11th-16th - Nairn · 2018-06-15 · 11th-16th September 2018 4 *New Highland Contemporary is open the week before the festival – don’t miss it! There will be free fringe events

11th-16th September 2018


We have a lot to celebrate, as our festival has grown each year to become a very special and well-loved – I could safely say irreplaceable – event in the Highlands’ cultural calendar. On behalf of the Festival Committee, I’d like to extend a huge thank you to all our funders, sponsors and supporters – we simply could not do it without you.

Our programme is slightly turned on its head this year, with TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham, our headline speaker, closing the Festival on Sunday afternoon (well, almost – there’s a great 15th birthday party to come to, afterwards!). There are so many highlights, but we’re particularly delighted to be working with the Wildbird arts team and the National Theatre of Scotland. The broad theme of health and creativity is reflected throughout the programme in ways that are both subtle and not so subtle. The events range from talks on medical practice ancient and modern, to the illustration of disease. Look out for our roving poet, who will pop up in unexpected places, alongside a raft of brilliant authors, exceptional musicians and a host of fringe events to keep you fully entertained all week. Have fun!

Mary Helen Dewar, Chair On behalf of Nairn Book and Arts Festival Committee

Hannah Laycock Commissioned programme cover artist 2018

Locally based photographer Hannah Laycock designed our programme cover this year; she was inspired by the Fishwives of Fishertown and the coastal communities of the area. The image features Victoria James as a young fisherwoman, whose enigmatic

smile hints at a sense of humour. Her clothing and other props were borrowed from Nairn Museum, Nairn’s Little Theatre, Lossiemouth Museum and Naturally Useful. Hannah’s personal work will be on display at Nairn Community & Arts Centre and the commissioned cover at the Court House (see p. 5). To see more of Hannah’s work: www.hannahlaycock.com

Welcometo the Nairn Book and Arts Festival’s 15th anniversary programme!

Tickets can also be purchased from:

Nairn Community & Arts Centre (credit card, cheque, or cash)King Street, Nairn Tel: 01667 453476

The Nairn Bookshop (cheque or cash only) available until 25th August 2018 94 High Street, Nairn

By post (please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope – cheque made payable to ‘NBAF’): NBAF, c/o 34 Lodgehill Park, Nairn, IV12 4SB or tel: 01667 452624

Full refund available up to 48 hours prior to event.

Logo design: Mary Wilson Cover design: Hannah Laycock (more details on this page, 5 and 14)Programme designed and sponsored by Dynam, Inverness: www.dynam.co.uk

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Local Collaborations

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Paint like Picasso with Creativity in Care CIC

Using profi ts from the CD Art, we can offer this workshop to residents at local nursing homes in Nairn. This arts session welcomes people living with dementia plus a family member or carer. See page 2.www.creativityincare.org

Catriona Lexy Campbell will provide a workshop for the older GM class at Millbank Primary School.

Both Gaelic author events supported by the Gaelic Books Council

Ceitidh Hutton will visit Nairn Croileagan and the younger Nairn Gaelic Medium children at Millbank Primary School to run a workshop based around her Grumpa books.

Ron Butlin, award winning poet, playwright, novelist and children’s writer will bring the zany world of Here Come the Trolls to the youngest pupils of local primary schools. A little naughty, a little magical but in the end they’ll fi nd out how to make their homes a troll-free zone. Ron’s details appear under the Little Theatre Poetry Event (Sat 15th Sept) and at www.ronbutlin.co.uk

Chloe Daykin is an artist, designer, playwright and teacher and has an MA in Creative Writing from Newcastle University, winning the Newcastle University Taught Masters Prize. She will visit local primary schools to discuss her new novel Fish Boy – an underwater journey. A guaranteed imagination work out!

Supported by Nairn Rotary


Festival Café @ NCC

10am-4pm daily (upstairs foyer area)

From Wednesday 12th September to Saturday 15th September.

Daily homemade delicious soup, scones and cakes. All Welcome.

William Mather Portrait Sketches

Don’t miss William Mather, our roaming portrait artist!

Daily, various venues around Nairn, Tuesday 11th September – Saturday 15th September.

Care for Dementia charity art raffle

Take home an original work of art – £10 per ticket

Anonymous display of CD case sized pieces of artwork donated by local and invited artists.

Raffle tickets will be sold throughout the festival period at Nairn Community & Arts Centre. Everyone who buys a ticket will win an artwork, and profits will pay for Creativity in Care workshops for dementia sufferers and their carers. The artwork will be displayed in the Music Room at Nairn Community & Arts Centre during the festival week. See page 6.

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Daily Events

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Festival Fables

Nightly @ 7pm on facebook Monday 10th September to Sunday 16th September

Suitable for children aged 3-7yrs One new original story each night, written and read by members of the local writing group, The Pen & I.

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Nairn Museum

Open Monday to Friday10am-4.30pmand Saturday, 10am-4pm

Free entry during Festival

During Festival week, admission to the Museum will be free. Donations will be welcome! Watch out for other events happening there during the Festival. See page 6 for details of the Museum exhibition. Festival Club

@ the Bandstand Bar

Crescent Road, Nairn 9.30pm until midnight

Free entry

The Festival Club promises to keep the music going after all the days festival events are nearing an end – see you there!

Thursday 13th Sept: Terry McDermott Rock musician – runner up of the USA The Voice – returns to Nairn as part of his European tour.

Friday 14th Sept: Ken Scott & Friends The Edinburgh jazz singer and guitarist is joined by Stuart Nisbet (guitar) amongst other guests for a swing through the classic Jazz songbook.

Saturday 15th Sept: RANT Inverness based rock band that play a highly eclectic mix of covers.

Festival Photo Booth

Look out for our fun festival ‘photo booth’

within Nairn Community & Arts Centre during

festival week.

Illustration Competition

Enter our fantastic Illustration competition!

My Miraculous Medicine

Invent the most miraculous, marvellous, colourful, weird, wacky medicine imaginable.

Is it in a bottle? Is it a pill? Or something else? Now draw/paint/collage it! And you could tell us what’s in it, and what it does…

Categories: Nursery-P1, P2-P4, P5-P7. Maximum size A3 including mount.

