EVI WESTMORE is the Public Arts Coordinator for Inverness City Partnership, and heads the team which will mount the Public Art Day in the city this month, as well as several other major art-inspired contributions to the regeneration project.

JASON ROSE looks forward to welcoming a diverse range of writers to his third festival.

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies HORROR ISN’T always about scary monsters and evil boogey men. Sometimes, the most banal moments can turn towards terror in the blinking of an eye. That’s the scenario that is developed in ‘Adrift’, a true story that leaves you wondering how you might have reacted under the same circumstances. It […]

BRIAN MORTON considers the changing relationship of the Royal National Mod and its host town for this year, Dunoon

SUSANNA JONES has recently completed a short appointment as writer in residence with Shetland Arts, and reflects on the experience of getting to know the islands and the people, and on the influence that may have on her own work.

EILEEN RAE looks at the Argyll & Bute residencies based in the artistic retreat at Cove Park.

GEORGINA COBURN has been out and about meeting the visual artists and organisations throughout the Highlands and Islands to prepare a report for HI~Arts. In this second article, Georgina considers more key issues ahead of the final report and associated conference later in 2006.

DANNSA aim to promote and celebrate traditional Scottish dance.

FOLLOWING in the wake of last month’s Tartan Heart Festival at Belladrum and the Nairn International Jazz Festival comes the second full-scale running of Blas, a Highland-wide celebration of Gaelic music, language and culture.

Grammar School, Grantown-on-Spey, 26 August 2006