Culture
Football, shortbread and opera in our 35th podcast
Scottish Field has two guests in our 35th Scottish Field podcast Our first guest this week is a John Savournin, who’s directing a new Scottish Opera Highlights production, which is touring to 18 venues around the country this spring. Starting on February 8 at Websters Theatre in Glasgow’s West End the tour visits Birnam, Midmar,…
Read MoreA host of Gaelic singers at Celtic Connections
Gaelic musicians will be at the heart of the action this week at Celtic Connections as a number of exciting Gaelic strand shows take place across Glasgow. The gigs are part of a jam-packed and vibrant programme of events taking place at Celtic Connections 2022 until Sunday 6 February, which showcases the brightest and best…
Read MoreBBC Scotland launches new radio show for Six Nations
BBC Radio Scotland will be serving up an early treat for rugby fans with a new breakfast show during the Six Nations. Presented by Laura McGhie, Andy Burke with Tom English, the team will set the scene and start building the excitement from 10am until midday every Saturday morning of the tournament. The banter and…
Read MoreTickets for ‘live’ movie from Scots theatre on sale
Booking opens today for the as live and encore screenings of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Live from Leith Theatre in Edinburgh. More than sixty cinemas across Scotland and the rest of the UK will be screening this new Scottish feature with more to follow. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll…
Read MoreStill time to grab Celtic Connections tickets
Europe’s premier winter music festival, Celtic Connections, is entering the final week of its 2022 edition. There is a packed line-up of shows taking place, both in person at a diverse range of venues in Glasgow, and online via the festival’s digital programme which provides access of more than 12 hours of exclusive performances to…
Read MoreAlan Cumming’s Burn coming to the Glasgow stage
Glasgow’s Theatre Royal has announced the National Theatre of Scotland’s Burn will be staged at the city venue as part of a Scottish tour. A creative collaboration between legendary Scottish artist Alan Cumming and Olivier award-winning choreographer Steven Hoggett, Burn is a powerful new piece of dance theatre inspired by the life and legacy of…
Read MoreCelebrating a Scots dancer at V&A Dundee
V&A Dundee will open the first major exhibition on Michael Clark, the ground-breaking Scottish dancer and choreographer, on 5 March, curated and organised by Barbican, London. The exhibition delves into the process of Michael Clark’s collaborations with artists, designers, musicians and performers, giving an extraordinary insight into one of Scotland’s most remarkable creative minds. Clark…
Read MoreHearing a voice when there is no-one speaking
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is to presented the first rehearsed reading of a fascinating project. Seven years after the Edinburgh International Book Festival worked on a unique collaboration with Hearing the Voice – an interdisciplinary study of voice-hearing based at Durham University – Dialogues from Babel, a stage play drawn from interviews with voice…
Read MoreGet 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…
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