May 21, 2019
A struggling movie actress and an aspiring horror writer are on the very brink of success – each just a compromise away. Jessica can achieve her dream of taking the lead role in a big budget feature film if she’ll just “upgrade her sex appeal”. And a prestigious...
May 21, 2019
When a Miami Jewish woman who describes herself as “self-involved, loud and stubborn” married a larger, louder and more stubborn Miami Cuban Catholic man and his entire family … she met her match. Jewbana is a sexy, moving, autobiographical, comedy, drama, dramedy?...
May 21, 2019
Vulnerable bird species are the inspiration for the exquisite work that glassmaker Amanda Simmons will be showing at this weekend’s Spring Fling open studios event. Amanda has spent the last four years perfecting the techniques for her elegant and delicate designs –...
May 19, 2019
A non-stop celebration of the astonishing, surprising, subversive and the supremely sexy – Rouge is heading for the Edinburgh Fringe with its outrageous brand of adult circus. A decadent blend of sensational acrobatics, operatic cabaret and tongue-in-cheek burlesque...
May 19, 2019
Scottish Contemporary Art Network (SCAN), the member-led body for contemporary visual art in Scotland, launches the Art in Action campaign this week to champion the valuable role visual art plays within communities across Scotland – and to call for stronger...
May 15, 2019
The exhibitors have been unveiled for Elements 2019 – Scotland’s festival showcase for the finest gold, silver and jewellery. Fifty highly skilled designers and makers, half from Scotland and the others from elsewhere in the UK, have been selected to take part in the...
May 14, 2019
A new generation of artists and makers will be presenting everything from luxury wedding tiaras to a puppet circus as part of Spring Fling 2019. Each year Scotland’s premier open studios weekend, and its parent organisation Upland, run schemes to provide a platform to...
May 14, 2019
From wide-eyed drama school graduates to brattish divas – I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical is a comic exposé of the big personalities and turbulent lives in musical theatre. This award-winning musical revue has been created by acknowledged “genius in comic...
May 7, 2019
One of the stars of a new drama about the lure and the risks of life on the ocean has spoken about her own life growing up in Aberdeen as the daughter of a deep-sea diver. SophiaMcLean is taking her first major Scottish role in Lost at Sea playing Shona, a young woman...
May 3, 2019
The legacy of a vast 1930s Scottish clean energy scheme is the inspiration behind Pennies from Heaven? an exhibition exploring energy, climate change and consumerism. The exhibition, featuring photographs, cyanotypes and 81 specially smelted aluminium plaques, is the...
