Scotland’s friendliest art fair is set to return with more than 70 artists and galleries, from across the Borders and as far apart as Aberdeenshire and Devon, for visitors to discover. The 2024 McInroy & Wood Borders Art Fair (BAF) takes place in Kelso, in The...
You can’t win it if you aren’t in it – poets around the world have been urged to enter the Wigtown Poetry Prizes by one of 2023’s highly-praised winners. Edinburgh-based Stephanie Green was overwhelmed when she was awarded the Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize and was also...
A call is going out to find the perfect Wigtownshire wall for a new community mural – and a locally-based artist to help paint it. The initiative marks the return of the highly successful Spring Fling Rural Mural (SFRM), which saw the creation of imaginative and...
Campaigners are preparing for their final push for Galloway to be declared Scotland’s newest National Park – revealing that they have already spoken with well over 2,000 local people and organisations. And the Galloway National Park Association (GNPA) is urging more...
A multitude of magicians are putting the final touches to a vast array of mind-boggling tricks and illusions as they prepare to gather in Edinburgh for MagicFest. They range from established stars like the city’s own Kevin Quantum to new generation of teenage...
Edinburgh Deaf Festival, which takes place during The Fringe, faces a funding crisis despite a new Scottish Government pledge to make Scotland the “best place in the world for BSL users to live, work, visit and learn”. The only deaf-led event of its kind in Scotland,...
With a quarter of Dumfries and Galloway primary pupils below the Scottish attainment targets for reading, Big DoG is going back on the road to promote a love of books and stories. Between 27 November and 1 December, three children’s authors and storytellers will visit...
A stunning set of six hand-made garments – each with city flowers stitched in – have been created to celebrate the heritage and people of Glasgow’s East End. Each of the costumes, which are at the heart of the Eastern Ground initiative, has been designed by...
Meditative woodwork and mindful embroidering are just two of the arts-based health and wellbeing activities to try out as part of Upland made. Upland’s third annual visual art and craft fair takes place at Easterbrook Hall at The Crichton, Dumfries, on 4-5 November....
Scottish lighthouse paintings, glass sculptures inspired by photos of Victorian children and intricate silver jewellery – all feature in an open studios weekend being held in a historic former lemonade factory. At well over 100 years old, the striking red brick...
