A PERSONAL response from Ian Stephen to the John Cage centenary celebration Silence and Transmission at An Lanntair.

Pat Law explains her role and assesses the wider significance of Ian Stephen’s Is A Thing Lost … project.

Ian Stephen describes his thinking behind the events linked to the current an Lanntair exhibition, “Is a thing lost … if you know where it is?”.

Stornoway Library Cafe, Isle of Lewis, 18 February 2011.

IAN STEPHEN recounts the strange tale of his attempts to take part in Transitstation in Denmark – from Edinburgh.

Inverness Book Festival, Royal Highland Hotel, Inverness, 5 October 2006

THE ARTS JOURNAL is a journal of comment and criticism rather than fiction and poetry, but in another well-established publishing tradition, we offer a short story for the New Year by Contributing Editor Peter Urpeth