Arran Geopark has recently been awarded funding to enable the Ranger Service to continue this year. Here they tell us more about the post and give an update on their Big Beach Clean which started in May: This is the third year Arran Geopark Ranger Service has been funded by NatureScot’s Green Recovery Fund. This …
Preparations are underway for this weekend’s Pride, and details of the events lined up are as follows. For updates see their Facebook page: After the wonderful success of last years Best Dressed Window Competition we’re asking you to do it again for Arran Pride 2023. Show off your pride style and go wild …
Lots of great things coming up this month with Arran Eco Savvy – from bike rides, to Zero Waste Cafes, and a lovely jewellery making workshop – see the posters below for details: Come and join us for a for a Jewellery Making Workshop in Whiting Bay where we will be making pieces from unsold …
The Arran Folk Festival is a weekend of live music events held on the beautiful Isle of Arran, every June. This year it will be held on 9 – 11th June. The 27th festival will see some free-to-attend afternoon sessions with Uncle Keith at the Douglas and Ormidale Hotels, evening concerts in Brodick Village Hall …
Artist and poet, Arran visitor and Voice reader, Christine Quarrell, sends an invitation to come and view the Busy Bees display of Quilts, now on at the Rutherglen Library through the first three weeks in June: With the cooperation and support of Women Quilters and Rutherglen Library workers all the planning work has finally came …
The 100 Stitched Stories project launched in January 2023. Led by experienced textile artist, Fiona Doubleday, it is a collaboration with the Whiting Bay Memories Group as part of the growing “Story of Whiting Bay”: This project celebrates the story of 100 years of Whiting Bay Village Hall, which began 100 years ago with this …
Music Arran Welcomes Christine Bovill 17th June 2023 Arran High School, 7.30pm Award winning chanteuse, Christine Bovill returns for her third visit to Arran. In a year whose highlights include an international theatre tour of her Piaf and Paris shows, coupled with the launch of her new show at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, Christine …
Photos from Robert and John. Thanks!
The next film to show at Corrie film club on Sunday 11th June, at 7.30pm, is The Quiet Girl (Ireland. 2022. Colm Bairead. Cert 12). Corrie and Sannox Village hall. Set in 1981, the film tells the story of a young girl, Cáit, who is sent away for the summer from her dysfunctional family to …
SCOTTISH LABOUR LEADER TO OFFICIALLY OPEN ARDROSSAN MSP OFFICE 22nd May Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar is set to officially open the constituency office in Ardrossan for West Scotland MSP Katy Clark next month. The opening will be held on Saturday 17th June from 2pm. The office, on Harbour Street in the town centre, first …