Prize (Book Voucher): 1st – £15, 2nd – £10, 3rd – £5

Entries to: Nairn Community & Arts Centre by Thursday 30th August 2018

Further details: www.nairnfestival.co.uk


*New Highland Contemporary is open the week before the festival – don’t miss it!

There will be free fringe events throughout the week to whet your appetite for the festival. Keep an eye on the website for details.

The fi fth New Highland Contemporary exhibition features a record eight Fine Art students from Moray College UHI, and a fantastic range of work from sculpture to fi lm, painting and textiles.

Curated by Kirsten Body.

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Seamen’s Victoria Hall, Harbour Street, Nairn10.30am-4.30pmSaturday 1 Sept – Saturday 8 Sept*

Nairn Open Exhibition Darkness and Light

Nairn Court House and Nairn Community CentreMonday 10th – Sunday 16th SeptemberCourt House opening times 10am-4pmCommunity Centre – all hours

The Nairn Open Exhibition is an open submission exhibition, showcasing selected works by artists from the northern regions of Scotland from Perth and Aberdeen to Caithness, Orkney and Shetland. Paintings, prints, and wall mounted constructed works. Hannah Laycock’s original artwork for the festival programme cover will also be on display.

ExhibitionsFree Entry

KEEK

We’re delighted to have Caroline Inckle as our KEEK space artist for this year, fresh from exhibiting in Barcelona. Caroline will be ‘In Conversation’ with IMAG curator Kirsten Body on Sunday 2nd Sept at 2pm.


Hannah Laycock Awakenings

Nairn Community & Arts Centre Foyer Sunday 9th September – Sunday 16th September Community Centre opening hours

Hannah Laycock is a photographer based in Forres. Awakenings is a photographic journey that explores her emotions surrounding her diagnosis of, and subsequent life with, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) – feelings of uncertainty, fear, loss and liberation, intuitively delving into and questioning the notion of neurological ‘lack’. For her, photography is painting with light. It has been a means of artistic expression and catharsis. Her commissioned work for the cover of the Festival programme is on display at Nairn Court House.

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John Wilson Owls and Acrobats

United Reformed Church Monday 10th – Saturday 15th September 10th, 12th, 13th, 14th Sept: 9-11am & 3-5pm Tues 11th Sept: 3-5pm Sat 15th Sept: 10am-5pm

Recent work by local artist John Wilson. John is a founder member of the Blue Door Artist’s Studios in Nairn – he is now based at WASPS Links Studios where he paints and exhibits. He works in Watercolour, Gouache and Acrylics and has work in private collections in the USA, France and Germany as well as the United Kingdom. His work combines curious acrobatic figures with Scottish landscape and wildlife, creating striking visual statements.


Nairn Academy Art Exhibition

Nairn Community & Arts Centre All hours

Work from art students from S1 to S6, including handmade books inspired by this year’s literary line up and winning designs for our enewsletter header, work by Higher and Advanced Higher students, and the winners and runners up from our miraculous medicine Illustration competition (Conference Room).

Illustration Competition Exhibition

The prizewinning work from the Illustration Competition will be on display at the Nairn Community & Arts Centre for the duration of the Festival.

Nairn Museum Hidden Talents

(see page 3 for opening times)

Following its tradition of tailoring exhibitions to blend in with the Nairn Book and Arts Festival, this year the Museum will be exhibiting paintings by local amateur and professional artists who seldom get the opportunity to show their work to a wider public.

WASPS Links Studio Open Studio Weekend

Grant Street, Nairn Saturday 15th and Sunday 16th September

Festival goers will be welcome to visit the studios and meet some of the artists between 10am and 4pm on both days. There will also be a mixed exhibition of studio artists’ work in the main gallery space.

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Care for Dementia CD art display

Music Room, Nairn Community & Arts Centre 10th-16th September

Care for Dementia charity art raffle. Anonymous display of CD case sized pieces of artwork donated by local and invited artists. Raffle tickets cost £10 – everyone is a winner! See page 2 for full details.

Claire Lamond The Illusion of Life and Death Stop-motion animation workshop

Wednesday 12th September 10am-1pm Nairn Community & Arts Centre

£25 (including free entry to screening – see page 14)

Has it been a while since you’ve played with plasticine?

In this stop motion animation workshop for adults you will create a character… learn how to bring it to life… then kill it off…

Absolutely no experience required just a willingness to have a bit of fun!

Melanie Muir Jewellery workshop

Saturday 15th September 10am-4pm Nairn Community & Arts Centre

£50

Melanie will need no introduction for many – as one of Scotland’s foremost jewellery designers, based here in Nairn, we are very fortunate that she is coming back to the festival to do one of her very popular workshops.

Make a piece of your very own jewellery – a beautiful polymer necklace – to take away with you.

Melanie will also give a talk on Scottish jewellery design on Tuesday 11th Sept at 5.30pm – see page 11 for full details. Adult £8, Under 18s £3

www.melaniemuir.com

10am-11.30am (all ages) OR 12pm-1.30pm (all ages) OR 2pm-3.30pm for a Teen only workshop (suitable for age 14yrs-18yrs)

Create your own beautiful clay vessel (lined with beeswax) and learn about natural glazing techniques.

Followed by: Ceramic pit firing, Nairn West Beach, Saturday 15th September, from 7pm-10pm

Highland artist Sula Grigg graduated in environmental art and sculpture from Glasgow School of Art.

Join Sula to create a pit fire where vessels produced in the workshop will be glazed using natural materials and salt, and fired overnight. Everyone involved in the workshop, together with friends and family, is invited to join Sula in watching this fascinating process.

Workshops Sula Grigg, Ceramic Workshop and Pit Firing

Saturday 8th September Clay vessel workshop Seamen’s Hall, Harbour Street, Nairn

Adult £15, Under 18’s £7

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Luanna and Ian are both retired professors, a couple, who have been enjoying learning to write fi ction rather than academic tomes. The purpose of this workshop is to encourage new fi ction writers to persist with the confi dence of knowing everyone has at least one story

to tell. Based on their experiences – positive and negative – they will share examples, advice, and insights into the process of writing those stories. The workshop will include opportunities for discussion and participation.

Corrina KeelingVisual Practitioner. Fall in Love with Lettering Workshop

Thursday 13th September2pm-4pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

£18 (cost includes a brush pen)

Please take your own notebook.

