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Author: Andrew Eaton Lewis

  • Hebridean Dark Skies Festival 2023 programme announced

    An Lanntair is delighted to announce the programme for the 2023 Hebridean Dark Skies Festival, with the first event tickets on sale now. The Hebridean Dark Skies Festival will return to the Isle of Lewis from 9 – 21 March 2023, with a new programme of live music, film, theatre, art, planetarium screenings, and stargazing events… More…

  • Mysteries of the cosmos explored in ambitious new theatre show and three Gaelic writing commissions

    An ambitious new theatre project at the Hebridean Dark Skies Festival will tackle complex astronomical ideas with only the 1000 most commonly used words in English and Gaelic. The Edge of the Sky | Oir Nan Speur is an adaptation of an internationally acclaimed book in which Italian astrophysicist Roberto Trotta tells the story of… More…

  • Dark Skies Discovery Day brings together astronomy talks, film and comedy

    The Hebridean Dark Skies Festival is partnering with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Lewis Castle College UHI for Dark Skies Discovery Day, a day of events at An Lanntair on Saturday 12 February. The day will include talks by leading astronomers, an astrophotography workshop, a film screening and a Bright Club comedy… More…

  • Hebridean Dark Skies Festival announces 2022 programme

    The Hebridean Dark Skies Festival will return in February 2022 with an arts and astronomy programme bringing together Scotland’s new Astronomer Royal Catherine Heymans, singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni, award-winning science communicator Roberto Trotta and lots more. The 2022 programme is being launched in the same week the festival was featured on the BBC Travel Show, which reaches… More…

  • Faclan: the Hebridean Book Festival announces 2021 programme

    Faclan: the Hebridean Book Festival is to welcome live audiences back to An Lanntair from Wednesday 27 to Saturday 30 October, with the theme of ‘Islands: Worlds in Isolation’. Tickets are on sale from today. Inspired by lockdown, as well as the festival’s uniquely dramatic location on the Isle of Lewis, this year’s Faclan is… More…

  • Faclan 2021 – tickets on sale from 21 September

    Faclan: the Hebridean Book Festival is to return to An Lanntair from Wednesday 27 to Saturday 30 October, exploring Islands: Worlds in Isolation. Look out for a full programme announcement on Tuesday 21 September, when tickets for festival events will also go on sale. This year’s choice of festival theme is inspired partly by the impact of… More…

  • Hebridean Dark Skies Festival exhibition – call for proposals

    An Lanntair is seeking artists living in or with a strong connection to the Hebrides to contribute to a group exhibition as part of the 2022 Hebridean Dark Skies Festival. Our February 2022 festival exhibition will be a collection of imaginative and original responses to the theme of ‘Dark Skies’. Each selected artist will be… More…

  • Kathryn Joseph and Renzo Spiteri live shows rescheduled to October

    The 2021 Hebridean Dark Skies Festival’s two flagship live events have now been rescheduled to Friday 15 and Saturday 16 October, with tickets on sale from 10am on Thursday 1 April. On Saturday 16 October, Kathryn Joseph and Lumen will see the Scottish Album of the Year Award-winning songwriter perform live on the Isle of Lewis for the first… More…

  • Hebridean Dark Skies Festival showcases 2021 photography competition winners

    Ahead of its opening night on Friday 5 February, the Hebridean Dark Skies Festival is today showcasing the five winning entries in its 2021 Photography Competition. The five striking night-time images – by Chris Murray, Derek MacKinnon, Grant Anderson, Alejandro Basterrechea, and Gordon Macdonald – were all taken in the Hebrides and will be on show at An Lanntair… More…

  • Hebridean Dark Skies Festival announces programme changes in response to new COVID 19 lockdown

    The Hebridean Dark Skies Festival is making changes to its programme in light of the new COVID 19 lockdown rules announced at the beginning of January, with the majority of festival events to move online. Browse our events programme and book tickets here. Festival programmer Andrew Eaton-Lewis said: “While we hoped that lockdown rules would… More…

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