Volunteers started Victoria Week in 1987, partly to mark 150 years since Queen Victoria's accession and partly to raise money to do up the Victoria and Albert Halls. It has run every year since. The programme spreads across the village for nine days and wraps around the Highland Games on the Thursday, so time it right and you get both. There's a scarecrow trail, a duck race on the Green, the Rufts dog show, hobby horse trials, a roller disco, quizzes and ceilidhs. Most of it happens at the Victoria and Albert Halls or on Ballater Church Green. Parking in the village is free.
Ballater, in Aberdeenshire
Taigh Chearsabhagh in Lochmaddy has given both of its galleries this winter to Aghaidh Ris An Achadh, Facing The Field, a show about what happens to a township when the people leave.
Mull and Cornwall have more in common than you might think, and An Fenten sets out to show it.
The Citizens Theatre has stood in the Gorbals since 1878, and after a long rebuild you can now go behind the scenes on one of its heritage tours.
