Festival based on the Isle of Arran and inspired by the playwright and poet Robert McLellan.

The Isle of Bute Jazz Festival began in 1988 and has been staged annually on the first weekend of May ever since.

Speakers for 2012 will be Liz Lochhead, Sue Lawrence, Geoff Holder, Catherine Cherkawska, local author Justin Ruthven-Tyers, Linda Strachan, Joan Lennon, Vivian French, Keith Brumpton and Chae Strathie.

A wide selection of authors from around the Highlands and Islands and the rest of Scotland.

goNorth was launched in 2001 to provide a platform for artists from the north of Scotland to showcase for music industry and media representatives on their own patch. The event has since developed into one of the country’s leading Creative Industries Festivals, covering a much wider remit from Screen and Broadcast to Designer Fashion and […]

Ironworks, Inverness, 23 July 2011.

Tartan Heart Fringe Starts This Week.

For one week in August, Artysans café in Inverness will be totally transformed with large scale vinyl graphics from floor to ceiling.

Students and teaching staff from The Prince’s Drawing School will be in residence at the North Lands Creative Glass Centre in Lybster, from 1st August, for ten days.

An Evening of Tales of Wild Seas and Magical Islands with storyteller Patsy Dyer.