'The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival (SMHAF) programme invites audiences across Scotland to pause, take stock and reflect on how creativity can shape our collective wellbeing.'

Celtic Connections has announced the full line-up for its 2027 programme, featuring the likes of GRIT Orchestra, Elephant Sessions, Sierra Hull and more.

In our latest round-up of Gaelic culture, celebrate the return of the National Mòd to Glasgow for its 134th outing, explore Holyrood Park's wildlife, or head further afield for the Gaelic Landscape Walk in Arran Geopark.

'One voyage I vividly remember was my first trip as a newly qualified third mate. I was to join the bridge team onboard a passenger ship in Fremantle, Australia, navigating around the Pacific Ocean.'

Scotch gets shaken, stirred and served a little differently this autumn as more than 400 Scottish bars, pubs, restaurants and hotels join Scotland Served. Expect whisky cocktails, international bartending talent and plenty of reasons to raise a glass.

'Is it a pub? Is it a restaurant? Brought to you by the folk behind Dogstar and Nauticus, The Keelson already feels kind of like a supergroup of Leith hospitality.'

Hen Hoose Collective has announced Scotland’s first Safety Certification Scheme for the music industry, in a bid to foster safer live music and working environments for women and non-binary people at venues, festivals, promoters, studios and music organisations.

Summerhall, the historic building which is mostly associated with Summerhall Arts, appears to be under threat, according to plans by Developer AMA (New Town) Limited to redevelop sections of the site into a hotel and student flats.

‘I always wanted to be a weird actor’ From Glow to The Incomer, Gayle Rankin has delighted in bringing complicated women to the screen and stage. We chatted with the Tony Award nominee as she makes a homecoming of sorts in National Theatre Of Scotland’s The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie.

Nosferacula has taken time from his busy schedule pillaging Romania and communing with the wolves to answer this month’s Q&A. He told us about folk troupes, risqué goat herders and that time he gorged on an Olympic gold medallist.

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Our October issue has arrived. As she hits the stage as the lead in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, we speak to our cover star Gayle Rankin about her homecoming and the appeal of playing dangerous, complicated women.

Mogwai, the Glasgow post-rock band and self-described ‘Scottish instrumental misery mongers’, have returned with a brand-new single featuring none other than Iggy Pop.

La Clique, the long-running chaotic cabaret spectacle, has announced a seven-week residency in Edinburgh’s Bristo Square.

'This succinct career survey of South African photographer Jillian Edelstein is so emotionally dominated by her coverage of the Truth And Reconciliation Commission in her country’s post-apartheid era that it’s hard to get beyond it in considering the show as a whole.

The Skinny, along with its sister magazines Fest and Gnaw, has been saved after the visual arts organisation and charity Outer Spaces purchased shares in Radge Media CIC.

Steve Reich’s hypnotic music has a habit of getting under your skin. As the composer turns 90, one of the musicians who knows his music better than most is bringing it to NewcastleGateshead. Featuring The Colin Currie Group, Royal Northern Sinfonia, The National’s Bryce Dessner, and more.