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.

Nairn-based street drumming band is looking for new members to play at Belladrum.

During the first Scottish Golf Open to be held at Castle Stuart in July 2011, Moray Art Centre is exhibiting Golf, an editorialised art collection that tells the story of the game, the terrain and where it’s all going. Limited edition art prints from the handmade, 18 chapter, 140 page publication masterpiece, plus copies of the 575 page Collector Edition (limited to 2100) will be on display and available to buy at the exhibition. ‘Golf’ which was created by Wonderland Publications over four years, will be on display from 5 July to 14 July 2011.

Following a sell-out performance in May, Thistle Bee Theatre Company presents their dramatisation of Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife in Elgin (1 July) and Nairn (26 August).

During the Barclays Scottish Open at Castle Stuart Golf Links this July 2011, Moray Art Centre are running a series of special creative workshops and have a Golf Art exhibition on display.

The Shee perform at Universal Hall in Findhorn

‘Ganseyfest’, the International Gansey Seminar is taking place in Inverness on 01 and 02 October 2011.

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.

The Moray Art Centre will host its own Big Lunch, on Sunday 5th of June in celebration of their dedicated team of volunteers.

The Highland-Russia Connection is holding a talent show as part of the Nairn Book and Arts Festival.