Monthly Archives: June 2016
Awfy Huge Fantastic Variety!
Ten years ago, the Festival Theatre began an initiative to celebrate  the artistic abilities of the pupils at Pilrig Special School. Since then, the project has spiralled into an amazing, creative endeavour, with stunning input from no fewer than 12  state-funded special schools … Continue reading
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That Which We Call A Chair
That which we call a chair … once grew in the wild wood. This evocative precept serves as the theme for an exhibition of fine sculptural furniture from David Lightly and Ross Purves, taking place in the East Lothian village … Continue reading
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Dropping The Time Ball
The journey from ship to shore was a steep one for mariners arriving in the Firth of Forth in the 1840s. To set their chronometers, they had to climb to the transit house, until Royal Astronomer, Charles Piazzi Smyth, suggested … Continue reading
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Wild Shores
Chris Bushe RSW, is a Scottish land and seascape painter, whose evocative oil paintings of the Hebridean Isles, the West Coast and Aberdeenshire capture the essenceof the locations to which he is most drawn. Entitled ‘Wild Shores’, his current exhibition is at … Continue reading
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Hats On To Lana
This may sound like a present day fairy tale… The dreams and aspirations of a young girl living under the shadow of the Ural Mountains in Russia to fulfilling her dream that one day she would have her own fashion … Continue reading
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The Unlikely Time Traveller
Third Time Lucky The Unlikely Time Traveller is the third book in Janis Mackay’s time-travelling trilogy. There is a nice logic in having had a time traveller come to them in the first book, and having travelled backwards themselves in … Continue reading
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