Sep 21, 2022
Wigtown Book Festival, a 10-day celebration of stories and literature, starts this Friday with more than 200 events for every age and interest. They include 45 pay what you can and 30 streamed events, plus many that are free. The nine young adult events are free to...
Sep 20, 2022
Take a lyrical journey deep into the starry nights of Galloway or enter the portals of an enchanted bookshop that can reveal untold stories about Scotland’s famous writers. Into the Nicht, a series of night-time walks led by Dark Skies Ranger Elizabeth Tindall and...
Sep 15, 2022
Inspired by Wigtown – a campaign was launched last night to establish the rural community of Granard as Ireland’s first ever Book Town. It’s hoped that the 800-strong community in County Longford can reap similar benefits to those experienced by Wigtown, 200 miles...
Sep 12, 2022
Back in the 1950s-60s, when winter came to Deception Island in the Antarctic, the small group of scientists based there faced long months of total, freezing darkness. Visitors to this year’s Wigtown Book Festival can step inside a replica refuge hut and glimpse what...
Sep 4, 2022
The second annual Music at the Multiverse weekend saw Glasvegas and the Bluebells take the Main Stage while revellers packed the new Dance Tent. Rain showers did nothing to deter the audiences for the opening day of this weekend’s event at the spectacular Crawick...
Aug 30, 2022
The fabulous players from The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra (SFO) will be returning to Wigtown, the old stamping ground of one of its founders John Mason MBE, for the first time in 10 years. They will open A Concert for Scotland’s Year of Stories, in the Festival Marquee...
Aug 29, 2022
Mallorca Lee (ultra-sonic x Public Domain), Malcolm X and a host of other DJs are gearing up for a mind-blowing weekend in the new Dance Tent at this year’s Music at the Multiverse. At the same time there will be a stellar line up of live bands – from Glasvegas to the...
Aug 25, 2022
Any idea how to sex a beaver, or the role of hot water bottles in taking samples of their blood? Since the reintroduction of these marvellous semi-aquatic mammals to Scotland, and elsewhere in the UK, these have become essential skills for Edinburgh-based exotic...
Aug 19, 2022
In their masks they take us back to the Trojan War, and the tragic fate of Mighty Hector and his wife Andromache Unmasked they appear on stage as Bea and Alec – an Army officer’s wife facing the trauma of her husband’s declining mental health and the risk of death he...
Aug 15, 2022
The spirit of David Bowie has returned to his old haunts in the city where he once lived and gigged and which helped shape his road to stardom. Rebel, a high-octane critically-acclaimed live music Bowie-inspired circus, entertains audiences with hits from five decades...
