The Uist Eco Film Festival is a new 3-day film festival (29 April – 1 May 2011) screening environmentally-themed international documentary and fiction film and video based at Balivanich Community Hall on Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The main themes of the festival will be Climate Change and Sustainability in relation to island and maritime contexts in three strands – what we’ve got, how we stand to lose it & how we can change the situation.

Fibre Artist Joanne Kaar has an exhibition this June-July 2011 called Baker & Botanist at Morven Gallery, Barvas, Isle of Lewis. The exhibition runs from 1st June 2011 – 30th June 2011.

Catherine Turnbull looks at the remarkable success of the adventurous Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre in North Uist.

Two new exhibitions are opening this weekend at Taigh Chearsabhagh in North Uist. ‘Echo’ is a collaboration between Ullapool-based artist Peter White and poet Jon Miller and will run in Gallery 2 from 2 Apr 2011 – 28 May 2011, with a preview and Artists Talks this Friday 1st April at 7.30pm. Also opening this weekend is Fragility of Flight III – Sea Wings by Anne Rabbitts in Gallery 1 which runs from 2 April 2011 – 21 May 2011.

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 17 March 2011, and touring.

Established in 1992, this gallery is located in the traditional crofting village of Brue on the wild Atlantic coast of Lewis.

Uist Eco Film Festival’s website was launched today (Monday 14 March 2011).

Today (Monday, 7th March) the Celtic Media Festival unveils its full programme of events as 2011 marks the event’s 32nd year. The Festival is on countdown to 13th April when it will return to its birthplace of the Scottish Western Isles with a schedule crammed full of top talent.

HI~Arts’ Scottish Island Writers Network is very proud to present a reading in Stornoway on 18 March 2011 by one of Scotland’s leading novelists and poets, Robert Alan Jamieson.

An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 24-26 February 2011, and touring.