Neilston Development Trust invite you, your family and friends to…..
Neilston Up For Powerdown
a fun packed day celebrating low carbon community life on
Saturday March 20th
11-4pm (with an evening lantern parade and ceilidh 6.45-11pm)
Neilston Development Trust, are organising a big outdoors marquee/street based event in support of our “Sustainable Neilston”/carbon footprint reduction challenges.
Up for Powerdown is also an opportunity to celebrate community life. A lively daytime programme of events, workshops, information and street-based demos and activities will be followed by a lantern parade through the village and a ’low-carbon family-ceilidh and celebration in the evening.
Experts will be on hand to answer all your questions on everything from gardening to underfloor heating. Don’t miss the “light-hearted” but useful Gardeners Question time (with our own Monty Don!). Lots of hands on activities for all ages including a chance to make and plant up your own planter – for free!; plus demos and tuition in skateboarding, street-dance on the High St (a road closure has been arranged for the day!).
Highlights include the visual and aural spectacle of the Horse Box Orchestra and Puppet Show); don’t miss the premier of Planet Fantastic by the Primary 6 pupils of St Thomas’s and Neilston Primary School with the Walking Theatre Co); hear the first public rendition of “Going Green in Neilston” written and performed for the event by local band the Skunnered (and featuring the P6 pupils of the local primary schools as backing vocals!). CDs of the song will be available for purchase on the day!
and…
Don’t miss the magical low-carbon lantern parade in the evening as we make our way round Neilston accompanied by the Neilston and District Pipe Band and the visiting Demon Drummers and get ready for an evening-finale of great local music at the Low carbon Ceilidh (delicious light supper included!). Ceilidh tickets £8; £5 seniors; family ticket (2 adults plus children) £20. Contact Laura at 0797 417 1830 or laura.carswell@neilstontrust.co.uk for more info.. Ceilidh tickets from Laura or www.tickets-scotland.com..
a great start to 2010 saw tonights first murder at the Argyll hotel in Dunoon. Our very intrepid audience who, as I type are strutting their stuff in the night haunts of that perky seaside town, were a most excellent audience really getting into the spirit of the event, several ladies offered their husbands as victims and one game gentleman proposed to Lady Mary Campbell, to the game delight of his wife! Who Dun it? That would be telling, some guessed and some didn’t but all had a great time. Thanks to you all, we just couldn’t do it without you.
We are delighted to have been commissioned by Historic Scotland to produce three very exciting events at three significant historic sites exploring Gaelic language and culture. The sites are ‘Fort George’, ‘Bonawae Iron Furnace’ and ‘Stanley Mills’ - . The project is in line with outcomes detailed by the Gaelic Language Act and will connect Gaelic culture with visiting audiences. Times and dates will follow soon.
With great delight and some sadness we are loaning one of our core company to the illustrious Bill Kenwright for the first 7 months of 2010. Simon Linnell, once more joins Kenwrights team on a Number 1 National Tour and will be very much missed by all of us at TWTC and his many followers from our audiences. Break a leg Simon and come home soon.
the 5th of November saw our team performing in the old Alloa and Greenside Cemetery. A wonderful double showing for the closing of the Alloa Homecoming events. The show opened with the Alloa witch trials and saw the unfortunate Maggie Duchall condemned to die but a carousing sing song with the Misses Paton two centuries later, to a shower of fireworks soon cheered us all up. The closing scene will always be remembered by cast and audience as we stood in the Erskines private mausoleum. A fitting tribute to a wonderful setting and inspiring place.
click on the link to see some wonderful pictures of the Lismore Homecoming event. Well worth a visit.
http://www.isleoflismore.com/news/2009%20news/homecoming%20report/homecoming_lismore_2009.htm
Last night was quite possibly one of the wildest and wetest of the year yet the enthusiasm and the excitement of the record numbers of visitors to Glenbranter, poo pooing the driving rain and wild wind to celebrate Halloween, dressed as witches, wizards, skeletons, vampires to name but a few was a true testament to the commitment of all the teams that pulled together to create a magical night. As ever the Forestry team were superb, their hard work and commitment is a real asset, and the spooky lights and sounds provided by Tents and Events created a chilling atmosphere. Thank you to every one that came and everyone that helped make it so splendid - We loved it too.
and we are off to be spooky in Glenbranter. As a regular event for the Forestry Commission we are proud to launch a brand new play ‘The witchy’ way, a silly witchy walk for all the family. Come and join the witch catcher, bring a big big net. performing tonight 7pm £10 per car.
Join us tomorrow for a magical favorite, “macbeths walk’. Join Lady Macbeth for a unwholesome evening of treachery and murder. Glenbranter £10 per car.
Great review from For Argyll on the Highlands Islands Tourism Awards - we love ‘em
Read it here.
TWTC Blog
| 
Argyll, business, destination, mobile, model, rural, social enterprise, solution, sustainable, theatre, walking
The Hidden Jewel and all its associated Homecoming events at Dunollie have been shortlisted in the much sought after Highland Tourism Awards in the Best Community Event category. This is great news and a real tribute to everyone who helped make the event work - around 45 volunteers in all, including many young people.
It is particularly exciting to have made it the final few in the Year of Homecoming as there have been hundreds of events, most of them of a community nature.
It is also a huge tribute to The Walking Theatre Company from Cowal who are consistently showing themselves to be both a huge asset within Argyll and excellent ambassadors outside the area. Their director Sadie Dixon-Spain has been shortlisted for the Leadership Award, which all of you who have met her will agree is richly deserved.
Overall these two shortlist places are a terrific boost for culture in Argyll and also for the reputation of Argyll, demonstrating that we have cultural organisations and personnel capable of delivering a product which competes with the best in the Highlands and Islands.
Catherine Gillies, project manager
Macdougall Trust
Comments (0) 
