Northings | melmuir | Friends Activity http://northings.com/members/melmuir/activity/friends/ Activity feed for melmuir's friends. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:04:10 +0000 http://buddypress.org/?v=2.2.5 en-US 30 hourly 2 45da294e50635634584eb70cb97e70bb Sian Jamieson wrote a new post, How do people engage with culture in Scotland?, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/08/31/how-do-people-engage-with-culture-in-scotland/ Wed, 29 May 2013 07:58:40 +0000 Thumbnail

Each year the Scottish government conduct a Scottish Household Survey that gives us an insight into the composition, characteristics, attitudes and behaviours of Scottish households and individuals. The […]

]]> 0 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 781da65feb1c109f61c9c0f9baab3e12 Sian Jamieson wrote a new post, sound Festival shortlisted for prestigious RPS Music Award, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2013/04/19/sound-festival-shortlisted-for-prestigious-rps-music-award/ Wed, 08 May 2013 08:31:51 +0000 “sound’s 2012 edition opened up the world of music theatre to creators and audiences who feel inhibited by opera’s institutional conventions and gave us a whiff of the creative zeitgeist”
opera magazine
sound, […]

]]> 0 87bed649dcf069ff5bdfaff6b0ed33e0 Sian Jamieson wrote a new post, Invitation for New and Emerging Deaf & Disabled Scottish Film Talent, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2013/04/12/invitation-for-new-and-emerging-deaf-disabled-scottish-film-talent/ Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:00:26 +0000 Invitation for New and Emerging Deaf & Disabled Scottish Film Talent to a 2 Day Film Workshop
At the Edinburgh International Film Festival 
Delivered by 104 Films in partnership with Edinburgh International Film […]

]]> 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 4a0b355dfbbaf1ddfa7d605a49b1819f Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, HI-Arts Reflections: Gilly Langton, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/09/01/hi-arts-reflections-gilly-langton/ Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:04:16 +0000 ThumbnailPamela Conacher explains how jewellery designer Gilly Langton made her move to the Highlands & Islands.
GILLY LANGTON is a highly regarded international contemporary jewellery designer living and working in […]

]]> 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 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 688c8616b1501dbfb7cb4321d11e8411 Sian Jamieson wrote a new post, Looking for ways to boost your online sales?, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/06/15/looking-for-ways-to-boost-your-online-sales/ Fri, 15 Jun 2012 15:36:18 +0000 Improve your online sales with these 21 Tips

If you are selling directly from your website as an artist or crafts maker then you might be wondering how you can increase your traffic, improve your website […]

]]> 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 023f14c6029777444d133138fa75aac1 Sian Jamieson wrote a new post, Digital Participation in Scotland, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/05/18/digital-participation-in-scotland/ Fri, 18 May 2012 11:04:48 +0000 We are working online, networking online and promoting online more and more these days. Most of my work revolves around online marketing and audience development, partly because there is a learning curve involved […]

]]> 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 c0da2ec72098fd8ca8630f4a3af6556d Sian Jamieson wrote a new post, Creative Blogging*, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/04/16/creative-blogging/ Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:18:38 +0000 Creative Blogs

Blogging has become quite the social media phenomenon in the last 2 years. They’re a fantastic tool to be using for both marketing and promoting yourself, your artwork, your organisation, […]

]]> 0 a9b6d5776a5592f341de193b25252bc2 Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, From Lochaber to Manhattan, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2009/04/15/lochaber-to-manhattan/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:05:32 +0000 Thumbnail

After all the preparation and planning we have finally arrived in New York after an early start, straightforward flight and taxi to the hotel. ‘We’ are a group of twelve Craft curators/officers who are […]

]]> 0 15e7690389861896837f79e5162a654b Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, First we take Manhattan!, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2009/04/16/pamela-conacher-7/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:04:39 +0000 Thumbnail

Before I went on my travels, my son took it upon himself to organise my MP3 player – alphabetically, by genre and with a special section of music for New York! The one song that keeps playing through my […]

]]> 0 284c7b6929aaf8b8442b72d89f1dada6 Avril Souter wrote a new post, Plannishing in Plockton, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/07/26/plannishing-in-plockton/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:00:04 +0000 ThumbnailThe best part of working in the Crafts Team at HI-Arts is that I get to know the work of so many great makers from throughout the Highlands and Islands.  

Early on in my job we featured the work of Plockton […]

]]> 0 bc79784c4c078e312587766256ced087 Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Craft overload?, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/10/06/craft-overload/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:50:11 +0000 ThumbnailSeptember has been so jam packed with events, I felt it best to chart them from the beginning and work my way through!

From Skye to London via Inverness, I have seen work that has ranged from community knitting […]

]]> 0 edaa99f19d5683c01af9780e1bfdeb60 Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Travels through the Highlands (and beyond!), on the site Northings http://northings.com/2009/04/07/travels-through-the-highlands/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:40:49 +0000 ThumbnailOne of the many great plus points about my job as Craft Development Coordinator for the HI-Arts is that I get out and about throughout the Highlands and Islands to meet many inspiring and positive people.

On […]

]]> 0 8c87ca6e1e5442bdb88522069590a45a Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, I think I am having a dream!, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2009/04/17/having-a-dream/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:39:57 +0000 Thumbnail

After being overwhelmed by SOFA on Wednesday evening it was great to return yesterday and actually meet some of the makers and talk to people involved. We still came to the conclusion that the European and […]

]]> 0 450875a3a1f6a500159c6f789284cf3d Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, The Highlands in NYC, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2009/04/21/highlands-in-ny/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:39:41 +0000 Thumbnail

When I was a girl growing up in Arisaig, a friend of my mothers came to stay. Norma Morgan was an artist from NYC who was on a sabbatical to the UK as she was fascinated by moors and mountains and wanted to […]

]]> 0 5d956890abf477e3fd3f4c4b92957321 Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, HI-Arts invasion of Mull, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2009/05/08/hi-arts-invasion-of-mull/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:39:25 +0000 Thumbnail

In the depth of winter, we planned a Makers Day with An Tobar on Mull.

