Lau return to the Stables in Cromarty on Sunday May 15th at 7.30pm.

The Ceangal project which will bring 10 international visual artists to the NW Highlands in September 2012 to create a variety of art works and interact with the artistic and local communities

Ealain A-Muigh Workshops: A series of outdoor art workshops, taught through the medium of Gaelic with professional artists (Julie Brook & Kath MacLeod). All welcome, regardless of Gaelic skills. Under 8’s must be accompanied by older siblings/adults.

Over the past year HI~Arts (the arts development agency for the Highlands and Islands) has been working with a number of outstanding songwriters, to promote their unique craft and record some of their original material. An industry sampler CD, the MIDAS Highland Songwriters Showcase, has just been completed and features twelve tracks from some of the most talented individuals in the Scottish Highlands. To mark the end of the project and the completion of the recording sessions, HI~Arts is hosting a third Songwriters Showcase gig at the Ironworks Room 2 on Sunday May 15th, with a line-up of some of the artists featured on the CD.

Feis Cothlam 2011 – a gaelic wool festival celebrating everything woolly in Argyll is taking place from 21st to 23rd July 2011 in Benderloch, Argyll.

Successful applicants for the annual round of funding for Museums Galleries Scotland main grant scheme have been revealed.

Caithness Horizons will be hosting a showcase event for the latest group of artists from around the globe to participate in North Lands Creative Glass’s residency programme on 28 April.

An exhibition of life in the village of Brough & Dunnet Head will be on show at Castlehill Heritage Centre, Castletown (4-25 May 2011).

Soillse – the National Research Network for the Maintenance and Revitalisation of Gaelic Language and Culture – is opening its Small Research Fund for research proposals for 2011.

The Highland Chamber Orchestra will take audiences on a European Grand Tour in concerts in Ullapool and Dornoch this month.