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HI~Arts Journal for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
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An introduction to the HI-Arts website.
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Features, Reviews and News Stories on the Northings and HI-Arts websites now include links to a range of social bookmarking / sharing websites.
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Surveying a Resurgent Scene
ROBERT LIVINGSTON looks at the ...
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All the latest Arts News from the HI~Arts Journal.
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More cultural news from across the Highlands and Islands in our archive.
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Arts news from around the UK from the BBC.
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Northings Highlands and Islands Arts Journal editorial archive.
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The most recent features from the Northings Arts Journal for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
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Journal Archive - Issues 55- (2008)
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Northings Arts Journal features from July 2008.
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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.
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SUE WILSON looks at the increasingly fractious – and perhaps not yet fully resolved – debate over the proposed Mareel development in Lerwick.
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GEORGINA COBURN examines the extraordinary work of Glenferness-based artist Daniel Kavanagh.
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PAMELA BEASANT reports on a fascinating collaborative project from the Northern Isles
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ROB ADAMS reports on significant recent developments at the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music in Plockton.
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SUE WILSON meets the author of the first full-length travelogue of Shetland since the Victorian era.
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KAREN EMSLIE reports from Shetland on a new artistic contribution to one of the most pressing current debates in the Highlands & Islands – windfarms.
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FEATURES: Eugenia Vronskaya (Georgina Coburn), Nòs Ùr song competition (Rob Adams), Queen Anne's Revenge (Sue Wilson), Wrigley Sisters' Centre of Music (Sue Wilson)
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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.
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A gallery of artwork by Eugenia Vronskaya.
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ROB ADAMS reports on the Celtic round of this month’s Nòs Ùr song competition for minority languages around Europe.
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SUE WILSON catches up with a songwriting alliance forged in Ardgour.
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Win a copy of RUNRIG's new live DVD.
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SUE WILSON reports on the Wrigley Sisters efforts to find a new home for their culture centre in Kirkwall.
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FEATURES: Bruce MacGregor Interview, Lyth Arts Centre (William Wilson), Mark Sinclair (Karen Emslie), MipTV (Chris Lee), Three Voices (Morag MacInnes), Virtual Dinner Party
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Northings catches up with BRUCE MACGREGOR at Bogbain Farm, near Inverness.
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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.
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CHRIS LEE of Moray-based Wildbird reports from his first visit to MipTV in Cannes
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KAREN EMSLIE considers the work of Shetland photographer Mark Sinclair
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MORAG MACINNES considers the poetic identities revealed in the work of three women poets based in Orkney and Shetland.
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Artists are doing it for themselves - the HI Arts Virtual Dinner Party
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FEATURES: Floating Stones - Lotte Glob (Georgina Coburn), Ian Stephen Interview, Timespan (Georgina Coburn), Tribute to Simon MacKenzie (Rody Gorman)
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GEORGINA COBURN previews a new book and exhibition marking fifty years working in ceramics for Durness-based artist Lotte Glob.
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IAN STEPHEN, the Lewis-based writer, artist and sailor sets the scene for this month’s Three Islands Workshop on the island of Hoy.
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GEORGINA COBURN outlines the progress made in the latest phase of refurbishment at the Timepan centre in Helmsdale.
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RODY GORMAN pays a poetic tribute to the late Simon Mackenzie, actor, writer, theatre director and Gaelic activist.
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FEATURES: Fiona MacKenzie interview
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NORTHINGS hears about the work of Highland Council’s Màiri Mhòr Gaelic Song Fellow, Dingwall-based singer FIONA MACKENZIE.
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FEATURES: Fiona Hampton Interview, Robert Alan Jamieson (Ian Stephen), Piers Arts Centre 2 (Alistair Peebles)
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FIONA HAMPTON, the director of Highland 2007, reflects on the strengths and weaknesses of the Highland Year of Culture.
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ALISTAIR PEEBLES completes his two-part celebration of the re-opened Piers Arts Centre in Stromness.
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IAN STEPHEN considers an audio visual performance from Shetland by poet Robert Alan Jamieson as perceived from another island.
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FEATURES: Duncan Macmillan interview, HI-EX! (Georgina Coburn)
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GEORGINA COBURN discusses plans for a new Highland Gallery and Museum with the Chair of the steering group, Professor Duncan Macmillan.
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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.
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Journal Archive - Issues 44-54 (2007)
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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)
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HENRI EDWARDS profiles the Elgin-based company.
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GILES SUTHERLAND considers the life of work of Hamish Henderson in the light of a new biography by Timothy Neat.
