Northings | Ian Stephen | Activity http://northings.com/members/ianstephen/activity/ Activity feed for Ian Stephen. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:04:10 +0000 http://buddypress.org/?v=2.2.5 en-US 30 hourly 2 7526f2f621b8cd6ed8c86e86e1924009 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Impress 8 – Art, Space and Nature, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2013/03/20/impress-8-art-space-and-nature/ Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:02:24 +0000 ThumbnailAn Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, until 24 March 2013
AN ANNUAL installation by the students on the Art, Space and Nature masters course at Edinburgh University has now become part of the An Lanntair […]

]]> 0 cb80aaaa6169f24c6611a9929d882233 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Inch Kenneth , on the site Northings http://northings.com/2013/02/13/inch-kenneth/ Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:32:56 +0000 ThumbnailAn Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, until 9 March 2013
THE NAME ‘six degrees west’ fixes a group to a measured distance from the prime meridium which goes right through Greenwich but it gives you quite a bit […]

]]> 0 af3bac41c3e710e762a96cf66b24bca0 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Fiona Hutchison Exhibition, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2013/01/11/fiona-hutchison-exhibition/ Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:34:54 +0000 ThumbnailAn Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, until 20 January 2013
THE title really does say what this bright, light, winter-solstice show in an Lanntair’s main gallery is about – “the sea that’s within me”.

THE […]

]]> 0 656d620e7863cb01acb003f7139b8f90 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Forty Toblerone boxes in the air, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/12/18/forty-toblerone-boxes-in-the-air/ Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:04:24 +0000 ThumbnailTHE RE-CREATION of a whole group of schools in the Western Isles, in rural, semi-rural and semi-urban locations, presented huge opportunities for a programme of public art.
AS ALL the commissions were advertised […]

]]> 0 7e7791491e44af44a05ff9d651298f79 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Ouessant Festival, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2007/11/20/ouessant-festival/ Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:35:15 +0000 The Lights from Ouessant
IAN STEPHEN reports on a gathering of Scottish island writers in Brittany that will have ongoing repercussions
MORE THAN a few summers back, I had a gig, telling stories at Dingwall Folk […]

]]> 0 d6cceb0420e23bbf5dd21e43c50cb61e Ian Stephen wrote a new post, A Bit of an Education, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/09/24/a-bit-of-an-education/ Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:58:12 +0000 ThumbnailA PERSONAL response from Ian Stephen to the John Cage centenary celebration Silence and Transmission at An Lanntair.
YOU KNOW the story of the emperor who paraded through the streets in his new invisible […]

]]> 0 61e96692ac58a55766b70489b7043baf Ian Stephen wrote a new post, We Have Won The Land, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/09/10/we-have-won-the-land/ Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:14:37 +0000 ThumbnailVillage Hall, Balallan, Isle of Lewis, 6 September 2012
THE memory of a march through the village of Ballalan to mark the opening of a memorial, built in celebration of the Pairc Deer Raid is etched in the minds […]

]]> 0 86261ca44991c3423b9e596363979dc0 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, At the Foot o' Yon Excellin' Brae, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/08/23/at-the-foot-o-yon-excellin-brae/ Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:38:52 +0000 ThumbnailAn Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, until 29 September 2012
AN LANNTAIR have just installed a summer exhibition which presents images of Scottish landscapes along with a complex, puzzling series of allusions […]

]]> 0 43b77ca00525106e52184d13335c8115 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, George Gunn and Angus Dunn, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2006/10/01/george-gunn-and-angus-dunn/ Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:51:56 +0000 Sand and Barley
IAN STEPHEN looks at the work of two very different writers from the Highlands
THOSE WHO know the work of both Angus Dunn and George Gunn might think they’d make strange bedfellows. I own up that […]

