RESOLIS COMMUNITY ARTS' WINTER ILLUSTRATED LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE ON FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17TH AT RESOLIS HALL AT 7:30. AND TO MARK THE CENTENARY OF CAPTAINS SCOTT'S DEATH, IT WILL BE GIVEN BY OUR SPECIAL GUEST, JULIAN PAREN, WHO HAS RECENTLY COME TO LIVE ON THE BLACK ISLE,  AND PROMISES TO BE SOMETHING OF A MULTI MEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA !! AS USUAL THERE WILL BE AN INTERVAL WITH REFRESHMENTS ON SALE.

TICKETS, £6,school children £4, (note, not £5 as previously advertised) ON THE DOOR, OR RESERVATIONS ON 01381 610204.
A PORTION OF THE PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC MONUMENT TRUST.

Next week sees the start of the the new season of ARCH courses and lectures.

On Monday 30 January ARCH project officer, Cathy MacIver, will be giving a lecture on Culbin Sands from prehistory to present. This will be in the Dingwall Community Centre at 7.30pm (doors open at 7.00pm)

Cathy will be busy on Tuesday 31 January too - as this is when the next Pathways into the Past course begins. The class will meet in Strathpeffer Community Centre at 6.30pm. You can find out more about earlier pathways courses on the ARCH website www.archhighland.org.uk

Susan Kruse is also delivering a course - this one for the WEA. It begins on 3 February for 4 weeks (excluding 17th Feb). The subject is local archaeology and will use memories, photographs and maps to explore the heritage remains around Alness - and to contribute to the Highland Council’s heritage database.
The class is from 10:00 – 12:00 noon and meets in Alness Heritage Centre (High Street, Cost:  £2.00 per session

Bookings can be made with the WEA office on 01463 710577 or inverness@weascotland.org.uk

North Kessock History Society have an interesting talk lined up for their next meeting on Thursday 2nd February. Norman Newton will be talking on the life of the Celtic saint, St Maelrubha - founder of Applecross Monastory.

The meeting is in the Mission Hall at North Kessock and begins at 7.30pm. All welcome.

2011 marked the 400th anniversary of the birth of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty - writer, translator and Civil War soldier on the Royalist side. And with only two days to go before the end of his anniversary year, he has been presented with a book of essays in his honour. The book, edited by History Society member Sandy Thomson and published by Cromarty Arts Trust, contains ten essays based on papers given to the Sir Thomas Urquhart Conference back in April 2011. Copies can be obtained, price £6.95, from the Cromarty Emporium, the Cromarty Post Office, or direct from Cromarty Arts Trust, Ardyne, Bank Street, Cromarty (Tel. 01381-600354).

On Monday 28th November ARCH will be having the next in their popular series of ARCH talks. Andy Heald of AOC Archaeology will telling us about Recent fieldwork on brochs in Caithness, including the community excavation at Nybster broch this summer.

The blog from the Nybster dig was apparently a huge hit on the internet this summer - so this sounds like an evening of guaranteed entertainment and interest.

The talk starts at 7.30pm and is in our usual venue of Dingwall Community Centre.