Empire Theatre, Eden Court, Inverness, 12-13 April 2011.

Cloud Man – A children’s puppet show is coming to The Bike Shed, Inverness on Saturday 16th April 2011 at 2pm.

James Mackenzie and The Aquascene have been confirmed to appear at the award winning Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival in August this year.

Vernacular Modernism, an exhibition by the American artist Richard Roth, will open at the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art on 1 May, 2011, 2-5pm.

The preview of Kilmorack Gallery’s 2011 spring exhibition is taking place on Friday 22nd April 2011 from 6pm – 8pm. The exhibition then runs until 30th July 2011.

Girl X is a powerful and provocative new fully staged piece of theatre from Pol Heyvaert, the creator of the National Theatre of Scotland’s Aalst which was co-produced with Belgian theatre company Victoria. Girl X is showing at Eden Court, Inverness from 19 – 20 April 2011.

Bob Pegg, Ross-shire based storyteller and musician, leads a walk through the streets of Cromarty, pausing to tell tales of witches and goblins, mermaids and shape-shifters – tales that pioneer geologist and folklorist Hugh Miller heard during his boyhood in the village two hundred years ago. There is no charge for the walk, which will take place on Easter Saturday, 23rd April 2011.

New rock festival celebrates 100 years of the Fort William 6-day trial.

Two writers who feature in HI~Arts’ Spring 2011 Sampler of the best unpublished writing in the Highlands and Islands region, are giving showcase readings of their work at the Highland Literary Salon on Tuesday 19th April 2011.

Midge Ure is to perform an acoustic gig Strathpeffer Pavilion on 28 May 2011.