WHERE did 2009 go? It hardly seems any time since I was last writing the final editorial of the year. It has certainly been a busy one for arts in the Highlands & Islands, and we have covered more events than ever before in the course of the year, despite the very real difficulties facing artists and promoters in what are still very straightened times.

ROXANE PERMAR and NAYAN KULKARNI tell Kenny Mathieson about the ongoing Mirrie Dancers project