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Protest in Harmony singing group starts on Arran
An offshoot of Protest in Harmony is starting on Arran!
Echoes and Whispers
Audio-visual artist Claire Todd introduces a new bat-based collaboration with Stephen Rutt. Published on Caught by the River, 27th November 2025. Bats are strange mammals. They live their lives as a shadow…
Poem for December
Outside Glasgow City Chambers Georges Square, campaigning as part of Friends of The Peoples Palace and Winter Gardens. 6th July 2019. Elspeth was our hard working Chair. Photo Credit ©️M. Laird
McLellan Arts Festival 2025
It’s the McLellan Arts Festival time of year again! Proceedings kicked off last Friday evening with the Poetry Competition’s Winner’s event and it continues over the next 10 days with an array…
Artists in Residence named for Bioregion art project at Drumadoon Estate
A press release from North Ayrshire about the recent appointment of artists Claire Pencak and Saffy Setohy to the Clyde Bioregion Residency programme, based at Drumadoon Estate. North Ayrshire Council is providing…
Poems for September
From Sabbath Poems VIII. Always in the distance the sound of cars is passing on the road, that simplest form going only two ways, both ways away. And I have been there…
McLellan Poetry competition still open for entries
Hosted by the Arran Theatre and Arts Trust as part of the annual McLellan Arts Festival, this prestigious competition offers £1,000 first place prizes for poems in both English and Scots. Esteemed…
Sing with the McLellan Arts Festival Chorus
Come and Sing! Arran Theatre and Arts Trust are excited to announce the return of the McLellan Arts Festival for this summer! It will run from Friday 5th to Friday 12th September…
Poems for June
Note to Wang Wei How could you be so happy, now some thousand years dishevelled, puffs of dust? It leaves me uneasy at last, your poems teaze me to the edge of…
Poem of the month
The March Burn Whan Ah'd sat thur lang eneuch, trauchlt tae ma feet, dichtit awa the stour and blawn leaves, the draibles and moose-keech Ah wis hauf-smoorit in; efter Ah'd shauchlt roon…
The limitless potential of libraries
From the Caught By the River Shadows & Reflections series: Christina Riley, 10th January 2025 As she looks back on the year her Nature Library found a permanent home, Christina Riley celebrates…
Corrie film club in March
The film showing on Sunday 9th March will be London Recruits (Gordon Main 2024 Cert. 12(A)) - followed by Q&A with the director - at Corrie and Sannox Village hall, starting at…