To conclude this season’s Opera in Concert series from Scottish Opera (SO), Music Director Stuart Stratford conducts The French Collection at Dundee’s Caird Hall and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 1st and 3rd March. In a gala performance, The Orchestra of Scottish Opera captures this musical epoch and is accompanied by a group of singers that includes ScottishContinue reading “Scottish Opera Presents The French Collection This March in Dundee and Glasgow”
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Iberodocs Returns to Edinburgh and Glasgow for its Tenth Edition
Iberodocs is a festival offering a selected programme of the latest documentaries from Spain, Portugal and Latin America. It features six feature-length documentaries from Argentina, Brazil, Cape Verde, Panama, Portugal, and Spain along with two short films made by Scotland-based filmmakers and will feature several in-person and Zoom Q&As with international filmmakers. Each feature filmContinue reading “Iberodocs Returns to Edinburgh and Glasgow for its Tenth Edition”
Animated Shorts (1,2 &3) at Summerhall Manipulate Festival
This year’s Manipulate Festival featured a programme of animated short films, each comprising 90 minutes sessions and showcasing up to 10 films created by animators from across the globe. Bringing messages about the human condition, the environment, gender issues and politics as well as just surreal takes on life, this selection encompassed as many stylesContinue reading “Animated Shorts (1,2 &3) at Summerhall Manipulate Festival”
TRACS Appointed to Safeguard Scotland’s Intangible Cultural Heritage
The team from Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland (TRACS) and music students from Sgoil Chiùil na Gàidhealtachd, the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music based in Plockton, head off to Kaustinen in Finland this February as part of an educational exchange with Kaustinen College of Music, and to witness first-hand the work the teamContinue reading “TRACS Appointed to Safeguard Scotland’s Intangible Cultural Heritage “
Scottish Opera’s Reimagined Schools Tour Gives Pupils Access to Performing Arts
Scottish Opera’s (SO) award-winning Primary Schools Tour, which goes on the road this February for the rest of the academic year with the newly created show, Vikings! The Quest for the Dragon’s Treasure, has been re-imagined and expanded to make it even more accessible and adaptable for all schools in Scotland to take part. Vikings!, which deliversContinue reading “Scottish Opera’s Reimagined Schools Tour Gives Pupils Access to Performing Arts”
Scottish Artist Martin Boyce Exhibition Celebrates Fruitmarket’s 50th Anniversary
This year, 2024, sees Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery turn 50 and to celebrate it is presenting a programme that brings the very best of Scottish, British and international visual art and culture to inspire and energise audiences for free, as always. The first of the year’s major exhibitions is from Glasgow-based artist Martin Boyce who last showedContinue reading “Scottish Artist Martin Boyce Exhibition Celebrates Fruitmarket’s 50th Anniversary”
Hippodrome Silent Film Festival Announces 2024 Programme
The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival (aka ‘HippFest’) was launched in 2011 and has since become a key annual event in the cultural calendar, drawing audiences from across Scotland and beyond. This very special festival of film takes place at the exquisite jewel of art deco style that is the Hippodrome Cinema in Bo’ness. Reopened inContinue reading “Hippodrome Silent Film Festival Announces 2024 Programme”
Midlothian Artist Commissioned to Create Covid Memorial Benches
As part of the national Scottish Government-funded project ‘Remembering Together,’ which will see Covid memorials installed in all 32 local authority areas across Scotland, local Artist Yvonne Weighand Lyle from Mayfield has been selected as Lead Artist to design commemorative Covid benches for Midlothian Yvonne was born and raised in Mayfield, Midlothian and is excitedContinue reading “Midlothian Artist Commissioned to Create Covid Memorial Benches”
The House at Manipulate Festival 2024
The jaunty sounds of The Teddy Bears’ Picnic could easily lull audiences into a false sense of security as they anticipate the performance of The House from Denmark’s Sofie Krog Teater. That illusion is already shaky as the magnificently created set that is the eponymous house stares out at the audience like a creepy gappedContinue reading “The House at Manipulate Festival 2024”
One Bum Cinema Manipulate Festival
Some years ago, a fellow cinema audience member coined a beautifully apt phrase while observing the number of single people occupied in a variety of ways as they awaited the start of a screening. The neat and apposite phrase was ‘…in solitary union.’ At this year’s Manipulate Festival, that oft embraced concept of viewing filmsContinue reading “One Bum Cinema Manipulate Festival”
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