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JOHN BURNS concludes his series on participating in BBC Scotland’s Highland Lives project.
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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.
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An Open Letter from Arts Correspondent GEORGINA COBURN.
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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.
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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)
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BETWEEN TWO WORLDS will draw on local Cairngorm legends as well as environment in an artistic illumination of a section of Glenmore Forest Park.
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GEORGINA COBURN explores the work of artist Geoff Broadway, the second contributor to The Other Side of Air project in Inverness.
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FRANK MCCONNELL traces the origins and current directions of the Black Isle-based dance company.
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SUE WILSON caught up with the venerated Lochaber fiddler and teacher Angus Grant on the release of only his second recording in 30 years.
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IAN STEPHEN reports on a gathering of Scottish island writers in Brittany that will have ongoing repercussions.
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COLIN MARR tells Northings what the new Eden Court has to offer.
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FEATURES: Del Whitticase (Georgina Coburn), Drama Na h-Alba (Stuart Brownlee), HITN Profile: Perhilion
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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.
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STUART BROWNLEE sets the scene for this month’s inaugural Dràma Na h-Alba showcase in and around Inverness.
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ALASDAIR SATCHEL looks to create imaginative theatre through his Dunoon-based company.
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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.
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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)
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RODY GORMAN describes his participation in the Poet to Poet project in Israel and Cove Park.
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EUAN MARTIN and DAVE SMITH formed Right Lines Productions in 2003 in the wake of their successful collaborations for the Highland Festival.
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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.
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GEORGINA COBURN considers the important work produced by Allison Weightman in the often undervalued medium of ceramics.
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KAREN EMSLIE considers the work of award-winning Shetland playwright Jacqui Clark.
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ROXANE PERMAR reflects on the recent visual arts exchange that brought German artist Oliver Gather to do a spot of dog watching in Shetland.
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ROB ADAMS catches up with fiddler DUNCAN CHISHOLM ahead of the premiere of his Blas commission, and found him in unusually hyperactive mode.
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FEATURES: A-Mach an Gleann (Jon Macleod & Anne Campbell), Mendelssohn on Mull (James Munro), Bob Dylan in Gaelic (Rody Gorman), Musick Fyne (James Ross), Pier Arts Centre (Alistair Peebles)
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Visual artists JON MACLEOD and ANNE CAMPBELL describe their work on their A-Mach an Gleann (A Known Wilderness) project on the moors of Lewis.
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JAMES MUNRO looks at the history and wonders about the future prospects of the Mendelssohn on Mull festival.
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RODY GORMAN describes his project to translate the songs of Bob Dylan and original country blues songs into Gaelic.
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JAMES ROSS explains the background to the Renassiance Music that will feature in Musick Fyne’s latest programme in Inverness.
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ALISTAIR PEEBLES reflects on the re-opening of the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness.
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GEORGINA COBURN puts the pertinent questions to MURDO MACDONALD, Professor of History of Scottish Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and leader of the Window to the West research team.
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FEATURES: An Sulaire Log (Ian Stephen), Highland Lives & Highland Lives 2 (John Burns), Skerryvore Album Launch (Sue Wilson), Steve Dilworth (Georgina Coburn), HITN Profile: Tabula Rasa Dance Company (Claire Pencak)
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IAN STEPHEN'S log of his sail on an Sulaire from Stornoway via the International Artists Worksop on Tanera Mor to the Moray Flotilla.
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JOHN BURNS signed up to take part in the BBC Scotland's Highland Lives project. In the first of three articles tracing his progress, John wonders exactly what he has gotten himself into...
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In the second of his reports on the Highland Lives project, JOHN BURNS finds both his medium and his subject matter.
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SUE WILSON skims the waves to check out the launch of Skerryvore’s new album on Tiree.
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GEORGINA COBURN examines the work of the Harris-based artist Steve Dilworth.
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HITN Profile - Tabula Rasa. CLAIRE PENÇAK set up Tabula Rasa Dance Company in 1999, and is the company’s Artistic Director.
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SYMON MACINTYRE and his colleagues at the Leith-based Puppet Lab have three major projects coming up in the Inverness area, beginning with performances of Beauty and the Beast this month.
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FEATURES: HITN Profile - Goode For A Giggle (Jackie Goode), Glencanisp Writers Retreats (Sue Wilson), Lotte Glob’s Sculpture Croft (Georgina Coburn),
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JACKIE GOODE supplies the run down on her Goode for a Giggle company and her activities as an actor.
