Culture
Get ready to celebrate a braw Chinese New Year
Edinburgh’s Chinese New Year Festival is ready to roar into the Year of the Tiger. Organisers of Edinburgh’s Chinese New Year Festival habe announced a full programme of online and in-person events and activities across the City to celebrate Chinese New Year and the start of The Year of the Tiger. The Year of the…
Read MoreSir Harry Lauder – a treasure or an embarrassment?
To many people he was a national icon but for others he was an embarrassment – and even today Sir Harry Lauder splits opinion. It seems apposite that the Sir Harry Lauder Road is the bypass road between Portobello and Edinburgh. On one hand, Portobello was his birthplace; on the other, the Scottish intelligencia have…
Read MoreGo Dance festival returns to Glasgow’s Theatre Royal
Community dance festival, Go Dance returns to the Glasgow’s Theatre Royal next week following a two-year hiatus. Produced by Theatre Royal’s Creative Learning team, Go Dance features a calibre of talent and dynamic routines from Scotland’s leading dance colleges, dance schools and community groups. Go Dance was launched in 2008 and provides a platform for…
Read MoreTheatre on stage, on screen and on the road
The National Theatre of Scotland has unveiled its 2022 season. On stage, on screen and on the road, a busy year is ahead with major tours to venues across Scotland. There will also be a theatrical feature film and other digital projects. Jackie Wylie, artistic director and CEO of the National Theatre of Scotland, said:…
Read MoreMòd 2021’s £1.2m boost to Inverness and the Highlands
The Royal National Mòd 2021 generated £1.2m for the economy in Inverness and the Highland Council area, as well as providing a huge social and cultural boost. The 129-year-old event, which took place at Eden Court Theatre from October 8 to 16, celebrated Gaelic language and culture, featuring a variety of incredible competitions, performances and…
Read MoreTop comic Ed Byrne chats with the Scottish Field podcast
Comedian Ed Byrne joins the Scottish Field podcast for a chat this week. A household name, Ed has been seen on pretty much every TV programme in the UK including Mock The Week, Top Gear, Have I Got News For You, The Graham Norton Show, Live At The Apollo, The One Show and The Great…
Read MoreBig Burns Supper is an online success
Eddi Reader’s Big Burns Supper entertained an audience of around 90,000 last night, making it the biggest online Burns Night celebration in the world for the second year in a row. Audiences from across globe came together via the power of YouTube to enjoy the full spectrum of what Burns Night means to a whole…
Read MoreAlan Cumming heading for the Festival
The Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre of Scotland are to celebrate Robert Burns’ life and legacy with Burn, starring Alan Cumming. It will premiere at the 2022 Edinburgh International Festival. Scotland’s national theatre company also brings a brand-new staging of Liz Lochhead’s powerful adaption of Euripides’ Medea to this year’s Festival. These two…
Read MoreThe Scots ship with a place in American history
A Scots ship which played an important part in American history is to be remembered at a revamped exhibition. A multi-million pound revamp of Paisley Museum is currently underway, and when the team were decanting the Museum store for the refurbishment they came across a model of the Corozal dredger, which was built in Renfrew…
Read MoreKnitted herring at the Scottish Fisheries Museum
A brightly coloured shoal of herring created by knitters from across the UK is now on display at the Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther Harbour, Fife. It’s on show alongside a new exhibition featuring the Museum’s nationally recognised collection of beautiful and intricate fishermen’s sweaters or ‘ganseys’. SHOAL and the Knitting the Herring exhibition are…
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