Previous Events
Craft Fayre
Arts and crafts, handmade cards, fancy goods ... the lot!
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ABBA Tribute Show
Dig out those flares and polish up your platform boots for a great night out at the Cowal Gathering Weekend!
Helensburgh Orchestral Society presents
'Music on a Summer Evening'
In aid of the Burgh Hall Restoration Fund
Programme for the evening
Nicolai: ‘Merry Wives of Windsor’
Elgar: ‘Chanson de Nuit’
Johann Strauss Snr: ‘Frederika Polka’ & ‘Chinese Galop’
Johan Strauss Jnr: ‘Roses from the South’
Mozart: ‘Symphonie Concertante’
Conductor: Robert Baxter
Leader: Christine Sinclair
Solo Violin: Greg Lawson
Solo Viola: Scott Dickinson
Alex in Wonderland
Original play created by YouthSTUFF
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Cowal Open Studios Spring Art Show
Saturday: Demonstration of needle-felting
Ken Maybury
Comic Hypnotist
Don't miss! Acclaimed Comedian! Sean Hughes on Tour
'Ducks and Other Mistakes I've Made'
More about Sean Hughes
Shadow Puppet Workshop
Explore, design, make and use shadow puppets with local artists
Sandi Kiehlman and Liz Miller
Photographic Workshop
Come and use your photographic abilities to capture your town's images!
By the end of the day's workshop participants will have created their own portraits of local shop keepers to be added to our current exhibition "A Celebration"
Ballroom Basics
Get your dancing shoes on and join us at the Burgh Hall for some jive, quickstep, cha cha cha and waltz with Stuart and Jane of "Ballroom Basics".
Every Sunday from 3 April!
Cost: £8 per person
Middle Wednesday Comedy Club
Another Middle Wednesday Comedy Club to brighten your Winter evening with headliner Keir McAllister ('...McAllister's rapier wit is a joy to behold...') and the return of award-winning Billy Kirkwood ('...Comedy fizz bomb!...') who'll compere the evening. JoJo Sutherland ('...A performer the audience could have watched all night...') will also be there and our own local talent, Steven Waddell will complete the roster of performers. Don't miss it!
PRESENTING:
Keir McAllister
Billy Kirkwood: Back by popular demand
JoJo Sutherland
Steven Waddell
Special Hogmanay celebration!
WITH LIVE MUSIC FROM: Acoustic Soundz, The Alley Katz, The Hellfire Club, Plus special guest
Come ring in the New Year with great bands and great tunes from three different and talented groups - contemporary sounds, back to the 50's and original work. Brush up your vocals - you may be called upon to sing along!
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Variety Show, Charity Fundraiser, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, Orchid
Join Alex Pollock for an evening of entertainment with
Kirk James, Magnolia Bee, and more!
Stuff Youth Theatre presents "Wizard of OZ"
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS SWITCH ON
Take off the chill with delicious Hot Chocolate and Mince Pies.
Get into the Christmas spirit with the fantastic COWAL PIPE BAND and carols!
Air Training Corps Day
Traditional Scottish Folk Music with Watt Nicoll
Enjoy the larger-than-life personality
that is Watt Nicoll!
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Middle Wednesday Comedy Club
Scott Agnew - One of Scotland's Finest Stand-ups
Jay Lafferty - 'Effortless charm ... packing a bite!' - (Support)
Peter Leckie
Billy Kirkwood - Back By Popular Demand to Compere
Film: 'Dirty Oil'
Sponsored by the Co-operative Membership, Screenings in the Burgh Hall Gallery
Green Fair
(in association with the Argyll and Bute Green Party and The Cooperative Membership)
Many organisations will be represented such as
Amnesty International, Alienergy, Transition Scotland, Ecohealth
and more ...
OPENING ADDRESS Chairman of Argyll and Bute Greens
TALK Transition Scotland: Peak Oil
CHILDREN'S CORNER'Hands On' fun for kids! with Ceramics, Ecohealth and Rag Art
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Africa Day
Choral Club Workshop
Evita
Music beats Mines
Welcome back the TUAREGS and help raise fund for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG)
Also performing: Casually Naked, Evil Geniuses, eMuse
Guide Centenary Celebrations: Cowal Finale
Plus Cowal Ceilidh - 6.30pm to 8.30pm
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Mask-Making Workshop
Make it spooky for Halloween!
Cowalfest
Explorer's Gallery
Extensive exhibition of local artists' work
Full week of events, activities and details to follow
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Street Level Photo Gallery Workshop
Tribute Singing Sensation - Kirk James
An Evening With The Stars - Elvis! Leo Sayer! Phantom Of The Opera! Meatloaf!