]]> 0 898b1933173dc7a8b3356cf3aeeceba0 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Transit Station, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2006/04/09/transit-station/ Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:02:36 +0000 Transit Station is a concept
IAN STEPHEN reflects on his experience with Dagmar Glausnitzer-Smith and Charles Ryder’s Transit Station
 
THE STRUCTURE of the event that contains it is simple. Get a building – […]

]]> 0 750eeb3053c1d2123447f9fc71e76f78 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, From India to the Isle of Mull, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/06/06/from-india-to-the-isle-of-mull/ Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:38:54 +0000 ThumbnailIt’s hot by Scottish standards. The yachts navigating the sound of Mull and the Firth of Lorne have been looking listless. Some have mainsail only up so it’s likely that the diesel-driven horses are pushing the […]

]]> 0 e7cf9be6f1d351f53feed03c7b7e546e Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Bookmarks, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/05/23/bookmarks/ Wed, 16 May 2012 09:58:43 +0000 ThumbnailIn case you didn’t see it on Western Isles Libraries Facebook page – heres’ a new poem made in response to invitation from Kathleen Milne, team leader Western isles Libraries


Bookmarks

Dinny Smith […]

]]> 0 010c567637745f051f6c1aa9b4ded68d Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Continuing the journey, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/05/16/continuing-the-journey/ Wed, 16 May 2012 09:50:03 +0000 ThumbnailA strong theme is becoming defined in this Western Isles Libraries Residency.
At our first meeting in Stornoway, the logs of voyages, historical or imagined, led to a range of references to different quests. The […]

]]> 0 19109742b0b2a2648255a0abecf24db4 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, A voyage through the School of Scottish Studies , on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/05/09/a-voyage-through-the-school-of-scottish-studies/ Wed, 09 May 2012 10:41:49 +0000 ThumbnailWhen I set off across The Meadows for George Square, I didn’t realize I was on a voyage back through stages of life and tiers of friendship. There was the Edinburgh Review and former Polygon office. I was mentally […]

]]> 0 8aa8a88328e07accf2ef6ee36ad29dfd Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Travellers’ narratives Part 2 – some books, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/05/03/travellers-narratives-part-2-some-books/ Thu, 03 May 2012 11:02:40 +0000 ThumbnailIt was a dirty day outside. I could see line squalls pacing across the harbour. A rope parted on my own moored vessel but no damage was done. I heard the ferry held off for hours till a lull let her dock safely. I […]

]]> 0 ef95adf1e6681b13f1aca0a21ed82e40 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Travellers’ narratives, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/04/25/travellers-narratives/ Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:07:31 +0000 ThumbnailI phoned to make a bank transfer and the person on the other end was chatty, while the numbers were chuntering. Where exactly do you live? she asked. I described the Hebrides as being about 3 hours out, by ferry […]

]]> 0 3d8a27b1d2bb3cd11d1d7f9ef82f75ed Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Generations of Driftwood, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/04/18/generations-of-driftwood/ Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:41:37 +0000 ThumbnailI’ve a bit of driftwood that’s built into bookshelves on the upper floor of my house at the harbour. My eldest son, Sean, gave me it. He knows I like to sense the stories behind found timber.

He picked this up […]

]]> 0 1c099da1fc2dbedddd106ae034642cf1 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Gestalt, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/04/16/gestalt/ Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:55:18 +0000 ThumbnailAn Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, until 28 April 2012
NO, I didn’t know what the word meant, either.

BUT now that I’ve looked it up, it seems to me a very appropriate title for Gestalt – It’s what’s in […]

]]> 0 200f4756de2b7288e1d317a5dc758018 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Tip of the Tongue – Bàrr Mo Theanga, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/04/16/tip-of-the-tongue-barr-mo-theanga/ Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:48:30 +0000 ThumbnailIsle of Jura, 8-9 April 2012
YOU know how it is. One festival leads to another.

