Northings | John Boocock | Friends Activity http://northings.com/members/barbaraville/activity/friends/ Activity feed for John Boocock's friends. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:04:10 +0000 http://buddypress.org/?v=2.2.5 en-US 30 hourly 2 f93c0a6b6be49f488c0e2fe1fc452807 Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Northings Podcast 15: Moray Art Centre, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/07/01/northings-podcast-15-moray-art-centre/ Thu, 16 May 2013 08:04:05 +0000 ROBERT LIVINGSTON speaks to Founder and Director of the Moray Art Centre, RANDY KLINGER.

]]> 0 cfd6aa34d5dd9c7206b6770bbd70e0cb Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Northings No More, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2013/03/27/northings-no-more/ Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:39:01 +0000 ThumbnailRobert Livingston explains why Northings cannot continue
BACK at the turn of the Millennium, I was keen to set up an online journal that would properly represent the dynamism and diversity of the arts and culture […]

]]> 0 94ad1f59ac7584ceaa78dc60eac00356 Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Inverness College Drama Degree, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2013/02/08/inverness-college-drama-degree/ Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:22:18 +0000 ThumbnailRobert Livingston welcomes the opportunities to be offered by the new Drama Degree in development at Inverness College
IT’S not easy making theatre in the Highlands.

EVEN though a full house in a village hall […]

]]> 0 1393bb8e7e4b609699c0ef54e2060024 Bogbain Farm and Barry Gordon are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/15684/ Sun, 03 Feb 2013 20:15:41 +0000 0 9c59505f0cc23317005a17c5f69dc1b4 Robert Livingston wrote a new post, HI-Arts Reflections: Zenwing Puppets, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2013/01/15/hi-arts-reflections-zenwing-puppets/ Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:53:03 +0000 ThumbnailRoss-shire-based Zenwing Puppets may have started small, but with the launch of Creativity in Care this month their work takes an exciting new direction. Robert Livingston talked to Karrie Marshall about Zenwing’s […]

]]> 0 4b337c6b4dab2ef8848d12c0959df6fc Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Wanted: Alive or..., on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/11/29/wanted-alive-or/ Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:29:57 +0000 At a recent meeting of members of the Highlands and Islands Theatre Network, a colleague from the Edinburgh-based company Stellar Quines gave a fascinating presentation on the company’s experiments with live […]

]]> 0 c8b57bce11a3c2f3d0922e8710da7e31 Robert Livingston wrote a new post, How to come third and win, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/10/16/how-to-come-third-and-win/ Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:01:43 +0000 We are binary creatures, cursed by our bilateral symmetry to think in terms of pairings and oppositions: black and white, right and wrong, formal and informal, incomer and native. We are (no pun intended) […]

]]> 0 a44ea26ac5f4a46256fb76cb98010697 Bogbain Farm and Eleanor Carlingford are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/10065/ Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:27:44 +0000 0 af3b6af2919febdff7ba9610700ce60c Loch Ness Film Festival and Eleanor Carlingford are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/10063/ Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:27:42 +0000 0 8fbf37dd71f72977fd816e8c6f7e970a Bogbain Farm and Alice Strange are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/9619/ Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:53:30 +0000 0 6390e792585c6eaf5b558caf969feff3 Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Speakout: Memory and Legacy, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2007/07/01/speakout-memory-and-legacy/ Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:44:47 +0000 Engagement from the Inside
ROBERT LIVINGSTON recalls the most important formative experience in his career in the arts at Glasgow’s Third Eye Centre, and ponders the lessons to be learned from its fascinating […]

]]> 0 1c1ac43d6e6924cf550582a5280a9bc6 Robert Livingston wrote a new post, The Shock of the Neuk, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/08/10/the-shock-of-the-neuk/ Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:32:13 +0000 Before moving to the Highlands we lived for twelve years in Anstruther in the East Neuk of Fife. In the mid 90s Anstruther and its smaller neighbour Pittenweem were sad places: empty shops along the harbour […]

