Author: Eilidh Whiteford

An Lanntair’s Spring/Summer Forecourt Gigs provided a welcome platform for local musicians to perform – and this Autumn/Winter the arts centre continues spotlighting the islands’ talent with the relaunch of its monthly ‘New Music Sessions’. Starting on October 6th with Felix Saunders, supported by Delusion, the New Music Sessions will take place in the auditorium… More…

Eighteen months after initially planned, An Lanntair is delighted to be hosting both the performance and exhibition of Airs – a special collaboration between Scottish pianist Mhairi Hall and Landscape artist Beth Robertson Fiddes Mhairi brings together layers of warm harmonium, synergising ambient sounds from nature, and archive recordings to present a special collection of… More…

An Lanntair’s Artist Support Coordinator, Sandra Kennedy, recently enjoyed a chat with Lewis-based photographers Danielle Macleod and Mhairi Law, who have just completed a An Lanntair Mentoring Project together. In her role as Mentor, Mhairi has guided and helped new art school graduate Danielle reach her goal of finding her voice as an artist while… More…

A remarkable piece of jewellery called Superquarry Squash Blossom is currently on display at the Kiosk exhibition at An Lanntair. It explores the play of light and dark in the human condition. Exactly thirty years ago, an earth-shaking experience very nearly took a grip of the Isle of Harris. A multinational company based in England,… More…

A first of its kind for the Isle of Lewis sees An Lanntair welcome Mìr air Mhìr (Bit by Bit) – a collaborative exhibition featuring the works of eleven art school graduates from the Western Isles. Due to the global pandemic, Degree Shows in universities across Scotland during 2020 and 2021 were cancelled, leaving students… More…

Going further afield at An Lanntair cinema this month, our foreign film offerings include OSCAR winner ‘Another Round’, in Danish with English subtitles. Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) stars as a man who is convinced to join a social experiment with his friends regarding keeping their blood alcohol level at 0.05. It is believed that this… More…

An Lanntair is offering the opportunity for individuals, and Group Leaders from any Western Isles’ organisation, group, or club to be trained to make a short-film based around the theme of climate change as part of a Film Access Scotland nation-wide short-film challenge in response to COP26. Climate Challenge 1.5° Films asks the public to… More…

At last! It finally happened – Between Islands musicians performed together, live and in person, on An Lanntair’s stage as Western Isles artists Willie Campbell, Kathleen Macinnes, Jane Hepburn Macmillan, and Neil Johnstone were joined by Arthur Nicolson, Maggie Adamson and Jenny Keldie from Shetland, with Orkney’s Kris Drever and Saltfishforty completing the line-up for… More…

So, what are we showing this month? The film I’m looking forward to most is ‘The Father’; for which Anthony Hopkins won his recent Oscar and BAFTA awards for Best Actor. It’s a serious drama about the titular father, Anthony, and his family dealing with his progressive dementia. In an empathetic take, the director Florian… More…

Despite some challenging circumstances over the past year, An Lanntair’s Between Islands music project has achieved some very positive results. Originally intended to be seen as a series of live events, the initiative had to be completely redesigned to take account of lockdown, resulting in the commissioning of new recordings by the contributing musicians. A… More…