Culture
Maggie Alphonsi MBE to mark International Women’s Day
Maggie Alphonsi, the face of international women’s rugby, is to help celebrate International Women’s Day in Scotland. She will open a stellar line up of events running from Tuesday, 8 March – Friday, 11 March with an online session, as the University of Aberdeen once again hosts a series of inspirational online and in-person events.…
Read MoreFemale artists’ work to be put in the spotlight
A new exhibition showcasing the work of female artists is coming to the Lillie Art Gallery in Milngavie. The exhibition of The Glasgow Society of Women Artists will open on Saturday, 5 March, and will include exciting new work from the long established society. The Society’s membership of over 200 artists and lay members covers…
Read MoreA host of popular events ready to return in 2022
Paisley Food and Drink Festival is set to take place across 2022 – just one of several events in Renfrewshire. Organised by Renfrewshire Council, the bumper calendar will see the Paisley Food and Drink Festival return in-person for the first time since 2019, alongside area highlights The Spree, Paisley Halloween Festival and many more. Events…
Read MoreDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde hit the stage – and screen
A thrilling new hybrid version of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is to stream live from Edinburgh’s Leith Theatre this Sunday, February 27. Conceived and directed by award-winning filmmaker Hope Dickson Leach, it is pesented by the National Theatre of Scotland and Selkie Productions in association with Screen Scotland and Sky…
Read MoreBreaking the News exhibition to look at the media
A Scots library is playing host from today (Thursday 24 February) to a pop-up British Library exhibition about the role news plays in our society. Aberdeen City Library is one of 30 venues across the UK featuring the British Library’s Living Knowledge Network displays up until Saturday 20 August which are complemented by online and…
Read MoreExhibition showcases work by young people
An exploration of identity and place is the focus of a diverse new exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Rooted in the National Galleries of Scotland’s outreach programme, You Are Here showcases works created by young people from Ayrshire and Edinburgh. They appear alongside highlights from the Galleries’ permanent collection, which have been selected…
Read MoreScottish Fisheries Museum looks at El Niño
A new exhibition at the Scottish Fisheries Museum is set to bust negative images of the extreme weather phenomenon El Niño. It will show the fishing and farming opportunities it has brought to the Sechura Desert in Northern Peru and exploring how other communities might take a similar adaptive approach to the effects of climate…
Read MoreNew musical work sought to celebrate Year of Stories
Iconic stories, people and places across the Highlands and Islands will be celebrated this year in a new piece of music to be performed during this September’s Blas Festival. In conjunction with Scotland’s Year of Stories, the organisers of this year’s Blas Festival are seeking proposals from musicians and composers for the creation of a…
Read MoreScots Audie Award nominee chats with our podcast
Three Scots were given some very good news recently, and we meet one of them in our latest podcast. The Audio Publishers Association’s finalists for the 2022 Audie Awards programme was recently revealed, celebrating the best titles in audio publishing and spoken-word entertainment, honouring a varied group of actors, musicians and politicians, ahead of the…
Read MoreAn emotional and hopeful portrait of depression
In April 2021, with Glasgow’s Tron Theatre unable to programme live theatre, it embarked upon a short, development season where they offered up time and space to creatives to workshop potential future projects. As Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir had been engaged in 2020 as Mayfesto resident director but was unable to deliver this project due to…
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