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Conservatoire in world top 5 for performing arts education

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The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is ranked one of the world’s top five destinations to study the performing arts, in prestigious global rankings published today...
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The Curious Incident is far more than a shaggy dog story

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a play many of my friends have talked about, but I'd never actually seen. I'd...

Diving into the archives to find stunning prints

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A new exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers reveals treasures from the vaults as curator Tiffany Boyle selects prints from their archive. Running from 8 April to...
FREE PICTURE: Spring Fling Art Fest 20th Year Launch, Dumfries & Galloway Scotland, Tues 05/04/2022: Art originals – first Spring Flingers launch programme for 20th year: Spring Fling, which takes place over the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend (2nd to 5th June (2022)) will see 96 participants right across Dumfries and Galloway (South West Scotland) throw open their doors to welcome the public. And sixteen of the 2003 ‘original artists’ will be taking part in 2022. See: www.spring-fling.co.uk Pictured is Spring Fling original willow artist Lizzie Farey. Photography for Upland / Spring Fling from: Colin Hattersley Photography - www.colinhattersley.com - cphattersley@gmail.com - 07974 957 388.. More information in accompanying Press Release and from: Matthew Shelley on 07786 704 299 or at Matthew@ScottishFestivalsPR.Org Photography for Spring Fling / Upland CIC from: Colin Hattersley Photography - www.colinhattersley.com - cphattersley@gmail.com - 07974 957 388.

First Spring Flingers launch programme for 20th year

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Artists and makers from the first Spring Fling got together to launch the programme for the 20th annual open studios weekend. The event, set up...
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Young Walter Scott Prize winners announced

Culture | Scotland
The winners of this year's prestigious prize for young writers of historical fiction, the Young Walter Scott Prize, have been revealed. The award has been...

NYC Tartan Day Parade preview in the Scottish Field podcast

Culture
In this week's Scottish Field podcast, we're crossing the Atlantic to find out about the New York City Tartan Day parade, ahead of this weekend's...
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WHISKY

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL DRINK

Since its humble beginnings nearly ten years ago, the distillery has generated £50,000 for the local community.

GlenWyvis: World’s first fully community owned distillery offers whisky lovers chance to buy shares

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
In 2015, former Army Air Corps helicopter pilot John McKenzie decided to bring whisky back to Dingwall after a 90 year absence. His idea was...
HRH Prince Charles with Ian Urquhart Signing First Cask at Benromach.

Former Gordon & MacPhail chief Ian Urquhart dies following an illness

Cask and Still | Whisky
Scotch whisky legend Ian Urquhart has died aged 76. The Moray based businessman died peacefully on 15 March after an illness, with his family by...
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Charles Maclean: Whisky writer launches new charity dram with his sons

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
Scotland's leading whisky writer Charles Maclean has launched a new dram - and every bottle sold will give at least one person clean water for...
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Me and My Dram, Tom Kitchin: ‘You have to be in the right moment to enjoy whisky, that’s the magic of it’

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
Following a rocky start, celebrity chef Tom Kitchin has fostered an enduring love for whisky, finds Morag Bootland. He sits down with us for the latest...
The first legal dram from the Outer Hebridean Isle of Harris, The Hearach offers an elegant single malt, with fruit and floral notes and a long, slightly smoky, finish.

Isle of Harris: Distillery releases four new batches of the long awaited Hearach whisky

Cask and Still | Whisky
Last year the first batches of the long awaited Isle of Harris whisky sold out in less than five hours – after more than 25,000...
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Rosebank Distillery: ‘King of the Lowlands’ ready to re-open with 100-year-old mill still used in whisky production

Cask and Still | Food and Drink | Whisky
It was closed three decades ago in 1993, but now the ‘King of the Lowlands’, Rosebank Distillery is to reopen.  The historic distillery has been...
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