1 EVER fancied yourself as a private eye? Well thanks to the Olivier-nominated, Les Enfants Terribles you can. Using their unique experience of creating innovative live shows the company has created an online whodunnit, including live performance, immersive technology and over 100 clues to discover.
Don the deerstalker and become Baker Street’s finest detective. Travel back to Victorian London and delve into the world of Sherlock Holmes, using your powers of deduction to solve the case. On every evening this week, go to www.sherlockimmersive.com. Tickets start from £15
2 REGULAR readers of this column will note that we are big fans of the Carlton Studios and during this time of Covid lockdown the guys are working their socks off to keep music alive.They are running a series of Facebook livestream events as part of a Crowdfunder appeal to help CS survive Covid and support musicians and the wider artistic community in Glasgow.
To access the gig go to facebook.com/carltonstudios and every Saturday night a band play for you. This Saturday at 8.30pm it’s Kundalini Genie. The studios ask you make a small donation through the page if you have the means.
3 FORMER BBC young musician of the year Claire Hastings runs an online music club aimed at under fivess and their families. The interactive sessions include songs, rhymes, dancing and stories with some Scottish favourites along the way. Come and join in the fun for free live on Facebook!
All information via www.celticconnections.com/event/4/claires-music-club
4 ON Tuesday its time to say goodbye to Celtic Connections for another year. Fingers crossed that this time next year we’re all crowded into actual venues watching the bands, but in the meantime, it’s the event of the festival, the Celtic Connections goodbye gig. Tune in and bid farewell to the first digital edition of Celtic Connections.
This performance will be available to watch for one week after the live date (February 10). Go to www.celticconnections.com/event/1/celtic-connections-2021-farewell-concert.Tickets cost £7.
5 THE human rights film festival is running until January 31. Scotland’s international human rights documentary film festival has been running for more than 17 years, screening more than 700 films, promoting an expansive understanding of human rights issues including, but not limited to, migration, asylum, self-determination and environmental issues. One of the documentaries, To see you again, focuses on the failed war against organised crime in MOrelos, Mexico. A moving and poignant story streams tomorrow night. All information and the full programme is available at www.documentfilmfestival.org
6 A SPECIAL night of music and song from North Uist. Celebrating the island’s rich musical talent and heritage will be leading musicians (including Julie Fowlis and Ellen MacDonald), The Band From Rockall and the Taigh Chearsabhagh House Band featuring Padruig Morrison, Anna Black and Seonaidh MacIntyre.
For info go to www.celticconnections.com/event/1/cel-uibhist-a-tuath-music-of-north-uis
7 THE big event of the week is of course the Women For Independence feminist Burns supper. All entertainment, toasts and laughs will come from our national committee and our membership so this event is a celidh in the truest sense of the word.
www.womenforindependence.org for all the relevant information. Friday February 5.
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