Howden Park Centre, Livingston, 4 March 2011, and touring.

A Musical Recital featuring John Rae’s fiddle, Stromness Museum, Orkney, 6 March 2011.

Traverse, Edinburgh, 5 March 2011, and touring.

Mandy Haggith considers the work of Assynt-based landscape artist Mary King.

The annual Fèis Lochabair will take place from 11-15 April in Lochyside Primary School, Fort William.

Piatti String Quartet perform at the Town House in Inverness in March.

The hugely successful and critically acclaimed Stellar Quines production Age of Arousal, a co-production with the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, will be at the Eden Court, Inverness for two nights on 1 & 2 April 2011.

The continuing archaeological dig at the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney, a stunning complex of 5000-year-old buildings, has been named research project of the year in a national awards scheme.

Deveron Arts’ artist-in-residence Baudouin Mouanda from the Congo will be giving an Artist Talk about his previous work and his project for Huntly on Tuesday 8 March 2011 at the Empty Shop, Huntly.

Moray Art Centre’s next exhibition (5 March – 30 April 2011) tells the rich stories and recollections of Scotland’s Travelling people through a series of digital prints and mixed media by the artist John Hodkinson.