Corrina Keeling is a lettering and installation artist from Vancouver, BC, Canada. She’ll be sharing the basics of modern calligraphy and will help you discover your own unique lettering style. You will learn the fundamentals of brush lettering, and will leave with a prototype of your favourite wellness quote. Take a notebook with you to start your journaling journey.

Follow Corrina on Instagram:@lovelettersforeverybody

Jonathan ShearerExplore Paint

10am-4pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

£60 (Includes sandwich lunch)

An opportunity to explore a variety of ways to use paint and how to express your response to the world around you. From bold expressive brushwork to glazes and washes, this is a chance to discover what you can achieve with paint.

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Ian M. Evans and Luanna H. MeyerSo, You Have a Story to Tell! Creative Writing Workshop

Thursday 13th September 2pm-5pm Nairn Museum, Viewfi eld

£20

A workshop for beginning writers, aspiring authors, or the just plain curious.

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Pre-Festival Events

Glen Ord Distillery and the Bandstand Bar present a tantalising evening of single malt, chocolate and music.

Join Kirsten Matthews as she takes you on a whisky journey across the Highlands and Islands. Experience the peppery smoke of Talisker, the slow-burning warmth of Clynelish, the pineapple freshness of Teaninich and the sweet, spicy richness of Glen Ord. Discover new depths of fl avour through the pairing of each whisky with locally-produced, hand-crafted chocolates. After the tasting move through to the bar, where live music from 9:30pm will round off the evening in style.

See page 19 for more details.

10am-4pmSaturday 28th July at Nairn Community & Arts Centre.Tuesday 14th August at Nairn Library.

Nairn Street ScenePhotography days – Be in the picture!

Whisky and Chocolate Tasting Bandstand BarCrescent Road, NairnFriday 22nd June

7.30pm for 8pm

£20 (limited availability)

To see how it works visit: www.wildbird.org.uk/streetscene.asp


The photography for the project will take place on Saturday 28th July at Nairn Community and Arts Centre from 10am-4pm. Just come along! Dress up, and/or bring props if you like, from musical instruments to pets. There will be another day of photography on Tuesday 14th August at Nairn Library, 10am-4pm.

Everyone is tempted by glamour, the big, the brash and the beautiful. But Chris likes to champion the underdog and push back at familiarity breeding contempt so for him humble everyday creatures are just as alluring. He likes to ‘make something out of other people’s nothing’ when it comes to photography, he loves the challenge of fi nding beauty in ugly places. And when he does travel to some of the world’s wildlife hotspots he wants to see them in a new way, to put some art into his photos. But at the core of all his work is conservation so expect tales from the frontline and the full-frontal truth about how we get it wrong and get it right.

Funny, inspiring, irreverent and packed with information – it’s not a lecture, it’s a romp through the wild mind of Chris Packham.

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Nairn Drama ClubSteel Magnolias by Robert Harling

23rd, 24th, 25th Aug & 30th, 31st Aug & 1st SeptThe Little Theatre

£10

This amateur production is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French Ltd.

Through the four scenes spanning three years the staff and customers engage in small-town gossip but we see a deep strength and purposefulness emerge when Shelby a diabetic struggles with her illness.

Hilarious and touching, set in a beauty parlour in Louisiana.

The Pen & IHead to Toe

Monday 10th September7.30pmThe Little Theatre

£5 Pay at the door

An evening of prose and poetry by Nairn writers’ group ‘The Pen & I’ on the theme of health and wellbeing. All welcome.

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Tickets available from Red Cross Shop, High Street, Nairn or on the door.

Chris PackhamPictures from the Edge of the World

3pm-5pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

£16, Under 18s £10

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Melanie Muir talk Scottish Contemporary Jewellery and Modern Materials

Nairn Community & Arts Centre 5.30pm-6.30pm

£8, Under 18s £3

Join jewellery designer Melanie Muir as she presents a feast for the eyes and imagination; an exploration of new materials and inspiration through the lens of contemporary jewellery designers.

Mike Edwards The Road Home

Nairn Community & Arts Centre 7.30pm

£10

Twice a day – every day – for more than 25 years, Highlander Mike Edwards has entered the homes of millions of people across the country. As the Senior Reporter at STV, he is one of the most recognised voices, names and faces in Scotland. He has covered every major story to have broken in more than a quarter of a century, from Piper Alpha, to Dunblane via Lockerbie. He covered the devolution debate, the creation of the Scottish parliament and the Scottish independence referendum, and saw Lockerbie accused Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted, jailed and freed. He has told the stories of Scottish serial killers Peter Tobin and Ian Brady and followed Scottish troops into action in Bosnia and Kosovo. Mike reported from Seville and Manchester as Celtic and Rangers reached European football finals and down the years saw at first hand the visits of Princes, Prime Ministers, Presidents and Popes. He has been BAFTA and RTS nominated for his work.

Mike is a Major in the Territorial Army and has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. His novel ‘Friendly Fire’ was published in 2006 and his autobiography The Road Home, was published this year. Mike lives near Glasgow and lists his hobbies as playing the guitar and supporting Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club.

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D James Ross Is it that time already?

9.30pm The Little Theatre

£10

“Legendary – I defy you not to split your sides!”

Don’t miss poet, actor and musician D James Ross’s unique blend of poetry performance, stand-up comedy, anecdote and satirical song. He will be reading from his four published poetry collections as well as brand new material. This is his eleventh consecutive performance at the Festival – find out what all the fuss is about!

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Elke AmbroseMindful Forces

10am-10.30am

Free entry

Mindfulness is a life skill that involves paying attention in a particular way to what is happening, when it’s happening without judgement.

Mindfulness cultivates awareness, curiosity, acceptance, kindness and compassion. The practice builds stress resilience by training the brain to respond rather than react to all experiences.

www.mindfulforces.com

Maureen WilsonExecutive Co-ordinatorListen Well Scotland

12.15pm-12.45pm

Free entry

Listen Well Scotland is committed to making a positive contribution to mental wellbeing through its robust listening training programme and one to one listening services – Listening Time4U – in different community settings. In the immediate future we have a particular focus on the wellbeing of young people. Providing training in the transferable life skills of active listening both for young people and those with responsibility of care for them is not only foundational for effective communication but also transformational for health and wellbeing.