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SUE WILSON samples the creative opportunities on offer at Glencanisp House Writers Retreats in Assynt.
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GEORGINA COBURN finds an artistic vision in tune with its natural surroundings in artist Lotte Glob’s remarkable creation in Sutherland.
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MALCOLM MACLEAN is the director of Pròiseact nan Ealan, the Gaelic Arts Agency, and co-executive producer/creative director of this month’s hugely ambitious multi-media extravaganza St Kilda – A European Opera.
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FEATURES: Astrid Williamson (James Parrish), Six Cities Design Festival (Georgina Coburn), Skye Music Festival 2007 (Susan Szymborski), HITN Profile: The Walking Theatre Company, Christil Trumpet at Papdale Primary (Matilda Tumim), Patsy Dyer in Slovakia (Patsy Dyer), Seachd At Cannes (Allan Hunter)
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The Argyll-based WALKING THEATRE COMPANY – Sadie Dixon-Spain and Liam Calgie – aim to take their flexible brand of theatre to the people.
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SUSAN SZYMBORSKI looks ahead to the award-winning Skye Music Festival.
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GEORGINA COBURN looks at what the ambitious Six Cities Design Festival will bring to Inverness.
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JAMES PARRISH traces the story of Shetland-born singer and songwriter ASTRID WILLIAMSON.
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Artist MATILDA TUMIM looks back on Christil Trumpet’s residency at Papdale Primary in Orkney.
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PATSY DYER, an accredited storyteller, writer and award winning garden designer, describes her work in Auchindrain Museum and on an associated visit to Slovakia.
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ALLAN HUNTER caught up with the Gaelic film Seachd at the Cannes Film Festival.
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MATTHEW ZAJAC, co-director of Dogstar Theatre, talks to Northings about the new work, and his career in theatre.
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FEATURES: HITN Profile - Zenwing Puppets, Highland Alternative Music (Susan Szymborski), Paul Bloomer (Georgina Coburn),
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Ross-shire-based Puppet theatre group ZENWING PUPPETS are this month’s featured company.
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GEORGINA COBURN examines the work of Shetland-based visual artist Paul Bloomer.
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SUSAN SZYMBORSKI gets the lowdown on an exciting new scheme to help young local musicians.
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Battlefield Band’s Lewis-born fiddler ALASDAIR WHITE is emerging as a major force in Scottish traditional music.
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FEATURES: Art and Agriculture (Rebecca Marr), Stanley Cursiter (Janette Park), Obituary: Evi Westmore (Robert Livingston)
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REBECCA MARR reports on progress in an unusual artist-in-residence project in Orkney.
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JANETTE PARK sets the scene for a major retrospective of the work of Orkney artist Stanely Cursiter for Highland 2007.
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ROBERT LIVINGSTON pays tribute to Evi Westmore, the Public Art Coordinator for Inverness, who died last weekend.
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MATT BAKER tells Georgina Coburn about his latest thinking in his ongoing work in the visual arts component of the Inverness city centre regeneration project.
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FEATURES: HITN Profile - Ballet West, Arts in The Northern Isles (Alistair Peebles),
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BALLET WEST is a national centre for young dancer development in Taynuilt.
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ALISTAIR PEEBLES looks at what 2007 holds in store for the arts in Orkney and Shetland.
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With the launch of her latest book, ‘Women Of The Highlands', Peter Urpeth caught up with author KATHARINE STEWART.
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FEATURES: Twenty-five years of the fèis movement (Kate Martin), High Lines (Professor Kenneth White)
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KATE MARTIN reveals the story behind Fèisean nan Gàidheal’s sumptuous new book celebrating the first twenty-five years of the fèis movement.
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HI~Arts' are very pleased to publish for the first time the text of Prof. White's annual lecture at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2006.
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FIONA HAMPTON, the director of Highland 2007, spoke to Northings on the eve of the launch of what should be a momentous year.
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Journal Archive - Issues 32-43 (2006)
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FEATURES: gifted (Georgina Coburn), HITN Profile-Grey Coast Theatre, Christil Trumpet Update (Leah Seator), Fèis (Kate Martin)
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GEORGINA COBURN welcomes the participation of Highland and Islands artists and makers in a prestigious crafts exhibition.
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HITN profile - Grey Coast Theatre Company.
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LEAH SEATOR catches up with Christil Trumpet’s year-long Papdale Primary School Residency as it passes its mid-way point.
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RANDY KLINGER gives his personal philosophy of Art.
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NORTHINGS caught up with Arthur Cormack during Cliar’s recent short tour of the Highlands and Islands.
