Support body is offering free film workshops
Support body is offering free film workshops
Creative industries support body, ScreenHI, is organising a series of free workshops from Skye and Fort William down to Eigg and Lochgilphead throughout September.
The EU-funded initiative, called Honeycomb, is aimed at animators, designers, band managers, musicians, filmmakers, tour managers, producers, writers, games developers and programmers, to name but a few.
It all kicks off on the evening of Wednesday September 10 with a Network Development Event in conjunction with the Scottish Documentary Institute at the Corran Halls in Oban.
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Boos bring the blues to town
Cupar Blues & Beyond Club continues to bring live blues to the Fife town with an autumn programme that opens on Friday September 5 with the no-holds-barred, rockin' blues of Central Scotland-based GT's Boos Band, with Fife's own singer-guitarist Al Hughes, above, in support.
The popular Nimmo Brothers appear on September 12, followed by Wang Dang Delta on October 3, Fraser John Lindsay's Blues Incentive on November 4, and Baby Isaac (with Derek Smith in support) on December 5. All gigs take place at Watts bar in Station Road and the music starts at 8pm.
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Spotlight will be turned on power
The programme for this year's Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival (SMHAFF) has been unveiled, and will throw a spotlight on the nature of personal, political and social power - as well as the disempowerment associated with mental ill health.
More than 300 events will be staged across Scotland as part of the festival's theatre, film, literature and music strands, underlining the fact that empowerment can be gained through the arts.
Highlights of SMHAFF, which takes place from October 1-19, include theatre company Vanishing Point's production Tomorrow - a visual imagining of growing old and living with dementia - at Tramway, as well as live music gigs by Withered Hand, Machines In Heaven, Atom Tree and Call To Mind.
The film programme boasts three UK premieres: Beneath The Blindfold, a documentary on overcoming the effects of torture; Alive Inside, a Sundance Audience Award winner about the power of music in reaching people with Alzheimer's; and Ana Ana, a cinematic poem following Egyptian women struggling to make sense of their post-Arab Spring world through the arts and filmmaking.
The First World War will be remembered in the Voices Of War, an evening of war poetry, including works by Sassoon, Owen and psychiatrist WHR Rivers.
Festival director Lee Knifton said: "This year's theme of 'power' was chosen to bring the Festival back to its campaigning roots."
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