Scottish Opera’s new Traviata tours to Highlands & Islands venues.

HI~Arts in association with Jenny Brown Associates, literary agents, is launching a search to find Scotland’s best unpublished nonfiction.

Exhibitions of new and recent work by Christine Borland and a look back at the work of photographer Gunnie Moberg open at the Pier Arts Centre this weekend.

An exhibition of paintings by the artist Kenneth Dingwall will be presented at the Pier Arts Centre later this month. The exhibition in Stromness will run from 12 May to 14 July 2012 in the Centre’s ‘project space’.

Filmmaker Mark Jenkins was appointed artist-in-residence last year through a venture funded by the Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership Scheme (SFLPS) and coordinated by the Pier Arts Centre. A short film, The Imaginary Worlds of Scapa Flow, is nearing completion and the Stromness filmmaker is inviting members of the public to view work in progress at the Pier Arts Centre next week when he sets up a temporary editing suite in the Centre’s reference library.

As part of goNORTH 2012 HIE are organising a series of Trend Workshops and one to one consultations which are to be held in Inverness, Stornoway, Lerwick and Kirkwall.

Hung are looking for the finest and most original Highland artist/ makers to take part in the Crouchte Highland Contemporary Arts/Crafts Showcase 2012.

A major touring exhibition of the art of Sylvia Wishart continues it’s progression around Scotland this month calling at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen.

This May will see the return of Festival of Museums – the annual weekend of exciting and innovative day and night events in museums and galleries throughout Scotland.

Joy Dunlop and Twelfth Day launch their album of Scottish poetry put to music.