Author: Andrew Eaton Lewis

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…

The first tickets for the Hebridean Dark Skies Festival go on sale this Thursday, with an opening live show by Kathryn Joseph, featuring visuals by astronomy-inspired artist collective Lumen, set to be a highlight of the February 2021 programme. Tickets for Kathryn Joseph and Lumen go on sale at 10am on Thursday 19 November, along… More…

The Hebridean Dark Skies Festival is to return to the Isle of Lewis from Friday 5 February to Thursday 18 February. The two-week programme is set to include an exhibition by astronomy-inspired artist collective Lumen; music by Kathryn Joseph – pictured above – and Renzo Spiteri; talks by award-winning TV presenter Dallas Campbell and renowned climate scientist… More…

The Hebridean Dark Skies Festival will return to the Isle of Lewis for its third year from Friday 5 February to Thursday 18 February, with the first programme announcement due on Thursday 15 October. Ahead of the announcement, the festival today launches a fresh search for striking night-time photography to showcase as part of its 2021 programme. The winners of the Dark Skies 2021 Photography Competition will… More…

At this year’s Hebridean Dark Skies Festival you can see the films Contact, Solaris, Interstellar and Ad Astra on our big screen for a total price of just £15 / £12. Festival programmer Andrew Eaton-Lewis explains why you should make time for all four. Mark Kermode, the well-known BBC film critic, once argued that Contact… More…

This January Lewis hosts the world premiere of Move-Gluasad, a powerful new theatre show by award-winning Scottish playwright Julia Taudevin, at four community venues across the island. Here she explains how a family tragedy inspired her to tell stories about grief and migration from across the world…. Loss and migration have been two major themes… More…

The Hebridean Dark Skies Festival is inviting people to submit photographs for the Isle of Lewis’s first ‘Visual Moonbounce’ on Saturday 8 February. OPTICKS, a live event by media artist Daniela de Paulis, is one of the headline events at Lewis’s second annual arts and astronomy festival, which will run from Friday 7 February to… More…

Stornoway photographer Scott Davidson is the winner of the second Hebridean Dark Skies Festival photography competition, it was announced today. Scott’s winning photograph, Callanish and the Cosmos, will feature on the cover of the festival’s printed programme, available from this week. The photograph will also feature alongside five other shortlisted entries in an exhibition opening… More…

We are very saddened to hear of the death of Professor John Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland. John had visited Lewis several times over the years, doing astronomy talks, and educational work and supporting Gallan Head Community Trust in its plans to build an observatory in Aird Uig. In February of this year he was… More…

As tickets for events across February’s Hebridean Dark Skies Festival go on sale, An Lanntair is delighted to announce several new programme highlights. Robin Ince is a multiple award winning comedian best known for co-hosting the international smash hit, Rose D’Or and Sony Award winning BBC Radio 4 and podcast series, The Infinite Monkey Cage, with… More…