Posts Tagged ‘Edinburgh’
A chain(saw) reaction in the Highlands
Visitors to a Highland village will find a chain reaction is in store next weekend. This year’s Carve Carrbridge, which takes place next Saturday, 1 September, is the competition sculptors from around the world are keen to be a part of as demonstrated by the truly international line-up of chainsaw carvers. Now in its 16th…
Read MoreThe facts and fiction of Macbeth at the Festival
The Scottish play is coming to the Festival for a handful of dates only. Is This a Dagger? The Story of Macbeth will see Andy Cannon’s classic show returns to the Scottish Storytelling Centre, as Andy, one of Scotland’s finest storytellers, will take audiences on a thousand-year journey from fact to fiction and back again,…
Read MoreMajor exhibition to focus on enigmatic Scots artist
A new exhibition exploring the life and work of Scottish Modernist artist Edwin G Lucas is now underway. Revealing the little-known story of Lucas’s life and career, it traces his development from the early watercolours of his youth to his boldly experimental oil paintings of the 1940s and 1950s. It also explores the artist’s final,…
Read MoreNew Lanark surprises and delights in equal measure
For years I’ve harboured a longing to go to New Lanark. It’s a foible that has completely baffled my nearest and dearest, whose reaction the first time I suggested a day at enlightened mill owner Robert Owen’s settlement was a look of blank incomprehension, followed – once she had realised I wasn’t joking – by…
Read MoreThe Military Tattoo comes to your living room
It’s one of the hottest tickets in town just now, and everyone is invited to the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo on Monday night. Sadly, we won’t all be able to fit onto the magnificent Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle, but BBC One Scotland is to show highlights from this year’s production, so you can watch from…
Read MoreA new start for Golden Eagles as trio move south
Three Golden Eagle chicks from the Scottish Highlands have been taken to a secret location in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. In the first of a series of groundbreaking translocations addressing low numbers of Golden Eagles in the South of Scotland, conservationists working for the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project have successfully transported three…
Read MoreThe New York Times travels Beyond Borders
The New York Times travels to the Scottish Borders as part of the Beyond Borders International Festival held at Traquair House this weekend, with its world class photography exhibition, Hard Truths. This arresting exhibition by the world’s leading photojournalists shines a light on the the daily realities of life against the backdrop of conflict and…
Read MoreHistoric Scottish home wins major restoration title
The owners of one of Scotland’s finest historic homes are celebrating after winning a major UK restoration award. Marchmont House, an 18th century Palladian mansion near Greenlaw in the Scottish Borders, has been chosen as the winner of the 2018 Historic Houses/Sotheby’s restoration award following an intensive six-year effort to convert it from a former…
Read MoreEdinburgh Fringe review: Frazzled – Ruby Wax
Join Ruby Wax on her personal journey through her world of being frazzled. With one in four people suffering mental health issues you’ll be in good company. Why are we stressed about stress? We may be top of the food chain but don’t know how to manage ourselves and just how do you get a…
Read MoreFinal three revealed in hunt for top teen novel
Three Scottish writers are in the running for the 2019 Scottish Teenage Book Prize after the competition’s shortlist was announced earlier today. Voting for the winner has now opened for young readers across the country. The shortlisted authors for the prize have been revealed by Scottish Book Trust, the national charity changing lives through reading…
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