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Gairloch Pattern detail, © J Dunn

Vintage Layers, Lace and Labels

Card Making Workshop
with Fran Harvey
Friday 24th March

2pm - 4pm

Tickets £5

Come and try your hand at card making! Fran will lead us through some simple techniques for making beautiful cards, or just enjoy discovering and trying out different techniques and materials.

- start with vintage papers, vellum & glitter card

- make up 3D paper flowers

- embellish your work with ribbon, lace, sequins, jewels, butterflies and bows

- add musical notes, delicate edges, sepia photos, post cards or seed packet details

- design your own tags

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Creative Writing Group 
Tuesday 28th March
2pm - 4pm 
Donations Welcome


Our Creative Writing Group is a friendly, relaxed session to help you get writing. We will maybe do some writing exercises and share our endeavours. The sharing of writing can be either what we have produced during the brief writing exercise or could be something that we have worked on at home. 

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Warm Winter Wednesdays

Wednesday 29th March

10:30am - 3pm

Free event

 

Relax in Am Bard cafe, enjoy a bowl of Sally's delicious soup, take part in our crafting activities (schedule coming soon), read a newspaper or challenge someone to a game of tiddlywinks. There is no charge and no need to book - just drop in anytime between 10:30am and 3pm. If you need a lift, we can arrange transport. Just email or call us by Monday on 01445 712287.

Stay Warm, Stay Well!

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10:30am

Morning tea/coffee

11am - 12:30pm

ART TOGETHER or CARERS CATCH UP 

Accessible art for all abilities. All materials and
equipment provided. 

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Soup & scone lunch and one-to-one computer clinic

1:30pm - 3:00pm 

TRADITIONAL BOARD GAMES

Enjoy some of the old favourites - jigsaws, dominos, playing cards, ludo and bingo. 

Warm Winter Wednesdays have been made possible thanks to financial support from GAMS and The Highland Health and Well Being Project.

Museum Book Group

In person

Wednesday March 29th, 2.30pm-3.30pm

Online

Wednesday March 29th, 7.30pm - 8.30pm

 

Our next Museum Book Group read is The Ninth Child by Sally Magnusson. If you would like to read along and join our friendly and informal group (with both an online and an in person option for participation) please get in touch to let us know. The group is free to attend, donations to cover tea and coffee costs are welcomed.

Our April read will be The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd. Dates tbc.

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Ceilidh House Get-Together 

Monday 3rd April, 7 - 9pm

Suggested donation £2

Anyone can come along to participate or just enjoy the atmosphere. Take a turn singing, playing music, reading some poetry or prose, telling a story – all artforms welcome! Bring musical instruments if you have them and if you are a knitter, stitcher, weaver or have another craft you would like to work away at during the evening, bring it along with you too. Doors open from 6.30pm. We depend on donations from those attending to run these sessions.

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If you would like to come along, drop in on the night or email if you would like to know more. The event is free to attend, donations to cover tea and coffee costs are welcomed.

Meet the Author

Wednesday April 12th, 4pm

Donations welcome

John McLellan's debut novel The Faultline was a bestseller at Ullapool Bookshop last year. Essentially a coming-of-age story, the novel is set in the late 70s round Kinlochewe, weaving in details about mountains, geology, a crashed wartime plane, swimming in upland lochs.

John is coming to share with us the stories behind his book, his journey as a writer and answer any questions we might have. We hope you can join us for what is sure to be an interesting afternoon.

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Winter Talk Series

New Date: Wednesday 26th April
7.30pm - 8.30pm

Tickets £3

Exploring sustainable rural landscapes through cultural heritage objects in Wester Ross Biosphere 

A team of researchers at UHI are working with local communities to explore the different ways people engage with rural landscapes over time. During this evening event we'll learn about objects in the Museum collection and discuss their significance in terms of sustainable rural landscapes in past, present and for the future.

The workshop will be facilitated with involvement from Zoe Russell, a research associate at the Centre for Mountain Studies, UHI working on CULTIVATE

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The workshop will be an in person event held at the Museum, but we will also be sharing the event online to join in remotely. Both in-person tickets and online tickets can be booked via the link below. If you have any queries please email events@gairlochmuseum.org.

Dixon's Book Group

Thursday 27th April 

2.30pm - 3.30pm

A regular group where the focus of each meeting is on the information contained within Dixon's Gairloch and Guide to Loch Maree.  Maybe you are already familiar with the book (first published in 1886) and would like to revisit it – or perhaps you are new to the area and would like to join a group to learn more about the local history, traditions and past land use. 

We will be exploring this wonderful book in more depth in the style of a book group. Each session will explore a particular chapter.  Our next session will be lead by Dorothy Malone and we’ll be looking at Ancestry and Names (Part II Chapter I, The Baronets of Gairloch and some other Gairloch Mackenzies (Part I Chapter XIV).

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