Open access artist’s studio with facilities for printmaking and digital media.

JIM McAUSLAN visits Highland Print Studio in Inverness to witness a social enterprise company in action.

GEORGINA COBURN speaks to Highland Print Studio Director Alison McMenemy and Studio Manager John McNaught about their much-anticipated return to their newly refurbished premises in Bank Street

I BEGIN this month with an apology. In September, Northings ran a review of a reading of George Gunn’s play Fields of Barley in Thurso. I received an e-mail from John Cairns, writing on behalf of both Grey Coast Theatre and Caithness Arts, strongly objecting to what he saw as “an attack on the use of Caithness dialect”.

THE SUMMER may be wearing on, but there is still plenty going around the area. The Blas Festival takes pride of place this month, with Blair Douglas’s much anticipated Gaelic Mass heading a busy programme.

Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, until 20 September 2008

GEORGINA COBURN reports on the rebirth of the Highland Print Studio in Inverness