DIARY OF EVENTS

 

30 AUG  

Storytelling Cyanotype Journal Workshop with Rachael Forbes

10.00am - 4.00pm, Nairn Community and Arts Centre

£45

Create a beautiful cyanotype printed and bound storytelling journal. Places are limited, early booking recommended.
Contact:
https://www.nairnfestival.co.uk/
30 AUG  

Live Talk: Painting Silk Around the World; An evening with Ali Pretty, Kinetika

7.00pm - 8.30pm, Nairn Community and Arts Centre

£5

Join Ali Pretty to hear about Kinetika’s extraordinary work from international carnivals to community festivals.
Contact:
https://www.nairnfestival.co.uk/whats-on/painting-silk-around-the-world-8211-an-evening-with-ali-pretty-kinetika
30 AUG  

Friends of the Biblical gardens AGM

7.30pm, Biblical Gardens Elgin

Join us for the Friends of the biblical Gardens Annual General Meeting - all welcome
Contact:
Ann Copland
31 AUG  

Live Talk: Jonathan Shearer - Extreme Painting

7.00pm, Nairn Community and Arts Centre

£10 (Under 18s £3)

Artist Jonathan Shearer will give an illustrated talk about painting en plein air in remotest parts of the Highlands
Contact:
https://www.nairnfestival.co.uk/whats-on/jonathan-shearer-extreme-painting
31 AUG  

Dyke Community Bite and Blether

11:00 - 13:00, Dyke Community Hall

Enjoy a selection of homemade soups and cakes, tea and coffee, all welcome
Contact:
Tom Tufnell

1 SEP  

Live Talk: Nancy Kilgore 'Bitter Magic'

10.30am, Nairn Community and Arts Centre

£10 (Under 18s £3)

Nancy Kilgore will read from 'Bitter Magic', a novel inspired by the story of Isobel Gowdie.
Contact:
https://www.nairnfestival.co.uk/whats-on/nancy-kilgore-bitter-magic
1 SEP  

Live Talk: Gavin Francis - Meditations on medicine and more

2.00pm, Nairn Community and Arts Centre

£10 (Under 18s £3)

Gavin is an Edinburgh doctor and award winning writer whose works are explorations, of travels geographic and recovery.
Contact:
https://www.nairnfestival.co.uk/whats-on/gavin-francis-meditations-on-medicine-and-more
1 SEP  

Live Talk: Malachy Tallack - Illuminated by Water

4.00pm, Nairn Community and Arts Centre

£10 (Under 18s £3)

In his new book, Illuminated by Water, he examines the complicated pleasures that angling offers.
Contact:
https://www.nairnfestival.co.uk/whats-on/malachy-tallack-illuminated-by-water
1 SEP  

Live Talk: James Roberston

7.00pm, Nairn Community and Arts Centre

£10 (Under 18s £3)

James discusses and reads from his seventh novel, News of the Dead, which is set in the fictional Glen Conach.
Contact:
https://www.nairnfestival.co.uk/whats-on/james-roberston
1 SEP  

Highland Paranormal Investigation of Viewfield House

9.00pm, Nairn Museum

£15

An investigation at Nairn’s historic Viewfield House, built by Colonel Ludovic Grant in 1803 and now Nairn Museum.
Contact:
https://www.nairnfestival.co.uk/whats-on/highland-paranormal-investigation-of-viewfield-house
1 SEP  

Talk by Patricia Keppie, hosted by Nairn District Gardeners Group

6.00pm Minibus from Community Centre 6.3, The Highlanders Museum

£10

Gardening the World: the horticulture of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
1 SEP  

Blether at The Bandstand

8:00PM - 9:00PM, The Bandstand Bar, Nairn

Free - Donations welcome

Pop down to the Bandstand Bar and Restaurant for an evening Bandstand Blether with a special guest speaker.
Contact:
https://www.nairnfestival.co.uk/whats-on/blether-at-the-bandstand