Traditional music concert at Campbeltown’s White Hart Hotel
In their first joint concert of the year and with with Kay Johnston as MC, the Kintyre Music & Arts Tuition Group, Kintyre Fiddlers, The Kintyre Cultural Forum and The Mull of Kintyre Music...
View ArticleSounding the Stones at Kilmartin
You can witness or be part of a powerful, almost pagan event in Kilmartin Glen on one or both of a workshop on 14th May and a performance on 15th May 20-11.Sounding the Stones: the eventSounding the...
View ArticleStart-up and development support from Business Gateway
Starting tomorrow (10th May 2011) in Dunoon – on bidding for council contracts (see below) – and continuing over May and June, Business Gateway is running a series of free workshops aimed at helping...
View ArticleBusiness Gateway Workshop Programme
The practically-based Business Gateway service has an ongoing programme of business-related workshops open to anyone to apply to attend.Details on the full series are in the pdf schedule below – but to...
View ArticleHi-Arts Team hits Argyll with Crowdfunding
The HI-Arts Team is hitting Argyll this month (May 2012) with Crowdfunding Workshops and 1-2-1 sessions for professionals and individuals working in the cultural, creative, arts and heritage...
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Colouring Ardrishaig
Talk about lifting a village within and without. The Colouring Ardrishaig project is creating Public Art for Ardrishaig using sculptural materials and colour.Colouring Ardrishaigl is a partnership with...
View ArticleDunoon Winter Light Festival
Leningrad used to run an annual White Nights Festival that, even in the name, conjured magic. Now Dunoon Burgh Hall has put a twist on the magic with the notion of a Winter Light Festival – the name...
View Article2013 Argyll and the Isles Tourism Summit: ferries, topgun speakers and...
‘Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success’. This looks and sounds like – IS – the mantra for the race team that is the Argyll and the Isles Tourism,...
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A promised treat for 2013: Caol Ruadh Sculpture Park opens on 5th May
The Caol Ruadh Scuplture Park on the western fringe of Colintraive in South Cowal, facing the Isle of Bute across the Kyles, opens for its second season on Sunday 5th May 2013.The product of the...
View ArticleCouncil offers guidance and workshops on tendering for public sector contracts
As part of Scotland’s Supplier Development programme, Argyll and Bute Council is offering free support to help local businesses and third sector organisations supply goods and services to the public...
View ArticleWalking with Poets to celebrate 175th birthday of Scotland’s pioneering...
John Muir, himself an author – who used his nature writing as part of groundbreaking campaigns to protect the environment – would have responded warmly to Walking with Poets.This celebratory enterprise...
View ArticleCowal Highland Games offers free drumming workshops and invites mass...
Stephen Creighton, lead drummer with the renowned and on-song St Laurence O’Toole Grade 1 Pipe Band, is hosting two free snare drum workshops next Friday, 30th August 30, as part of the programme for...
View ArticleImpressive Argyll and the Isles Tourism workshop in Cowal
It was a genuine privilege yesterday afternoon to spend time in the focused tranquility of the Creggans Inn in a roomful of Cowal’s tourism sector operators – and just listen and learn from people who...
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Artmap Argyll sets date for 2014 Red Dot Trail Open Studio Event
Stand by for 22-24 August 2014 in expectation of the annual delight of touring Argyll and unearthing the fun of exploring the studios our resident artists are to be found in.As the organisation’s name...
View ArticleDunoon Burgh Hall: Pondlife McGurk on 21st and YouthSTUFF back on 27th February
The Catherine Wheels Theatre Company is presenting the gloriously named ‘Ballad of Pondlife McGurk’ at Dunoon Burgh Hall on Friday 21st February at 1.30pm.This is suitable for Primary 5 – 7 and S1...
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Scottish Opera brings The Curse of the MacCabbra Opera House to Argyll...
They promise ghosts, ghouls, gothic goings-on and frights in schools across Argyll as Scottish Opera brings The Curse of the MacCabbra Opera House to primary pupils.The new 30-minute opera for P5-P7...
View ArticleKilmartin to beat Tarbert to the draw in the Viking stakes
Kilmartin Museum, beyond Lochgilhead, is to become a Viking settlement – for one weekend only – when the Festival of Museums breaks out across Scotland this month.The event will see the museum turn its...
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Duke of Argyll kidnapped yesterday
The Viking raid on Inveraray yesterday saw the Duke of Argyll kidnapped by the marauders, manhandled [below centre] through the water on to the waiting longboat and carried off towards Ardrishaig.This...
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Argyll and the Isles Tourism introduces 7 freelance ‘Development Agents’
Argyll and the Isles Tourism Cooperative [AITC] is introducing no fewer than seven new freelance ‘Development Agents’ who will work two days a week in or near their own areas in Argyll for six months...
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Blairmore Village Trust buys Village Green
The energetic community of the picturesque Blairmore in south Cowal – facing east across Loch Long and Cove Bay to the Rosneath peninsula has long pursued community ownership of the Blairmore Village...
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