]]> 0 b5cb56c89ff12b32e01c9821e36447a8 Robert Livingston wrote a new post, 'A Great Summer of Art', on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/07/25/a-great-summer-of-art/ Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:54:52 +0000 I hate sport. All sport and any sport, from tiddlywinks to Premier League Football. So, this dismal summer has held a particular horror for me, what with Wimbledon, Euro 2012, wall-to-wall golf tournaments, and […]

]]> 0 d98e9a1fd4c6195d377b99ddc3294a5d Bogbain Farm and Mayanne MacGregor are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/8986/ Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:34:20 +0000 0 42643dd36f68cdfaa4ffe5075d5e6bb3 Robert Livingston wrote a new post, HI~Arts Awards Preview, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2006/05/01/hiarts-awards-preview/ Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:11:42 +0000 Great Oaks from Little Acorns
Sometimes even a small amount of funding is all that’s needed… Northings asked HI~Arts Director ROBERT LIVINGSTON to introduce their suite of awards schemes for individuals, in […]

]]> 0 038618a88f3fe13fab2a1cfa645ff7a5 Bogbain Farm and Moira Aitken are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/8804/ Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:21:18 +0000 0 739b4d8b385d8e9a0e4debefbf2fabd0 Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Sausages, trains and Old Spice, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/05/22/sausages-trains-and-old-spice/ Tue, 22 May 2012 08:48:12 +0000 We’ve been to the lands where everyone eats sausages and drinks beer, where the trains run on time and are spacious and clean, and where culture still seems to be funded—and supported—to a remarkable degree. We’ve […]

]]> 0 e87b4509f6e85a1ecefa7433ef2d33bb Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Month in the Life: Robert Livingston, HI-Arts Director, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2003/07/10/month-in-the-life-robert-livingston-hi-arts-director/ Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:01:48 +0000 Our behind-the-scenes look into the lives of arts people in the Highlands and Islands continues as ROBERT LIVINGSTON, Director of arts development agency, HI~Arts, records his hectic May 2003.
May 2

To Huntly […]

]]> 0 e97f39152c701a48e1c91312a320a67e Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Whaar is da snaa o fernyear?, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/04/10/whaar-is-da-snaa-o-fernyear/ Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:08:56 +0000 We spent part of the Easter weekend in Ullapool and, even if there hadn’t been a persistent drizzle of that fine rain that soaks you to the skin, we’d certainly have visited, as we always do, the village’s two […]

]]> 0 891469b896f253524956734767ae617f Robert Livingston commented on the post, BBC SSO, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/03/31/bbc-sso/comment-page-1/#comment-2446 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:02:49 +0000 Dear James

I respect your opinions on so many subjects that it pains me to take issue with you, but to dismiss the cheery and ebullient First Symphony of Shostakovitch as ‘cacophony’ is grossly unfair. Is […]

]]> 7773faf11e6bedcd7ed3153d1a63636b Robert Livingston commented on the post, Hebrides Ensemble, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/03/28/hebrides-ensemble-4/comment-page-1/#comment-2421 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:49:09 +0000 I’ve rarely felt so intensely the correlation between music and meditation. It was an effort to break the spell and start applauding. A good size of audience for such a challenging programme, and utterly silent […]

]]> 1175a36e1393ad2bcda01efbd9cfe1de Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Is Beauty Useful?, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/03/25/is-beauty-useful/ Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:18:08 +0000 Last Saturday we went through to Nairn to hear Joanna MacGregor play Bach’s Goldberg Variations. It was revelatory. Bach fanatic though I am, I’d never really managed to properly engage with this hour-long display of compositional and keyboard virtuosity. MacGregor’s performance made me understand why: too many players approach the work with rever…[Read more]

]]> 0 83b978866ed6cca27e782d4f23f5d59c Robert Livingston commented on the post, The Scottish Ensemble with Lawrence Power, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/02/18/the-scottish-ensemble-with-lawrence-power/comment-page-1/#comment-2172 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:22:05 +0000 You’ve said it all, Georgina, especially about the imaginative programming, compared to the ‘big boys’, and the sheer, mesmeric intensity and showmanship of the playing. There were two young children next to us who, I suspect, will be playing ‘air viola’ for some time to come! And after that fine piece by the unjustly neglected […]

