THE FESTIVAL season is drawing to a close now, with Hydro Connect just squeezing into the last weekend in August, but September has two more big events on offer. Blas 2008 kicks off on 5 September with concerts in seven of the eight areas it serves, while this year’s Loopallu follows later in the month.

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies FRANCOIS OZON is one of the finest French directors of his generation. His films show an acute understanding of human relationships, love, loss and longing. Angel sees him venturing far from his comfort zone with an English-language adaptation of a period romance from the pen of Elizabeth Taylor – the […]

One Touch Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness, 27 August 2008

Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, until 20 September 2008

Tore Gallery, Tore, until 30 September 2008

Community Centre, Nairn, 23 August 2008

Kilmorack Gallery, by Beauly, until 13 September 2008

Ballerina Ballroom, Nairn, 15-23 August 2008

Playhouse, Edinburgh, 22 August 2008

BARRY GORDON welcomes the imminent launch of the debut album from clarsach duo Gillian Fleetwood and Freya Thomsen