At One With Music will be presenting no fewer than four lunchtime concerts in Inverness Town House over the next few weeks.

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Sleat, Isle of Skye, 15-17 June 2011.

New initiative on Northings features five original radio plays from Highland writers, plus a four-part mini-series from Right Lines called Morrison’s Van.

HAMISH MACDONALD reports on Dogstar Theatre’s participation in the international Contemporary Myths project.

Kevin MacNeil’s new anthology of poetry from the Scottish islands launches in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Residency for Young People aged 16-21, their Educators and Youth Leaders.

The virtuosic Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind and Brass ensemble brings an uplifting programme of classics by Beethoven, Scheidt, Gounod and Mozart to Seil Island Community Hall in Easdale on Wednesday 6 July and Whiting Bay Hall on Arran on Friday 8 July 2011.

OneTouch Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness, 21 July 2011.

Following a sell-out performance in May, Thistle Bee Theatre Company presents their dramatisation of Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife in Elgin (1 July) and Nairn (26 August).

“How many islands can you set foot on in the space of two weeks?” That’s the question music festival fans Jim Campbell and Brian Ferguson have set themselves for HitchHop – a hitch-hiking island-hopping challenge they are embarking on in the west coast of Scotland this July, in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.