SATURDAY 20TH MAY
Get Experimental at the Newton Room — Lower Town Hall, 10.00am – 2.00pm
Drop-in to the Newton Room and explore a range on hands-on activities suitable for all ages. Learn how to code your own robot, explore renewable challenges or plant a wildflower pot to take home.
Drop-in to the Newton Room and explore a range on hands-on activities suitable for all ages. Learn how to code your own robot, explore renewable challenges or plant a wildflower pot to take home.
Dingwall Town Hall programme
10am – 1pm
10am – 1pm
10am – 1pm
The Right Type? Typewriter Exhibition First patented in 1868, typewriters are brilliant inventions. We’ve collected a few: manual and electric, old and new. Come along and browse these wondrous machines. See if you can make them work, turn your words directly into type. Do you still use one? Have one in the loft, attic, garage or under the sink? Dust it off and bring it to the Town Hall between 9 & 10am. Tell us its story. Whose is it? When was it last used? Did you write a novel with it? |
Crafting with Sharon Marshall
Join Sharon for taster sessions and mini-workshops in needle felting, crochet and mini-weaving to create landscapes and seascapes, inspired by the beautiful (& brilliant) Highland surroundings. |
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Heartstone Photographic Exhibition
Heartstone, based in Dingwall, produces story - literature, photo-documentary, history - presented through exhibitions, events, performances, installations and online. The stories bring people together to see a common human experience. www.heartstonechandra.com
Browse a Brilliant Book
Bill Anderson, proprietor of Highflight Book shop on Dingwall High Street, presents a carefully curated collection of brilliant books from different genres – read, listen, discuss – some might even be about flight!
Bill Anderson, proprietor of Highflight Book shop on Dingwall High Street, presents a carefully curated collection of brilliant books from different genres – read, listen, discuss – some might even be about flight!
3.30-4pm Heartstone Dance - Cùra Guardian Roadshow www.curaguardian.scot
Sitakumari, dancer/storyteller presents three stories in dance-drama that feature her Indian Classical Dance background. The stories relate to images on the website and in the exhibition & are ancient stories about a comet and eclipse, a butterfly with messages in its DNA, and a legend about raptors. Cùra Guardian Roadshow - Sitakumari, principal dancer/storyteller for Heartstone, presents three stories in dance-drama from her Indian Classical Dance background, all connected to images you will see on the new Cùra Guardian website taking shape at www.curaguardian.scot) and in the small exhibition on display at the WoTS Festival - an ancient legend about the comet and eclipse, a butterfly and the messages in its DNA, and a legend about raptors. This programme will take you into the magical natural world of Highland Scotland and beyond to see it in a new light! Suitable for all ages. Heartstone is a non-profit arts/cultural organisation based in Dingwall, which produces story - literature, photodocumentary, history - presented through exhibitions, events, performances, installations and online. All Heartstone stories help bring people together to see a common human experience. For more information, visit website: www.heartstonechandra.com |
5-6pm Music & Poetry with Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
Join award-winning poet and singer-songwriter Marcas Mac an Tuairneir for an afternoon of song, poetry and conversation. Marcas will perform Gaelic songs, both traditional and from his own contemporary oeuvre, often co-written with some of Gaeldom’s finest musicians. Marcas will also share poetic works, touching on musical themes, taken from his critically-acclaimed fourth collection, Polaris, short-listed for Scottish Book of the Year, by the Saltire Society.
Ceol agus Bàrdachd le Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
Thigibh an cuideachd a’ bhàird is òranaiche, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir, airson cuirm-feasgair de dh’òrain, bàrdachd is còmhradh. Tha Marcas air duaisean a chosnadh airson a chuid òran is bàrdachd, a tha an dà chuid traidiseanta is ùr-nòsach, a ghabhas e a capella, air an oidhche. Tha Marcas air òrain a sgrìobhadh cuideachd le feadhainn de na ceòladairean as cliùitiche air saoghal na Gàidhlig, agus bidh e a’ leughadh cuicheachd bhon cho-chruinneachadh as ùire aige, Polaris, le bàrdachd a shuathas ri cuspairean ceòlmhor. Chaidh Polaris a chur air geàrr-liosta leis Comann Chrann na h-Alba airson duais Leabhar Bàrdachd na Bliadhna, an-uiridh.
Join award-winning poet and singer-songwriter Marcas Mac an Tuairneir for an afternoon of song, poetry and conversation. Marcas will perform Gaelic songs, both traditional and from his own contemporary oeuvre, often co-written with some of Gaeldom’s finest musicians. Marcas will also share poetic works, touching on musical themes, taken from his critically-acclaimed fourth collection, Polaris, short-listed for Scottish Book of the Year, by the Saltire Society.
