Visitors to Uig community hall on Friday the 5th of August 2011 will have an exciting opportunity to get an insight into the past of St Kilda, the interesting work being carried out by Historic Scotland on the islands right now as well as the plans for the future St Kilda centre in Uig.

International Creative Entrepreneurs is offering an intensive, fully funded programme for six successful candidates that includes a three month placement overseas and one to one mentoring.

August – a busy, bright and fruitful month. Lots going on and lots to see. Truly a good time to visit Scotland’s Islands.

The National Voluntary Arts Survey has been produced by Voluntary Arts Scotland in partnership with Aberdeenshire Council’s Arts Team. Its aim is to find out the size, range and functions of the voluntary arts and crafts sector in Scotland.

Following the final deadline in May for the 2010/11 Visual Artists Awards scheme, HI~Arts is pleased to announce an additional round to allocate the remaining budget for the scheme for the financial year.

The Outer Hebrides are going toe-to-toe with Scotland’s two biggest cities to be crowned as home of the country’s best major public festival. For the Hebridean Celtic Festival has been shortlisted, with Edinburgh’s Hogmanay and Glasgow’s Celtic Connections, for the title of Best Large Festival in the prestigious Scottish Event Awards. Held in Stornoway – […]

an Lanntair in Stornoway is hosting a forthcoming workshop looking at handweaving tweed.

The Outer Hebrides is to host a series of events over the forthcoming months as part of the Year of Scotland’s Islands.

A SCOTS version of Sorley MacLean’s seminal work, Dàin do Eimhir, has been published by Stornoway-based publishing company Acair.

“How many islands can you set foot on in the space of two weeks?” That’s the question music festival fans Jim Campbell and Brian Ferguson have set themselves for HitchHop – a hitch-hiking island-hopping challenge they are embarking on in the west coast of Scotland this July, in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.