THE FULL line-up of an evening of "songs and stories for the darkest hours", on the Isle of Lewis, has been unveiled.
Whatever Gets You Through the Night, at An Lanntair, will feature Rachel Sermanni, Emma Pollock, The Sea Atlas, and Ceitlin L R Smith.
The show is a one-off Hebridean version of an award-winning multi-media project created in 2012 by Olivier award-winning theatre director Cora Bissett, playwright David Greig and the band Swimmer One.
Premiered at the Arches in Glasgow, Whatever Gets You Through The Night drew together more than two dozen Scottish songwriters, playwrights, poets and novelists, all of whom were invited to write something set between the hours of midnight and 4am.
Whatever Gets You Through The Night took four forms - a live show, a series of films by Daniel Warren, a book, and a compilation album.
The An Lanntair show, for the first Hebridean Dark Skies Festival, will also include short films by Daniel Warren, featuring musicians inlcuding Withered Hand and Eugene Kelly performing at night in locations from Edinburgh and Glasgow to Orkney and Ardgour.
The evening is curated and introduced by Andrew Eaton-Lewis from Swimmer One.
He said: “An evening of songs and stories to get you through the night feels like a perfect fit for a dark skies festival.
"Night-time can be beautiful and exciting, but it can also be a very difficult time for all kinds of reasons, especially in the depths of winter, and that feels like an important thing for a festival like this to be exploring. I want it to be a joyful evening too, just as the original show was.
www.lanntair.com/darkskies
VISUAL Arts Scotland is to stage its 2019 Annual Exhibition, Alight, in the upper galleries of the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.
The show will run from January 26 to February 22.
In the show VAS have "created a platform for practitioners who explore and promote sustainability and ethical practices.
Ute Decke will be exhibiting as an invited artist.
The show includes Craft Scotland Celebrates: Wood, which features the work of Beth Legg, Naomi McIntosh and Charlotte Barker.
It will be presented within and alongside Hirta, "a modular structure which acts as a focus for discussion around materiality, design and making."
There will be a Graduate Showcase 2019, supported by the Russel Trust.
The showcase will include work by Daniel Craddock, Niklas Gustaffson, Jack Handscombe, Erin McQuarrie, Ailsa Morrant and Marcus Murison.
www.visualartsscotland.org
JOHN Ruskin (1819-1900) is to be celebrated in a series of events in galleries, universities and cultural institutions across the world next year.
To mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, there will be a conference at Edinburgh University from 24-26 June next year, in an event called Ruskin and Scotland.
Ruskin was a writer, thinker, artist and social reformer.
Ruskin’s 200th birthday on 8 February 2019 will be celebrated at the Royal Academy, London with: All Great Art Is Praise, readings from Ruskin by Michael Palin and Dan Draper, with settings by Sarah Rodgers of his words, and music performed by tenor Richard Edgar-Wilson and the Coull Quartet.
There will also be events at Harvard University in the US, London, Japan, and in the Lake District.
Ruskin’s ideas and values as critic and social reformer will be explored in a series of international conferences, not only in Edinburgh but in France, Lancaster, Oxford, California and Venice.
www.ruskinto-day.org
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