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Funding

Visual Artist & Craft Maker Awards 2026/27 (VACMA): Applications open

Deadline for applications: Tuesday 20 October

Shetland Arts, in partnership with Creative Scotland and Shetland Islands Council, invite applications from artists and makers for bursaries of £500 or £1,000 towards their creative and professional development.

Film
Scottish Ballet: These Violent Delights
21 October 2026
In this sleek, vivid, contemporary re-telling of Shakespeare’s tragic romance, fate is rewritten on the dancefloor without words.
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Film
The Hunger Games: All 5 Films
22 October 2026 to 25 October 2026
Ahead of the release of The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, revisit all five Hunger Games films on the…
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Film
The Hunger Games
22 October 2026
Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen, who volunteers to take her younger sister’s place in a brutal, televised…
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Film
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
23 October 2026
President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games – a competition that could change Panem forever.
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Film
Wildwood
23 October 2026 to 1 November 2026
The most ambitious film Oscar-nominated stop-motion animators Laika have ever made, Wildwood is an epic new fantasy adventure.
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Film
Other Mommy
23 October 2026 to 29 October 2026
Oscar winner Jessica Chastain gives a truly terrifying dual performance.
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Film
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (Cert PG)
24 October 2026 to 27 October 2026
Coraline director Henry Selick directs this Tim Burton-penned musical opus, a stunningly original and delightful ghoulish stop motion animation.
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Film
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
24 October 2026
Katniss Everdeen is rescued by the rebels and brought to District 13 after she shatters the Hunger Games forever, but…
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Music

The Phantom Of The Opera (1925) with live score written and performed by Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman

28 October 2026

Scottish composers Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman have created a new haunting and dramatic score befitting of this silent era...

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