David Pollock explores the RSAMD’s burgeoning H&I connections with the Academy’s principal, John Wallace.

Cleas, an arts charity based in Portree has been selected by the People’s Millions to go forward to the STV television vote on Tuesday 28th June 2011 and they need your vote!

24 Gaelic speaking teenagers are getting set to kick off the summer holidays by making their way to Portree in the Isle of Skye for ‘An Sgoil Shamhraidh Dhràma’.

Scotland’s Islands are at the heart of this year’s Blas festival giving the audience a flavour of island culture – Blas nan Eilean.

Leading academics, poets and artists from Scotland and Ireland gathered on the Isle of Skye this week to celebrate the life and work of the renowned Gaelic poet, Sorley MacLean.

For the first time, the 2011 Blas Festival will have its own band in residence when the festival takes off across the Highlands on 9 September.

The National Library of Scotland has put its draft Gaelic Language Plan out for consultation prior to its submission to Bòrd na Gàidhlig at the end of July.

There will be more than a sprinkling of gold dust on the stage of Fort William’s Nevis Centre when the Blas 2011 Festival comes to town.

A strand of programming featuring top performers and a major new commission celebrating the culture of Scotland’s islands will be at the heart of this year’s Blas Festival, which has established itself as the premier event celebrating all that is good about the Gaelic language and culture of the Highlands.

Ishbel MacAskill Memorial Concert will be held at at Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, on Thursday 16th June at 7.30pm..