Culture
The Glencairn Glass invites crime writers to enter short story comp
Are you an author with a murderous imagination, a crime that needs capturing or a deadly deed to document? Well here’s your chance … 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, launching the competition with…
Read MoreLes Misérables comes to Glasgow this Christmas
Glasgow’s Theatre Royal is preparing to host Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed production of Les Misérables this Christmas. Running from Tuesday 23 November until Friday 31 December, the Boublil and Schönberg musical Les Misérables visits Glasgow on what will be the first leg of the show’s highly anticipated UK tour. Les Misérables will star Dean Chisnall as…
Read MoreAll-female The Tempest will re-open The Tron Theatre
Drama is returning to Glasgow’s Tron Theatre later this month. The last, exclusively Tron Theatre Company production to grace the main auditorium stage was the 2019 pantomime, Cinderfella, and they have announced their re-opening production, The Tempest will run from 29 October–13 November – and will also be one with an all-female cast. Artistic director,…
Read MoreViking-age treasure from the Galloway Hoard on show
One of the most important UK archaeological finds of the century, The Galloway Hoard, has gone on display from October at Kirkcudbright Galleries. The exhibition, Galloway Hoard: Viking-age Treasure, offers the first chance to see details hidden for over a thousand years, revealed by expert conservation, painstaking cleaning and cutting-edge research. The exhibition opened on…
Read MoreScottish Field’s November 2021 edition is available now
Ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November, Scottish Field goes green as we look at the issues affecting Scotland today. We travel all over the country this month as we look at what Scots are doing to battle the danger of climate change across the land, in various forms. Editor…
Read MoreThe Royal National Mòd returns in Inverness
The Royal National Mòd makes its greatly anticipated opening this evening, with a variety of stunning performances and cultural activities set to get underway in Inverness. After a year’s hiatus due to the pandemic, the coming eight days will see the event bring fans of Gaelic music and culture together once again to celebrate the…
Read MoreObituary: Captain Alwyne Farquharson of Invercauld MC
Captain Alwyne Arthur Compton Farquharson M.C. of Invercauld and Monaltrie, 16th Chief of Clan Farquharson, died on Wednesday October 6, at his home in Valley Farm, Norfolk at the age of 102. Alwyne is believed to have been Scotland’s oldest and longest serving clan chief and was chieftain of the Ballater Highland Games on Deeside…
Read MoreScots artist creates new Harry Potter paintings
Scottish contemporary artist Stuart McAlpine Miller has launched his latest body of work, Revelations: A Portrait of Magic. This is a highly anticipated collection of eleven original paintings based on the artist’s fine art interpretation of literary favourite, Harry Potter. Depicting characters from the much-loved and enduringly popular wizarding world, including the famous trio of…
Read MoreWhen two historic figures met 275 years ago
This month, October 2021, marks the 275th anniversary of the only meeting between two of the most enigmatic and charismatic personalities of the 18th-century, Madame de Pompadour and Prince Charles Edward Stuart. On Sunday October 23 1746, the Marquise de Pompadour invited the Prince and his entourage to a soirée at her residence in Fontainebleau.…
Read MoreReview: Blood Brothers is as powerful as ever
I first saw Blood Brothers on stage in Edinburgh in 1998, having been urged to see it by a friend, who said it was their favourite theatrical production. I went. I saw. I loved. This was the first time I had seen it since, and the basic story I remembered, if not the full details,…
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