The total whisky experience, set in the stunning surroundings of Speyside, combines with the best of Scottish hospitality.

Spring book festival featuring fiction, non-fiction, poetry (English and Gaelic).

The Ullapool Guitar Festival takes place during October.

Europe’s largest fire festival held in Lerwick on the last Tuesday of January.

Orkney’s midsummer celebration of all the arts.

A festival which brings traditional music to the capital of Strathspey.

As part of the ‘Wooden it be nice’ craft fair at The Stables in Cromarty this weekend (28 & 29 May 2011) there will be a fundraising art sale which includes works by some of the finest Highland artists.

Castle Gallery, Inverness, will be opening their new exhibition of paintings and original prints by Mychael Barratt and Trevor Price on 28 May. The exhibition will run until 18 June 2011.

The May 2011 newsletter from the HIE Creative Industries team is now available to download.

Eugenia Vronskaya’s latest body of work will be shown at Kilmorack Gallery (near Beauly) from 5th August to 3rd September 2011.