23 December 2009

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Visitors to Holyrood Park will have the opportunity to enjoy the park free from traffic over the festive season. Traffic restrictions will be in place on the 25th and 26th December and the 2nd January, with no vehicle access to Queens Drive and Duddingston Low Road between 8am and 4pm, following current Sunday access arrangements.

16 December 2009

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More than £1.5m is being invested in revitalising some of Scotland’s most important historic buildings, the Minister for Culture and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop announced today (Wednesday December 17th). The Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, the Fairfield shipyard office building and Cottier Theatre in Glasgow, along with St Margaret’s Church in Oatlands, will share the latest round of Historic Scotland Building Repair Grants.

15 December 2009

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Fiona Hyslop, The Minister for Culture and External Affairs, today, (Tuesday 15 December), formally switched on a giant projection of some rarely seen archive film footage of Scottish construction workers onto the exterior of the Buchanan Galleries shopping centre in Glasgow. The films range in date with the earliest from 1919 and show a variety of traditional building skills including brick making at Glenboig, construction work at Clydebank and the building of the Ritz cinema in Edinburgh.

14 December 2009

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One of Orkney’s most ancient and awe-inspiring heritage attractions, and one of the finest Neolithic sites in Europe, Maeshowe Chambered Cairn was the inspiration for a unique artistic project and Winter Festival which is being staged at the site later this month. Out of Darkness is the result of a collaboration by Marianne Pollich, Psychological Psychotherapist, and Elisabeth Holder, Professor for Applied Arts - both of whom are from Düsseldorf, Germany - and the culmination of five years’ research and planning by the pair. Their highly original joint project is a two-part artistic presentation of art and music, based on the findings of studies they have carried out at Maeshowe and other Orkney tombs since 2004.

10 December 2009

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Perth-based re.create, a community organisation offering art and writing skills tuition to adults with special needs, is staging an art exhibition at the Stanley Mills heritage attraction. The exhibition of artworks by re.create members is being held in the Community Room at Stanley Mills. It previews this Friday, 11th December, from 7pm to 9pm, with a reception featuring live music. Following that, it will run daily from 10am to 3.30pm until Christmas Eve.