Mar 11, 2020
Big DoG is off the leash and bounding back to Dumfries to unveil the programme for his next children’s book festival. For the past few months he’s been busy in his kennel writing invitations for his favourite authors, storytellers and others, to join him for the...
Mar 10, 2020
Space journalist Leo Enright will transform himself into the first seanchai of Mars to tell tales of humanity’s history on the Red Planet. His event at Wigtown’s fourth annual Big Bang dark skies festival will see him adopt the guise of a traditional Irish storyteller...
Mar 9, 2020
Applications are being invited from artists and makers to take part in Perthshire Open Studios (POS) 2020. The organisers say it’s important to sign up early as a maximum of 140 studios are able to take part. This year’s event will take place across beautiful...
Mar 9, 2020
Space journalist Leo Enright will transform himself into the first seanchai of Mars to tell tales of humanity’s history on the Red Planet. His event at Wigtown’s fourth annual Big Bang dark skies festival will see him adopt the guise of a traditional Irish storyteller...
Mar 9, 2020
Mural paintings of the Four Seasons will be unveiled in the Cupola Hall of one of Scotland’s most beautiful stately homes during an event to celebrate and promote women artists. Artist and art historian Julia Alexandra Mee has spent over two years planning and...
Mar 2, 2020
The annual £1,500 international Wigtown Poetry Prize – which celebrates Scotland’s three indigenous languages – is now open for entries. As Scotland’s international poetry prize it promotes and nurtures work in English, Scots and Scottish Gaelic, attracting entries...
Feb 3, 2020
A total of 87 artists and makers, including more than a dozen new participants, have been selected to take part in Spring Fling 2020 – Scotland’s premier open studio weekend. Studios across Dumfries and Galloway will throw their doors open to the public for the Bank...
Jan 27, 2020
The Wigtown Book Festival generated £4.3 million for the Scottish economy last year – up from £2.3 million since 2013. The new economic impact study, by Bellerby Economics, also underlined the annual festival’s importance in supporting jobs and attracting visitors to...
Jan 24, 2020
The Cape of Clouds – covered with embroidered messages from women around the world – will be at the heart of a special event celebrating Arts and Crafts textiles from 1850 to the present. Arts & Crafts Textiles Celebration – nature, beauty and community...
Jan 13, 2020
Scotland’s arts community is to receive a significant boost in 2020 as Wasps opens its 20th building – with a second multi-million pound project underway in Inverness. Around two dozen diverse artists and makers (from jewellery makers, painters, photographers and...
