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Island Voices’ association with Uist Arts Association dates back to Art on the Map in 2007, when we ran our first ever series on a loop at Nunton Steadings. Fast forward to 2026 and we’re delighted to be listed anew alongside an impressive collection of creative projects and talented artists on the UAA website! Peter

The University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) has been awarded £42,527 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to safeguard and share a unique multilingual record of island life and connections. Hebridean communities are well accustomed to a bilingual outlook on everyday life. Photo: Gordon Wells The funding will support the creation of a permanent

Who remembers Island Voices’ first ever films from the Craigard Centre in Lochmaddy, North Uist? Still among our favourites, short clips from these earliest recordings set the opening scenes for this compilation video tracing the project’s evolution from 2005 right up to 2026, as our 21st birthday approaches in September. With over 500 videos now

The Shetland poet Christie Williamson has brought the work of the “Five Writers” in our Extensions initiative to full completion by composing and narrating Shaetlan versions of the four other writers’ documentaries. Christie writes: My journey through Island Voices has been one of almost entirely unalloyed delight. Its Shetlophony is perhaps the defining feature of

Brian Ó Curnáin writes about Tomás: Tá sé 98 (beidh sé 99 i mbliana le cúnamh Dé ; rugadh 1927 é). As Baile Chláir na Gaillimhe a mhuintir agus bhí muirín mhór acu. Micheál Ó Con Cheannainn a athair, fear a bhí an-bhródúil as a oidhreacht Ghaelach. Tá caint an athar ar doegen.ie agus ar

Island Voices gets “the key to the door” this year, having grown out of the 2-year European POOLS project that started in September 2005. We’ve come a long way since then, with some interesting twists and turns along the route, to where we now stand with over 500 videos on our YouTube channel, and this

With the official coming into force of the Scottish Languages Act on St Andrew’s Day, it may be worth noting that Island Voices has been steadily gathering collections of recordings in Gaelic communities over months, years, and indeed the past couple of decades. Not all of these have been separately publicised on the blog before

North Uist resident Cathie Laing talks to Island Voices co-ordinator and fellow Aire air Sunnd participant, Gordon Wells. As with other longer conversations we’ve recorded, we’ve divided this one into two halves initially, which we present first unfiltered and unsubtitled. For the benefit of learners or non-speakers of Gaelic we’ve also cut these recordings up

The Collaborative Interdisciplinary & Applied Linguistic Links initiative (CIALL) based in the Language Sciences Institute of the University of the Highlands and Islands has been able to support a number of Island Voices small projects, particularly under the Extensions title, with help from the Scottish Funding Council over the past couple of years. You can

Noèlia Díaz-Vicedo is the third member of the multilingual poetic partnership pulled together by Martin MacIntyre for his “A’ ruith eadar dà dhràgon” collection of poems in four languages, in which she provides the Catalan input alongside Ifor ap Glyn’s Welsh to complement Martin’s Gaelic and English. Noèlia is a member of the Association of