Ceol agus Bàrdachd le Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
Thigibh an cuideachd a’ bhàird is òranaiche, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir, airson cuirm-feasgair de dh’òrain, bàrdachd is còmhradh. Tha Marcas air duaisean a chosnadh airson a chuid òran is bàrdachd, a tha an dà chuid traidiseanta is ùr-nòsach, a ghabhas e a capella, air an oidhche. Tha Marcas air òrain a sgrìobhadh cuideachd le feadhainn de na ceòladairean as cliùitiche air saoghal na Gàidhlig, agus bidh e a’ leughadh cuicheachd bhon cho-chruinneachadh as ùire aige, Polaris, le bàrdachd a shuathas ri cuspairean ceòlmhor. Chaidh Polaris a chur air geàrr-liosta leis Comann Chrann na h-Alba airson duais Leabhar Bàrdachd na Bliadhna, an-uiridh.
7.30pm Dingwall Players presents Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe
Tickets £5 online at www.dingwallplayers.org You’re seven years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad say she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy. You start a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world. Everything worth living for. You leave it on her pillow. You know she’s read it because she’s corrected your spelling. In Every Brilliant Thing, a young girl attempts to ease her mother's depression by creating a list of all the best things in the world. Everything worth living for. Through adulthood, as the list grows, she learns the deep significance it has on her own life. Every Brilliant Thing is a hilarious and heart-wrenching play about depression and the lengths we will go for those we love. Tickets on sale from Monday April 10 at www.ticketsource.co.uk/dingwallplayers |
Dingwall academy and primary school
for school pupils only
Storytelling at Dingwall Primary School
Storytelling, readings, drama and drumming presented by Word on the Street regulars, Barbara Henderson and Dougie Mackay. Barbara Henderson: Author of nine books and the current writer-in-residence at the Forth Bridge, Barbara has twice won the Historical Association's Young Quills Award for her historical Middle Grade adventures and is a founding member of the Time Tunnellers. Her latest book is Rivet Boy, a Victorian adventure based on real events and people during the construction of the Forth Bridge. Dougie Mackay: a Highland storyteller living near Edinburgh who shares folk tales and myths from near and far, bringing a sense of magic, wonder and intrigue, along with a bit of drumming. Dougie has performed at major storytelling festivals around UK and Europe. storyconnection.org Gaelic Artist in Residence - Marcas Mac an Tuairneir (Mark Spencer Turner) This year, with the support of Bòrd na Gàidhlig, Word on the Street welcomes its first Gaelic Artist in Residence, award-winning poet and singer-songwriter Marcas Mac an Tuairneir (Mark Spencer Turner). Marcas is a long-standing member of the Gaelic community, writing poetry, songs and music that seeks to engage with the Gaelic tradition, as well as articulating contemporary, urban Gaelic-speaking experience. Most recently, Marcas’ fourth poetry collection, Polaris, was short-listed for Scottish Book of the Year, by the Saltire Society. Neach-ealain na Gàidhlig air Mhuinntireas – Marcas Mac an Tuairneir Am bliadhna, le taic Bhòrd na Gàidhlig, bidh Word on the Street a’ cur fàilte ris a’ chiad Neach-ealain na Gàidhlig air Mhuinntireas, Marcas Mac an Tuairneir. Tha Marcas na bhàrd is an òranaiche is tha a chuid obrach air iomadh duais a chosnadh. Le deagh sheasamh ann an coimhearsnachd na Gàidhlig, bidh e a’ sgrìobhadh bàrdachd, òran is ciùil ceangailte ri traidisean nan Gàidhlig, cho mòr is a chuireas sin beatha Ghàidhealach sa bhaile mhòr is cùisean ùr-nodha an cèill. O chionn ghoirid, chaidh an ceathramh co-chruinneachadh aig Marcas, Polaris, a chur air geàrr-liosta Leabhar Bàrdachd na Bliadhna aig Comann Chrann na h-Alba. Dingwall Academy Acadamaidh Inbhir Pheofharain Friday 19th May – GaelPop Workshop Award-winning Gaelic poet and singer-songwriter, Mark Spencer Turner will lead a workshop with young people from Dingwall Academy, using songs from his critically-acclaimed album Speactram as creative impetus. Working to a theme, chosen by students, Marcas will guide them through contemporary pop song structures, finding ways to express young people’s lived experience through the medium of GaelPop. Dihaoine 19mh a’ Chèitein – Bùth-obrach GhaelPop Tha Marcas Mac an Tuairneir na bhàrd is òranaiche a tha air iomadh duais a chosnadh, thar nam bliadhnaichean. A’ stiùireadh bùth-obrach do dh’òigridh aig Acadamaidh Inbhir Pheofharain, bidh na h-oileanaich a’ cleachdadh òrain chlàr Mharcais, Speactram, gus faighinn a-mach mu structaran òran pop, a’ lorg dòighean beatha-èolas nan òg a chur an cèill tro GhaelPop. |