The Epic Awards are for creative projects that involve people who participate for the love of it and on an amateur basis. The Awards will be back in 2017 and now is your chance to get your group on the shortlist. Applications are open from 20 October 2016 until 12 January 2017. Find out all you need to know … Continued

The Scottish Recovery Network is looking to hire two group facilitators for the Write to Recovery project. Write to Recovery explores the power of people owning their story in a positive way. Through on the ground group work, and a specially designed online story-sharing tool, Write to Recovery provides the opportunity for people to share experiences, … Continued

All staff and associated artists at TRACS were extremely saddened to hear news of the passing of Angus R Grant of Shooglenifty. Angus was described as ‘making fiddle playing cool again’ and having a ‘rock and roll swagger’. Although hailing from the Highlands, son of the renowned fiddle player Aonghas Grant from Lochaber, Edinburgh became … Continued

Voluntary Arts Scotland, a partner in the Scottish International Storytelling Festival’s #DareToDream campaign 2016, will host a civic conversation at this year’s Scottish Rural Parliament. Civic Conversation, a useful tool in community planning, opens up dialogue for the multiple perspectives which combine to make a community. The approach finds its strength in an inclusive process, … Continued

The Spree is back for a fifth year and it has a bigger and better programme than ever before with acts appearing including Admiral Fallow, Roddy Woomble, Treacherous Orchestra, Skerryvore, Donnie Munro, We Banjo 3, Michael McGoldrick, Ross Ainslie and Jarlath Henderson, The Tannahill Weavers, Eddi Reader, Dick Gaughan, Carol Laula, Mark Lyken and many … Continued

Photo Credit: Robin Mitchell This Friday 30th September the Cumnock Tryst are joined by adults from the Riverside Centre and young musicians from Cumnock Academy.  Drake Music Scotland Associate Musician Matilda Brown will work with our artists-in-residence, Headspace, and storyteller Marion Kenny, to explore the mysterious tale of Cumnock’s own ‘Bell Tree’. Their project last … Continued

City of Literature have launched an exciting new writing project with The Bridge Awards called Echoes of the City: Edinburgh’s Hidden Stories. The project will take the works of fifteen new writers and place them throughout the city using Podwalk, a site specific podcast player and submissions can be sent in from anywhere around the … Continued

Bob Pegg is best known in the Highlands as a storyteller. But from 1960 until well into the 1980s he made his living as a singer and composer on the British folk scene. Performing, and recording for Transatlantic Records, with his band Mr Fox, with instrumentalist the late Nick Strutt, and as a soloist, he … Continued

Turas nan Craobhan / A Journey with Trees: 4pm Sat 10 & 4.30pm Sun 11th September at Fort Augustus & Invergarry. Pairèid Oidhche Shamhna Phàislig – Paisley Halloween Parade Friday 28th October. Tillidh Stàit Neo-Eisimeileach Sonais! Independent State of Happiness is delighted to be returning for Paisley’s Halloween Festival & looking forward to working with Fèis Phàislig participants as well! … Continued

Can we say that Scotland is a Celtic nation? Saturday 10 September 14:00-16.30 £10 (£8 members and concession) Scottish journalist and author Neal Ascherson, will chair a panel discussion, exploring the history of our national, cultural and linguistic identities and their resonance for those in Britain, Ireland and the global Celtic diaspora. This event is organised … Continued