The team at High Life Highland’s Inverness Museum and Art Gallery (IMAG) is delighted to welcome an exhibition of paintings by the Glasgow Girls and Boys from the Fleming Collection which opens this weekend. The generation known as The Glasgow Girls and Boys includes most radical Scottish painters of the late nineteenth century. Leading lights were Joseph… Read more »Read more
A S5 pupil from Tain Royal Academy was awarded the coveted title of Highland Young Musician of the Year 2023 this weekend at an event which took place at the Highland Archive Centre in Inverness. Megan Fisher wowed both the audiences and perhaps more importantly, the Judges with her varied programme on the clarinet. Her… Read more »Read more
High Life Highland’s Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, Highland Folk Museum and Countryside Rangers have joined The Wild Escape, a major new project uniting hundreds of museums with schools and families to find nature in museums. Led by national art charity Art Fund and with support from Arts Council England, hundreds of museums, galleries and… Read more »Read more
Mollie McGoran, a young person from Alness said she was “absolutely delighted” to have been elected as Chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament. The members of the Scottish Youth Parliament, and her peers, recently voted Mollie McGoran, a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament (MSYP) for Inverness and Nairn, Highland as their new Chair of… Read more »Read more
A partnership providing free use of leisure facilities across Scotland – including Highland – will now include access to multiple leisure facilities across the Angus area of Scotland. The Leisure Link Partnership allows highlife card holders to access gym, public swimming and fitness classes at leisure centres across Aberdeen, Argyll and Bute, the Borders, Highland,… Read more »Read more
The Highland weather wasn’t a friend to the first McRobert Cup since 2019. But despite that, the High Life Highland organised school’s event went swimmingly – almost literally. The event took place at Bught Park, Inverness on the morning of 22nd March. Speaking about the event, Dagmar Borrowman, High Life Highland’s Active Schools Coordinator for… Read more »Read more
A spokesperson for High Life Highland has confirmed that the East Caithness Community Facility will remain closed to the public until further notice. The spokesperson said, “The location’s emergency procedures were implemented following a chemical-related incident this morning which resulted in the schools and community and sports facilities being evacuated as a precautionary measure. “Scottish… Read more »Read more
The High Life Highland Rangers team is reaching out to Highland communities seeking individual and family volunteers with an interest in wildlife and the environment to help develop sites for wildlife across the Highlands. HLH’s Rangers are offering workshops and training to support the public in understanding how to manage grasslands and wildflowers, how to… Read more »Read more
High Life Highland Vice Chair Michael Golding is delighted to announce the appointment of two new Board members to the organisation’s main charity Board, Roddy Henry and Kerry Ross. The charity’s Board provides extensive experience of public, private and development agency backgrounds which is a perfect complement for the scope of High Life Highland’s work…. Read more »Read more
The team at Skye and Lochalsh Archive is looking forward to the relaunch of a popular cartoon character collection when “The Rebirth of Angus Og” comes to the island’s Staffin Hall on 30th March. Visitors to the event are promised to rediscover the wit, charm and general hilarity of Angus Og. Catherine MacPhee, High Life… Read more »Read more
