How one group of artists are helping older people stay creative during isolation
CREATIVE activities aimed at older people will be posted online twice a week to help combat loneliness and isolation during the coronavirus outbreak.
Online show explores the dangerous history of a Scotswoman's love for plants
A FORGOTTEN Scot who found a way to thrive in difficult times is remembered in a free online event on Tuesday. Storyteller Amanda Edmiston had been scheduled to take her new show to the British Library in London, which holds an original copy of Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal – the first herbal reference book by a woman. However, with that event cancelled due to the coronavirus, she will instead perform live online from her home near Stirling.
50 musicians lined-up for 24-hour online music festival and singalong
ORGANISERS of an initiative are planning a 24-hour online festival to help support grassroots musicians and venues affected by Covid-19.
Savage Mansion on the fractured melodies and lyrical wit of their new album
SAVAGE Mansion had planned to be setting out on a UK tour with their Lost Map label boss Pictish Trail this week. But while Craig Angus’s band of indie rockers are holed up at home like the rest of us instead of packing up the tour van with amps and crisp multipacks, at least fans will know the lyrics to new album Weird Country by the time resheduled dates come around.
Films to be screened online after festival is postponed
SHORT films will be screened online for free today and tomorrow as part of a festival which had been due to start on March 18.
Street art project planning its biggest mural yet
A GIANT mural will feature hidden references to the local area when it’s painted at the beginning of May.
The show must go on ... line for Scottish Ballet
FOLLOWING a stunning 50th anniversary season which included Helen Pickett’s remarkable reinvention of The Crucible and shimmering festive spectacular The Snow Queen, Scottish Ballet had spent much of 2020 readying the return of David Dawson’s sleek take on one of the world’s best-loved titles Swan Lake.
Edinburgh Gallery prepares exhibition from 'most versatile artist of his generation'
AN Edinburgh gallery is preparing the first major exhibition in a century dedicated to the work of a Scots painter considered one of the most versatile artists of his generation.
Scots tour for Kafka classic The Metamorphosis with international cast
A PLAY based on a classic text by Franz Kafka will “shed new light on the complexity and contradiction of modernity” as it tours Scotland this spring. The Metamorphosis, a co-production between Scotland’s Vanishing Point and Italy’s Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione (ERT), is based on Kafka’s 1915 novella about a man who wakes up one morning to find he’s an insect.
Stephanie Cheape releases empowering EP OK Without You co-written by Twin Atlantic
STEPHANIE Cheape may have been building up a fanbase over the past couple of years now but tomorrow sees the release of her first EP, OK Without You.