I MET Giles Perring at the Edinburgh Storytelling Festival last year. I’d heard rumours of a music festival on Jura, famous for […]

]]> 0 081f6ad144926572a7c89e564e0c2059 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Surfing on Stories, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/04/10/surfing-on-stories/ Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:07:35 +0000 ThumbnailFor the last month, I’ve been surfing on stories. Part of my working week has been working intensively on a novel-in-progress and part has been spent in navigating my way through the Morrison Manuscript – […]

]]> 0 76c67e3799a4df5d8e0274e2dc6d3a20 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Narratives of Navigation, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2003/07/05/narratives-of-navigation/ Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:21:08 +0000 IAN STEPHEN describes his ongoing Creative Scotland Award project
FOR MANY YEARS I’ve been making art. I’ve also been sailing, engaged in subsistence fishing, and making my living from organising maritime rescue. […]

]]> 0 51b499d84d6ed7000e8c98a3e6e885d8 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Reader in Residence , on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/04/03/reader-in-residence/ Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:19:31 +0000 This is one of 5 Reader in Residence posts throughout Scotland. These are part of the Creative Futures project, funded by Creative Scotland, developed and administered by Shetland Arts Trust. They range from the […]

]]> 0 7fc4507fe5c1370a235c12e7452edd02 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Roger Ackling, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/02/16/roger-ackling/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:40:45 +0000 ThumbnailIngleby Gallery, Edinburgh, until 21 April 2012 LIGHT is like salt. It’s essential for making some forms of art, in or out of the kitchen. IT’S essential for photography even in the digital age, as I rediscovered last week, seeking the shine of a copse of silver-birch. It’s essential for the work of Roger Ackling because directed […]

]]> 0 e3b55d3e370ad8ec2426dcbfb98f475f Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Grinneas nan Eilean 2011, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/12/07/grinneas-nan-eilean-2011/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:49:58 +0000 ThumbnailAn Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, until 29 January 2012 OF COURSE it’s a fine social occasion, the annual open art show in an Lanntair . THE Grinneas nan Eilean invitation always elicits a huge response across a wide range of media. Artists with secure reputations rub frames or fabrics with those who have never shown work in public before. […]

]]> 0 31e03a5fbbd97e07c708b2d4bdaffe9f Ian Stephen wrote a new post, B.A. Fine Arts Graduates 2011, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/11/02/b-a-fine-arts-graduates-2011/ Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:10:27 +0000 ThumbnailTaigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy, North Uist, until 29 October 2011 I DIPPED into the BA Fine Art graduates exhibition, presently on show at Taigh Chearsabhagh, and slowed down to take it all in. The immediate reaction was that a large number of individually strong works all had something very much in common. There was a wide range of […]

]]> 0 f6785f80cbb2a32e7300191ab9646135 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Kathleen MacInnes and Band, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/09/06/kathleen-macinnes-and-band/ Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:05:45 +0000 ThumbnailAn Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 2 September 2011 CAN I start this review of a great night out, with a question? Does there have to be a degree of innovation, when you follow the work of one artist. Does the next collection of poems, or concert or work of theatre need to move on? Or can […]

]]> 0 af7d848d633c2389e366c863c53ecf00 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Myths: Where Meat Meets Magic, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/08/19/myths-where-meat-meets-magic-angus-peter-campbell-and-gwyneth-lewis/ Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:43:16 +0000 ThumbnailEdinburgh Book Festival, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, 18 August 2011 TWO neighbours along the sea-route shared the platform in a skillfully planned event at Edinburgh Book Festival. Angus Peter Campbell is a poet, novelist, journalist and actor. He speaks and writes in Gaelic and English, sometimes making the shift within the same spoken…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c65f69d893556ed75fc38df492ef08c Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Farewell and Ahoy: Log of a Voyage, Part 5, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/08/17/farewell-and-ahoy-log-of-a-voyage-part-5/ Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:17:00 +0000 ThumbnailIAN STEPHEN concludes his voyage in Crear and Edinburgh OVER a hundred people gathered to enter a wide and long room with a window to Jura and excellent acoustics. THE flamenco guitarist Paco Pena sat to play a varied series of Flamenco pieces. The skill was almost taken for granted after you tuned into it. You just […]

