Katie Paterson (currently showing work at the Wellcome Trust in London) has created a beautiful piece of musical art.

Shetland dialect is being celebrated this year and this email has just come in with some interesting news. If you are a craft-maker, how about including some dialect in your work?

A new recording of Arvo Pärt's Stabat Mater is about to be released thanks to Kickstarter funding.

Shetland Islands Council, NHS Shetland and the University of Stirling have embarked on a mapping exercise, learning more about what activities are on offer for people with dementia and memory problems.

Over at designboom.com there are always fun things to see, like an origami elephant...

I knew nothing about the Singing Wells of Kenya but, thanks to the magic of the internet, we all do now!

Sometimes a photograph speaks more than a thousand words, and in a documentary about some unique photographs from Africa this is indeed the case.

Tonight I was very lucky to be part of a fund-raiser for Yell for Cancer, the local charity shop which raises money for cancer research and hospice care.

One of our loyal readers has sent in this link to a tapestry studio. Caron Penney, Master Weaver, has been working with artists and weavers to produce astonishing works of art.

The deepest parts of space have been mapped acoustically and there are some strange sounds out there...