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A new beginning for Arran Community Council?
I first wrote about Community for Voice for Arran in January 2024 prompted following discussions on the Arran Development Plan in that there were 3 strands with three groups looking at the…
Finland film night with Lesley Riddoch
Finland: The Happiest Country in the World with Lesley Riddoch plus Q&A Friday 6th March, starting 7pm in Whiting Bay Hall Imagine a place where happiness isn’t just a feeling, but a…
Poem for March
Winter’s Awa Noo the snaw creeps fae the braes And is gaen: Noo the trees clap on their claes Ane be ane: Yonder owre the windy muir Flees the craw; And cries…
News from the McLellan Book Festival
A wee preview from the team at the McLellan Book Festival, with news on the writers who are currently confirmed to join this biannual festival. Looks set to be a very exciting…
Take part in building an Arran Portrait
If Arran were fully in charge of shaping its own future, what would success look like? On 21 March, we’re inviting islanders to come together and begin creating a Thriving Arran Portrait…
From Highland Games to Makar Sankranti: Representing And Recording Scotland’s Diverse Traditions
Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS), the national development body for museums and galleries in Scotland, is calling on people to get in touch about living heritage practices to include in the new Living…
Competition in Music
I would like to give my views on the concept of competition within the arena of music education, views which are shared by (among others) the composer Bela Bartok[1], a wide variety…
Save the Date! Whiting Bay Memories Exhibition
In July this year it will be 100 years since Whiting Bay Public Hall opened. To celebrate this event Whiting Bay Memories group, in conjunction with the Hall Committee, will be staging…
A notice from Corrie Film Club
Corrie Film Club March 2026 It is no longer possible, by the terms of our license, to advertise our films in the local newspaper or on social media. There will be a…
Photos from January and February
Images sent in by John Campbell and Jim Henderson, with many thanks. The pictures of geological formations around Arran are from Jim Henderson’s newly published book, Arran Through Time (- more to…
Thoughts On These Dark Autumn Evenings
APPENDIX for further interest • British Overseas Territories o Gibraltar o Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Saint Helena Ascension Tristan da Cunha
A Post Script (PS) to Thoughts On These Dark Autumn Evenings
Bregman pleads to mobilise against the big tech companies; don’t trust AI “Just look at what the first wave of big tech has already done to us” he writes “literacy and numeracy…