Shelley O’Brien brings her moving one woman show – tag lined as a “Tragicomedy with Biscuits” – to the Scottish Storytelling Centre on Thursday 13 October as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. She Wins All the Races is set in the 1970s and tells the story of an intelligent, happy … Continued

We grabbed Kat Healy for 5 quick questions to get to know more about her and her new record, Wolf, which Kat performs here on Friday, 30 Sepember, kick starting a Scottish tour. Tell us about your album. Wolf was a project created whilst I was taking a much needed break from gigging earlier this … 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

Sleeping Warrior Theatre Company – a fresh young collective based in Glasgow – aim to bring new, vibrant and unique work to the stage, creating shows that are inventive, fun and distinctly Scottish, with new music at their heart. Daniel Abercrombie, Programme and Events Manager at the Scottish Storytelling Centre commented: ‘After hosting Sleeping Warrior’s … Continued

Songs Unseen treats you to world premieres of tunes from the Tony nominated duo Bill Russell & Janet Hood (Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, Sideshow) and Oliver award-winning Stiles & Drewe (Mary Poppins, Honk) sitting side-by-side with new works from established and emerging Scottish Musical Theatre songwriters. One pairing is the talents of … Continued

A writing challenge issued 200 years ago that resulted in the creation of Frankenstein’s monster and the world’s first vampire is being used to inspire a modern generation to pen new tales that terrify. The National Library of Scotland and the Scottish Storytelling Centre are inviting entries for a ghost story competition to mark the … Continued

Edinburgh Tourism Action Group (ETAG), in partnership with Youth Travel Edinburgh want to gain greater insight into Edinburgh’s youth market sector to find out what attracts young travellers to the city in order to improve its offerings.   Youth travel has become one of the fastest growing segments of international tourism, representing more than 23% … Continued

The ‘traditional arts’ are often referred to as ‘The Voice of the People’, but what do we mean by ‘the people’ and do they speak with one voice? In a Scotland now comprising an ever-shifting population, made dynamic by global processes of dislocation and relocation, how are the traditional arts to be defined? Who participates … Continued

Musician, writer and filmmaker Stuart Murdoch is to be a guest speaker at the launch of Action for M.E.’s new guide to living with the condition, informed by the experiences of people with M.E. and their carers. The lead singer of Belle and Sebastian will be talking about his own experiences of living with M.E. … Continued

Shauna MacDonald is an experienced across a range of productions from Hollywood film (The Descent, The Mutant Chronicles) to major television drama (Taggart, State of Play, Spooks, Sea of Souls) as well as plenty of stage work, including the National Theatre of Scotland. We asked Shauna about directing The Last Laugh, with the backdrop to … Continued