The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Alloway is the only property in the care of the National Trust for Scotland that has a programme of contemporary art exhibitions curated by Sheilagh Tennant.
She put together the collection of responses to the Bard's legacy shown at the Mitchell in Glasgow to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth.
The next show is by Calum Colvin and runs from June 7 to September 15. Burnsiana will show a collection of Burns-related work that Colvin has created over the past decade, featuring his distinctive "constructed photography" of tableaux that are painted and then photographed.
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Scottish conductor Rory Macdonald is part of a team from London's Southbank Centre that is travelling to China this week to launch a partnership between the Thames-side concert halls and Shanghai Concert Hall.
Macdonald will be conducting the Aurora Orchestra, which will be augmented for one of the concerts by students from the Shanghai Conservatory, in a programme of 20th century music that builds on the Southbanks' series inspired by Alex Ross's book The Rest is Noise. The four-day event, Listen to the 20th Century, begins tomorrow and also involves the Southbank's head of classical, Gillian Moore, and broadcaster Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
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Former Herald journalist Ann Shaw has created a sound installation for Stirling's Smith Art Gallery and Museum which celebrates the place of the wolf on the city's coat of arms. Legend has it that the people of Stirling were alerted to a Viking invasion by the howling of a wolf, and Shaw, now a freelance artist and writer, has created the artwork from recordings in the British Library Sound Archives. The work will be unveiled as part of Creative Stirling's First Friday event in Ailie's Garden from 7pm, on Friday.
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Glasgow's Federation of the Disco Pimp are one of just two Scottish bands at Toronto's NXNE music get-together, the Canadian answer to SXSW in Austin, Texas (the other is Edinburgh's Stagger Rats).
The funk ensemble has a fundraiser, entitled Soul Plane, for the trip on Friday at the Admiral Bar in Glasgow from 9pm. The Federation will be performing the full set they have honed to wow the Canucks, and there is support from Alabaster Jones with the Ministry of Sound's Rebecca Vasamant the guest DJ.
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