The world-renowned Banff Mountain Film Festival (BMFF) returns to UK shores in 2013.

This year Laura West, award winning Skye bookbinder and previous participant in the HI-Arts Making Progress scheme, has been shortlisted for the Modern Craft Project.

Update on upcoming events at the Pavilion.

A special launch weekend for “Peter’s Pals” is planned for 19th and 20th January 2013.

Birds of Paradise (BoP) is back on the road in February with In An Alien Landscape by Liverpool writer Danny Start.

A new production by award-winning director and actor Grant Smeaton and Scottish choreographer Alan Greig.

Barbican Piano Trio will perform in Boat of Garten Community Hall on 24 January.

Rachel Sermanni begins 2013 with the release of her beautiful acoustic version of Robert Burns ‘Ae Fond Kiss’ on Friday 25th January.

Cellist Rowena Calvert will be returning to Inverness with her partners in the Cavaleri String Quartet on Wednesday 23rd January.

This AmbITion Scotland Roadshow and webcast will give an insight into some of the issues and opportunities raised by digital (or self) publishing. Whether you’re a reader, writer, author, publisher, or professional who creates or curates written work in the creative, cultural and heritage sector, you’ll be able to explore the emerging potential of using digital publishing tools to enable your written and literary output to have increased global reach, access, impact and scale.