]]> 552c37d6621854c96b870fea4fe4d2b0 Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Grumpy in Glasgow, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/02/06/grumpy-in-glasgow/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:39:44 +0000 Forget policemen and doctors, you really know you’re getting old when some of the regular contributors to ‘Grumpy Old Men’ are younger than you are. My home town of Glasgow regularly brings out my inner grumpiness. I spent most of the first half of my life there, but I haven’t lived in the city since […]

]]> 0 6bbf4297ff3c8524a2262c6636ec734a Bogbain Farm and Judi Sutherland are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/6947/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:01:54 +0000 0 868b2a1d54336602f0ed000e4729ca3a Bogbain Farm and Brian O hEadhra are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/6895/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:06:09 +0000 0 dbf0ea264847852747b7f02fc8194aa3 Loch Ness Film Festival and Brian O hEadhra are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/6891/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:06:06 +0000 0 eb0f33e7690649b2ed3632bf855c8c22 Bogbain Farm and lindsaydunbar are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/6396/ Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:59:19 +0000 0 d71530c1c490297a44df756ec5a8e81e Robert Livingston commented on the post, Hebrides Ensemble: American Pioneers, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/11/08/hebrides-ensemble-american-pioneers/comment-page-1/#comment-1596 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:17:18 +0000 I couldn’t agree more, Georgina: it was a terrific concert. Like you I found the Crumb very much of its time, if always fascinating, and I can’t imagine it will seem as thrilling in sixty years time as the Ives still does today. But what a great chance to hear such a varied programme in […]

]]> 4ad4d058db916d8fc8dfcde257e13dfd Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Living in a Heissenberg World, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/11/02/living-in-a-heissenberg-world/ Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:07:48 +0000 I love the serendipity of libraries. In the past few weeks, browsing in Inverness library, I’ve come across two fascinating books which I wouldn’t otherwise have read, for the simple reason that they are so lavish and costly that it’s unlikely I’d ever have bought them. And both are books which set out to deliver […]

]]> 0 bf6db0bad5fa46efa0cd05aa7f3eb9d6 Loch Ness Film Festival and David Pollock are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/6115/ Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:44:12 +0000 0 5509cac62afef4645ce577be943c3bf4 Loch Ness Film Festival and Lara McDonald are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/6025/ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:37:44 +0000 0 14c1e3b834773390bd35965ad92bb101 Robert Livingston wrote a new post, A Grand Day Out!, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/09/23/a-grand-day-out/ Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:05:27 +0000 OK, so Lancashire is the home territory for Wallace and Gromit, and we were in fact spending a week on the Eastern edge of North Yorkshire, in Robin Hoods Bay, but ‘a grand day out’ seems nonetheless the best way to describe our visit to Scarborough, just 15 miles down the coast from our self-catering […]

]]> 0 6769eba4bfc5386128302c8b542dc504 Loch Ness Film Festival and Deanne Jones are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/5741/ Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:56:19 +0000 0 8401b7ad77f7eeb7303ab650d20d1eed Robert Livingston commented on the post, The lamp in the seaward window – the art of Sylvia Wishart , on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/09/06/the-lamp-in-the-seaward-window-%e2%80%93-the-art-of-sylvia-wishart/comment-page-1/#comment-1347 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 15:43:40 +0000 A marvellous piece, Morag, thank you. It was ‘Orkney Tapestry’ which first took me to the islands in 1973, aged just 18, and just this July I had the uplifting experience of staying at Heatherybraes for a restorative week, watching ‘Hoy TV’ through that great picture window, and being thrilled by the Tall Ships sailing […]

