Culture
Still time to visit artist’s first solo exhibition of work
There’s still a chance to see Scotland’s landscapes and coastlines in artist Gill Knight’s first solo exhibition. Gill regularly walks the coastlines and countryside of her native Scotland later returning to her South Queensferry studio to capture the experiences, feelings, and memories of the outdoors on canvas. A former executive chef, Gill Knight is a…
Read MoreBig names heading for the Big Burns Supper
Organisers of the Big Burns Supper have confirmed dates for the postponed winter fringe, which will now take place across four weekends between April and June 2022. Featuring world class acts such as 70s icon’s Sister Sledge and homegrown superstars Peatbog Faeries, these BBS weekends will deliver an electric mix of music, comedy, community, and…
Read MoreComedian Jim Smith at Loggerheads with our podcast
The Scottish Field podcast is this week joined comedian and farmer Jim Smith, to talk about his first foray into TV presenting, on Loggerheads. Jim, a farmer in rural Perthshire, is the host of Loggerheads, a new BBC Scotland show, which takes us into the great outdoors and around the Scottish countryside. It pits two…
Read MoreJust over three weeks to go till Borders Arts Fair
After a year off, the Borders Art Fair is back from the 25–27 March at the Borders Events Centre in Kelso, Scottish Borders. A varied line up of more than 70 curated exhibitors, including galleries, independent artists and collectives, will be displaying work available to buy, from contemporary sculpture and painting to digital art, printmaking…
Read MoreTop Scottish art prize doubles in size this year
The largest prize for emerging artists in Scotland has doubled in value this year, after judges decided to make two awards instead of just one. The 2022 Glenfiddich Residency Prize, worth £10,000, is awarded every year at the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition which showcases the work of recent graduates. This year, however, judges found it…
Read MoreTake a magical trip to the world of Narnia
There’s always been something magical about The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. C S Lewis’s novel from 1950 spearheaded The Chronicles of Narnia series, introducing us to the magical land, and creatures which have become touchstone points in popular culture, in Aslan and Mr Tumnus, as well as the White Witch. Currently on tour,…
Read MoreExcitement at art fair’s return with colourful array
A colourful array of 74 artists, makers, galleries, studios and collectives has been unveiled for this year’s Borders Art Fair (BAF). Many like glassmaker Julia Linstead of Coldstream, Berwickshire, are from towns and villages in The Borders, but others are based elsewhere in Scotland and northern England such as Christine Clark from Edinburgh. BAF had…
Read MoreCreativity in the UK ready to be Unboxed in Scotland
Creativity in the UK, a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of creativity taking place across the UK in 2022, launches today, 1 March, with About Us. This is a spectacular, free open-air event created by 59 Productions, The Poetry Society and Stemettes exploring 13.8 billion years of history through the infinite ways in which humans are connected to…
Read MoreWest End hit School of Rock comes to Scotland
School of Rock – The Musical, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash hit, Olivier Award-winning West End show will, open at Theatre Royal in Glasgow next week. Based on the hilarious hit movie, this new musical follows Dewey Finn, a failed, wannabe rock star who decides to earn a few extra bucks by posing as a substitute…
Read MoreLive crime fiction festival returned to Scotland
The sixth outing of Granite Noir, Aberdeen’s International Crime Writing Festival, came to a close last night. Organisers were delighted with the success of the Festival, which returned to Aberdeen with a packed programme of sold‐out, live, in‐person events, workshops and performances. Granite Noir enjoyed an attendance of almost 7,000 together with an additional 3,000…
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