Aberdeen Performing Arts (APA) and Visible Fictions are collaborating on a special festive production, A Ladder to the Stars, based on the children’s book by Simon Puttock.
It has been made for a young audience aged three to seven years, and their parents and carers and will be staged at the Lemon Tree in Aberdeen from December 7 until Christmas Eve.
APA’s director of programming and creative projects, Ben Torrie said: "It is really exciting to be working with the fantastic Visible Fictions company and particularly on the co-production of such a lovely, charming and heart-warming story."
visiblefictions.co.uk
The Travelling Gallery, pictured, is on a tour of Scotland, showcasing Turner Prize art ahead of the announcement of this year's winner. The Turner Prize 2015 will take place in Scotland for the first time this autumn.
The mobile gallery's specially commissioned Eyes on the Prize exhibition, which features past winners and nominees including David Shrigley, Callum Innes and Lucy Skaer, travels moves to Leith's Custom House today and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art tomorrow. In Leith, Custom House will host a free Leithlate artist talk with Mike Inglis who has designed the exterior of the bus.
The gallery is supported by Creative Scotland, the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the City of Edinburgh Council, and the new design has been funded by The Friends of the City Art Centre and V&A Dundee.
The bus show includes works by Christine Borland with Brody Condon, Martin Boyce, Douglas Gordon, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jim Lambie, and Ciara Phillips.
travellinggallery.com
The shortlist for the three annual Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards has been announced at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Malcolm Hardee, the "godfather of British Alternative comedy" drowned ten years ago, in 2005.
The award for comic originality shortlist includes Michael Brunstrom, Richard Gadd, The Story Beast and Mr Twonkey, the Cunning Stunt Award embraces Miss Behave, Matt Roper and Abigoliah Schamaun and the "act most likely to make a million quid"award features Sarah Callaghan, Phil Ellis, Laurence Owen and Al Porter.
The final decision is made at noon on August 28 and announced that night during the Increasingly Prestigious Malcolm Hardee Comedy Awards Show in the Counting House Ballroom, Edinburgh.
The show is free and all donations go to the Mama Biashara charity.
The 2012 "Million Quid" award winner was Trevor Noah, who is just about to take over as presenter of US TV’s The Daily Show from Jon Stewart.
malcolmhardee.co.uk
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