Author: Kathryn Lamont Smith

  • Reflections of Island Life at Hebrides International Film Festival 2016.

    Festival Co-ordinator Aidan Nicol gives an insight into this year’s festival. The Hebrides International Film Festival is back with its theme of islands and environment this September. Offering a wide range of contemporary film from all over the world in the form of documentaries, dramas and short films that come from, are about or feature… More…

  • September Film Blog

    This September is a film lover’s dream at An Lanntair. We have a some very special film events lined up, as well as great movies for kids and grown-ups alike. This is all on top of Hebrides International Film Festival which we will be telling you much more about very soon. PARTY AT THE PICTURES… More…

  • Artist Geoff Stear talks about his recent residency in Norway and new exhibition at An Lanntair

      Earlier his year I was fortunate to be the Artist in Residence at the www.sommerakademiet.com in Kalvåg Bremanger, Norway for the month of April where I produced a series of 50 prints and 12 paintings. I always considering myself to be an ‘Abstract Artist’ in the main (if one has to categorise) the surrounding… More…

  • Hebrides Contemporary Arts to Launch at An Lanntair on 8th Sept

    Press Release 30 August 2016 Hebrides Contemporary Arts to Launch at An Lanntair on 8th Sept On the 8th of September, An Lanntair will launch Hebrides Contemporary Arts (HCA), a new artist support scheme for local new and emerging artists and creative practitioners. Funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the project will be led by… More…

  • “Hebrides Writer” Katie Laing speaks to Craig Armstrong and Calum Martin about the upcoming Ballantyne Premier

    “They seem like a bit of an odd couple: the award-winning Hollywood composer behind the soundtracks to films such as Moulin Rouge and The Great Gatsby, and the Lewis tradition bearer who’s also an elder in the Free Church. So when I heard that Craig Armstrong and Calum Martin were collaborating on a project to… More…

  • Unique Platform for Harris Tweed Designers at Fashion Showcase – Hebrides Writer

    “Hebrides Writer” Katie Laing speaks to some of the local designers and makers taking part in An Lanntair’s Harris Tweed Festival Fashion Show. “It’s classic and cool, contemporary and traditional, edgy and ladylike, all at the same time — Harris Tweed in its many forms, as imagined by the different local designers and producers, all… More…

  • UHI Student Blog

    Our new exhibition on the An Lanntair mezzanine showcases work from students on the National Certificate Art & Design and BA Fine Art courses with Lews Castle College UHI. These courses are delivered in North Uist at the College’s Lochmaddy Campus, based in Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre. To celebrate the exhibition and the… More…

  • FREE LIVE RADIO CONCERTS TO SHOWCASE HEBCELT PROGRAMME

    Leading performers at the 21st Hebridean Celtic Festival will next week feature is a series of live performances and free gigs to be broadcast on BBC Radio nan Gàidheal. The station’s Caithream Ciùil programme will be airing three days next week presented by Seonag Monk and Emma Lamont during the award-winning HebCelt. The first programme… More…

  • HebCelt Song Choices Will Be a Surprise For Eddi

    A voice from the past may explain Eddi Reader’s love of Robert Burns’ poetry and songs. The three-time BRIT award winner is renowned for her association with Burns, but she was not the first in her family to sing the works of the Bard in public. Her great grandfather, Charles Reader, sang in halls and lodges… More…

  • June Cinema at An Lanntair

    Film at An Lanntair: Icons and Iconoclasts in I saw the Light, Miles Ahead and Green Room This month’s cinema has a definite musical theme to it, with three films in particular making for an interesting collection to view: take a look at the lives of legendary musicians Hank Williams and Miles Davis in I… More…