Bruce Molsky and Skerryvore perform at Universal Hall in Findhorn.

The 2011 Inverness Festivals Winter programme starts Friday 28th October with an event that is expected to see hundreds of children in costume heading to the banks of the River Ness in order to save their city.

Dingwall Players may be in the throes of pantomime rehearsals but already they are planning for a major production in spring/summer 2012.

Keep up-to-date with what’s happening in the Hoy heritage project in Orkney.

A celebration of the life and work of Neil M Gunn at Dunbeath Heritage Centre on 5 November 2011, 10.30am to 3pm.

The Hunted and Scottish Dance Theatre come to Universal Hall in Findhorn.

Kingussie’s Food on Film festival will be rolling into town across seven venues on the first weekend of February 2012.

As part of the publicity for this year’s Edinburgh International Storytelling Festival the BBC have posted a recording of Ross-shire based storyteller, Bob Pegg, telling The Stroma Mermaid.

Caithness Horizons, Thurso, until 11 December 2011.

Feis Rois are looking forward to welcoming 21 visitors from North Friesland with two special events at Inverness and Cromarty on the 27 & 28 October 2011.