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Corrie Film Club for December
Corrie Film Club for December On the 10th December at 6.30pm Corrie Film Club has its special Christmas programme. This will begin with Dinner For One (1963, Germany, directed by Heinz Dunkhase,…
Book Review: Axel Munthe – The Road to San Michele by Bengt Jangfeldt
Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele by Bengt Jangfeldt, reviewed by Alan Bellamy Arran residents, like the residents of all Scottish islands, know that you need to be a bit different,…
Music Arran
An Evening of Jazz Music Arran have an exciting evening in store for jazz fans on Saturday 18th November - and not only for confirmed jazz fans, as the concert is sure…
Corrie Film Club
Corrie Film Club The film for the 12th November at 8pm will be Still The Water (Japan. 2014. Director Naomi Kawasi. Cert. 15. 114 mins). Set on the subtropical Japanese island of…
Poem for November – Sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sonnetby Edna St. Vincent Millay What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is…
Arran actor in BBC series
Many will remember Paul Tinto who, as a young actor at Arran High School played Marius in Les Miserables and Tony in West Side Story. Paul is appearing as Corporal Chris Dimarco…
The Arts on Arran
For the last 6 years I have worked as a Project Manager within the arts sector, after graduating with Film and Media from the University of Stirling. I've been lucky enough to…
Gelos Duo concert
Arran’s Music Society has now decided by unanimous vote at the Annual General Meeting to change its name to Music Arran. This is snappier, and I hope will convince the doubters, especially…
Poem of the Month
The Dissolution of the Libraries Words whirled away like thought untethering itself. Stand here — dugdeep in boneshells of abandoned bookbanks — and hear their whisperlong as winds blow in. The ransacked…
A Book Review – Whose Word Is It?
The Story Behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why by Bart D Ehrman Ehrman is an eminent biblical scholar and is currently the James A Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies…
Book Review: Danube by Claudio Magris
Danube by Claudio Magris, Vintage paperback. Claudio Magris is little known in Britain, but on the Continent, and especially in his native Italy, he is a celebrated writer, critic and academic, and…
Embrace of the Serpent at Corrie Film Club
The film on the 8th October will be Embrace of the Serpent (2016, Colombia, directed by Ciro Guerra, 125 mins, Cert 15). Visually and thematically arresting, this award winning film is the…