The Pier Arts Centre is to present an exhibition of drawings, paintings and prints by Orcadian artist Sylvia Wishart this autumn. The lamp in the seaward window – the art of Sylvia Wishart opens on Saturday 27 August and will be on display until Saturday 5 November.

The lamp in the seaward window – the art of Sylvia Wishart opens on Saturday 27 August and will be on display until Saturday 5 November.

‘Eighteenth century girl band’ Lady Georgianna are thrilled and delighted to announce their forthcoming performance, ‘Love in the Pleasure Gardens’. From grand parks and palaces to galleries and gravel pathways – not to mention out on our city streets – Lady Georgianna’s tour brings the popular music of the 18th century pleasure gardens and the times of Jane Austen to 21st century ears at the Stables in Cromarty on Friday 26th August at 7.30pm.

The trio bedeck themselves in extravagant

Edinburgh Book Festival, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, 18 August 2011.

Typically in the marketing and audience development field we collect data about audiences based on attendance, sales and the demographics of our audiences. Sometimes there will be questions added into surveys and box office systems about the quality of the performance, whether the audience member enjoyed the performance, and possibly about how they heard about the event itself. But does this really measure the success of the experience?

Development of a national strategy for Scotland’s museums and galleries moves into a public consultation phase that will include meetings, events and an online survey.

the Britain of 1931, an uncanny reflection of events in 2011. Singing Far into the Night, a stylish, profound and moving play, based on real lives and real events in Scotland and Russia in 1931, will be touring Scotland this autumn.

Highland Print Studio in Inverness has announced details of a series of classes for Autumn 2011.

Loss Becomes Object, an exhibition by Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janssen, in collaboration with The Highland Hospice, opens at the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art on 24 September.

IAN STEPHEN concludes his voyage in Crear and Edinburgh.