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Arts

BOOK FESTIVAL LAUNCHES ‘WIGTOWN POETRY COMPETITION 2016’

Wigtown Book Festival has launched its 2016 Poetry Competition with a Prize of £1500 Runner-up Prize £400 Eight additional prizes of £25 each. Judge's for...

OPPORTUNITY FOR WRITER IN RESIDENCE AT TWO OF THE REGIONS LEADING EVENTS

  Wigtown Festival Company (the organisation which delivers Wigtown Book Festival) and Upland Arts Development CIC (the new organisation which delivers Spring Fling Open Studios...

AMBITIOUS ARTS AGENCY LAUNCHED TO SHOWCASE DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY TO THE WORLD

Artists and Makers Gather to Help Launch Ambitious Arts Agency Upland aims to showcase Dumfries and Galloway’s creative talents at a national and international level Upland...

HARD HITTING PLAY ABOUT SECTARIANISM TO PREMIER IN DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY

  'Unite Don’t Fight Part 2' To Tour Dumfries and Galloway For Second Year Running Part Two of a hard hitting new play based on Sectarianism,...

KIRKCUDBRIGHTS ‘WHITEHOUSE’ GETS SET TO OPEN FOR 2016

Engaging Elements Date:6th February - 27th February Location: Whitehouse Gallery, Kirkcudbright The Whitehouse Gallery will open its doors for the first exhibition of 2016, with...

Alphabets of Colour – New Gracefield Exhibition

Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries launches two new exhibitions on 23 January. Alphabets of Colour: Jeremy Carlisle is the artist’s...

Generation – Young Kirkcudbright Director Makes Debut at Big Burns Supper

Play explores contemporary youth culture and the use and abuse of technology and its impact on teenage lives A hard-hitting play about hackers performed by...

CATSTRAND LAUNCH TWO YOUTH TRAINING PROJECTS

Two exciting new youth arts projects have just launched at CatStrand, New Galloway. The first is a traineeship programme. This is a free, ten...

£50,000 FUNDING CONTRIBUTION FOR THEATRE ROYAL TO BE CONSIDERED

Council to consider funding request for Theatre Royal At the meeting of Economy, Environment and Infrastructure committee on 12 January, Councillors will be asked to...

Fantastic Rural Murals to Spring up Across Dumfries and Galloway

International artistic collaboration to create large-scale artworks on buildings in south-west Scotland then Glasgow and Germany Large-scale artworks will soon appear on buildings and vehicles...