Various venues, Shetland, 28 April-1 May 2011.

A proposal for an ambitious, large-scale, participatory project on Shetland is considered for £175K support from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

The artists exhibiting in Progressions, the next exhibition at Shetland Arts’ Bonhoga Gallery (7 May – 19 June 2011), are the five winners from the 2010 Shetland Open Portrait Awards.

Shetland’s main theatre is The Garrison Theatre in Lerwick.

The Shetland Folk Festival committee have completed the line up for the 31st Festival by announcing more than fifty local bands that will play at venues the length and breadth of Shetland, as well as the Festival Club over the four-day event.

Bonhoga Gallery, within Weisdale Mill, twenty minutes drive west of Lerwick, is owned and run by Shetland Arts shows exhibitions of local, national and international art and craft backed by an Education Programme.

Da Gadderie, Shetland Museum and Archives, Lerwick, Shetland, until 3 January 2011.

Mentoring to Market visit to Craft Central.

Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, 12-14 November 2010.

This September 2010 we talk to recently graduated Shetland designers whose work is taking Shetland textiles forward into the 21st century.