]]> 0 864421f79ed53d8e753444b07c5b9607 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Farewell and Ahoy: Log of a Voyage, Part 4, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/08/15/farewell-and-ahoy-log-of-a-voyage-part-4/ Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:00:48 +0000 ThumbnailIAN STEPHEN makes landfall with a group of translators in Crear THERE is a story of the factor’s boat leaving St Kilda and getting caught in a southerly gale. They run for it on the bare pole and make a landfall at North Rona. You would think they would find hope and shelter on that farmed offshore […]

]]> 0 e349828aa9f7eee612ad08b22f647ea4 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Farewell and Ahoy: Log of a Voyage, Part 3, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/08/07/farewell-and-ahoy-log-of-a-voyage-part-3/ Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:47:02 +0000 ThumbnailIAN STEPHEN continues his log of a voyage BACK in the kitchen.  A new group has joined Song of the Whale. There is an overlap of crew, Cape Farewell folk, and the artists and scientists who will sail together this coming week. They are planning to sail to North Rona, the Shiants and the coasts of Skye. […]

]]> 0 a6410600356db0f631687dd7c3c04720 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Farewell and Ahoy: Log of a Voyage, Part 2, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/07/29/farewell-and-ahoy-log-of-a-voyage-part-2/ Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:04:15 +0000 ThumbnailIAN STEPHEN continues a voyage of discovery through poems, stories and music 29th July 2011 . I’ve put some kit in my rucksack. There’s a camera and a phone charged up but I don’t feel much like sorting the spaghetti of leads in and out of video cameras and recording gear. There’s also no need to take the […]

]]> 0 38a4e447293800e9ae0e21c9c5478451 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Farewell and Ahoy: Log of a Voyage, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/07/28/farewell-and-ahoy-log-of-a-voyage/ Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:04:09 +0000 ThumbnailIAN STEPHEN sets off on a voyage of discovery through poems, stories and music 28th July 2011. Yesterday I took my own tools and my partner’s painting gear off El Vigo – the 50-year-old wooden yacht I’ve been renovating this year. The shipwright who did structural repairs completed his part some weeks ago. She is afloat again and seaworthy […]

]]> 0 c852d9c689e34da6f69ed4d4e2f9a4e9 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Ian Lawson: Bhon Chroit, and Clò (From The Land Comes The Cloth), on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/07/22/ian-lawson-bhon-chroit-and-clo-from-the-land-comes-the-cloth/ Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:47:24 +0000 ThumbnailAn Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, until 3 September 2011 THE clacking of the Hattersley loom was as much a part of the Lewis and Harris soundscape as the corncrake, curlew or competitive gull. Colour mixes which came off these mechanical beasts were mostly muted and well-suited to blend with the moor so the angler or stalker […]

]]> 0 52008e68233c71f3b3dfc724c096d99d Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Sail Hebrides 2011 and Tall Ships, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/07/21/sail-hebrides-2011-and-tall-ships/ Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:48:45 +0000 ThumbnailStornoway, Isle of Lewis, 11-16 July 2011 YOU  probably know how superstitious sailors can be.  Some might think the 13 th Sail Hebrides Festival should never have happened.  The organisers might well have skipped a year and gone straight to the 14 th in the same way as the numbering system of the Sound of Harris buoyage misses a […]

]]> 0 a173eec8939c0330955ed35b1196d1a6 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Eduardo Niebla, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/05/17/eduardo-niebla/ Tue, 17 May 2011 13:59:02 +0000 ThumbnailAn Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 14 May 2011 THE guy who never buys CDs at gigs seems to have bought four by Eduardo Niebla. I bought two on Saturday last and was reminded of two others bought when I last heard the same artist visiting an Lanntair.   Niebla has a well established touring circuit based […]