]]> 244eadd44b089ed70210ccbc0a6869b9 Bogbain Farm and Shirley Buchan are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/5578/ Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:10:27 +0000 0 13b8423529699aeea93a04c275198a30 Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Zombies v Vampires, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/08/19/zombies-v-vampires/ Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:37:57 +0000 Hamlet talked of ‘shuffling off this mortal coil’ as a metaphor for death. To judge by the average zombie movie, that shuffling doesn’t end with death. The media have been full this week of hysterical coverage of Brad Pitt’s visit to Glasgow to star in the latest zombie epic (as a Glaswegian born and bred […]

]]> 0 ae43734c40cf0bb674805b5437d86b56 Robert Livingston commented on the post, Youth Orchestra of The Netherlands, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/08/05/youth-orchestra-of-the-netherlands/comment-page-1/#comment-1189 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:02:38 +0000 More unanimity from me too. What an orchestra, what a conductor. I’m still high on the experience. But full marks to the Inverness Courier for giving such a big preview to the concert last week, without which I might well have missed it, not being sufficiently organised (or with the flexibility) to book all my […]

]]> 439523a18ffbac83b3b085cf62d1a39b Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/08/04/behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum/ Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:25:36 +0000 ThumbnailSometimes the gods are smiling, and sometimes they’re just having a good laugh. Two days travelling through Argyll exposed me to the best and worst of weathers. On Wednesday, driving back north from Inveraray through Glencoe, the sunshine was glorious, and I’ve never seen the Glen looking so lushly green. But just the evening before, staying […]

]]> 0 691b2f30481414247db14b19aba60e94 Loch Ness Film Festival and Jen cantwell are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/5368/ Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:27:50 +0000 0 e133f050afd76ed599f7965e9825d1d2 Bogbain Farm and Katherine Webster are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/5347/ Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:13:04 +0000 0 944e3da1f520e939cb1d95c08b279976 Loch Ness Film Festival and Jane Evans are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/5225/ Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:38:02 +0000 0 26044938663ccb26fb2f1414c2d4d128 Bogbain Farm and Cherry Ambrose are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/5043/ Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:40:38 +0000 0 03a2063392d48aea37f469a80c841ab5 Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Unviewable Art, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/06/06/unviewable-art/ Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:57:13 +0000 How do you judge a work of art that you can’t really see? Anyone who’s been tempted to lie flat on their back on the floor of the Sistine Chapel, or who’s waited impatiently for someone with the right change to pay for the light to come on in a gloomy Italian side chapel will […]

]]> 0 f276185fd5126423526fb67e476e6536 Bogbain Farm and Peter Urpeth are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/4982/ Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:57:40 +0000 0 b9163cdf56de9f913da7ae5a8d38f3bb Bogbain Farm and are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/4926/ Fri, 27 May 2011 11:10:24 +0000 0 edb53b780253a4fb60df97aecb718a90 Bogbain Farm and Catherine Turnbull are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/4892/ Sun, 22 May 2011 22:56:33 +0000 0 8a36c433f69632b2bbaced1b01bd14ce Robert Livingston wrote a new post, Lacking in Culture?, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/05/20/lacking-in-culture/ Fri, 20 May 2011 15:16:40 +0000 Back in 2003, when controversy was raging about the proposed transfer of the HQ of Scottish Natural Heritage from Edinburgh to Inverness, it was said that some SNH employees were objecting to the move on the grounds of the lack of culture in Scotland’s newest city. Well, that’s a charge that would be hard to […]

]]> 0 c0c54593c19fb1afcd999e8eebaaeb26 Robert Livingston commented on the post, Jasmin Vardimon Company: 7734, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/05/18/jasmin-vardimon-company-7734/comment-page-1/#comment-962 Wed, 18 May 2011 13:48:09 +0000 At the end of the first half I felt this had been a strong of piece of work with some weaknessses, but worth seeing. I was surprised to find there was a second half–it seemed everything had been said that needed to be said. And I found that second half to be close to dance […]

]]> eb823819865c51aed09c7ced255c9f9a Loch Ness Film Festival and lauramartin are now friends http://northings.com/activity/p/4813/ Mon, 16 May 2011 13:18:24 +0000 0