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The Arran Drama Festival 2021
A report by Alice Maxwell The Arran Drama Festival went ahead this weekend, with seven Radio Plays, which were performed on Arran Sound - on 26th and 27th February. This was a…
Facilitating the Arran Arts Heritage Trail
A blog by Simon Ross-Gill, facilitator of the Arran Arts Heritage Trail project When I first applied for the job of Facilitator in January 2020, it looked set to be a most…
Poem for March
Zeitgeist Doggerel
Corrie’s Art Competition
Corrie’s Art Competition
ShantyTok
ShantyTok: is the sugar and rum line in Wellerman a reference to slavery?
Book review – From a Mountain in Tibet
From a mountain in Tibet by Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche Book Review by Alice Maxwell
Arran’s West Coast Paintings
Some of Arran's West Coast Paintings Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935): Glen Catacol (watercolour) Sold at auction, Edinburgh 2012 (private collection) John MacWhirter (1839-1911): Sunday in the Highlands Hamish MacDonald (1935 -2008): Farm at…
Arran’s String Orchestra Arco
Alice Maxwell, leader of Arran's string orchestra Arco, reports on the group's musical developments and the way it has evolved online during this year's lockdown restrictions. Arco is Arran’s very own string…
News from the 2020 Scottish Portrait Awards
Towards the end of 2020 the winner of the Richard Coward Scottish Portrait Awards https://www.scottishportraitawards.com/ was announced, and Trefor Goronwy from Arran was featured in the winning photograph by Robert Andrew MHEADHOIN…
Poem for January
Strongylocentrotus Purpuratus Since we met over that weak latté that you claimed was too strong and I indulged in one excellently crisp croissant of which you ate half without my permission in…
And finally… Alex Meets Donald
Alex Meets Donald - An Unlikely Tale of Two Leaders An amusing short story sent into the Voice by one of our very talented readers!
Poem for December
The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and children's lives…