An exciting public archaeology and heritage project centred around Nybster Broch, one of the most spectacular Iron Age brochs in Caithness.

Edinburgh Folk Club, The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, Edinburgh, 20 April 2011.

The first ever Voluntary Arts Scotland Voluntary Arts Week is taking place 6 – 14 May 2011 and is a chance to celebrate all the wonderful arts and crafts activity taking place across Scotland.

Tickets are now on sale for a new music festival in Scotland hosted by The Famous Grouse.

Simon Hall, Orkney Library, 16 April 2011 / Kevin MacNeil, Lynnfield Hotel, Kirkwall, 17 April 2011.

Ron Ferguson GMB Memorial Lecture, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness / Ragnhild Ljosland, Orkney Library, 15 April 2011.

Highlands Open Studio (HOS) members are poised to welcome visitors – with their 2011 Calendar of Events having been distributed around the Highlands, logos prominently displayed at their premises, and car stickers adorning vehicles, members of the public can’t miss the message that Highlands Open Studio members are open for business!

Lochaber based designer Jen Deschenes has created an online silent auction of craft by Highland and islands makers to raise funds for her Kilimanjaro climb which she is doing in October to raise money for the charity ‘Caring Matters Now’.

Clockwork, award-winning author Philip Pullman’s darkly fascinating tale about man, machine and morality, leaps off the page this spring in a brand-new co-production by Visible Fictions and Scottish Opera

Kieran Goss is coming to the Victory Hall in Benderloch next Wednesday, 27th April.