The Southern Hebrides are celebrating island culture and heritage through numerous events over the forthcoming months as part of the Year of Scotland’s Islands.

As part of the Year of Scotland’s Islands, Arran and Bute are hosting key events in order to showcase islands’ rich culture and heritage to both locals and visitors.

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

Showing along side Jason Hicklin’s Etchings 1995 – 2009 exhibition at an talla solais, Ullapool is The Westland by Joanne B. Kaar and Lynn Taylor.

Scotland will begin its celebrations for the ‘one year to go’ countdown to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games with a raft of free family activities in and around Scotland, as part of Open Weekend 22nd-24th July 2011.

ArtWorks Scotland, a new programme to support artists to develop skills for working in participatory settings was announced today.

an talla solais is delighted to present the beautiful and powerful etchings of Jason Hicklin from 8 – 31 July 2011.

Art Exhibition and Craft Fair is to take place at the Achaderry Estate at Roy Bridge from 24th – 27th June 2011.

The Stromness streets are set to become a gallery for the exhibition ‘Open Windows’. A group of forty-five artists will be showing their work in windows throughout the town. The on-street gallery stretches from the Pierhead to just beyond the Museum, framed in the windows of householders and businesses.

Eugenia Vronskaya’s latest body of unmissable work will be on show at the Kilmorack Gallery by Beauly from 5 August to 3 September 2011.