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The Folk Film Gathering returns to Edinburgh, synth-pop heroes CHVRCHES have a homecoming and Glasgow Jazz Festival kicks off.

Innovative Scottish festival Folk Film Gathering to focus on Ukraine for 2023

MARTIN DE RUYTER/STUFF The Rotary Club of Whakatu donated 16 Chromebook computers to Bronte House at Nelson College for Girls in this 2018 video. The programme has now moved onto the school grounds and has ministry funding. Lenart said selling the building with no plan for the proceeds was a “betrayal of the spirit of the gift”, and the house – classified as an educational building – could still be put to good use by the community. Trust chair person Graeme Thomas would not confirm whether the prospective buyer intended to use the building for residential or other purposes. Furth...

Last modified on Mon 19 Apr 2021 09.02 EDT Cielo means “sky” in Spanish, and “heaven”, too. And it’s with a sense of humbled wonder at the immense mystery of it all that the Canadian film-maker Alison McAlpine casts her camera upwards in this beautiful documentary about the night sky. It’s filmed at the stargazing hotspot of Chile’s Atacama desert, where there is virtually no light pollution; the heavens appear to be within touching distance – as if a seam in the sky has been unpicked and the stars tumble out like diamonds. For those of us who live in u...