SANDRA ROBERTSON sets the scene as Dannsa and First Harvest prepare to collaborate on a Scottish Arts Council Tune Up Tour.

ALISTAIR PEEBLES investigates an ambitious visual arts residency project in Kirkwall.

ALISTAIR PEEBLES discovers that small scale – and we do mean small – needn’t mean small ambition

ADRIAN CLARK reflects on the changing arts scene in and around Inverness

MICHAEL RUSSELL argues that it is time to take a more adventurous approach to large-scale ambition in our cultural and physical landscape.

THEATRE HEBRIDES aim to create unique theatre inspired by the contemporary and traditional cultures of the Western Isles.

KATHY HUBBARD is steeling herself to help spend £7 million of public money.

ALISON BELL and FIONA MACKENZIE report from the Highland 2007 team’s trip to New York for Tartan Week

STEVE ROBERTSON hit the road with the Elgin-based band Small Enclosed Area for the opening leg of their UK tour

KEVIN MACNEIL comes over all gushy when faced with the debut CD from Lewis band Teine.