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Arts & Culture
Scottish, culture and heritage organisations have received a £91,000 investment of National Lottery funding for digital technologies in a third round of funding from AmbITion Scotland's Make:IT:Happen fund.
Even though the team behind Wanted: Rabbit are from the Netherlands, this short but action-packed piece of whimsy unfolded like a Dario Fo farce for three to five-year-olds.
When a woman called Coralie turned up at Dundee Rep's box office to say the next production was about her, the company sat up and took notice.
For the last couple of years Alec Finlay has been writing himself into the landscape of Skye.
What would happen if the revolution became reduced to a series of letterwriting parties that gathered the converted together under the guidance of the sort of perma- grinning cheerleader normally the preserve of high street charity muggers?
A painting by Scottish Colourist Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, entitled Reflections and described as a work of refined elegance, is expected to fetch up to £500,000 when it goes on sale at Sotheby's in London next Thursday.
The national shows, or pavilions, at the Venice Biennale, which opens next week, are its most obvious defining attribute.
It may begin with a growl and a roar in a frosted-glass fronted cube, but by the time writer/performer Angela Clerkin and director Lee Simpson's quasi-autobiographical study of barely-repressed anger is completed some 80 minutes later, something even less cuddly has emerged.
Judging from the well sold house and thoroughly enthusiastic reception at the first night, this new production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance looks set to be a success for Scottish Opera.
Most choreographers meet the challenge of making a new piece by heading into the studio and working through their ideas with the dancers – usually against the unwelcome pressure of a deadline.
Additional News from Scotland
Coalition ministers have warned that an independent Scotland would be forced to create its own financial services regulator – a move which could push up the costs of mortgages, insurance policies and pensions.
LABOUR has suspended its selection process for the Falkirk Westminster seat held by disgraced MP Eric Joyce following concerns about "membership recruitment".
THE right of Scottish ministers to place big advertising contracts will be called into question by a court action next week.
Labour leader Ed Miliband will today tell technology giant Google "to its face" that it should pay more tax.
Thousands of Scots could miss out on pension rights if their spouse dies unless MPs vote through same-sex marriage proposals this week, campaigners have warned.
DAVID Cameron, so we're told, was "profoundly relaxed" about the fact 116 Tory MPs – half his backbenchers – took the opportunity to support the rebel amendment expressing regret that the UK Government's legislative programme did not include a commitment to hold a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.
DAVID Cameron has denied he was panicked into bringing forward the Conservatives' draft EU referendum bill to quell Tory unrest as Alex Salmond branded his positioning on Europe "ridiculous".
SNP MSPs cheered their most recent reason to be in favour of Europe when they applauded a new Holyrood colleague taking his oath – first in English with a French twist to his Doric accent, and then in his native tongue.
GEORGE Osborne has called on eurosceptics from other parties to join the Conservatives in supporting a Bill for a referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union as Vince Cable lashed out at the Tories' "endless self-indulgence" on Europe.
THE chairman of an influential Commons committee warned the high price of new nuclear power stations would be worth paying for cheaper energy bills over the long term.
