Author: Anna

Art is my favourite thing to do and I’ve had so much time to draw as I’ve been stuck at home, I drew the two collage style drawings for my art homework and I’m really proud of them, the first theme was ‘trippy’ and the second theme I chose was ‘vintage’ And I also drew… More…

The lyrics haven’t been rushing into the mind here at Vatisker. A mail from my good friend the Tasmanian poet, Pete Hay, suggest his muse was suggesting only a ‘muddy song’. Maybe that’s the song for this time. But with a factory of prose going on, I’m fortunate in that I can make good use… More…

  Are you struggling to imagine a future in the arts in the Coronavirus crisis? Andrew Eaton-Lewis suggests some survival tips…. There is strength in solidarity Well before the UK went into Coronavirus lockdown, lots of people I know had already lost their entire livelihoods. Musicians, playwrights, actors, choreographers, dancers, producers, directors, stage managers, set… More…

Keen to keep connected with our local communities during these isolates times, An Lanntair introduces brand new Artist Support Programme Blog – HA! Hebridean Artists – as well as delivering a wealth of information, funding opportunities, family activities, and creative downloads, freely available on the arts centre’s website. HA! Hebridean Artists is a new virtual… 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…

As the Islands’ Open exhibition Grinneas nan Eilean draws to a close at An Lanntair, the votes have been totted-up for the People’s Choice award. And topping the poll was Drowned Out by Lewis artist Christine Davidson. The piece, comprising a glass box embossed with gold-leaf and etched with biblical quotes, is composed of Christian symbols, among them a… More…

“The crowds, the fact that the street becomes your horizon, the constant sound…” listening to Scotland Outdoors as I navigate the Soval Bends on my drive to Tarbert as a new member of the Full Circle Arts Worker team, these words of naturalist writer Steven Rutt (The Seafarers) catch my attention. Rutt describes, in negative… More…

Tha sinn ag iarraidh air filmeadairean na sgeulachdan aca innse gun tèid an taisbeanadh ann an taigh-deilbh An Lanntair aig “Fèis nam Filmichean/One Minute Film Festival” mar phàirt de Mìos na Gàidhlig. Ma tha sibh airson a bhith an sàs, cuiribh thugainn film a tha 1 mionaid a dh’fhaid air cuspair sam bith. Faodaidh sibh… 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…