After 10 years of publication, 'Northings' (the monthly arts e-magazine for the Highlands & Islands) closed down in 2013 and is archived here. High Life Highland is pleased to enable this extensive body of work to remain accessible to the public. Please note, though, that material will not be updated or added.

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Highland Print Studio Classes April – June 2011

5 Apr 2011 in Highland, News, Visual Arts & Crafts

Highland Print Studio in Inverness has announced details of their up and coming classes for April – June 2011.

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Feature by Ian Stephen

In The Stream of the Blue Men

5 Apr 2011 in Features, Film, Music, Outer Hebrides, Showcase, Visual Arts & Crafts

Peter Urpeth plays hurdy-gurdy as Maggie Nicols sings

Ian Stephen describes his thinking behind the events linked to the current an Lanntair exhibition, “Is a thing lost … if you know where it is?”.

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Review by Mark Fisher

The Hard Man

5 Apr 2011 in Aberdeen City & Shire, Artforms, Dance & Drama, Highland, Reviews, Showcase

Alex Ferns caged in The Hard Man

King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, 2 April 2011, and touring.

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Review by Georgina Coburn

Mike Inglis: Cathedral

5 Apr 2011 in Highland, Reviews, Showcase, Visual Arts & Crafts

Artist Mike Inglis in fornt of his depiction of Forty Pockets and the Grieg Street Bridge

IOTA, Crown Road Wall, Inverness, permanent installation.

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The Uist Eco Film Festival – 29 April – 1 May 2011

4 Apr 2011 in Film, News, Outer Hebrides

The Uist Eco Film Festival is a new 3-day film festival (29 April – 1 May 2011) screening environmentally-themed international documentary and fiction film and video based at Balivanich Community Hall on Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The main themes of the festival will be Climate Change and Sustainability in relation to island and maritime contexts in three strands – what we’ve got, how we stand to lose it & how we can change the situation.

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Local artist to give talk and painting workshops at Pier Arts Centre

4 Apr 2011 in News, Orkney, Visual Arts & Crafts

As part of the ARTIST ROOMS funded programme of education events to accompany the exhibition Beautiful Being, the Pier Arts Centre in Stromness is offering two days of painting workshops with Orcadian artist Diana Leslie on Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th April 2011.

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Blas On Track with Resident Band and Supersaver Tickets

4 Apr 2011 in Gaelic, Highland, Music, News

The Blas Festival will have a band in residence when the festival kicks off across the Highlands on 9 September 2011.

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Review by Catherine Turnbull

Sea Level: Recent Paintings by Sylvia Hays

4 Apr 2011 in Orkney, Reviews, Visual Arts & Crafts

Sylvia Hays landscape painting Towards Eday

Orkney Museum, Kirkwall, Orkney, until April 23 2011.

Second Making Progress makers’ films visit: Nick Ross in Aberdeen

3 Apr 2011 in Crafts Blog, Visual Arts & Crafts

Last Friday I made my way to Aberdeen to meet with Nick Ross and chat about his maker’s video. He’s currently the artist in residence and a tutor in Gray’s School of Art and, having only graduated in 2008, I was impressed before I had even arrived at how he had become so established in […]

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Gilly Langton Contemporary Jewellery – Courses for 2011

1 Apr 2011 in General, Highland, News, Visual Arts & Crafts

Plockton based Jewellery Designer, Gilly Langton has launched two new jewellery courses for 2011.

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