Jane Duncan Rogers Before I Go

11am-12pm

£8

Jane is an award-winning life and death coach who helps people prepare well for a good end of life. Having been in the fi eld of psychotherapy and personal growth for 25 years, she is the founder of the not-for-profi t Before I Go Solutions, dedicated to educating people about dying, death, and grief.

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Margot HendersonStory-bones Story-skin

1pm-2pm

£8

We live our stories and they live in us. They are at the heart of our search for meaning, they serve as maps for our quest for healing. Stories have the power to heal or harm, they give voice to our dreams and longings. Sharing our stories gives us a deeper sense of belonging. As a poet and storyteller and community artist Margot has lived and worked with stories for the last 40 years. She will share some lived examples of the healing power of story.

Margot Henderson is a Scots-Irish Poet, Storyteller and Community Artist. She is a trained counsellor and integrative arts therapist.

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Tia McGraffJake the Road Dawg Children’s Storytelling event

3.30pmNairn Library

Free event

For a runaway pup searching for his “forever home,” in Nashville, Tennessee, hope is everything! But when Jake is adopted by professional country music stars, Tia and Tommy, he not only fi nds a loving family, but also a dream that is bigger than he ever imagined. Jake ‘the Road Dawg’ must quickly learn confi dence, responsibility and that being a celebrity isn’t simply about bright lights and fame. It’s also about hard work, discovering exciting new places and making friends along the road.

Join Country singer Tia and listen to her story about her beloved dog Jake, and she might even treat us to a song!

Morven SurmonTherapies for Change

2.15pm-2.45pm

Free entry

Morven will be introducing you to her work as a hypnotherapist, discussing how hypnotherapy can effectively help bring about signifi cant, lasting changes in mental and physical health.

She will share her experiences of the varied and rewarding work that she does with a spectrum of clients of all ages and nationalities.

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Claire Lamond Film screening

3.15pm-4.15pm Nairn Community & Arts Centre

£8, Under 18s £3

Claire Lamond presents Sea Front and other stories – selected animated films.

Award winning animator Claire Lamond will present a selection of animated films, including her BAFTA-nominated film, Sea Front (2014). When you put a shell to your ear, what do you hear? Connected by the sea between them, soldiers, friends, musicians fighting in the trenches in WW1 reach out to those battling back home.

Hannah Laycock Awakenings: Photography As A Means of Artistic Expression and Catharsis

5.30pm-6.15pm Little Theatre

£6, Under 18s £3

A talk by International award winning and exhibiting photographer Hannah Laycock who specialises in fine-art and portrait photography, that contributes to illness narratives in contemporary culture. Her latest project, Awakenings, documents her diagnosis and subsequent experiences of living with Multiple Sclerosis.

Her commissioned work for the cover of the Festival programme is on display at Nairn Court House and her photographic series Awakenings is on display at the Community Centre.

Claire Lamond Stop-motion animation

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Dr Richard Barnett The Sick Rose Illustrated talk

6.30pm-7.30pm The Little Theatre

£8, Under 18s £3

Historian, broadcaster and poet Dr Richard Barnett will talk about his book, The Sick Rose – a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography, featuring images sourced from the Wellcome Collection.

“Superbly erudite and lucid” The Guardian

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The Musick Fyne Soloists & Coronach Overcom with Heviness

8pm-9pm United Reformed Church

£10, Under 18’s £3

Directed by D James Ross Music and Melancholy in the Renaissance.

Following their memorable joint appearance at last year’s Festival, the Musick Fyne Soloists and Coronach return with a programme of music for voices and instruments on the subject of melancholy. Performing works from throughout the Renaissance, they will illustrate how feelings of melancholy have given rise to some of the finest and most moving music ever written.


Tia McGraff is an internationally renowned and award-winning Americana/Country singer-songwriter from Port Dover, Ontario, Canada. With Scottish and Transylvanian roots running through her songwriting and voice, Tia’s talent has been described as “haunting and soul-gripping.”

After moving to Nashville in 1999, Tia was introduced to Tommy Parham by his publisher. They began writing together, broke their rule of “never date a co-writer,” and in 2006 the couple were married in Savannah, Georgia.

Last year was a standout year for Tia & Tommy, with a sold out show at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, wide acclaim for Crazy Beautiful and international radio play for her music including Bob Harris Country on BBC Radio 2.

A storyteller who gets right to the heart of what really matters Country Routes

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Corrina Keeling creates folk music informed by an era of socially conscious artists like Joni Mitchell & CSNY, and her growing connection to her Scottish roots in the Highlands. She’s humbled to have shared stages around the world with Feist, Trevor Hall, Nahko Bear, and Neil Young.

Anything but ordinary folk music, her rhythms are rock-solid, rooted and driving, with harmonies from her sister Jessica Dawn that are mystic and intuitive. Her performances are abundant with stories, authenticity and presence.

Her fi rst visit back to Nairn in 2016 to seek out the birthplaces of her ancestors sparked a relationship to this place and it’s language and music, and she’s delighted to ‘come home’ with her family to share her most recent songs inspired by the journey.

www.corrinakeeling.ca

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Tia McGraff & Tommy Parham and Corrina KeelingAmericana/Country & Folk music event

8pm-10.30pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

£15, Under 18s £3

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A must for anyone interested in the history and the future of health care! Retired surgeon Professor Alasdair Munro will describe the Beaton kindred who arrived from Ireland in the 13th century and, as Beatons, Bethunes and McVays, cared for clan chiefs, landowners and many kings of Scotland over the succeeding 400 years. Cardiologist Professor Steve Leslie and historian Jim Leslie will then discuss the birth of hospitals in the Victorian era and the implications for care.

Finally, Dr Alasdair Mort and Anne Roberts of MIME Technologies, a brand new company based in the Highlands and using new technologies for emergency care, will describe some of the main technology ‘movements’ that will change the way people are looked after in the 21st Century such as artifi cial intelligence, augmented reality and virtual reality. All our experts will then participate in a panel discussion on the past and the future of healthcare.

