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10/2011
New Musician in Residence at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI, the National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture, has appointed a new Gaelic Musician in Residence who acquired the title "Gaelic Singer of the Year" in 2008. Margaret Stewart was born and raised in the village of Upper Coll on the Isle of Lewis, where song... more...
10/2011
Gaelic music stars join graduation success at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI
Former BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year, Julie Fowlis, and Mod Gold medalist and Trad Award winner, Gillebrìde MacMillan, were among the 45 students awarded degrees and course certificates from College Principal, Professor Boyd Robertson,at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig's annual graduation ceremony on Friday. Julie and Gillebrìde were among... more...
07/2011
Alasdair Fraser Week ' celebrating 25 years at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI
Internationally renowned Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser is back in Scotland this week to conduct his long running and only Scottish based fiddle camp at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI, the National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture on Skye. This week sees the ever popular camp reach a milestone, celebrating 25... more...
06/2011
Tribute Paid to Renowned Gaelic Poet, Sorley MacLean
Leading academics, poets and artists from Scotland and Ireland gathered on the Isle of Skye this week to celebrate the life and work of the renowned Gaelic poet, Sorley MacLean. Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI, the National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture, in partnership with the School of Creative and... more...
04/2011
Help plan the future of Gaelic arts and culture
Cultural organisations across Scotland are being given the opportunity to help develop and deliver a new National Gaelic Arts Strategy. The strategy will set out what action will be taken to support and strengthen Gaelic arts and culture, with this framework then worked into the next National Plan for Gaelic... more...
03/2011
The Fruitmarket Gallery long listed for Clore Award for museum learning.
The Fruitmarket Gallery is delighted to announce that the education project Air Iomlaid has been long listed for the inaugural £10,000 Clore Award for Museum Learning. Ten museums across the UK have been long listed for the award, which is aimed at championing excellence in museum learning and is run... more...
03/2011
New poetry collection marks centenary of Sorley MacLean's birth
A new collection of poems commissioned to mark the centenary of the birth of the Gaelic poet Somhairle MacIllEain, (Sorley MacLean 1911-1996), has been published in a collaborative project between the Sorley MacLean Trust and the Scottish Poetry Library. Dàin do Shomhairle (Poems for Sorley) features works by Meg Bateman,... more...
02/2011
Writer Donald S. Murray visits Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
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02/2011
'Renowned over Hundreds' - Scotland celebrates Sorley MacLean
Scotland's interwoven communities of islanders, poets and musicians, Gaelic-speakers, scholars and all with an interest in the promotion of Scottish literature and Scottish identity will be gathering on Skye this June to celebrate one of their own. Under the banner Ainmeil Thar Cheudan, 'renowned over hundreds', Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the... more...
11/2010
Major new artists' residencies for Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
Delivering the annual Sabhal Mòr Ostaig lecture, Andrew Dixon, the Chief Executive for Creative Scotland, has set out plans for an ambitious artists residency programme that will be unrivalled in Europe. Addressing the assembled audience at the National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture on Skye, he said that Creative... more...