Duff House Country Gallery, Banff, until 18 January 2004 then touring

Dingwall-based ANDREA MUIR records her adventures on the writing course at the Arvon Foundation’s centre in deepest Devon.

THE ARTS JOURNAL is a journal of comment and criticism rather than fiction and poetry, but in another well-established publishing tradition, we offer a short story for the New Year by Contributing Editor Peter Urpeth

As Mull Theatre company prepare to leave their tiny base at Dervaig, director ALASDAIR McCRONE writes an open letter in which he describes their hopes and plans for a new theatre in Tobermory, and invites support and feedback for the project

Còmhla was a major International Artist’s Workshop that took place at Taigh Chearsabagh Arts Centre in Lochmaddy, North Uist, in September. JULIE BROOK was one of the participating artists, and now reflects here on her experience.

GEORGE GUNN casts a skeptical eye over the role of the proposed Scottish National Theatre, and suggests that the work of W B Yeats in Ireland and the identity and insight of Highland experience can provide a path for a genuine National Theatre.

Skye-based poet and translator RODY GORMAN was the inaugural recipient of a HI~Arts Writer’s Award this year, and used it to travel to Canada.

PETER URPETH considers the significance of the work of poet and theorist KENNETH WHITE in the wake of publication of his long-awaited Collected Poems.

In autumn 2003, AN TOBAR Arts Centre on Mull embarked upon an ambitious film project to develop videos to three tracks by up-and-coming young bands from the island

Aros Centre, Portree, 28 November 2003