A Spirited CasePlay reading by Nairn U3A

1.30pm-2.30pmThe Little Theatre

Free Entry

This event recreates an actual 1916 court case after Nairn Burgh Police Offi cers were called to a King Street boarding house following neighbours’ complaints about noise and disorder. Uncovering irregularities – the presence of two Royal Navy sailors AWOL, unknown women from Inverness and hidden alcohol bottles, investigations revealed that members of the Canadian Forestry Battalion at Keppernach were also frequent visitors to the property, usually entering by the back door! Charged with the illegal traffi cking of excisable liquor in unlicensed premises, the proprietor, Mrs Mackay, faces her accusers in this amusing and historically sourced play reading.

Written by Frances Hendry.

13thThursday Bookbug Session

11amNairn Library FreeEnjoy stories, songs and rhymes with your toddler in this fun session. Suitable for pre-school children.

Professor Alasdair Munro, Professor Steve Leslie, Jim Leslie, Dr Alasdair Mort & Anne Roberts

Eight Centuries of Healthcare in the Highlands

10am-12.30pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

£8 (Tea/coffee provided)

Archibald Cameron, courtesy of the Museum of Islay Life.

Jonathan Shearer Art workshop

Ian M. Evans & Luanna H. Meyer Creative writing workshop

Corrina Keeling Lettering workshop

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Song of the River is the title of a long form spoken word/theatre piece written by visual artist and singer Andrea Turner which includes original music and songs co-written with guitarist and composer Tom Richardson.

It is a poetic love story of the heart and to the land set along the River Findhorn which arises in the Monadhliath Mountains near Aviemore and runs to the sea at Findhorn Bay.

The Findhorn is their local river, a place of outstanding natural beauty and source of many local myths and stories.

The piece dives deep into the landscape, their connection with the land and a timeless story of love, loss and renewal.

Song of the River also includes a series of associated paintings.

Andrea Turner and Tom Richardson Song of the River

6pm-7pm The Little Theatre

£8, Under 18’s £3

Brian Crawford Young is from Forres and is a graduate of the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI), obtaining his BA Fine Art (Honours) from Moray School of Art in 2008. In 2010 he was a recipient of the USA’s Ruth Katzman scholarship, which enabled him to be artist-in-residence with a famous art school in New York, followed by an exhibition there. He was invited back three years later to initiate a new series of work.

He is an expressive painter whose work is strongly influenced by his surroundings. His stylistic approach is a kind of spontaneous ‘painting from the inside out’, in which he tries to paint from his sub-conscious or from memory. From this may emerge an abstract, landscape or figurative painting.

Brian will be talking about this process, and the importance of ‘time out’ for artists, writers and musicians, and about how he finds inspiration from the natural world.

Presented by Nairn & District Gardening Club

Brian Crawford Young Painting from the inside out

7.30pm-8.30pm Nairn Community & Arts Centre

£8 (Limited availability)


Nairn Street Scene WildbirdTime: Evening1st fl oor windows, Nairn High St.Thursday 13th and Friday 14th September

In celebration of our 15th anniversary we have teamed up with public arts producers Wildbird, to create Nairn Street Scene. For two nights only Nairn’s high street windows will be lit up with striking and colourful projections featuring local people – don’t miss it! Some High St shops will open late on Friday, so why not enjoy some evening browsing too.

Be in the picture! The photography for the project will take place on Saturday 28th July at Nairn Community & Arts Centre from 10am-4pm. Just come along! Dress up, and/or bring props if you like, from musical instruments to pets. There will be another day of photography on Tuesday 14th August at Nairn Library, 10am-4pm.

To see how it works visit: www.wildbird.org.uk/streetscene.asp

Queens of the Blues

8.30pm to 10.30pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

£16

Price includes complimentary handmade Jack Daniels chocolates by The Chocolate Place.

We welcome The Blueswater back to Nairn with their fabulous new show, Queens of the Blues featuring acclaimed vocalist Nicole Smit.

Queens of the Blues presents a musical celebration of the women who have shaped blues and popular music as we know it, and have gone largely unrecognised for their infl uence and talent, until now.

***** TheWeeReview.com

**** BroadwayBaby.com

A ridiculously tight band of musicians and an extremely charismatic turn by Nicole Smit Fest

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Bidh Ruairidh MacIlleathain, ùghdar An Creanaiche, ann an còmhradh mu dheidhinn nobhail ùr, Còig Duilleagan na Seamraig. ’S e nobhail phoilitigeach a th’ ann, de ghnè nach eil cumanta ann litreachas na Gàidhlig. Tha an stòiridh, a tha a’ gluasad eadar a’ Ghàidhealtachd, Èirinn, Lunnainn agus Paris, a’ gabhail a-steach thachartasan mòra o chionn ceud bliadhna.

Gaelic EventsBoth Gaelic events will be simultaneously translated for non Gaelic speakers. Both are sponsored by the Gaelic Books Council.

Join Ruairidh MacLean, author of An Creanaiche, in conversation about his new novel, Còig Duilleagan na Seamraig (The Five Leaves of the Shamrock). A political novel of a type which is rare in Scottish Gaelic, the narrative moves between the Highlands, Ireland, London and Paris, recalling major political and social upheavals in the British Isles a century ago.

Kate Ashton Doctor Nurse Romance

10am-10.40am Sun Dancer, Nairn Harbour

£8 (includes a complimentary mocktail on arrival)

Kate Ashton is a writer and translator. In the late 60s and 70s she trained and worked as a nurse at the then Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and went on to a career in medical journalism. A move to The Netherlands followed in 1979, when she was privileged to be commissioned to write ‘doctor/nurse’ romance for Mills & Boon. The novels came into the world while her baby son took his afternoon naps.

Sponsored by the Sun Dancer

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Ruairidh MacIlleathain: Còig Duilleagan na Seamraig Ruairidh MacLean: The Five Leaves of the Shamrock

11am-12pm Nairn Community & Arts Centre

£8


Air chuairt air feadh Alba sa Mhàirt 2018, thug Cèilidh iomradh air sgeulachdan traidiseanta, ceòl agus òrain ach ann an dreach tèatar cho-aimsireil, agus fhuair e lèirmheasan anabarrach math. Thigibh còmhla ri co-sgrìobhaiche an dealbh-chluiche ionmholta seo, Catriona Lexy Chaimbeul, airson sealladh sònraichte fhaighinn air mar a chaidh an dealbh-chluich a leasachadh, a chur air dòigh agus mar a ghabh an luchd-èisteachd ris.