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Middle Wednesday Comedy Club
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Summer Holidays Programme 2010
Activities for children for all ages being run in the hall. All workshops £3.00.
| Activity | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Multi Storey Photography Workshop | 08/07/10 | 11am – 3pm * |
| Writing Workshop by Jenny Chaplin | 09/07/10 | 10am – 12pm |
| Multi Storey Photography Workshop | 15/07/10 | 11am – 3pm * |
| Writing Workshop by Jenny Chaplin | 16/07/10 | 1pm – 3pm |
| Kids Arts Activities – 15 spaces | 22/07/10 | 11am – 12.30pm 1.30pm – 3pm |
| Ceilidh Dancing | 29/07/10 | 11am – 12.30pm 1.30pm – 3pm |
| Kids Arts Activities – 15 spaces | 30/07/10 | 11am – 12.30pm |
| Majorettes – Learn a Routine | 05/08/10 | 11am – 12.30pm 1.30pm – 3pm |
| Kids Activity Event – Hands on | 06/08/10 | 5pm – 6.30pm |
Photography workshop 8/07/10 is titled ‘Cameraless Photography’ which is a workshop designed to introduce the simple magic of photography’s origins. It involves participants in making their own camera from an old biscuit or coffee tin and then make pinhole photographs of the local area, developing them in a makeshift darkroom set up in the hall. Suitable for all ages from 6 years. Then the workshop on 15/07/10 is photographic badge and mirror making. This fun session will give people the opportunity to make their own badges and compact mirrors or collaged images in the design. Suitable for all ages and family groups.
Jenny Chaplin is a well known writer to loyal readers worldwide for her books on Scottish social history and for her articles in the Scots Magazine and the Scottish Banner. She has very kindly offered to run 2 workshops on writing be that poems, books or short stories.
Kids Arts Activities is 1 and ½ hours of Arts and Crafts based activities lead by Alison Dawes who works between local primary schools doing an after school arts activities club.
The Argyll Majorettes are a local majorette school put together in February 2006. They perform at local events throughout the year as well as being a fun activity.
Our Ceilidh dancing session gives you the chance to come along and learn some of Scotland’s traditional Ceilidh dances and prepare for those summer weddings.
Simon Roberts - We English
Simon Roberts photographed this portfolio of the English at leisure while travelling for a year throughout England in a caravan ... he finds beauty in the mundane and explores the relationship between people and place.
Annual General Meeting
Burgh Hall Project Group
Kirn Gala Fund-raising Race Evening Event
A race night - Horse racing and Greyhound racing. Licensed bar.
Dunoon Observer Hustings Meeting
All the Argyll and Bute candidates have been invited and answered your questions.
It has been an excellent chance to get to know the candidates and air all your views!
Tea Dancewith live music from John Denman
Ballroom Dancing, Sequence and Old Time Dancing Music.
Dunoon Dance Festival
Learn from the experts and find the dancer in you!
Contemporary Dance from the internationally acclaimed Rambert Dance Company, the best of Highland and Ceilidh from award-winning professional teacher, Christina Cairns, Hip Hop and Street Dancing with street cred from Carrie Bland.
Dunoon Dance Festival Brochure
First impressions of the festival by Ronnie Cairns Photography.
Rambert Dance Company, Comedy of Change Tour
Theatre Royal Glasgow
Tickets have been sponsored by the Burgh Hall Project Group in partnership with the Rambert Dance Company
Editorial 19/02/2010
Our True Intent Is All For Your Delight
The John Hinde Butlin’s photographs are a glorious moment in the story of British photography.
Burgh Hall Gallery - Ground Floor, Entrance Free. Exhibition finishes Friday, 26 March.
Burgh Hall Dunoon - The Way Forward, Public Meeting
Jim Mather MSP Chair, Tim Campbell - Entrepreneur, John McAslan and design team
Public meeting announcement
Editorial 12/01/2010
Editorial 22/01/2010
ALIenergy (Argyll Lomond and the Islands Alternative Energy Agency) ... will "see the light" for Children in Need
10 staff volunteers from ALIenergy are working in shifts to ride a stationery bike for 24 hours (that's right - NON-STOP!) to keep a low-energy lightbulb aglow as a beacon shining in the dark for the charity Children In Need. Do come along on Saturday, 14 November at 18:00 to Sunday, 15 November at 18:00 to offer support for tired legs and a great cause!
Burgh Hall gets a mention for Architect of the Year award winner
"John McAslan and Partners, whose current work includes refurbishing Dunoon Burgh Hall, won the prize for architect team of the year, ..." Read more about this ...
Scottish Art At Home and Abroad
The exhibition 'Scottish Art At Home and Abroad' will be on view until the first week in December. The paintings and drawings exhibited are curated from one collection. This exhibition centres on a number of Scottish artists who share certain national characteristics which developed over the 19th and 20th centuries. Come and enjoy this beautiful illustration of Scottish artists and their informed, universal approach to their art.
Christmas
The next few months the Burgh Hall will be very busy in the run-up to Christmas with something for everyone. Two Christmas Fayres - one organised by the Burgh Hall Project Group and the other by Invereck Care Home, bric a brac sales and don't miss the Illuminations at the end of November. Santa's Grotto, organised by Dunoon & Cowal Business Association, is an annual feature and is bound to be great success.
Afternoon Tea With Sir Harry Lauder
Save the date for 'Afternoon Tea With Sir Harry Lauder'. Sir Harry Lauder (played by actor, Robert Howat) will talk about his life with Argyll-based writer, Dave Dewar. Alan Reid, musician from the renowned Scottish group, The Battlefield Band, will perform the songs of Harry Lauder.
Cowal Games Week in Dunoon, August 2009
The Cowal Highland Gathering held in Dunoon in August is the largest and most spectacular Highland gathering in the world - 3,500 competitors.
Open Day, May 2009
Opening its doors to the public for the first time in over 25 years, 2500 visitors packed into the Burgh Hall for a day of festivities and fun. The Open Day marked the completion of the first stage of the project which will restore the much-loved Burgh Hall to its former glory, making it a centre for local culture once again.