UK’s First Exhibition of Digital Jewellery and Interactive Craft Opens in The Shetland Islands
Portage: Crossing Points (29 May – 27 June), Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland.
The Shetland Islands are a fitting location for the UK’s first exhibition dedicated solely to digital jewellery and interactive craft. The word Portage means to transport or carrying something. This,…
Archive for May, 2010
Digital Kists, Networked Necklaces and Long Distance Lovers
Posted by Emily Sharp on May 24th, 2010 1 CommentFilm Makers Wanted for Screenplay2010
Posted by Emily Sharp on May 17th, 2010 No CommentsScreenplay 2010 – Shetland’s Film Festival – is calling for submissions from Shetland film makers of any age (i.e., Shetlanders by birth or residency, and those currently in higher education) for inclusion at the festival.
Click here for further details and to download a submission form.…
Simon King in Shetland to talk about and sign copies of his new book Shetland Diaries
Posted by Emily Sharp on May 7th, 2010 No CommentsAward winning film maker, presenter of Spring Watch and best-selling author Simon King will be taking about his new book Shetland Diaries at the Town Hall, Upper Hillhead, Lerwick on Thursday 13th May at 7.30pm. Entry is free. for all enquires, please contact the Town Hall on 01595 693535 or info@shetland.gov.uk… or Shetland Times bookshop
Read the rest...White Below, a collection of short stories and poems by Shetland writers
Posted by Emily Sharp on May 7th, 2010 No CommentsWhite Below, published by Hansel Cooperative Press, is a collection of short stories and poems by six Shetland writers. As the title suggests, the writing focuses on Shetland’s fishing culture, and the writers involved have used conversations with fishermen, gutters and their families, to develop new works with a common theme.
Laureen Johnson, who researched…