Cèilidh, a contemporary theatrical take on traditional storytelling, music and song, toured Scotland in March 2018 and received rave reviews. Join the co-writer of the play, Catriona Lexy Campbell, as she discusses the development, performance and reception of one of the most engaging Gaelic theatre productions in recent years.

Ron ButlinFestival Roving Poet

Various venues around Nairn

Award winning novelist and poet, and former Edinburgh Makar, Ron Butlin will be roving in Nairn today. He may surprise you in cafe or pub, library or bookshop or possibly another (clearly signposted) venue with reading or verse, words for adults, words for children including some from his latest poetry book The Little Book of Scottish Rain… tho’ we’re hoping for sunshine on the day.

Sealladh air Cèilidh còmhla ri Catrìona Lexy ChaimbeulCèilidh with Catriona Lexy Campbell


£8, Under 18s £3

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Cearcall Còmhraidh Inbhir Narainn

Nairn Gaelic conversation group will meet in the Festival Café from 12pm to 1pm – all ages/abilities welcome to join the lunchtime Gaelic chat.


Andrew Greig You Know What You Could Be

6.30pm-7.30pm The Little Theatre

£8, Under 18s £3

Andrew Greig is widely enjoyed for his poetry, non-fiction, and novels. He will be reading from the latest You Know What You Could Be: tuning in to the 1960s (with Mike Heron), through the climbing poems, to the memoir of Assynt and Norman MacCaig At the Loch of the Green Corrie, rounded off with the micro-Odyssey Found At Sea.

Warning: there will be a couple of songs with banjo.

Tim Honnor That Bastard Bligh of the Bounty

2pm-3pm Nairn Community & Arts Centre

£8 (Tea/Coffee provided)

Tim Honnor is back again this year with a talk on Captain Bligh, to whom he thinks history has given a misleading and false reputation.

Tim got interested in the amazing story of Captain Bligh when, in 1961, he was serving in the first Royal Naval Ship since HMS Bounty to visit the spot where the Mutiny occurred.

He hopes that his talk will open up interest in the astonishing chain of events that the mutiny unleashed, and provide a more balanced portrait of William Bligh.

E.S. Thomson The Blood

3.30pm-4.30pm Nairn Community & Arts Festival

£8

E.S Thomson has a PhD in the history of medicine, and tries to fit as much medical history into her books as possible. Her most recent novel The Blood, the third in the acclaimed Jem Flockhart series, is set on board the Seamen’s Floating Hospital, a place of murder, jealousy, ambition – and new developments in tropical medicine. Elaine will be talking about how Scottish history of medicine inspires her work. Elaine’s work has been shortlisted for the Saltire Prize, the MacIlvanney Prize Crime Novel of the Year Award; and long listed for the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger Award.

Fiona Hunter and Kathleen MacInnes – two of Scotland’s finest traditional singers, will revisit their exciting musical collaboration Crossing Points at the Festival this year. With songs echoing across landscapes and centuries this will be an enchanting night of exchange and celebration between Gaelic and Scots, accompanied by multi-instrumentalists Mhairi Hall and Mike Vass.

“It was those two voices working in tandem… that served notice that they already have something special going on… a quality of vocal sound that made it exciting just to be in the same room.” **** Rob Adams, The Herald.

“inspired collaboration” **** Jim Gilchrist, The Scotsman.

Joint event with BLAS Festival

Sam Derbyshire Trust me, I’m a Personal Trainer – Book Launch

10pm-late The Invernairne, Thurlow Road, Nairn

Free event – ticket required

Undercover Nairn writer Sam Derbyshire is the author of two successful novels, What Goes on Tour and the sequel Text Me No Lies. Referred to behind her back as the ‘Jilly Cooper of Nairn’, Sam aims to give her readers humorous contemporary reads that are fast-paced and fun, with characters that they can easily identify with.

Nairn Street Scene Wildbird

Time: Evening 1st floor windows Nairn High Street Thursday 13th and Friday 14th September

In celebration of our 15th anniversary we have teamed up with public arts producers Wildbird, to create Nairn Street Scene. For two nights only Nairn’s high street windows will be lit up with striking and colourful projections featuring local people – don’t miss it! Some High St shops will open late on Friday, so why not enjoy some evening browsing too.

See page 19 for more details.

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Kathleen MacInnes, Fiona Hunter, Mhairi Hall and Mike Vass Crossing Points

8pm-10.30pm Nairn Community & Arts Centre

£14, Under 18’s £3

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Silent Movie with Andy May on keyboard

10am-11.05amThe Little Theatre

£7, Under 18’s £2

Buster Keaton again by popular demand – this time as a most unlikely and hilarious cowboy. Out of work and luck, Buster goes West and starts work on a ranch, where he is befriended by a doe-eyed cow, Brown Eyes. When the ranch gets in fi nancial trouble will Buster and his friend save the day?

Amazing scenes of derring-do among gangsters and stampeding cattle. You can’t miss this one!Maestro Andy May makes an equally welcome return on keyboard.

Presented by Cinema Nairn

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Festival Musical Choir£10 (over 16’s only)

Artistic Director: Jeni HerbertChoreographer: Amy Gallagher

If you love belting out a show tune, get lost in the emotion of a love song or are mesmerised by the way that musical theatre performers can burst into a song and dance mid scene like it was an every day life occurrence then this musical choir is for you.

Mamma Mia, there will be Sunshine on Leith because this is me in the Greatest show – see what we did there?

Rehearsals at Nairn United Reformed Church on Saturday 15th September from 10am to 5pm (Bring a packed lunch).

Choir will sing at the Festival Finale – Details: Choir to arrive at Nairn Community & Arts Centre at 6pm on Sunday 16th September for a rehearsal prior to their Finale performance (see page 31).

Mellow Yellow Creative Arts has been running performing arts classes for children in Nairn for 14 years. This is the opportunity for all those adults who have always wanted to give it a go and take to the stage in a fun, friendly and supportive environment.

No choir experience necessary – just join in and sing!

Booking essential.

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Supported by Nairn Rotary

Come and join in!


