Author: Kathryn Lamont Smith
Funding Success for Award Winning Dementia Friendly Community Project at An Lanntair
Media release Funding Success for Award Winning Dementia Friendly Community Project at An Lanntair The Arora Dementia Friendly Community Team at An Lanntair has been successful in its bid for a National Lottery award for £103,536 from the Big Lottery Fund to continue and develop its award winning Dementia Friendly Community work for a further… More…
The Life Line: Commemorating the Iolaire Disaster with a New Centenary Sculpture.
The Life Line: Commemorating the Iolaire Disaster with a New Centenary Sculpture. _________________________________________________________________________________ An Lanntair has announced plans for the installation of a new Centenary Sculpture at Holm at the approach to Stornoway Harbour. It overlooks the site of one of the most devastating peacetime tragedies in British maritime history when HMY Iolaire foundered on… More…
An Lanntair receives £1.21m funding from Creative Scotland for the next three years
Media release – 25 January 2018 An Lanntair receives £1.21m funding from Creative Scotland for the next three years Creative Scotland announced today that An Lanntair, the major arts centre and creative hub for the Isles of Lewis and Harris, will receive £1.21m funding from its Regular Funding Programme for 2018-2021. Three-year Regular Funding awarded… More…
Cuimhne Poster Call
Cuimhne Cuimhne seeks to combine academic thought, archive footage, making and live performance with particular focus on memory, oral tradition and creativity. Cuimhne will also showcase the Arora project and Dementia Friendly Community initiative. Cuimhne poster call out Posters are invited from academics, creative practitioners, organisations and institutions on topics related to the following themes:… More…
An Lanntair takes part in 14-18 Now’s final season of Commissions IN SCOTLAND TO MARK FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY
“The Iolaire disaster stretches our vocabulary to its limits and can only be articulated further through art.” – Roddy Murray, An Lanntair’s Head of Visual Arts and Literature & Founding Director 14-18 NOW, the UK’s official arts programme for the First World War centenary, today announced details of major events and new commissions taking place… More…
Iolaire Centenary music commissions
Late on New Year’s Eve 1918, HMY Iolaire set sail from Kyle of Lochalsh in north-west Scotland, carrying nearly 300 seamen home to the Isle of Lewis after the war. But in the early hours of New Year’s Day 1919, the ship sank at the entrance to Stornoway Harbour: 205 servicemen perished in one of… More…
Cultural links between Stornoway and India go from strength to strength as celebrated Purvai festival travels to India.
Media release – 15th January 2018 Cultural links between Stornoway and India go from strength to strength as celebrated Purvai festival travels to India. An Lanntair celebrates the continued success of its Festival of South Asian Art and Culture, Purvai in 2018 as the festival travels to India for some very special events and live… More…
SCOTLAND’S LEADING ART SOCIETIES JOIN FORCES AT OPEN
MEDIA RELEASE 12 JANUARY 2018 SCOTLAND’S LEADING ART SOCIETIES JOIN FORCES AT OPEN OPEN – SSA & VAS Together 2018, is a new exhibition opening to the public on 29th January 2018 at Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy. Two of Scotland’s leading arts organisations, the Society of Scottish Artists and Visual Arts Scotland have joined forces… More…
An Lanntair Ignites Young Creative Talent in a new Festival for The Year of Young People 2018.
MEDIA RELEASE – 12TH JANUARY 2018 An Lanntair Ignites Young Creative Talent in a new Festival for The Year of Young People 2018. As part of the Year of Young People, An Lanntair has received funding from EventScotland, part of VisitScotland’s Events Directorate , to hand over the venue to young people to deliver their very own arts… More…
Between Islands – The Year of Young People 2018
Between Islands – The Year of Young People 2018 As part of this special project, funded by Event Scotland, An Lanntair will be handing over the venue to young people to deliver their very own arts festival called Las! / Ignite! this October. In addition the Between Islands initiative is to offer students from the Western and… More…
