North Lands Creative Glass, Lybster, Caithness, 6-7 September 2003

Gaelic writer TORCUIL MacRATH is the subject of a profile by Peter Urpeth this month. This essay on the American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau first appeared in the Gaelic literary journel Gairm, and is reprinted with the author’s permission.

ANDREA MUIR reports on a significant step forward for her husband, Dingwall-based guitarist GRAHAM MUIR, and looks ahead to next month’s Ullapool Guitar Festival

TORCUIL MacRATH of Grimshader celebrates his 80th birthday this year. He remains one of Gaeldom’s most original poets and scholars yet his work is little known outside of Lewis and among the readership of the now silent Gaelic literary journal, Gairm. PETER URPETH met the Bard in his Grimshader home on the Isle of Lewis.

East Grange Loft, Forres, 21 August 2003

Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, Saturday 16 August 2003

Màrtainn Mac an t-Saoir reports on the work of the Gaelic Storytelling project

ANN DAVIDSON outlines the work on show in her exhibition of Paper Collage Abstracted Landscapes of Sutherland and Iceland and Photographs of Iceland at the Timespan Gallery

JOHN BURNS is a poet and loves poetry, but he’s not happy about the state of the art.

Newton Conference Centre, Nairn, Thursday 7 August 2003