The School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow has announced two appointments to work with its Creative Writing team.
Author Louise Welsh, herself a graduate of the university with an honours degree in History, joins as Professor of Creative Writing, while Dr Colin Herd, former director of the Sutton Gallery in Edinburgh, has been appointed to a Lectureship in Creative Writing.
Welsh recently published Death Is A Welcome Guest, the second instalment in her Plague Times trilogy, and her libretto for the opera The Devil Inside, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Bottle Imp, with music by Stuart MacRae, will premiere in Scottish Opera's 2015/16 season.
www.gla.ac.uk
Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) will host the Scottish premiere of The Yes Men Are Revolting, the third film by American activist-pranksters The Yes Men, at 8.30pm on Sunday June 28. The one-off screening takes place as part of Print Festival Scotland 2015, and coincides with the launch of a new suite of limited-edition prints produced by The Yes Men in DCA Print Studio.
For the past 20 years, Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum have highlighted corporate crimes via hoaxes and media stunts. Their latest film tackles climate change and the nature of social activism, and includes scenes shot in Dundee.
www.dca.org.uk
Nominations are now open for this year's Arts & Business Scotland (A&BS) Awards, celebrating outstanding collaborations between the cultural and business sectors. The five existing partnership categories are People, Placemaking, Digital Innovation, Entrepreneurship and International, but this year a new category has been added for Environmental Sustainability
In a change to previous years, the awards ceremony itself will take place in the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on the new date of February 3, 2016. Nominations will close at midnight on August 9, and the shortlist will be announced in September.
www.aandbscotland.org.uk
A two-day work experience programme for Scottish school pupils will see the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) taken over by more than 40 teenagers who will plan, promote and present an orchestral concert. The 48 young people, aged between 16-18, from across the country will join staff and musicians at the orchestra's base in Glasgow on Monday and Tuesday next week, where they will be assigned to each department - from marketing to conducting and playing.
The programme will culminate in a performance with the RSNO on June 16, billed as a farewell concert to the orchestra's current home, the Henry Wood Hall.
www.rsno.org.uk
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