardeners will be heading for Scone Palace next weekend, as the Palace hosts its annual Orchid Festival from 2nd – 3rd August 2008.

Tore Art Gallery's SUMMER EXHIBITION which runs during July and August opened recently and the venue would like to welcome all visitors!

30 July 2008

Artists from Shetland are taking part in the 7th International Festival of Experimental Art, which will take place from l8th to 27th July at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg, Russia. Susan Timmins and Freya Inkster are exhibiting a collaborative film work, Random Reconciliations which is an experiment in numbers, music and photographic images.

30 July 2008

A fifth season of archaeological excavations of an Iron Age broch on the Applecross Peninsula concluded this weekend.
30 July 2008

Shetland Arts is delighted to announce that it has been successfully short listed for funding from the Scottish Arts Council’s Inspire Fund.
29 July 2008

Grantown Museum is celebrating following the launch of the results of Their Past Your Future Scotland Phase 1, an exciting programme of events and a touring exhibition, which took place in 2005 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
29 July 2008

A site specific event combining the arts and extreme sports in Aberdeen, a 25ft high ‘Big Man’ walking through Scotland inspiring creativity among communities, and a performance by young Asian groups in Glasgow inspired by graphic novels and video games. These are just some of the exciting, innovative projects that have been shortlisted for funding from the Scottish Arts Council’s Inspire Fund.
28 July 2008

Dates for next year's Hebcelt are now set, 15 - 18 July 2009. With Scotland-wide celebrations taking place for Homecoming 2009, next year's Hebcelt is primed to make its mark with a programme that celebrates its uniqueness amongst peers. Mark your diaries now, we hope you can join us once more for the original homecoming party!

Artists taking part in this years first ArtMap Argyll Open Studios Weekend celebrated the launch of their brochure with a Preview of work at Luckenbooth Gallery Tarbert.

Sat 2nd & Sun 3rd August 10am – 5pm.

Scotland’s premier Celtic rock band, Runrig, have announced that they will play live in the magnificent parklands of Scone Palace on 29th August 2009, as part of the Homecoming Scotland celebrations.
28 July 2008

Fiddle Frenzy’s annual scholarship for young fiddlers has been extended to include a rising star from Orkney.
24 July 2008

Ticketmaster, one of the official ticket agents for Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival, has informed the festival organisers that 1250 of Ticketmaster’s allocation of tickets for the festival have gone missing in transit to the company’s Manchester office.
24 July 2008

The Sutherland duo will undertake a mini-tour of the Far North, with a scintillating programme of virtuosic classical works for violin and piano, featuring composers such as Mozart, Brahms and Gershwin. Broughty Ferry pianist Christina Lawrie met violinist Harriet Mackenzie at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they subsequently discovered shared Sutherland ancestry in the Strath of Kildonan and Strath Halladale, hence the name of the duo.


24 July 2008

FilmG – the Gaelic Short Film Competition – will be taking to the road this week to round up the Highlands and Islands’ budding filmmakers, and steer them towards making something of themselves.
23 July 2008

The engage Scotland Conference 2008 'What do We-Think?' will take place on  Thursday 11 and Friday 12 September 2008 at Tramway and The Lighthouse in Glasgow.
23 July 2008

A double bill combining a marvellous piece of puppet theatre with a classic animation movie will be presented by the Gable End Theatre and the Film Society in Orkney on Saturday 26 July 2008.

23 July 2008

The folk duo Twelfth Day will be playing at the Gable End Theatre in Orkney on Wednesday, 30 July 2008.
23 July 2008

Sandstone Press is delighted to announce the appearance of Scottish Printed Books by Antony Kamm.
23 July 2008

Ceòlas has organised a two day event this August 22-24th August at Polochar Inn in South Uist. The Gathering In/Trusadh nam Fonn will explore how to collect traditional songs now as well as give an overview of the work collected from the Uists which are held in a variety of Universities and Institutions across the globe.
23 July 2008

The poster designed by Emma Quinn for The Accidental Death of an Accordionist has come second in the Edinburgh Fringe poster competition - the Dupliquick Zebra Award for best promotional material for the fringe.

