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10 world records that Scotland holds
For a small nation, Scotland has made its mark on the world. Not only have we given the world television, telephones, tarmac, the bicycle, the electric toaster and a host of other every day essentials, Scotland has several other claims to fame. Some are wanted, others not so much, as we look at 10 Scottish…
Read MoreRambling with Iain Robertson in our latest podcast
Scottish Field’s podcast returns for its first episode of 2022 – and we’re rambling on! This week, we’re joined by actor Iain Robertson, who played Lex in cult Glasgow gang film, Small Faces, played Gash in Rab C. Nesbitt, and is currently Stevie O’Hara in River City. Last year, you may have seen two episodes…
Read MoreShow must go on with Scottish Ballet and The Nutcracker
Family favourite The Nutcracker is returning to the stage this month as Scottish Ballet gets the show back on the road. Originally scheduled for 2020, The Nutcracker made its long-awaited return to Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre on December 1 2021, but the rise of the Omicron Coronavirus variant meant that Scottish Government-imposed restrictions on indoor venues…
Read MoreBig Burns Supper adds more acts to this year’s event
Big Burns Supper is excited to announce its first-time collaboration with arts, cultural and social entrepreneurial organisation BE United. It is part of this year’s Eddi Reader’s Big Burns Supper, as it continues to bring diversity to the Burns Night stage. Taking place online on January 25, Reader’s Big Burns Supper lineup will include BE…
Read MorePitlochry Festival Theatre reveal 2022 Winter Words guests
Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announcd the exciting line-up for this year’s Winter Words. The event will take place online from 14-20 February, coinciding with the start of Scotland’s Year of Stories. Like last year, the 18th year of Winter Words will be a little different offering a smaller series of digital events. But the upcoming…
Read MoreAward-winning artist to hold first Scots exhibition
An award-winning Iranian artist is to transform Edinburgh Printmakers with his first solo exhibition in Scotland. Mohammad Barrangi, a printmaker and Paralympic athlete, is sharing new works in Anything Is Possible, which runs from January 2022 to March 27. His work combines elements of Persian calligraphy, storytelling, text, and touches of humour. Using contemporary printmaking…
Read MoreScots star Karen Gillan to lead NYC Tartan Day Parade
Award-winning Scots actress Karen Gillan is to be the Grand Marshal of the 2022 New York City Tartan Day Parade. The popular Scottish-themed event, entering its 24th year, will be held in midtown Manhattan on Saturday, April 9, 2022, returning in person for the first time since 2019. Former Doctor Who and Avengers star Karen,…
Read MoreBurns Supper live online from his birthplace
The National Trust for Scotland is hosting the only online Burns Night event to come from the bard’s birthplace in Alloway. Step through the screen to the place where Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, was born in 1759 on January 22. The conservation charity’s Burns Big Night In streams live from the humble cottage where…
Read MoreUp against the clock to see some exhibitions
Scottish National Portrait Gallery is hosting a number of exhibitions – but time is running out to see some of them. Thomas Joshua Cooper – The World’s Edge is on until Sunday 23 January, open daily, from 10am-5pm. Over the course of the last three decades, Thomas Joshua Cooper (born 1946) has circumnavigated the globe…
Read MoreNew performance venue on the way with the Dunard Centre
The Dunard Centre is set to be Edinburgh’s first purpose-built music and performance venue in over 100 years. The City of Edinburgh Council have approved the plans, to create one of the boldest ventures in the city’s contemporary story, with the visionary support of Dunard Fund, the hall is ingeniously inserted just behind Dundas House…
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