As the Eden Court Theatre prepares to stage events from the nationwide Puppet Animation Festival for the first time, the festival’s director SIMON HART, fills in the background to an event that has, like Topsy, just growed and growed.

CHOMAN HARDI is the first poet in residence at the Moniack Mhor Writer’s Centre. JOHN BURNS profiles the poet and her role within the new developments taking place at the centre.

Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, Wednesday 31 March 2004

The Arts Journal catches up with the great Irish fiddle player KEVIN BURKE as he makes a rare solo appearance in Beauly.

Cromarty, 26-28 March 2004

Skye Gathering Hall, Portree, 27 March 2004

CATRIONA PAUL at the Movies. HOW FUNNY is a film about cancer, in French, with subtitles? The answer – surprisingly funny, and definitely worth a look. The Barbarian Invasions is an intelligent drama/comedy from Franco-Canadian director Denys Arcand, (best-known for Jesus of Montreal, 1988), which focuses on the last months of Rémy, bon viveur, womaniser […]

Catriona Paul at the movies. HOW MUCH does a life weigh? Apparently, at the exact moment of death, a person loses 21 grams. Alejandro González Inárritu’s latest film suggests death weighs much more heavily on those left behind. Naomi Watts and Benicio del Toro received Oscar nominations for their roles in this drama, and Sean […]

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 18 March 2004 and then touring

Catriona Paul at the movies. DIRECTOR Ron Howard’s first attempt at the Western was the lavish, light-hearted turkey, Far and Away (1992). 12 years on, we have The Missing – a gritty, frontier drama about a girl’s abduction, starring Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones. But has Howard, maker of hits including Parenthood, Apollo 13 […]