Jan 2, 2024
Scotland’s friendliest art fair is set to return with more than 70 artists and galleries, from across the Borders and as far apart as Aberdeenshire and Devon, for visitors to discover. The 2024 McInroy & Wood Borders Art Fair (BAF) takes place in Kelso, in The...
Jan 2, 2024
You can’t win it if you aren’t in it – poets around the world have been urged to enter the Wigtown Poetry Prizes by one of 2023’s highly-praised winners. Edinburgh-based Stephanie Green was overwhelmed when she was awarded the Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize and was also...
Dec 19, 2023
A call is going out to find the perfect Wigtownshire wall for a new community mural – and a locally-based artist to help paint it. The initiative marks the return of the highly successful Spring Fling Rural Mural (SFRM), which saw the creation of imaginative and...
Dec 18, 2023
Campaigners are preparing for their final push for Galloway to be declared Scotland’s newest National Park – revealing that they have already spoken with well over 2,000 local people and organisations. And the Galloway National Park Association (GNPA) is urging more...
Dec 14, 2023
A multitude of magicians are putting the final touches to a vast array of mind-boggling tricks and illusions as they prepare to gather in Edinburgh for MagicFest. They range from established stars like the city’s own Kevin Quantum to new generation of teenage...