The Scottish Chamber Orchestra delivers a concert of Mozart classics at Glenmoriston Millennium Hall on Saturday 16 June.

This summer some of Britain’s best loved Stately Homes, parks and leisure centres will provide the back-drop to Freerunning@, a spectacular open-air street dance production.

Giant robot birds in Shetland, huge toppling towers in Ayr, a festival of fire in Fraserburgh, local myths turned into dance extravaganzas in Dumfries and Galloway, and a theatre takeover of Falkirk’s new central park space – UZ Arts is delighted to announce the launch of Roofless, Scotland’s biggest, most ambitious outdoor arts programme.

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.

This May 2012 the HI-Arts Hit Team visit Argyll for two days of professional advice and training for Argyll’s cultural, creative and heritage professionals.

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.

Pitlochry Festival Theatre announce that Mark Da Vanzo has been appointed as the organisation’s new Deputy Chief Executive.

Twenty authors have been shortlisted to win £30,000 in the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards 2012, in partnership with Creative Scotland.

The internationally celebrated production of Tosca was first seen in 1980 and has since been enjoyed by audiences around the world.