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FEATURES: HITN Profile: Dogdazetheatre, Inverness Film Festival (Matt Lloyd), Peedie Gallery (Jen Hadfield), Shetland Writers Residency (Susanna Jones), Speed Bonny Bridge, Exhibitions in Mackay Country (Norman Gibson), HI~Arts Showcase: Mandy Haggith, Music and the Arts in Highland (Norman Newton), Thomas Fraser Memorial Festival (Rob Ellen), Torcuil Macrath (Peter Urpeth)
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MATT LLOYD explains the thinking behind the programme for the 4th Inverness Film Festival.
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JEN HADFIELD found the Peedie Gallery the perfect home for her Lady of Isbister.
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The participants in the Health & Happiness Projects of Skye & Lochalsh report on their current activities.
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SUSANNA JONES reflects on her recent completed appointment as writer in residence with Shetland Arts.
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HITN Profile - Dogdazetheatre Company from Moray.
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Arts Co-ordinator NORMAN GIBSON sets the scene for the final two exhibitions in the Mackay Country Residencies project.
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A HI~Arts award took Sutherland-based writer MANDY HAGGITH further than even she expected!
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NORMAN NEWTON surveys the range of services available to users of the Highland Libraries service.
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ROB ELLEN makes a pilgrimage to celebrates Shetland’s country music heritage and the legacy of Thomas Fraser.
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PETER URPETH remembers the life and work of writer Torcuil Macrath, who has died at the age of 82.
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DONALD SHAW, best known for his role in Capercaillie, has taken on the role of programming the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow this year.
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FEATURES: Cowalfest (Michael Russell), HITN Profile - Tosg, Shetland Book Festival (Alistair Peebles), George Gunn and Angus Dunn (Ian Stephen), Raymond MacDonald Music Lectures, Five Challenges Visual Arts Report (Georgina Coburn)
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MICHAEL RUSSELL welcomes the continuing growth of Cowalfest on the eve of this year’s event.
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TOSG GAELIC THEATRE COMPANY is a professional touring theatre company, and commissions new writing in Scottish Gaelic in a variety of styles for both children and adult audiences
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ALISTAIR PEEBLES reflects on the recent changes in the arts infrastructure in Shetland, and looks back on last month’s very successful book event.
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IAN STEPHEN looks at the work of two very different writers from the Highlands.
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Between 22 and 24 May 2006, jazz musician and psychologist RAYMOND MACDONALD visited the Isle of Lewis, Orkney and Inverness to talk about the importance and potential of music in a series of three lectures.
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A new study commissioned by HI~Arts sets Five Challenges for the continuing development of the Visual Arts in the Highlands and Islands.
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Interview with HAMISH MACDONALD, co-founder and joint artistic director of Dogstar Theatre.
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ANDY WHITE is a poet and powerbook-toting troubadour. He grew up in Belfast, surrounded by Irish beauty and terrorist violence. His 13th international release, Garageband, is released this month to coincide with a new UK tour. He speaks to MARCUS WILSON about visiting the Highlands, his new album and the business of making music.
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FEATURES: HITN Profile - Dannsa, 3rd Inverness Book Festival (Jason Rose), Visual Arts Report 2 (Georgina Coburn)
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DANNSA aim to promote and celebrate traditional Scottish dance.
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JASON ROSE looks forward to welcoming a diverse range of writers to his third festival.
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GEORGINA COBURN considers more key issues ahead of the HI~Arts Visual Arts final report and associated conference.
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EVI WESTMORE is the Public Arts Coordinator for Inverness City Partnership, and heads the team which will mount the Public Art Day in the city this month.
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FEATURES: Douglas Mackinnon (Allan Hunter), HITN Profile - Mull Theatre, Podcasting (John Burns), Showcase: Caroline Dear, Visual Arts Report 1 (Georgina Coburn)
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ALLAN HUNTER catches up with Skye-born film-maker DOUGLAS MACKINNON.
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MULL THEATRE are celebrating their final season in the cramped confines of Dervaig, and looking forward to an even more expansive future in their new home.
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JOHN BURNS recommends joining the Podcast revolution.
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Visual artist CAROLINE DEAR reports on her participation in the Kunst Hand Fest at Barnitz in Northern Germany.
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GEORGINA COBURN has been out and about the meeting visual artists and organisations throughout the Highlands and Islands to prepare a report for HI~Arts.
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NORTHINGS catches up with festival director JOE GIBBS as the Tartan Heart Festival a |
