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).

“How many islands can you set foot on in the space of two weeks?” That’s the question music festival fans Jim Campbell and Brian Ferguson have set themselves for HitchHop – a hitch-hiking island-hopping challenge they are embarking on in the west coast of Scotland this July, in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Now in its 11th year Blazin’ in Beauly has developed with internationally renowned fiddlers and musicians joining in the festivities.

Leading academics, poets and artists from Scotland and Ireland gathered on the Isle of Skye this week to celebrate the life and work of the renowned Gaelic poet, Sorley MacLean.

North Rock Gallery is celebrating all things Coastal with the opening of its Summer exhibition ‘COAST’ (16 June- 13 September 2011).

Glenfiddich is celebrating it’s tenth year of Artists in Residence.

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.

Commemorative stone for Lachlan Mòr MacMhuirich to be unveiled at Makars’ Court in Edinburgh.

Tore Art Gallery is pleased to host Ben Southern’s first solo exhibition. The exhibition includes many paintings based on various parts of the Black Isle; Ben’s work is expressive and sensitive, beautifully drawn and executed with flowing assertion.

The first Scottish concert from a band combining two duos in an exciting new musical collaboration at the Sunart Centre.