]]> 0 b5a21587a1435ade6b90b5878613a2cc Ian Stephen wrote a new post, St Kilda World Heritage Day Project, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/04/25/st-kilda-world-heritage-day-project/ Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:56:49 +0000 ThumbnailIAN STEPHEN reports on the World Heritage Day collaboration between artists and secondary school pupils from Tarbert THERE may be a focus on Scottish Islands this year but we islanders do not have a monopoly on arts projects linked to heritage sites. This year’s World Heritage Day (18 April) saw a series of events throughout Scotland which cel…[Read more]

]]> 0 be60e133ca9f7d2cdf73e951d4b512f4 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Celtic Media Festival, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/04/18/celtic-media-festival/ Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:45:44 +0000 ThumbnailAn Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 13-15 April 2011 THE TOWN got busy very suddenly. It wasn’t like the Heb Celt or even the Mod but there were a lot of new faces. It was semi-welcoming to restless natives like myself, emerging blinking from their own work in electronic media. You could book free tickets for open […]

]]> 0 dedbd50e9e1636cc95a2b358f83528fd Ian Stephen wrote a new post, In The Stream of the Blue Men, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/04/05/in-the-stream-of-the-blue-men/ Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:35:14 +0000 ThumbnailIAN STEPHEN describes his thinking behind the events linked to the current an Lanntair exhibition, “Is a thing lost … if you know where it is?”. IN THESE very columns I’ve expressed the opinion that the successful Events  and Cinema programme at An Lanntair can risk being a tad on the safe side. It’s wonderful to be able […]

]]> 0 a0569f90ff656f62df98cc5c2cbb5e12 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Sweetness, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/02/28/sweetness/ Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:06:51 +0000 ThumbnailAn Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 24-26 February 2011, and touring THIS PREMIERE at An Lanntair ticked all my boxes before the curtain rose. Take a writer of local origins, Kevin MacNeil, with a reputation for courageous exploration of  challenging themes.  Forge a link with a Scandinavian writer, Torgny Lindgren, who may share some common c…[Read more]

]]> 0 c99bab64d0842aec1385e87ada2a88af Ian Stephen wrote a new post, John Aberdein and Daibhidh Martin, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/02/22/john-aberdein-and-daibhidh-martin/ Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:27:39 +0000 ThumbnailLiterary Salon, An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 18 February 2011 First, let me come clean. I was supposed to take a picture. The camera got left behind so here’s a pen-portrait – or a typesketch  – of each of the writers who performed at the literary salon in the town of SY – namely the […]

]]> 0 a36694616633918828d1d7cd0a6f8fb2 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Interlopers, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/01/28/interlopers/ Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:58:10 +0000 ThumbnailFoyer, Bar and Upper Landing, An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, until 12 February 2011 DONALD URQUHART has for many years been involved in making work in landscape. Often this is in collaboration with architects, and arguably this strand of the painter’s work reached one its most satisfying forms in the collaborative work An Turas, i…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a997101d62f01d0ba956838b5e9d96e Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Off The Wall, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/11/24/off-the-wall/ Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:27:23 +0000 ThumbnailAn Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 22 November 2010 ANDY KIRKPATRICK’S Off The Wall was billed as a comedy evening by a stand-up mountaineer. I sat for the first half at the peripheries, as an Lanntair was packed near capacity.  It was the wrong side to be able to report in detail what went on. The presentation takes the […]

]]> 0 183e8a2d925b6661415b7cad84b9617e Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Window to the West: The Rediscovery of Highland Art, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/11/23/window-to-the-west/ Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:10:11 +0000 ThumbnailCity Arts Centre, Edinburgh, until 6 March 2011 FOR MANY YEARS Dundee has been a transit territory between the Scottish central belt and the artistic life of the Highlands & Islands. Murdo Macdonald, as professor  of Scottish art history at Dundee University, and Arthur Watson as both maker and educator at Duncan of Jordanstone, have worked …[Read more]

