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Celtic Connections festival kicks off for 2020

Culture | Music
Europe’s largest winter music festival, Celtic Connections 2020, begins today (Thursday 16 January) with 18 days of music on stages across Glasgow set to light...

Spending a season with the wild geese

Books | Reviews
It is impossible not to be charmed by the poignant and lyrical way in which Wintering effortlessly sketches vivid portraits of these often underappreciated birds....

Scotch whisky recording celebrates emerging talent

Culture | Music
Some of the finest young and emerging talent in Scotland’s traditional music scene have been brought together. They are part of a unique CD recording...

Youngsters show they have got the write stuff

Culture | Education
Four young writers have won a creative writing competition as part of the Message from the Skies project and will see their own words projected...

When Burns became the talk of the capital

Books
Robert Burns arrived unknown in Edinburgh in 1786, but within days the ‘Ploughman Poet’ was the talk of the town. This colourful guide to Burns’...
Jewellery maker Jenna McDonald, from Crieff, Perthshire - one of the artists now based at The Creative Exchange, and her whippet dog Millie, who keeps her company in her workshop studio (Photo: Colin Hattersley)

New £4.5 million Perth Studios takes Wasps to 20 in 2020

Culture
Scotland’s arts community is to receive a significant boost in 2020 as Wasps opens its 20th building – with a second multi-million pound project underway...
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