Updated: 18/02/2021, 9:26 am
Granite Noir has unveiled a glittering line-up of world-class crime writers – including Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Jo Nesbo and David Baldacci – when it returns next month.
While Aberdeen’s award-winning crime writing festival is moving online due to the coronavirus pandemic, organisers say its mix of live streaming and pre-recorded messages offers the best of Granite Noir and hope it can reach an even wider audience when it runs from February 19 to February 21.
Jane Spiers, chief executive of Aberdeen Performing Arts, which produces the event, said: “Obviously this year is a bit different, being online, but we are still bringing the best of Granite Noir, the essence of Granite Noir.
A ROW has blown up over Glasgow missing out on millions in Scottish Government coronavirus lockdown support for performing arts venues without any call for applications. Ministers announced £3m in funding was going to just three charities leading to questions over how they were singled out. Aberdeen Performing Arts – which runs His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen Music Hall and The Lemon Tree – is to receive £1.4 million in new funds. Capital Theatres – which operates the Festival Theatre, the King’s Theatre and The Studio in Edinburgh – will receive £800,000. And Eden Court Highlands – Scotland s largest single-site arts venue in Inverness – will receive £800,000.
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The Highlands’ biggest arts complex has welcomed new “lifeline” emergency funding support from the Scottish Government.
Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, Scotland’s largest single-site arts venue, will receive £800,000 of the £3 million of additional Covid-19 funding for culture.
Aberdeen Performing Arts, which runs His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen Music Hall and The Lemon Tree, will receive £1.4 million.
Eden Court chief executive James Mackenzie-Blackman said: “All of us at Eden Court are immensely grateful to the Scottish Government for this lifeline support.
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