Arts, culture and heritage

Gaelic language broadcasting is to receive an additional £1.8 million to help build on the success of BBC Alba’s crime thriller An t-Eilean.

The increase is contained in the Scottish Government’s 2025/26 Budget and raises total funding for MG ALBA (the Gaelic Media Service) to £14.8 million in the upcoming financial year.

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig is to be a Gaelic hub in the new Centre for Teaching Excellence, Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth has announced during a visit to the college.

The Cabinet Secretary met with staff at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture, during a visit to discuss the aims of the new Centre in providing opportunities for Gaelic teachers across the country.

The longlist for the Highland Book Prize 2024 has been announced by the Highland Society of London and Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre.

This year’s longlist includes poetry from the late Aonghas MacNeacail, new fiction from Inverness-born Ali Smith, and Saltire Award winner Jen Stout’s experiences as a journalist in war-torn Ukraine.  

Engage Scotland and the Culture Heritage and Arts Assembly, Argyll and Isles (CHARTS) are pleased to be working in partnership to gather information from visual artists working in a participatory Gaelic language and/or culture context in Scotland. 

The red carpet will be rolled out across Scotland next week for one of the UK’s wildest living landscapes and all its fantastically boggy inhabitants.

In only six months time Orkney will host the 20th International Island Games, an event that promises to be a celebration of sport, culture, and community.

The north-east farming community is set to come together for a night of music, laughter, and fundraising at The Farmers’ Choir Concert, hosted at ANM Group’s Thainstone Centre, Inverurie, in aid of agricultural charity RSABI

Nearly 1000 people have already attended the 30-plus public consultation events and online sessions about the proposed National Park in Galloway.

The Scottish Festival of Real Bread, a one-day celebration of community, sustainability, and local food systems, is back for its third year.

The Scottish Land Fund (SLF) has awarded 10 grants across the country totalling nearly £2m this year to community groups.

The Fund supports rural and urban communities to become more resilient and sustainable through the ownership and management of land and land assets.