Soillse – the National Research Network for the Maintenance and Revitalisation of Gaelic Language and Culture – is opening its Small Research Fund for research proposals for 2011.

The Highland Chamber Orchestra will take audiences on a European Grand Tour in concerts in Ullapool and Dornoch this month.

The Iona Gallery in Kingussie has launched a new website.

Perth Festival has announced its 40th programme, which will take place from the 18th to 29th May 2011.

TFC is a new club being set up in Thurso to bring cinema back to Caithness. Their first screening is Woody Allen’s Vicky Christina Barcelona. It will be showing at the British Legion Club in Thurso on Saturday April 30th at 7.30pm.

Sounding the Stones with International Musician and Storyteller Bob Pegg is taking place on the 14th & 15th May 2011 at Kilmartin House Museum in Argyll.

The eagerly awaited programme for the 2011 Perthshire Amber Festival is announced today, 26 April and includes an array of exciting talent.

Vernacular Modernism, an exhibition by the American artist Richard Roth, will open at the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art on 1 May 2011, 2-5pm.

Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 12 April 2011, and touring.

Spotlight Show: Bones & Beasts by Patricia Niemann opens this weekend (Saturday 30th April 2011) at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery. Patricia has been participating in Making Progress 2011 – a HI-Arts mentoring project for mid career makers. Patricia’s exhibition will be on display at IMAG until 28th May 2011.