Em StrangEm is a poet, editor and prison tutor. Her writing preoccupations are with ‘nature’, spirituality and the relationship between the human and nonhuman. Em will be reading from Bird-Woman (Shearsman, 2016), which was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Best First Collection Prize and won the 2017 Saltire Poetry Book of the Year Award.

“Em Strang’s poems are shamanic, in that they restore to us abandoned mythologies.”Jen Hadfi eld.

Ron ButlinWith an international reputation as a prize-winning novelist, Ron Butlin is a former Edinburgh Poet Laureate. He has published nearly twenty books, including ten collections of poetry, and his work has been translated into over a dozen languages. He has given readings worldwide and is a regular on the Edinburgh Fringe, reading with jazzers. Recently he has begun writing verse and adventure stories for children, and loves every minute of it! He lives in Edinburgh with his wife and their dog. www.ronbutlin.co.uk

Diana HendryDiana Hendry has published seven poetry collections. She’ll be reading from her latest, The Watching Stair (Worple Press). Diana’s written many books for children winning both a Whitbread Award and a Costa short-listing. She has been a writer in residence at Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infi rmary, a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Edinburgh University and recently co-editor of New Writing Scotland.

Diana Hendry photo: Gerry Cambridge

11.30am-1.30pm The Little Theatre

Adult £15, Under 18’s £5 (includes a sandwich lunch)

Poetry PlatformEm Strang, Ron Butlin and Diana Hendry

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Gavin Francis Shapeshifters

1.45pm-2.45pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

£8, Under 18s £3

To be alive is to be in perpetual change. In Shapeshifters, award winning Edinburgh writer and doctor Gavin Francis considers the transformations in mind and body that continue across the arc of every human life and

the power and limitations of medicine in altering our lives.

Gavin, who practises as a GP, is already the best selling author of Adventures in Human Being, Saltire Non Fiction Book of the Year 2015, and travel books True North and Antarctica: Ice, Silence and Emperor Penguins. The latter won the Scottish Book of the Year award in 2013.

Sponsored by the Nairn Literary Institute

Mellow Yellow

Join the fantastic team from Mellow Yellow Creative Arts for fun fi lled Drama Adventures and Mini Dance Sessions. Watch out for awesome demonstrations by our talented young performing arts groups.

Whispering Woods

In the Whispering Woods tent, author and storyteller, Alan Crawford will read abridged versions of his ‘tree tales’, and Elaine Crawford will run short woodland craft workshops. Enter a wonder-fi lled world full of wise ancient trees, mischievous but insightful faeries, and demonstrative dragons. Hear about the protective powers of rowan, the cleansing qualities of birch, the energy of ash; and their importance to human beings, and other creatures…

Suitable for children approx. 7yrs upwards, and for interested adults alike.

Mystery at the MuseumNairn Museum

Become a detective and help our Nairn Fishergirl fi nd her lost brother. The only clue she has is a message in a bottle that`s been washed ashore…

Find the answers in Nairn Museum and solve the mystery.

A 30 min guided activity for children aged 5+ (children must be accompanied by an adult).

1pm-4pmViewfi eld area, Nairn

Enjoy a FREE fun day for the Kids – all ages

welcome! Bring your picnic, and enjoy a fun

afternoon of crafts, stories, mysteries, games

and activities. Fun for the whole family.


KIDS DAY

Portrait Artist

Our popular roving portrait artist William Mather will again join us on Kids Day.

The Pen & I Storytelling Tent

Join members of the local writers group, The Pen & I, who have written original stories especially for Kids Day. Find a space in the Storytelling Tent, make yourself comfortable and be transported into the world of imagination. Try your hand at the writing table too!

Green Hive

Nairn’s local community and environmental charity, will be holding events celebrating Nairn Community Orchard and fruit growing in Nairn. Come and join them for apple pressing and juicing, apple and fruit tasting, and apple games and activities.

If you have a fall of apples in your garden – take them with you and press them at our apple press.

Enjoy your lunch at the Orchard’s picnic tables. www.greenhive.co.uk

group, The Pen & I, who have written

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Teen music & poetry event Open mic

4.30pm-6.30pmJames’s at the Putting Green, Marine Road, Nairn

Free event

Drop-in session. Full details:www.nairnfestival.co.uk


* Children under 16 years should

be accompanied by an adult.

** This event is weather permitting – please check

our website and facebook page for alternative

venues if the weather is inclement.

Nairn Camera ClubDrop-in photography clinic

10.30am-4pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

Free Entry

Nairn Camera Club will be running a photography workshop answering your photography related questions and demonstrating photo editing in Lightroom and other essential skills to get the best out of your camera. They will also have a display of the members work taken over the last few years.

Melanie Muir Jewellery workshop

Sula Grigg Pit Firing on beach

Workshops page 7

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Charles Cumming was born in Scotland in 1971. Shortly after university he was approached for recruitment by the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), an experience that inspired his fi rst novel, A Spy by Nature. He has written several bestselling thrillers, including A Foreign Country, which won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Bloody Scotland Crime Book of the Year.

Mick Herron’s novels include the Gold and Steel Dagger-winning Jackson Lamb series, about a bunch of messed-up spies. His work has been nominated for the Theakstons, Macavity, Barry and Shamus awards, and Real Tigers won the 2017 Crimefest Last Laugh Award. The Irish Times described Spook Street as “a modern masterpiece”, and it has been shortlisted for a British Book Award. His latest publications are London Rules and This Is What Happened.

Sipping with Spies 3pm-5pm Nairn Community & Arts Centre

£15 (includes two glasses of wine)

This event will be chaired by Dave Godden


Sponsored by The Nairn Bookshop


EVE


£15, Under 18s £8

Recommended age: 14+

Eve tells the story of a child raised as a boy, when she knew all along that was wrong.

That child grew up to be one of the 10 Outstanding Women in Scotland in 2017.

What does that do to our understanding of what it is to be human in times of revolutionary change?

With trans rights again under threat, legendary playwright, performer, father and grandmother Jo Clifford tells a story both gentle and passionate, intimate and political, to remind us that the journey towards our real selves is one we all need to make.

Written by Jo Clifford and Chris Goode. Directed by Susan Worsfold. Performed by Jo Clifford.

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Barbara HendersonWilderness Wars – What if nature fi ghts back?

