The National Voluntary Arts Survey has been produced by Voluntary Arts Scotland in partnership with Aberdeenshire Council’s Arts Team. Its aim is to find out the size, range and functions of the voluntary arts and crafts sector in Scotland.

An Evening of Tales of Wild Seas and Magical Islands with storyteller Patsy Dyer.

Local Origins Rural Network, LORN , invites you to their second Gaelic Wool Festival – Feis Cothlam 2011 : a Celebration of all things Woolly in Argyll from 21st – 23rd July 2011, around Benderloch, by Oban, Argyll.

The 14 action packed days of this year’s Craignish Arts Festival (23 July- 7 August) are shaping up be bigger and better than ever!

Following the final deadline in May for the 2010/11 Visual Artists Awards scheme, HI~Arts is pleased to announce an additional round to allocate the remaining budget for the scheme for the financial year.

Well-known Highland musicians have been training up young people from local Fèisean in advance of them taking to the road for 100 events across the Highlands and in Argyll over next few weeks.

A memorable evening of poetry, history and theatre, bringing to life Oban’s rich history from the past 200 years.

The virtuosic Scottish Chamber Orchestra Wind and Brass ensemble brings an uplifting programme of classics by Beethoven, Scheidt, Gounod and Mozart to Seil Island Community Hall in Easdale on Wednesday 6 July and Whiting Bay Hall on Arran on Friday 8 July 2011.

Modernism has two faces……
works by contemporary artists Eva Berendes, Simon Bill, Enrico David, Karin Ruggaber and Sarah Staton

Orkney-based Dr Jane Downes will be the course leader on the new undergraduate archaeology degree starting at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) in September.