HELEN SLATER caught up with dancer and choreographer CHRISTINE DEVANAY as she put the finishing touches to Found, a new touring show for her dance company, Curious Seed, created in the course of a two-week residency at Eden Court in June.

KEN PORTER relates a chance encounter with a Doric poet, and looks into the origins of the word Doric.

FERGUS FEGGANS at RockNess 2009.

SUE PIRNIE reports from the most famous of the major international visual arts institutions.

TINA ROSE looks ahead to a celebration of 30 years of Scottish Glass.

KENNY MATHIESON finds preparations going into overdrive in Thurso

IAN STEPHEN concludes his reports on the Åland excursion with a missive from Stockholm

IAN STEPHEN continues his account of the Lewis artists’ foray to the Baltic.

NORMAN BISSELL introduces a new festival on the island of Luing.

IAN STEPHEN chronicles his journey with three more Lewis-based artists to the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea.

KENNY MATHIESON catches up with progress in Thurso.

KENNY MATHIESON checks in on progress at Elgin High School.

FEATURES: Christine Devaney (Helen Slater)

CATHY SHANKLAND and DEAN MELVILLE discuss the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition at the Inverness Museum and Gallery with Kenny Mathieson, and sketch out the ongoing implications of the Artist Rooms project for the Highlands & Islands

FEATURES: Artist Rooms (Cathy Shankland & Dean Melville), NTS Transform Moray 2 (Kenny Mathieson), NTS Transform Caithness 2 (Kenny Mathieson)

LOUISE HENDERSON sets the scene as the Caithness project gathers momentum.

ALISTAIR PEEBLES wrestles with reflections inspired by Mel Gooding’s recent lecture at the Pier Arts Centre.

JOHN SAICH reports from a successful gathering of makers and artists on the Isle of Mull

KENNY MATHIESON reports on the early stages of the Transform Moray project.