]]> 0 0c2eff0d5ae5b3b0253e24dbac3de5fe Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Gannets / Na Suilairean , on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/11/02/gannets-na-suilairean/ Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:01:52 +0000 ThumbnailTent Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, November 2010 (run ended) JUST PAST the Grassmarket in Edinburgh as you take the incline by the second-hand bookshops and just before the dodgy dancing pubs you meet the clean architecture of ECA. The rain is coming on but there’s a guy just standing relaxed looking through the wide window […]

]]> 0 9038fd5462300433fc636a6a89fc57a1 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Air Iomlaid (On Exchange), on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/04/22/air-iomlaid-on-exchange-fruitmarket-gallery-edinburgh-until-9-may-then-at-sabhal-mr-ostaig-isle-of-skye/ Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:04:54 +0000 ThumbnailFruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, until 9 May, then at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye, from 5 June 2010 YOU WOULDN’T think an artist best known for a hermit tendency would be a natural lead artist for education projects. But I saw Julie Brook enthuse Primary schoolkids when they visited her Mingulay show in Collins Gallery, Glasgow. […]

]]> 0 f6ddc9988d6d6813bc826267ec184688 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, 25 Years of An Lanntair, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/04/15/25-years-of-an-lanntair/ Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:49:27 +0000 ThumbnailA Lantern in the West IAN STEPHEN reflects on the strengths and weaknesses of the Stornoway art centre SO IT’S 25 years on and three founding figures of An Lanntair are lined up to give their thoughts on this birthday occasion. And they are all thoughtful as well as justifiably proud. There is mention of a fourth figure […]

]]> 0 702698da3a0fc1ac43c044743d1fb8da Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Les Amoureux, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/04/11/les-amoureux-an-lanntair-stornoway/ Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:07:25 +0000 ThumbnailAn Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 10 April 2010 STORIES have never gone out of fashion. Amongst the gameboys and the joysticks, narratives still thrive. Some are timeless and some are re-invented, like Angela Carter’s dreamworld retellings of fairy tales and fantasies. Kally Lloyd-Jones made her debut in directing opera last year when…[Read more]

]]> 0 d59c81cd01dab49bf3556e419111fa2a Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Transitstation Copenhagen: Bridging the (Cyber)Space, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/04/04/transitstation-copenhagen/ Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:00:49 +0000 ThumbnailIAN STEPHEN recounts the strange tale of his attempts to take part in Transitstation in Denmark – from Edinburgh IT’S MORE than a little strange. I usually try to go surface. It was ferry, bus, sleeper, Eurostar, TGV to Brest and I’ve been typing away often recently as someone else is driving the train, London to Thurso. […]

]]> 0 0324339274160232c5fd3eee9b17f75a Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Dick Gaughan, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/03/23/dick-gaughan-an-lanntair-stornoway-isle-of-lewis/ Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:35:48 +0000 ThumbnailAn Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, 19 March 2010 IT’S MONDAY morning, a dreich one, and the vinyl is on the deck. In the form of Handful of Earth . There are a few CDs at the ready too. This is an aspect of the aftermath of the week-end. I went to Gaughan’s return to An Lanntair, arranged […]

]]> 0 9013b593a3dd5d4a7f96786b36188942 Ian Stephen wrote a new post, Between Leith and Lerwick, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/03/16/between-leith-and-lerwick-edinburgh-university/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:55:59 +0000 ThumbnailEdinburgh University, 6-8 March 2010 YOU KNOW how posters and periodicals accumulate. Yes you do. Think of the protective tubes, the padded envelopes that spill from the cupboards and storage units in the houses you have lived in. All the attics. I’ve never been able to throw out a glossy broadsheet called Briggistanes. The concept, back […]

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