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| Award Winning Director To Attend Highland Film Festival |
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Lebanese Canadian film director, Yasmin Fedda, who recently won the prestigious Black Pearl Award in Abu Dhabi (£46,000) with her film “Breadmakers – will be showing her film at the second Kingussie Food on Film Festival, February 6th-7th 2009. |
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:55:00 GMT |
| Fall under Scottish Ballet’s spell as The Sleeping Beauty prepares to awaken once more |
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This Christmas Scottish Ballet offers audiences the opportunity to fall in love all over again with its most delectably decadent festive production, The Sleeping Beauty, sponsored by Bank of Scotland. Scotland’s award-winning national dance company will be casting a magical spell in theatres across Scotland, Northern Ireland (Belfast) and Wales (Cardiff) as this ’must see’ production adds a little sparkle to the winter months. |
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:46:00 GMT |
| Opportunity knocks for Scottish theatre producers |
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Established theatre producers are invited to apply for a new Producers’ Bursary funded by the Federation of Scottish Theatre in partnership with the Scottish Arts Council. |
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:40:00 GMT |
| Research awards in Arts and Humanities |
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The Royal Society of Edinburgh invites applications for funds to support two Research Workshops and up to six Small Grants in the Arts and Humanities. |
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:10:00 GMT |
| Fort William Mountain Festival Competition |
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The Fort William Mountain Festival is running competitions for filmmakers, photographers, writers and artists for its 2009 event.
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:01:00 GMT |
| Voluntary Arts Scotland Survey |
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Voluntary Arts Scotland is hoping to address the lack of provision for people involved in the administration or management of voluntary arts and crafts to increase their skills and have compiled a short 'Working Knowledge' survey and are looking for those involved in this sector to take part in this.
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:41:00 GMT |
| Take the Initiative - Finance for Fims (UK) |
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About Films, a production, sales, distribution, consultancy and acquisitions company, committed to producing, co-producing, distributing, and acquiring high quality feature films has announced the launch of their 2008 Producers scheme "Take the Initiative". |
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:35:00 GMT |
| The Colmcille Poetry Prize |
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The Colmcille Poetry Prize offers prizes of €4,000 (approximately £2,500 Sterling) €2,000 and €1,000 for a poem in Irish or Scottish Gaelic, unpublished and not exceeding 70 lines. The closing date for submissions is 22 January 2009.
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:43:00 GMT |
| Highland Alternative Music Showcase |
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On Thursday the 11th of December some of the Highlands most promising young bands and solo artists will be playing alongside very special guests, Alt-rock instrumentalists Shutter. The gig will take place in the Highlands premier venue, The Ironworks, Inverness. This showcase is in celebration of the end of Highland Alternative Music’s very successful A.M.P project. |
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:21:00 GMT |
| £45,000 for young people’s arts projects in Scotland |
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Clydebank Housing Association, Tramway and The Village Storytelling Centre have each secured £15,000 funding for arts projects aimed at vulnerable young people aged between 10 and 19 years. The three organisations took part in an innovative event called Art of the Pitch in Glasgow on Monday 1st December. Six shortlisted arts organisations took to the stage to present engaging sponsorship pitches hoping to attract £15,000 to their projects.
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:53:00 GMT |
| Select Scottish at the Aviemore Trade Show |
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The Aviemore Trade Show will take place from 26 - 28 April 2009, once again in the Osprey Arena of the Macdonald Aviemore Highland Resort in the centre of the Cairngorm National Park in the Scottish Highlands. |
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Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:12:00 GMT |
| Opportunity knocks for Scottish theatre producers. |
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Established theatre producers are invited to apply for a new Producers ’ Bursary funded by the Federation of Scottish Theatre in partnership with the Scottish Arts Council. |
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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:00:00 GMT |
| James MacMillan flies the flag for Scotland in Awards Ceremony |
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The winners of the 2008 British Composer Awards were announced yesterday, Tuesday 2 December 2008, in a ceremony hosted by the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters at the Law Society. A special programme devoted to the Awards is broadcast on BBC Radio 3 In Tune on Wednesday 3 December at 7.00pm. Now in its sixth year, the Awards are sponsored annually by the Performing Right Society (PRS), and are run in association with BBC Radio 3. This year the key-note comments at the Awards were given by well-known composer/producer Nitin Sawhney who also presented the winners with their awards.
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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:05:00 GMT |
| WASPS Studios Has Inverness In Sights |
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The charity WASPS studios which provides artists' studios across Scotland is looking to provide studio space in the Highlands and Islands and Stirlingshire. WASPS Studios has forged a £3 million partnership with the Scottish Arts Council to develop at least five new studios in the next five years.
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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:17:00 GMT |
| Black Isle Bronze to get gold standard facilities |
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A NORTH business which has achieved international recognition for its larger-than-life bronze castings is to invest in an expansion plan helping it to reach even greater heights. |
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:27:00 GMT |
| Fèis Farr |
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Fèis Farr is held in Farr Community Hall and meets once a month between November and April. |
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:09:00 GMT |
| Creative Connections exhibition |
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An exhibition of animation, art, poetry and photography created by community groups across Scotland inspired by their local built heritage and the collections of RCAHMS will be shown at the Omni Centre in Edinburgh from 22 December until 14 January 2009. |
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:56:00 GMT |
| Sandstone Press podcast |
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In what they believe is a ʽfirstʼ for Scottish publishing Sandstone Press announces the appearance of a podcast interview on our newly released book A Bend In The Nile by Chris McIvor. |
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:45:00 GMT |
| Swap Shots: mobile film exchange |
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SWAP SHOTS Mobile Film Exchange by Roxane Permar will be shown at Shetland Arts Bonhoga Gallery Stairwell Projection Space until 23 December 2008. |
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:41:00 GMT |
| Knitted Fish Auction and Family Ceilidh |
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Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum is holding a Knitted Fish Auction as part of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's (RNLI) Yellow Wellie Challenge on Friday 5 December at Carinish Hall, North Uist. |
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:07:00 GMT |
| Moray Camera Club Annual Exhibition |
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Moray Camera Club Annual Exhibition will be held in the Gallery of the Elgin Library from Saturday 29th November for a period of three weeks ending on 19th December 2008.
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Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:06:00 GMT |
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| December 2008 Editorial |
H2007 Evaluated
Posted by Commissioning Editor, Kenny Mathieson, on
Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:01:00 GMT |
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