Mar 1, 2024
Campaigners have joined forces with Scotland’s first UNESCO Biosphere to present a joint bid for Galloway to be declared the country’s newest National Park. The Galloway National Park Association (GNPA) and Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere(GSABP) bid –...
Feb 27, 2024
The annual Big DoG festival of children’s literature in Dumfries is going to be better than ever – thanks to regional and national supporters determined to put more fun into young lives. And there are also some great opportunities for the public to be at the heart of...
Jan 15, 2024
A record-breaking 104 studios will be welcoming in the public for Dumfries and Galloway’s 22nd annual Spring Fling Open Studios Weekend. Taking place from 25-27 May it’s a hugely popular opportunity to meet and see the latest work by an abundance of artists and makers...
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...