23 July 2008

A site specific event combining the arts and extreme sports in Aberdeen, a 25ft high ‘Big Man’ walking through Scotland inspiring creativity among communities, and a performance by young Asian groups in Glasgow inspired by graphic novels and video games. These are just some of the exciting, innovative projects that have been shortlisted for funding from the Scottish Arts Council’s Inspire Fund.
23 July 2008

The third concert in the successful 2008 summer series of concerts organised by the Friends of St Margaret’s, Aberlour, will feature soloists from the Moray Concert Brass performing a Summer Serenade in St Margaret’s Church, at 7.30pm on Friday 25 July 2008.
17 July 2008

The National Theatre of Scotland return to the Edinburgh International Festival, following previous successes with Realism and The Bacchae. 365 is a new work by David Harrower, directed by Vicky Featherstone about fragmented lives and young people in the care system today. 365 receives it world premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival on 22 August, followed by a run in London. The play previews at Eden Court, Inverness.

Do you want to be in a National Theatre of Scotland professional production?
Are you aged 16 to 20 years? Now is your chance!  365 is the name of a new show coming to Eden Court, Inverness, from 13-16 August 2008, for three performances on 13, 15 and 16 August at 7.30pm.

The Tailor of Inverness (UK premiere)
Krawiec z Inverness

17 July 2008

The Other Side of Air workshop held at the newly re-opened BlackBridge Gallery kick started the 5th Merkinch Arts Festival.
17 July 2008

Scottish Opera Tour New Production of The Merry Widow to 25 Venues Across Scotland
4 September – 8 November 2008
17 July 2008

This Saturday, 19th July 2008, the Pier Arts Centre in Orkney will be hosting ‘Gunnie Day,’ to celebrate the life and work of Gunnie Moberg.
16 July 2008

2008 has been a busy year for Mid Argyll Pipe Band. After being awarded the Hands Up For Trad Scottish Pipe Band of the Year Award, the Band took an unprecedented step in its history to embark upon the monumental journey of making their first album.
16 July 2008

The traditional skills, stories and society of old Auchindrain are to be brought to life, as Scotland’s contribution to a unique European project starts this weekend (Saturday 19th July 2008).
16 July 2008

HI~Arts is very pleased to announce a new and important extension to its highly successful critical reading project for writers, Work In Progress.
16 July 2008

Eden Court’s line-up of live events brings you a bumper banquet of workshops from the BBC, a no-holds barred comedienne, the future of Scottish Jazz, the authentic Ceilidh Dance experience, and a man who has made a serious business of clowning around. Read on to find out more…
16 July 2008

Are your teenagers at a loose end this summer? If so, why not sign them up for a fun, creative workshop on 19th and 20th July 2008 in Inverness.
15 July 2008

Scotland’s national opera company takes to the road this autumn (4 September to 8 November 2008) with a brand new production of Franz Léhar’s The Merry Widow, a delightful tale of romance, regret, exotic parties and frustrated love.
15 July 2008

Artists from Shetland are taking part in the 7th International Festival of Experimental Art, which will take place from l8th to 27th July at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg, Russia.
15 July 2008

A music CD to accompany Right Lines and Mull Theatre's "The Accidental Death of an Accordionist" summer tour has just been released.
15 July 2008

Experts from the Sheffield Documentary Festival are inviting film producers to a workshop in Inverness on Thursday (July 17) to prepare them for pitching to an international documentary market at the Sheffield Documentary Festival in November.
15 July 2008

The largest sheet music publisher of traditional music in Scotland will be playing a celebration jig this year as it begins an ambitious expansion programme.
15 July 2008

