Spring Fling 2021 Finds New Ways To Celebrate Artists and Makers

Spring Fling 2021 Finds New Ways To Celebrate Artists and Makers

Spring Fling 2021 will offer new and different ways to showcase some of the best contemporary visual arts and craft from Dumfries and Galloway. Organisers, Upland CIC, are delighted to announce plans for this year’s event which will be a vibrant mix of digital and...
Campaigners welcome Scottish Parliament National Park debate

Campaigners welcome Scottish Parliament National Park debate

Galloway National Park Association has welcomed the news that the Scottish Parliament is to debate a motion by Emma Harper MSP on 11 February in support of a National Park for Galloway. We need to work together to undo the damage Covid has done to rural economies and...
New Burns Heritage Plan Aims to Boost Post-Covid Cultural Tourism

New Burns Heritage Plan Aims to Boost Post-Covid Cultural Tourism

Dumfries & Galloway is looking to build on its links with Robert Burns to hugely expand cultural tourism in the post-Covid world. Burns-related tourism currently generates £21m a year for the region – a fraction of the estimated £121m it earns for neighbouring...