Posts Tagged ‘glasgow’
Scottish Field visits Scottish Ballet’s Snow Queen
Scotland’s national dance company, Scottish Ballet’s 50th anniversary is currently being marked by CEO/artistic director Christopher Hampson’s The Snow Queen. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s much-loved tale, which was also the basis for Disney’s hit film Frozen, this glittering new production opens at Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre on Saturday 7 December (until December 29), before touring…
Read MoreThe Steamie returns in just a couple of weeks
Tony Roper’s play The Steamie, which Scotland has taken to its heart, is coming to The Hydro with a bigger cast, bigger sets and more songs and music than ever before. It will run from 27-31 December, The Steamie is a theatre classic; an ode to the hard-working women of the 1950s and to a…
Read MoreNew work by Peter Howson unveiled in Glasgow
A new artwork by artist Peter Howson OBE has been unveiled at St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art. The Massacre of Srebrenica, on loan to Glasgow Museums for an initial three year period, is a large-scale painting portraying the religious and ethnic conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s and depicts the…
Read MoreBook festival appoints school writer in residence
The Edinburgh International Book Festival has appointed its new schools writer in residence. Leyla Josephine takes the post for Citizen, as part of the next phase of its year-round programme taking the Book Festival On The Road. Citizen is a long-term creative programme working in partnership with organisations in and around Edinburgh, listening to people’s…
Read MoreWalking the walk and going the extra mile for charity
Norman Yarrow defied Parkinson’s Disease to talk the 212 miles of the coast-to-coast Southern Upland Way. In doing so, the Gullane man raised £320,000 for charity, and won the charity Cure Parkinsons Fundraiser of the Year award for ‘going that extra mile’ in fundraising. What made you decide to do your fundraising walk? I was…
Read MoreRefurbished farmhouse has so much to offer
A refurbished former farmhouse in central Scotland is now on the property market. Presented by Robb Residential, the assets at Cathburn Farm will be highly appealing to many, including hobby farmers, those with equestrian interests and buyers seeking the peace and privacy that comes from having extended and protected land boundaries. Cathburn Farm was at…
Read MoreOlympian Ian Stark is Scotland’s main eventer
In a long and distinguished career in the saddle, Ian Stark won medals at three Olympic Games and enjoyed a host of other sporting triumphs. And it all began in the Borders, where he had his first pony ride at the age of 10. I grew up in Galashiels in the Borders, the youngest of…
Read MoreA charming home offering flexible living
A charming, well-appointed home offering flexible accommodation, with a separate cottage, has been made available on the property market. Presented by Rettie and Co, New St David’s is set in an attractive garden with an open outlook over rural Perthshire. New St David’s enthuses charm with its sympathetic balance between traditional design with a classical…
Read MoreSkerryvore to mark 15th birthday at Inveraray Castle
Scottish supergroup Skerryvore will celebrate their 15th anniversary next year with a special one-day festival branded ‘XV’ in the grounds of Inveraray Castle, Argyll. Taking place on Saturday 6 June, this day of celebrations will see Skerryvore welcome to the stage 15 special guests and acts who they have worked with over their 15 years…
Read MoreThe Three Drinkers welcomed by whisky society
The world’s leading whisky club, the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, will feature in the new series of Amazon Prime’s travelogue show with a drinks twist, The Three Drinkers Do Scotch Whisky. In an upcoming episode, presenters and professional drinks writing trio Helena Nicklin, Aidy Smith and Colin Hampden-White are treated to some rare single malt…
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