JOHN BURNS signed up to take part in the BBC Scotland’s Highland Lives project. In the first of three articles tracing his progress, John wonders exactly what he has gotten himself into …

CLAIRE PENÇAK set up Tabula Rasa Dance Company in 1999, and is the company’s Artistic Director

In the second of his reports on the Highland Lives project, JOHN BURNS finds both his medium and his subject matter

SUE WILSON skims the waves to check out the launch of Skerryvore’s new album on Tiree

SYMON MACINTYRE and his colleagues at the Leith-based Puppet Lab have three major projects coming up in the Inverness area, beginning with performances of Beauty and the Beast this month

GEORGINA COBURN examines the work of the Harris-based artist Steve Dilworth

Engagement from the Inside ROBERT LIVINGSTON recalls the most important formative experience in his career in the arts at Glasgow’s Third Eye Centre, and ponders the lessons to be learned from its fascinating legacy. ALAN BENNETT once wrote that, when he was growing up in Leeds, he felt that his every need was being catered […]

MALCOLM MACLEAN is the director of Pròiseact nan Ealan, the Gaelic Arts Agency, and co-executive producer/creative director of this month’s hugely ambitious multi-media extravaganza St Kilda – A European Opera

IAN STEPHEN had planned to run the log of his sail on an Sulaire from Stornoway via the International Artists Worksop on Tanera Mor to the Moray Flotilla as a weblog on Northings, but technology and attention to sailing Scotland’s potentially treacherous seas intervened. Instead, we present Ian’s log in its entirety here as a downloadable pdf file.

NORTHINGS was delighted to participate in the Tanera Mor International Artists Workshop. During the course of the two-week residency on the remote island of Tanera Mor in early June 2007, we featured text and multi-media from the project as it developed, all of which is archived below. Introduction and the Island IAN STEPHEN introduces this unique […]