2.30pm-3.30pm OR 3.30pm-4.30pmBrodie Castle Stables(upstairs – no disabled access)

£4.50 per child (max 1 free adult per child)

Suitable for ages 7+Inverness children’s writer Barbara Henderson, author of Fir for Luck and Punch, delivers a free half-hour session of nature storytelling before her book event, focusing on her new eco-thriller for children, Wilderness Wars. Pacey, tense and only released in August 2018, it explores the question: What if nature fi ghts back?

The interactive session features readings, drama and shadow puppetry, including an opportunity to make a shadow puppet to take home.

2pm FREE storytelling session (suitable for all ages), out of doors weather permitting.

A National Trust for Scotland, Brodie Castle event.

Ian M. Evans and Luanna H. MeyerThe journey to fi ction

1.30pm-2.30pmNairn Community & Arts Festival

£8

There are no baobab trees on the Vaal River, but there are midges in Glen Rosa: Lessons on the challenge of place in fi ction writing.

Ian Evans will comment on the age-old theme of place in fi ction writing, using examples from his second novel, set in Southern Africa, The Eye of Kuruman (2017) and from his mother Jane Shaw’s third novel, set on the Isle of Arran, Highland Holiday (1942).

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BreatheFilm event by Nairn Rotary

11am-1pmThe Little Theatre

Entry by donation to purple4polio

In partnership with the Bill Gates Foundation, Rotary International is committed to the eradication of polio throughout the world. We do this through donations made every year by our members. Just when we think it has been conquered, one or two new cases appear in such countries as Afghanistan or Bangladesh.

The fi lm, Breathe, tells the moving story of Robin Cavendish who, after contracting the disease, spent the rest of his life helping other sufferers to escape the prison of the iron lung and lead a fulfi lling life.

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Festival Finale 7.30pm-8.30pmNairn Community & Arts Centre£5, Under 18s £2

Join us in celebrating our 15th Anniversary in style – with entertainment from our Festival Choir, images from the full week’s events, canapés, ice-cream from James’s at the Putting Green and of course, a celebration cake from Ashers Bakery!

The choir will be lead by Jeni Herbert & Amy Gallagher from Mellow Yellow Creative Arts – for details of how to take part in the choir, see page 24.

A fun way to fi nish off the festival week. Come and join us and let’s make it a night to remember.


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Chris PackhamPictures from the Edge of the World


£16, Under 18s £10

Everyone is tempted by glamour, the big, the brash and the beautiful. But Chris likes to champion the underdog and push back at familiarity breeding contempt so for him humble everyday creatures are just as alluring. He likes to ‘make something out of other people’s nothing’ when it comes to photography, he loves the challenge of fi nding beauty in ugly places. And when he does travel to some of the world’s wildlife hotspots he wants to see them in a new way, to put some art into his photos. But at the core of all his work is conservation so expect tales from the frontline and the full-frontal truth about how we get it wrong and get it right.

Funny, inspiring, irreverent and packed with information – it’s not a lecture, it’s a romp through the wild mind of Chris Packham.

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Inveran Lodge

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3 The Court House4 Nairn Library5 Nairn Museum, Nairn Community

Orchard and Kids Day6 The Invernairne 7 Seamen’s Victoria Hall

Festival venues

1 Nairn Community & Arts Centre

2 The Little Theatre

We stock a wide range of new books, includinglocal history, which caters for readers of all agesand interests. As well as books, we offer a goodselection of cards, gift wrap, postcards, note-books, tea-towels and jigsaws including four bespoke Nairn images.

Our friendly staff looks forward to welcoming you to our shop.

94 High Street, Nairn.T: 01667 455528 E: [email protected]

Opening HoursMon – Sat 9.30am – 5pm

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Jenkinson & Frithcello & piano

playingSchumann, Dohnanyi, Kodály and Brahms

Friday 7 September 8pm at Nairn Community & Arts CentreTickets from Nairn Community Centre

or go to www.musicnairn.org.uk (‘Book Tickets’)


Festival at a Glance

Monday 10th September

7.30pm The Pen & I

Tuesday 11th September

5.30pm Scottish Jewellery Design Talk

7.30pm Mike Edwards

9.30pm D James Ross

Thursday 13th September

10am Art Workshop

10am Healthcare in the Highlands

11am Bookbug Session

1.30pm U3A Play reading

2pm Creative Writing Workshop

2pm Lettering Workshop

6pm Nairn Street Scene

6pm Andrea Turner & Tom Richardson

7.30pm Brian Crawford Young

8.30pm The Blueswater

Friday 14th September

10am Kate Ashton

11am Ruairidh MacLean

2pm Tim Honnor

3.30pm E. S. Thomson

6pm Catriona Lexy Campbell

6.30pm Andrew Greig

8pm Vass, Hunter, MacInnes & Hall

10pm Sam Derbyshire

Wednesday 12th September

10am Stop-motion animation Workshop

10am Wellbeing & you

3.30 pm Children’s Storytelling

3.15pm Claire Lamond

5.30pm Hannah Laycock

6.30pm Dr Richard Barnett

8pm Musick Fyne

8pm McGraff, Parham & Keeling

Saturday 15th September

10am Jewellery Workshop

10am Festival Musical Choir

10am Silent Movie

10.30pm Nairn Camera Club

11.30am Em Strang, Ron Butlin & Diana Hendry

1pm Kids Day

1.45pm Gavin Francis

3pm Charles Cumming & Mick Herron

4.30pm Teen open mic

7pm Pit Firing

Sunday 16th September

11am Breathe

1.30pm Ian M. Evans & Luanna H. Meyer

2.30pm Barbara Henderson

3pm Chris Packham

7.30pm Festival Finale

Daily Events

9.30pm-midnight (Thurs, Fri & Sat) Festival Club @ the Bandstand Bar

10am-4pm (Wed, Thurs, Fri & Sat) Festival Café @ NCC

7pm Festival Fables

Art Exhibitions See programme for details

Pre-Festival events

22th June-8pm Chocolate & Whisky

10am-4pm 28th July @ NCC & 14th August @ Nairn Library Nairn Street Scene – Be in the picture!

1st September – 8th September – 1.30am-4.30pm New Highland Contemporary 5

8th September – various times Ceramic Workshop

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