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Flaming Lips to headline Scottish festival
The line-up for the final day at Glasgow’s Playground Festival 2020 has been announced. American rock band, The Flaming Lips will be supported by reggae legends The Wailers, as well as Colonel Mustard and The Dijon 5, fresh from their sold out performance at Celtic Connections. The Flaming Lips will close the festival on the…
Read MoreFestival sell out comes to Scotland on UK tour
Glasgow’s Tron Theatre is to play host to a festival that had a sold out run at the Edinburgh Festival. The Political History of Smack and Crack is an urgent, angry, funny love-song to a lost generation crushed by the heroin epidemic at the height of Thatcherism. This acclaimed production, produced by Alastair Michael, Offstage…
Read MoreCelebrating U.S. conceptual artist Allan Kaprow
Jupiter Artland Foundation has announced a new season dedicated to legendary American conceptual artist Allan Kaprow, who famously coined the term ‘Happening’ in the early 1960s. From May through to September 2020, Scottish and international artists will reinvent artworks from Kaprow’s career, reimagining them for the current day and the unique landscape of Jupiter Artland.…
Read MoreHitchcock’s classic Dial M For Murder coming to Glasgow
A brand new production of the classic thriller, Dial M for Murder, will run at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, next month as part of UK tour. Based on Frederick Knott’s stage and screen play, made world-famous by Hitchcock’s iconic 1954 film the production, directed by Anthony Banks, will open on Tuesday 3 and close on…
Read MoreArtists and makers revealed for Scotland’s open studios event
Spring Fling’s 2020 line-up offers a superb chance to enjoy a Bank Holiday weekend visiting studios across Dumfries and Galloway. A total of 87 artists and makers, including more than a dozen new participants, have been selected to take part in Spring Fling 2020 – Scotland’s premier open studio weekend. Studios across Dumfries and Galloway…
Read MoreGallery welcomes 100,000 visitors in less than 100 days
Aberdeen Art Gallery has welcomed more than 100,000 visitors since it re-opened to the public less than 100 days ago. The revitalised gallery is now well on its way to reaching the target of 235,000 visits in its first year. The milestone 100,000th visitor was 20-year-old, final year journalism student at RGU, Ceilidh Jeffrey who arrived at…
Read MoreShow your love for Glencoe this Valentine’s Day
The National Trust for Scotland is asking people to show their love for Glencoe this February by giving a Hug of Heather. This new campaign will help thatch the roof on a reconstruction of a long-lost 17th century turf cottage. Six hundred hug sizes bundles of heather are required for the roof of the turf…
Read MoreThe Scot who committed high seas robbery
When con artist extraordinaire James Henderson vanished with a Clyde steamship, it was just the warm-up act for a drama played out across four continents that stunned the world. The notice in Glasgow’s Evening Citizen on 12 February 1881 was as short as it was shocking: ‘Vessel Lost, Stolen or Strayed from the Clyde.’ The…
Read MoreHer creative talents are good on paper
Using everything from old books to teabag paper, Isabell Buenz is taking origami to a whole new level. Creating art and fashion from paper was almost a fait accompli for the German artist. Isabell swapped her homeland for Edinburgh in 1999. ‘My dad worked for a local newspaper, so we always had lots of leftover paper…
Read MoreThe life and crimes of Dame Sue Black
Dame Sue Black is the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University. From 2005 to 2018, she was Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee. A leading forensic anthropologist, she has helped on a number of high-profile criminal cases. My father was a cabinet maker, upholsterer and French polisher. My earliest…
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