The fourth location to be revealed in the series of virtual tours at the Highland Folk Museum is the Boleskine shinty pavilion. Visitors to www.highlandfolk.com/explore will be able to explore the pavilion from Tuesday (February 15), with images, text, video and audio all bringing the story of shinty to life. Project Officer Helen Pickles said:… Read more »Read more
A community clean up will be held in Dingwall next weekend. Organised by High Life Highland’s Countryside Rangers, it will take place at Dingwall Woods on Saturday, February 19 between 11am and 2pm. Ranger Saranne Bish said: “We will be litter picking, removing garden waste and non-native Rhododendron bushes to improve the woods for local… Read more »Read more
The third in a series of virtual tours at the Highland Folk Museum is now available online. From today (February 8) the Travellers’ summer encampment can be discovered in 360 degrees with images, text, video and audio helping illustrate the Traveller way of life – long part of Highland culture for centuries. The encampment at… Read more »Read more
An exhibition of illustrations by Mairi Hedderwick from her popular Katie Morag children’s books is now on show at the North Coast Visitor Centre. Running until March 19, the exhibition contains original jacket covers, storyboards, a family tree, character profiles from the TV series and a map of the Isle of Struay, among other original… Read more »Read more
High Life Highland is joining forces with the University of the Highlands and Islands to look for volunteers to take part in a new study to see whether the benefits of online exercise differ from in-person classes. As online exercise classes continue to boom from the ongoing effects of the pandemic, the university wants to… Read more »Read more
An exhibition of new work by Alison Watt, widely regarded as one of the leading painters working in the UK today, comes to Inverness Museum & Art Gallery this week. Watt, known for her beautiful and intricate large-scale paintings of drapery and folds, is exhibiting a series of new paintings made in response to the… Read more »Read more
On behalf of The Highland Council, High Life Highland this week announced Smartify as the successful partner for the audio and visual input to Spirit of the Highlands and Islands project. Director of the Inverness Castle Project, Fiona Hampton, said: “The audio and visual content will see the creation of an interactive story map to… Read more »Read more
Donations of old laptops and PCs are being accepted at High Life Highland (HLH) libraries to help give children access to technology. HLH has teamed up with Budding Engineers, a local Community Interest Company based in Wick that provides a scheme called Tech4Tots & Teens. Its aim is to give children and young adults access… Read more »Read more
A new series of virtual tours around historic buildings at the Highland Folk Museum launches this week. The Newtonmore attraction has created a series of 360 degree digital tours as a new way to explore five of its unique buildings and the objects within. The first of the historic buildings to discover is the Blackhouse,… Read more »Read more
A partnership providing free use of leisure facilities across Scotland – including Highland – now includes access to multiple leisure facilities across the Shetland Islands. 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, Moray, Orkney, and… Read more »Read more
