Ullapool, 10-12 October 2003

JEAN NOBLE discusses her Cycle of the Trees of Life exhibition at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery

SIMON FILDES explains the genesis and rationale behind the dedicated artist’s website www.leftluggage.co.uk

TOMMY BEAVITT reports on the stresses, strains and ultimate satisfactions in helping mount the Wester Ross Festival – even if it did turn much of the month into one big blur of activity

Wick High School, Friday 3 October 2003

DONALD McKENZIE gives a preview of his up-and-coming exhibition at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness

Librettist ROBERT DAVIDSON describes the genesis of Dunbeath Water, an ambitious oratorio inspired by the Caithness writer Neil Gunn

GORDON MACLEAN, the director of An Tobar, the Tobermory Arts Centre on Mull, sounds off on the current threat to the Highland Festival’s funding from Highland Council, and demands more support for the arts at all levels.

KENNY MATHIESON hears about the work of DUNCAN MACINNES, who is the administrator of PAN, the Highland-wide promoters network, and is involved in running SEALL Arts and the Skye Festival in south Skye

Aonghas Pàdraig Caimbeul (Angus Peter Campbell) describes his epic new Gaelic novel, An Oidhche Mus Do Sheòl Sìnn (‘The Night Before We Sailed’).