Posts Tagged ‘media release’

Africa in Motion Film Festival visits Shetland

Posted by on October 27th, 2009 No Comments

Media Release
Some of the best of African film will be screened at the Shetland Museum and Archives on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th November, thanks to a collaboration between the Africa in Motion Film Festival, Shetland Film Club and Shetland Arts. Supported by Regional Screen Scotland, the festival proper is taking place in Edinburgh…

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Writer John Hudson’s November Residency in Shetland

Posted by on October 22nd, 2009 No Comments

November 1st will see the arrival in Shetland, of award winning writer, editor and film-maker, John Hudson who will take up a month long Creative Writing Residency in the Booth in Scalloway.
John Hudson has been working as a freelance writer since 1980; he is extra mural lecturer in English for the University of Glasgow…

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GMan Dance Performance at the Museum & Archives

Posted by on October 14th, 2009 No Comments

Shetland Arts is delighted to welcome back to Shetland, dancer and choreographer Martin Robinson.
To compliment the Gunnister Man exhibition at Shetland Museum and Archives…, Martin is devising an exciting and innovative new dance piece with young local dancers James Watt, Kara Manson, Chris Wright and Mhairi Coutts.  The piece is inspired by the exhibition

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Power of Place Launch ‘The POP Phone’

Posted by on October 14th, 2009 No Comments

Power of Place,… Shetland’s first year long celebration of architecture and place, have launched The POP Phone as an easy and quirky way for people to take part in the celebrations.
Power of Place will run throughout 2010 and will help to raise the profile of architecture, design and construction within Shetland and place this

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Seckou Keita Quintet finish UK tour with Shetland concert

Posted by on October 8th, 2009 2 Comments

Senegalese “Hendrix of the Kora” Seckou Keita and his international band, The Seckou Keita Quintet, are to round off their current UK tour, the last in their current format, with a concert organised by DrumHom and Shetland Arts at the Clickimin Centre in Lerwick on Saturday 17th October. They will be supported by local percussion…

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