YDance, Scottish Youth Dance, the national dance organisation for children and young people in Scotland, is seeking dance groups
from across Scotland to perform at the annual YDance Routes Destinations performance event to be held in February 2018.
Destinations is a showcase of the youth dance companies from across Scotland.
The event is to be held at Tramway, Glasgow on February 24.
Up to 14 groups will be selected to perform alongside other companies from across the country, including the National Youth Dance Company of Scotland, and will gain experience of performing their own work in a professional show.
Dance groups from anywhere in Scotland are invited to apply.
Groups must not include more than 15 dancers and all dancers must be aged 12 to 21 (groups including dancers with disabilities, up to age 25).
There is no minimum length for your dance piece, but it must be no longer than seven minutes.
www.ydance.org.
The popular artist 'Jolomo' is to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony in London.
Previous winners include Andy Murray, violinist Nicola Benedetti and businessman Sir Ian Wood.
John Lowrie Morrison has been announced as the winner of the Great London Scot Award for Lifetime Achievement, which will be presented at a special event at the Savoy Hotel on November 24
The Great London Scot Awards were established in 2013 to celebrate the success of Scots who have a close connection to London.
This year, the Award for Outstanding Achievement has been won by Lucinda Russell, the first Scottish female trainer to win the Grand National with ‘One for Arthur’ in April this year.
Morrison said: “It is a great honour for me to receive the Great London Scot Award for Lifetime Achievement, particularly considering the list of illustrious former recipients of the Awards. It is also an honour to be involved in raising money and raising awareness for the Doddie Weir’5 Trust.”
A new exhibition of his paintings is about to be unveiled at the Gullane Art Gallery in East Lothian.
Jolomo: Flowers and Gardens of Scozia and Venezia includes a selection of his landscape paintings of the West of Scotland, but also new paintings of Venice and the Venetian lagoon.
www.gullaneartgallery.co.uk
The Edinburgh International Festival has been awarded a Fair Saturday Award at the opening gala of Fair Saturday 2017 which took place at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
The award was given to the the International Festival for its "vision, commitment to virtuosity and originality" since it was founded in 1947 and recognises its "capacity to turn the city of Edinburgh into an annual meeting point for peoples of all nations."
Founded in 2014, Fair Saturday is a "global cultural movement which aims to generate social change through art and culture."
In recognition of cultural institutions that have made a social impact through international culture, other recipients of the 2017 Fair Saturday Award include the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, Fundación Nacional Batuta and La Tarumba.
As part of a day of talks and events launching Fair Saturday 2017, Managing Director of the Edinburgh International Festival, Joanna Baker, was invited to take part in a forum on the subject of ‘Culture for a better world’ with President of Honour of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation, Enrique Barón Crespo; President of Fundación Nacional Batuta, María Claudia Parias Durán; and Founder and President of La Tarumba, Estela Vargas.
www.eif.co.uk
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