Culture
Scotland’s famous bridges inspire unique table
V&A Dundee has worked with Scott Jarvie, a Glasgow-based designer, to create a bespoke boardroom table inspired by Scottish engineering heritage. The Suspension Table was designed to reference bridge engineering across Scotland, including world-famous bridges such as the suspended Forth Road Bridge and the contemporary cable-stayed Queensferry Crossing. The commission is part of V&A Dundee’s…
Read MoreScotland’s rugged landscape captured in music
Elemental is a concert evoking the elements of Scotland’s landscape, from its rocks, sea and air to the changes and processes that have shaped its land and its people. The concert centres around Aidan O’Rourke and Kit Downes’ There is no beginning, written for harmonium, piano, fiddle and string orchestra and commissioned by Scottish Ensemble…
Read MoreEdinburgh announces its biggest Diwali yet
Organisers of Edinburgh Diwali have announced the most culturally diverse programme of performers and events in its five-year history. The South Asian festival of Diwali, which is celebrated by different cultures and religions all over the world, comes to Edinburgh with a multi-cultural feast of light, music, dance and food. On Wednesday 23 October a…
Read MoreSilents is golden at this weekend’s cinema HippFest
Scotland’s oldest cinema is turning back te clock this weekend, to hold its third Taste of Silents season. The Hippodrome in Bo’ness – where HippFest (The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival) takes place each year. A Taste of Silents aims to introduce new audiences to the rich and immersive world of silent film with live music,…
Read MoreWatch two Scots castles resurrected before your eyes
Two ruined Scottish castles have been brought back to life, thanks to some ingenious computer experts. Our country is rightly known for its great stately houses, castles and churches – and its ruins are also worthy of celebration. There is something wonderful about visiting castles. As you walk through the ruins, your imagination begins to…
Read MoreMarking 40 years since closure of Mackintosh school
Forty years after the Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Scotland Street School closed, organisers hope to attract a record number of former pupils to the annual reunion. This year’s event takes place from noon–3pm this Saturday, 19 October. Last year’s reunion, which took place in the 150th anniversary year of Mackintosh’s birth, attracted over 60 people…
Read MoreCity art exhibition was the most popular in years
Last weekend marked the closing days of what has been the most popular exhibition at Edinburgh’s City Art Centre in recent years. Victoria Crowe – 50 Years in Painting, closed on Sunday, having welcomed over 40,000 visitors, from Edinburgh, UK and further afield, young and old, life long admires of Crowe’s work and those who…
Read MoreBrewery doubling up as a live music venue
A programme of live music has been launched at the Futtle brewery taproom at Bowhouse in Fife, alongside a selection of limited edition drinks bottlings. The taproom sits within the brewery and acts as a bar, performance hub and vinyl store for the resident record label, Triassic Tusk Records. It is now open to the…
Read MoreJim Clark Museum welcomes 10,000th fans
A couple from Stirling were the 10,000th visitors to the new Jim Clark Motorsport Museum in Duns last week. Moira (60) and Colin (61) McNicol said the museum was recommended by a friend and they had memories of Jim’s fatal crash: Colin was in Germany and his family were told by people who had seen…
Read MoreFundraising bid to restore 1200 year old Pictish stone
A crowdfunding campaign has today been launched for the repair and conservation of a rare Pictish stone. The previously unknown carved Pictish cross-slab was recently found at an early Christian church site in the Dingwall area of the Scottish Highlands. The rare find, described by experts as being ‘uniquely significant’, was thought to have to…
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