Culture
Still time to take part in Stirling’s bid for city status
Stirling Makar Laura Fyfe has joined forces with Scene Stirling to invite everyone across the area, from Cowie to Crianlarich, to unleash their creativity and share their twenty-five words for 2025. As the city’s leading poet, Laura is seeking 25-word contributions from local people (sentences, lines and phrases) for a collective poem celebrating Stirling’s rich…
Read MoreExhibitions at the National Galleries of Scotland 2022
A world-first exhibition dedicated to sharing the remarkable story of Scotland’s key role in popularising modern French art is one of several highlights of the National Galleries of Scotland’s 2022 programme. A Taste for Impressionism at the Royal Scottish Academy will focus on the pioneering nineteenth-century Scottish collectors who had the foresight to invest in…
Read MoreTop poets support StAnza’s Scotland’s Young Makars project
StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, has launched an innovative mentoring programme in the new year to nurture up and coming poetic talent. Scotland’s Young Makars will pilot this month, with a series of five online workshops, led by some of the biggest names in the Scottish and UK poetry scenes. The programme is supported by…
Read MoreA busy year awaits with packed Scottish Ballet schedule
After a year and a half of focusing on its already prolific digital and film output, Scottish Ballet returned to stages in autumn 2021 to rapturous audiences and star-studded reviews. Both dancers and producers demonstrated extreme flexibility with Gene Kelly’s Starstruck, which premiered as both a live tour and a feature-length dance film presented on…
Read MoreSaving the Leighton Library – Dunblane’s best kept secret
A campaign to help raise £400,000 to help pay for restoration and conservation work at a historic Scottish library has been launched. The Leighton Library building is stood in Dunblane, near Stirling, since the late 17th century, containing some 4500 books dating back to 1504. But the building, opposite Andy Murray’s gold postbox, is in…
Read MoreBurrell Collection gets ready to reopen
It’s been one of the most talked about cities of the year, now Glasgow is back on the map again for 2022 as it celebrates the reopening of the world-renowned Burrell Collection. Open again to the public in March 2022, The Burrell Collection is home to one of the world’s greatest, single personal collections, with…
Read MoreStAnza programme launched ahead of 2022 festival
StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, has revealed a host of prize-winning poets among next year’s line-up. It has unveiled its festival programme for 2022 under the title Stories Like Starting Points. The festival, which was forced online in 2021 due to Covid, is planning a full return in hybrid form, Covid permitting, combining the best…
Read MoreTwo days to enter Glencairn Glass crime writing short story comp
If you’re an author with a murderous imagination, a crime that needs capturing or a deadly deed to document, then time is still on your running. The Glencairn Glass – the world’s favourite whisky glass – and sponsor of the McIlvanney and Bloody Scotland Debut crime-writing prizes, is looking for crime short stories, having launched…
Read MoreNew trustees join the Wigtown festival board
Wigtown Festival Company has welcomed two distinguished new trustees to its board. The organisation makes a highly significant contribution to the community, culture and economy of Dumfries and Galloway – and the whole of Scotland. It best known for the annual Wigtown Book Festival but also runs an ever-growing programme of events year-round, including the…
Read MoreCelebrating Scots best-selling writer Alistair MacLean
A documentary marking one of the planet’s best-selling authors is being shown tonight. April 2022 sees the centenary of the birth of Scottish novelist and screenwriter Alistair MacLean. His action-packed thrillers have sold more than 150 million copies. The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare and When Eight Bells Toll – were…
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