May would be lovely we agreed, as we battled against snow and gales and thought of spring, sunshine and calm seas! Little did we know […]

]]> 0 ecdd83c736b675acd23dc2346ece883b Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Collect at the Saatchi Gallery, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2009/05/19/collect-saatchi-gallery/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:39:11 +0000 Thumbnail

I always look forward to visiting Collect – ‘the international art fair for contemporary objects’- in London. For the past 5 years it has been held at the V&A and at the beginning of the year, around the end of […]

]]> 0 e038d879e2cae9c119c45111ccea2291 Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Taking Time, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/02/19/taking-time/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:38:07 +0000 Thumbnail

Taking Time
 

Taking the West Highland train home from Edinburgh takes around 6 hours compared to 3 ½ hours in the car. It is a spectacular journey in daylight and one I have done numerous times since […]

]]> 0 3dffaddfdb5145975a44dd069b834b1d Avril Souter wrote a new post, Picture Perfect, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/03/09/making-plans-for-the-future/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:37:39 +0000 Thumbnail

I always love getting new images sent through to me, whether it is for the crafts newsletter which we send out every month, the online galleries or for Making Progress web pages on the HI-Arts website – it’s […]

]]> 0 2c014f9492641f2a3b273c5a486190d5 Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Travelling Makers, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/05/04/travelling-makers/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:37:15 +0000 Thumbnail

Travelling Makers

From Shetland, Westray, Iona, Lochaber and Inverness, we arrived by trains, ferries, buses, taxis, planes and in some cases, all five!

Organising Highland invasions like this seems to be an […]

]]> 0 517d909e6cdd8c81b4bd082ea5b3146b Avril Souter wrote a new post, Textile Fever in Stroud, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/05/06/textile-fever-in-stroud/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:36:57 +0000 ThumbnailStroud International Textile Festival – May 2010

Having read through the selection of events and talks in the Stroud International Textile Festival brochure, I was thoroughly looking forward to our visit to this […]

]]> 0 0c52b34535767c0eec507fa7f0249698 Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Collect, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/05/19/collect-2/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:36:43 +0000 Thumbnail 

Collect

Our group visit last week was for makers who aspire to participate at Collect in the future. It was good to have a group who, once more spent time together catching up, discussing their own practice […]

]]> 0 a60ee595811678e98746d9424eb87a5b Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Making Progress, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/06/11/making-progress-2/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:36:27 +0000 ThumbnailEileen Gatt, beaker

On the 4th June we had our afternoon event to Celebrate Craft and our Mentoring Project, Making Progress. It also saw the opening of our exhibitions, Made It! and Laura West’s Spotlight.

 As […]

]]> 0 0f452960ff200a49c6424934522d5356 Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Assemble, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/06/24/assemble/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:36:11 +0000 ThumbnailAssemble

 

On Tuesday I was in a very hot London for the Craft Council Conference, Assemble. Set in the lovely surroundings of LSO St Lukes, I had high expectations for the day, hoping to come home inspired and […]

]]> 0 d2657f2541b201384ed5a205ed345b60 Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Time Out, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/07/07/time-out/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:35:56 +0000 Thumbnail 

Time Out

This is the time of year when many of us try to take a break and escape from our usual routine by relaxing with family and friends, hoping to return refreshed and inspired.

How many of us devote […]

]]> 0 2d5da23309aecd916c34ac2176fa7803 Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Crafting Together, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2010/11/29/crafting-together-2/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:35:05 +0000 ThumbnailCrafting Together

Many of our projects address the need for our makers to get together; sometimes in a formal way through events such as Makers Days and at other times it just happens that the people involved […]

]]> 0 7bde2053c7410a2e928f47821b71961c Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, We need Exhibitions!, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/02/18/we-need-exhibitions/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:33:46 +0000 ThumbnailOn Wednesday I spent the day in Edinburgh with a group of colleagues discussing, amongst other issues, curating craft exhibitions.

Amongst all the doom and gloom of funding cuts and the difficulties of making […]

]]> 0 002246197b678292be592c9faa857067 Pamela Conacher wrote a new post, Selling the Sizzle, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2011/06/08/559/ Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:31:20 +0000 Thumbnail On the first hot and sunny day for several weeks makers came from far and wide to listen to inspirational speakers for our summer event in Inverness.

‘Selling the Sizzle’ was Tina Rose’s suggestion for a […]

]]> 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 34744e0c89c2a85f7d48a75434f36969 Sian Jamieson wrote a new post, What is the Impact of Facebook Timeline?, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/04/05/what-is-the-impact-of-facebook-timeline/ Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:15:32 +0000 Thumbnail

 

At the end of last month Facebook users saw one of the biggest refurbishments to the social network there has been, since it went global. The introduction of the Facebook Timeline has created a lot of […]

]]> 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 2d67b7cf470323eeb20f59a491697eb1 Sian Jamieson wrote a new post, Social Media: Some Helpful Advice, on the site Northings http://northings.com/2012/03/21/social-media-some-helpful-advice/ Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:21:50 +0000 Social Media and Social Networking is not only becoming an essential way of marketing and promoting but also for networking and raising awareness of your online profile. However, there is still alot of concerns and fear around using social media. So I’ve pulled together all the information that I have to hand that has helped […]

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