Category: Culture

World Gaelic Week celebrates Scottish language with record events.

From Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize win to thriving crime fiction and emerging voices, Scottish literature punches well above its weight. Here’s what to read.

Aberdeen Jazz Festival runs 12-22 March with performances and workshops.

StAnza poetry festival returns to St Andrews 13-15 March with three days of readings, workshops, and open mics from international and Scottish poets.

Edinburgh’s beautiful polish versus Glasgow’s gritty authenticity. The rivalry between Scotland’s two largest cities is affectionate, tribal, and defines both.

Scotland’s arts, music, and literature scene in 2026: confident, evolving, and distinctly Scottish.

Highland Games blend genuine tradition, Victorian invention, and tourist appeal. The caber tossing is real, the history is complicated, and both are worth exploring.

Seven arts organisations at Glasgow’s Trongate 103 have been given less than four weeks to either accept a dramatic rent hike or face eviction from the council-owned cultural venue.

Festival organisers have confirmed that attendees will be able to watch Scotland’s crucial World Cup match against Morocco on the country’s largest screens at Glasgow Green.

Karen Gillan stars in new BBC Scotland legal thriller filming in Glasgow’s Merchant City, marking broadcaster’s most ambitious Scottish drama in years.