Dumfries and Galloway Arts

Shimmy Shakers Presents An Egyptian Belly Dance Workshop

Steph — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:21:08 +0000

Shimmy Shakers presents

“An Egyptian Belly dance Workshop”

Saturday 19th November 2011

Parish Church Hall, Queen Street, Caslte Douglas

10:30am – 12:30pm – Open Level Workshop -£20

1:30pm – 3:30pm – Improvers’ Workshop – £20

(Both Session reduced rate £35)

Further Details and application form avaliable from [email protected] or tel 01387820558 (Pat)/01557332345 (Ebby).

Statement from the Board of Directors

Steph — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:18:48 +0000

The directors have decided to cease all trading activities of dgArts from 30^th September 2011, due to the company’s financial position. They are taking advice and are in the process of commencing the procedure to wind up the company.

You will be contacted by the company over the next few weeks with details of a meeting to appoint a liquidator.

Patricia J Smith on behalf of the Directors.

Musical Director required

Steph — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:52:14 +0000

Musical Director required for Dumfries Musical Theatre Company’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel taking place in the Theatre Royal 28^th April to 5^th May 2012. Experience required of working with a chorus and working with an orchestra. For more information please contact Mary Buckley, Secretary, Dumfries Musical Theatre Company [email protected]

Old Well Theatre Events

Steph — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 10:03:37 +0000

Take a look at the events coming to the Old Well Theatre, Moffat, this October

14th October 7:30pm

Splinter Productions presents

The Matchmaker

A hilariously enthralling new adaption by Donald Smith of Letters of a Matchmaker by Mercier Press.

Tickets £8

For more information visit the Splinter Productions website.

29th October 7:30pm

Angus & Ross Theatre Company presents

Holmes and Watson: The Farewell Tour

Julian Finnigan and Dominic Goodwin star in this production by Stuart Fortey.

Admiire the skills of the Great Detective!

Marvel at the beauty of the Satsuma Stone!!

Thrill at the deadly struggle at the Reichenbach Falls!!!

“this show is so funny it should carry a government health warning” Acorn Theatre.

Tickets £8

For more information visit the Angus & Ross website.

Tickets for all productions can be purchased from Present Time Gift Shop, 2/3 High Street, Moffat.

Visit the Old Well website for more information.

Visiting Writers on University of Glasgow Dumfries Campus This Autumn

Steph — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:00:58 +0000

Visiting Writers on Campus This Autumn

Real, live writers discussing the intimate connections between writing and place, writing scripted on places and what literature has to say about the environment…

Wednesday 28 September at 3pm (Room 236)

Linda Cracknell and Valerie Gillies

Two of Scotland’s finest writers on the environment, Linda Cracknell and Valerie Gillies, will read from their work and discuss poetic and artistic responses to Scotland’s landscape. Linda Cracknell is a writer of short stories, creative non-fiction and radio drama. She edited the collection A Wilder Vein (2009) which brought together a range of writers’ essays on their experience of nature and landscape. Valerie Gillies collaborates with visual artists and musicians. Her book The Spring Teller (2008) is a collection of poems inspired by Scotland’s wells and springs.

Wednesday 2 November at 3pm (Room 236)

Gerry Loose

Gerry Loose is a writer and horticulturist whose words are as likely to appear in the gardens he designs as they are to appear on the page. He has recently completed a commission to make poems for the new Crichton Acute Mental Health Hospital at Midpark, where his poems will be built into the landscape in courtyards and in the grounds. Gerry will discuss his work, and after the reading there will be the opportunity to visit some of his installations a short walk away at Midpark.

Wednesday 16 November at 3pm (Room 236)

Sara Maitland

One of Britain’s foremost novelists and short story writers over several decades, producing groundbreaking work, Sara Maitland lives in a remote cottage in Galloway where she pursues her writing which, most recently, has come to address environmental issues. The Book of Silence (2008) documented her quest to find complete silence as a means of spiritual regeneration. Sara will read from her work and answer questions.

All events are free to attend and open to the public. For more information, please contact Dr David Borthwick ([email protected]; 01387702024) or visit the Dumfries Campus Website. These events are kindly supported by the Scottish Book Trust.

Doors Open Days Comes of Age

Steph — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:16:45 +0000

Doors Open Days Comes of Age

This year’s Door Open Days in Dumfries and Galloway is officially open with the countdown to the popular weekend event later this month now underway following the celebratory launch at Mill on the Fleet, Gatehouse of Fleet.

Over 34 places to visit will be unlocking all manner of doors throughout the region on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September, from historic houses to spiritual sanctuaries, museums to lighthouses, archaelogical digs to a botanic garden, and working water mills from the past to 21st century sustainability, arts and fun – all offering a varied and fascinating mix for all ages.

For more information visit the Doors Open Days website.

Dumfries Choral Society presents “Diamond Jubilee Concert”

Steph — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:15:52 +0000

Dumfries Choral Society presents it’s Spring 2012 concert:

“Diamond Jubilee”

To celebrate H.M. the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee we are proposing a choral extravaganza!
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Handel: Let Thy Hand be Strengthened
Purcell: My Heart is Inditing
Parry: I was glad
Mozart: Coronation Mass
Handel: The King Shall Rejoice
Handel: My Heart is Inditing

For more information as it is announced visit Dumfries Choral website.

Children free of charge.

Christmas concert with the Dumfries Choral Society

Steph — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:34:34 +0000

Christmas concert with Dumfries Choral society

Following our fantastically successful Christmas Concert last year we will be repeating a similar formula this year – again in St John’s Church.

Ticket price includes interval refreshments.

Children free of charge.

for more information as it is announced visit the Dumfries Choral website.

Dumfries Choral Society

Steph — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:25:57 +0000

Dumfries Choral Society Presents it’s November Concert at St Mary’s Church featuring

Britten: Ceremony of Carols

Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb

Dvorak: Mass in D

For more information as it is announced visit: the Dumfries Choral website.

Mostly Ghostly Investigations presents “Dumfries Ghost Walk”

rachelr — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:39:41 +0000

Ghosts, ghouls, murder and witchcraft! Join Mostly Ghostly for a terrifying tour around darkest Dumfries…..

We are Mostly Ghostly Investigations, Dumfries and Galloway’s first paranormal team and creators of the new Dumfries Ghost Walk. We will transport you as far back in time as the 14th century to learn about the town’s darkest history, with a promise you’ll never see it in the same light again….

Ring 07751 722008 or 07791 047835 for more information