Glen Urquhart Hall, Drumnadrochit, 15 May 2012

The inaugural Margaret Tait Residency, supported by the Creative Scotland Creative Futures Programme, LUX and the Pier Arts Centre will take place in summer 2012.

Right Lines Productions presents their new Scottish alien abduction comedy that explores the changing population in the Highlands – and what it means to be local in a cosmic context. From These Parts will tour to venues across the Highlands & Islands and North-East of Scotland in June 2012.

Staff and Trustees of the Cromarty Arts Trust have been working for over 12 months to raise money to create a more accessible path to the Stables -the 17th Century Grade A listed building at Cromarty on the Black Isle which has become a local hub for musical and artistic events.

Local arts and crafts groups in the Benbecula and Stornoway areas are invited to attend a free event to learn how to encourage more people to take part in their activities

Stacey Earle (with Mark Stuart) and Sara Petite are both on tour.

An Talla Solais, Ullapool, until 20 May 2012.

Strange, beautiful and haunting, this genre-defying album from Kevin MacNeil and Willie Campbell is utterly unlike anything else you’ve heard recently.

Shetland, 3-6 May 2012

North Rock Gallery run by photographer Mark Sinclair and his partner textile designer Suzanne Shearer is supporting Craft and Design Month May 2012.