Northings the Highlands and Islands Arts Journal from HI-Arts, providing news, reviews, interviews and stories about the arts and culture across the North of Scotland and the Isles. ... on Sunday 5 September in aid of Riding For The Disabled. By chance the last few Sundays of this miserable summer have been sunny and fine; let us hope that trend continues into September, and that the Orchestra are not tempting fate by playing Handel's Water Music! © James Munro, 2010 ...

For example the theatre and dance programme had no big play or production and survived on novelty or fringe type small cast work. The visual arts content was lacklustre and much reduced. While the classical, baroque and world music events ... closed with tunes on a tin whistle and I almost expected Michael Coady to whip a trombone out of his trousers to compete but he wooed us with his rapt audience with pictures from his native Carrick-on-Suir. What a fine poet Coady is. ...

But he has an eager passion for the art and that comes out in his theatrical plays based on popular movies. When the school cuts the budget further, he finds his drama class is filled with new students wanting an easy ride. Inspired by virtue of having 20 ... His faux American accent wavers at times, and mostly feels unnaturalised, but he brings the oddball, offbeat characteristic he so frequently exhibited in his British television comedies to the film with fine results. ...

Passionate about painting, PaintyFran a fine arts graduate from Lancaster University is a versatile artist and painter with bristles to her brush. ... Introducing PaintyFran a Fine Arts Graduate from Cardiff. 02. Jul, 2010 ... -Painted 'The Yellow Brick Road' on the main stage at Theatre Clwyd for 'TipTop Productions' YellowBrickRoadclwydtiptop. -Assisted the Head Painter & a Freelance Scenic Artist at Theatre Clwyd on the set of 'A Small Family Business' and 'Pieces.' ...