GEORGINA COBURN condemns the short-sighted policy of removing specialist art and music teachers from early primary school

GEORGINA COBURN has been out and about the meeting visual artists and organisations throughout the Highlands and Islands to prepare a report for HI~Arts. Georgina airs some of the issues raised during interviews, and invites feedback from Northings readers ahead of the final report and associated conference later this year.

MULL THEATRE are celebrating their final season in the cramped confines of Dervaig, and looking forward to an even more expansive future in their new home.

Universal Hall, Findhorn, 26 July 2006

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies TWENTY YEARS AGO, Luc Besson was one of the leading figures in a new wave of French filmmaking that promised to unite style and substance. He was the talent behind ‘Subway’, ‘The Big Blue’ and ‘Nikita’. He hasn’t entirely fulfilled that early promise and the romantic fable ‘Angel-A’ is the […]

Isle of Lewis, 12-15 July 2006

Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 12-15 July 2006

20 June 2006 Hello there here we are again with the Birds of Paradise blog 2006. Just finished our second tech day at the Tramway. It’s not really a tech-tastic show (although I do rather like what we have) so, it means that the last two days haven’t been the trial tech runs often are. […]

ALLAN HUNTER at the Movies CATE BLANCHETT is frequently hailed as one of the most impressive performers of her generation. She won an Oscar last year for her extraordinary performance as Katharine Hepburn in ‘The Aviator’. Now, she has returned to her native Australia for a demanding role in the gritty, contemporary drama ‘Little Fish’. […]

Leverburgh Village Hall, Harris, 18 July 2006