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Arran Open Studios 2nd – 5th August
A message from the team behind the Arran Open Studios Arran Open Studios builds up more head of steam than a Clyde Puffer as it ploughs into its eighth year. 2019 boasts…
Music Arran concert Hungrytown
On Saturday 10th August at 7.30pm, American Folk duo Hungrytown will be playing in Whiting Bay Hall. Music Arran writes, "Hungrytown are doing a UK tour in July and August, so we…
Corrie Film Club
The film showing at 8 pm on Sunday 11th August is The Florida Project (Director Sean Baker. USA 2017 111 mins. Cert 15). Set over one summer, the film follows six-year-old Moonee…
Poem for August
Peaches A mouthful of language to swallow: stretches of beach, sweet clinches, breaches in walls, bleached branches; britches hauled over haunches; hunched leeches, wrenched teachers. What English can do: the warmth that…
The Tattoo Toorie
The Tattoo Toorie is the new book from local author Alison Page, and second in the Corrie’s Capers series. It follows Corrie on another exciting adventure, this time to Edinburgh Castle. Corrie…
The Arran Rock and Blues Festival 2019
See the website for the full line up of the 14 bands performing by the sea!
Secret Scotland spotted filming in Arran
Last week the Scottish comedian Susan Calman was seen out on the Viking boat in Corrie, as part of a day filming in Arran for the latest Secret Scotland series. In the…
Music Arran presents Les Trois Blondes
French Cafe Music in Whiting Bay Hall Saturday 13th July, 7.30pm Les Trois Blondes are the only band in Scotland specialising in Bal Musette, the French café music of Paris. Perhaps to…
Poem for July
SOMETIMES By Mary Oliver 1. Something came up out of the dark. It wasn't anything I had ever seen before. It wasn't an animal or a flower, unless it was both. Something…
Celebrating Scottish Opera
Here local MSP Kenneth Gibson reports on the support the Scottish government provides for the performing arts in Scotland, in particular the Scottish Opera company who regularly bring performances to Arran in…
Makers’ Festival at Brodick Castle 12th – 14th July
Brand new Makers’ Festival
Corrie Film Club in July
The film showing on Sunday July 7th at 8 pm (the first Sunday this month) is Waterboys (Director Robert Jan Westdijkr Netherlands 2016. 89 mins. Cert PG). Waterboys tells a humorous and…