Tickets are now on sale for a new music festival in Scotland hosted by The Famous Grouse.

Highlands Open Studio (HOS) members are poised to welcome visitors – with their 2011 Calendar of Events having been distributed around the Highlands, logos prominently displayed at their premises, and car stickers adorning vehicles, members of the public can’t miss the message that Highlands Open Studio members are open for business!

Lochaber based designer Jen Deschenes has created an online silent auction of craft by Highland and islands makers to raise funds for her Kilimanjaro climb which she is doing in October to raise money for the charity ‘Caring Matters Now’.

Clockwork, award-winning author Philip Pullman’s darkly fascinating tale about man, machine and morality, leaps off the page this spring in a brand-new co-production by Visible Fictions and Scottish Opera

Kieran Goss is coming to the Victory Hall in Benderloch next Wednesday, 27th April.

Strathpeffer Pavilion is delighted to announce that the Classical Brit award winning band Blake will perform at the iconic Highland venue on 3 August 2011.

The Castle Gallery in Inverness celebrates its 10th anniversary this April with an exhibition by Gillian Jones 30th April – 21st May 2011.

The Puppet Animation Festival is once again coming to Craignish Village Hall, Ardfern, on the 22 & 26 April 2011.

Nineteen authors are in the running to win £30,000 as part of this year’s Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust 2011 Book Awards, in partnership with Creative Scotland. Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has been proud sponsor of the award for the last three years.

Meet Alec Finlay and Ken Cockburn, who have been travelling through Scotland guided by the Japanese poet Basho, at the Empty Shop in Huntly for an evening of stories and readings from The Road North on the 28th April 2011 at 7pm.