With Scottish bands headlining summer music festivals around the world this year, some of Scotland’s promising young bands are being given the chance to work with professional recording studios to take their music careers to the next stage, thanks to a pilot scheme funded by the Scottish Arts Council’s Youth Music Initiative (YMI).
10 July 2008

The Shetland Guild of Spinners, Weavers, Knitters and Dyers are celebrating 20 years of success with an open day at the Shetland Museum and Archives on Saturday 12th July.
10 July 2008

An exhibition from the Hayward Gallery of the prints of South American artist Ana Maria Pacheco goes on show on at The Swanson Gallery, Thurso from 19 July to 9 August 2008.  Meanwhile the Highland Print Studio is bringing to St Fergus Gallery, Wick an exhibition of contemporary artwork celebrating the diversity of work that can be created using traditional printmaking techniques.

New SQA accredited course launches at Newbattle Abbey College in partnership with Scottish Storytelling Centre.
09 July 2008

The Hebridean Celtic Festival is just round the corner... With a week to go things are beginning to warm up with a touch of sun to help us along as the HebCelt team begin the preparations on site.

09 July 2008

Laura Pasetti of Charioteer Theatre, in collaboration with Moray Council, invites you to a 7 day Acting Laboratory on Greek Comedy based on the play Women in Council by Aristophanes.
08 July 2008

A while ago, on an impulse, a quixotic seizure, Tilda Swinton rented a ballroom, The Ballerina, in an old Victorian stone building in Nairn. After renting the Ballerina, Tilda emailed Mark Cousins to ask if he’d help her put on a film festival in it. It will take place this year from 15 to 23 August.
08 July 2008

Want to see an artist at work in their studio and get the chance to see over 100 artists exhibit work during one event?

Bha FilmG, an fharpais airson fhilmichean goirid Gàidhlig, air a chur air chois air Dihaoine 27 an t-Ògmhios le rionnag River City, an t-actair Tony Kearney. Ghabh seo àite ann an taigh-dealbh Grosvenor ann an Glaschu.

02 July 2008

FilmG, the Gaelic short film competition, was launched on Friday 27 June 2008 by actor Tony Kearney, star of River City. The launch took place at the Grosvenor Cinema in Glasgow.


02 July 2008

YDance (Scotland’s National Youth Dance Agency) has brought together twenty two of Scotland’s best young dancers for Project Y 2008 and the Company are in residence at The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow from Monday 7 July. Over the following four weeks they will be working closely with guest choreographers and dance specialists on new pieces for a short Scottish tour which includes performances at Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama (Glasgow), the Brunton Theatre (Musselburgh), Eden Court (Inverness) and as part of the Aberdeen International Youth Festival at The Lemon Tree (Aberdeen).


02 July 2008

Brown’s Gallery, Tain, celebrates its first major exhibition in the recently extended gallery with a mixed show of new work. Entitled ‘New Summer Show ‘08’ and beginning Monday 7 July 2008, the exhibition will feature work by established artists including John Bellany, John Byrne and Neil MacPherson as well as introducing and welcoming back artists including Fin MacRae, Blair Cunningham, Colin Brown, Jennifer Houliston and Kate Downie.

02 July 2008

On 20th June, Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop (LFW) picked up a prestigious award at the Third Force News Scottish Charity Awards in Glasgow. Shortlisted for the second consecutive year, the Workshop went one better this year in scooping the Community Action Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement for work in the community.
02 July 2008

Highland Council has taken out a subscription to the Grantnet grant search portal and is offering access to all community groups in the Highlands and Islands. Registration is required. See link above.
02 July 2008

The Highland Council has launched the Highland 2007 Legacy Programme, providing an annual fund of £500k in grants to build upon the success of Highland 2007. The programme aims to enhance and to promote the events, festivals and cultural programme of the Highlands. Community organisations, promoters, artists, performers, youth groups and schools are now being encouraged to create their own legacy of Highland 2007 and to submit their applications.