Special features

Listed below, you will find special editorial features from the team at HI~Arts.

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Craft development Following on from the 2007 Scoping Study into support for the crafts in the Highlands, HI-Arts appointed Pamela Conacher as Craft Development Coordinator from July 2008.Writing development HI-Arts’ programme of support for writers living in the Highlands and Islands has established a range of ongoing, core support services for writers.Building our culture Robert Livingston looks at new spaces, big and small, for culture in the Highlands and Islands.Just the ticket! The Booth is the online ticketing service selling tickets for events across the Highlands and Islands’. Booth Manager, Fiona Carr, takes a look at the philosophy behind the service, and assesses its major achievements.Best of the fests HI~Arts' John Saich discovers why the Highlands and Islands are now home to over seventy arts festivals.Rural cinema north HI-Arts has provided a mobile cinema service to communities across the region through its Screen Machine mobile cinemas for nearly ten years. Matt Lloyd explains how the Rural Cinema North project is now taking cinema provision in the north to the next level.Arts development HI~Arts is contracted by HIE as the ‘arts development agency for the Highlands and Islands’. But what does an ‘arts development agency’ actually do? HI~Arts Director Robert Livingston aims to explain.High drama There’s a new tipping point in the theatre world and it’s tipping north. Stuart Brownlee discuss the Highlands and Islands Theatre Network.Making visual arts visible Georgina Coburn has been out and about the meeting visual artists and organisations throughout the Highlands and Islands in order to produce a major report on the state of the visual arts in the region.Audience development Marcus Wilson, HI~Arts’ Audience Development Coordinator, looks at the trends and challenges for attracting new audiences to the region’s arts.The state of the visual arts The State of the Visual Arts in the Highlands and Islands – A ‘Report from the Front’Heritage on the web HI~Arts' Gordon Urquhart discusses plans to place Highland Heritage on the Web.