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Whatever the Weather Wednesdays

Wednesdays

10.30am – 3pm

Donations welcome

 

In the morning, our session uses Museum objects and other inspiration to aid discussion. Am Bàrd, the Museum cafe, will be offering a soup lunch on a pay-what-you-can donation basis. This is open to anyone in the community as well as those attending the Wednesday session.  

 

In the afternoon, we play bingo and other group games. All our activities are accessible and dementia friendly. If you need help with transport please get in touch.

 

With thanks to The Hugh Fraser Foundation, GAMS and the Highland Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund for their support, as well as the individual donors who help to keep these sessions going. 

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Cearcall Còmhraidh

Fridays

2pm - 3pm

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Join us for these engaging Gaelic language conversation sessions aimed at both fluent speakers and learners of all ages.  These sessions will be welcoming and supportive, using the inspiring environment of the Museum to get you using and developing your Gaelic language skills.

 

School pupils are especially welcome to join, as we aim to provide students with the opportunity to speak Gaelic outside the classroom We gratefully acknowledge the support of Bòrd na Gàidhlig in making these sessions possible. 

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Ceilidh House Gathering 

Monday 3rd & 17th February 

7pm - 9pm (doors open at 6.30pm)

£2 donation appreciated

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Our Ceilidh House gatherings meet once a fortnight and are a welcoming group who enjoy making music, singing or the spoken word. Come and sit in front of the virtual fireside, sing a song, tell a tale, read a poem, play a tune, bring your knitting or just sit back and enjoy the atmosphere. We look forward to welcoming you! 

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History & Other Inspiration 

Meet the author: S G Maclean

Thursday 13th February

3pm - 4pm 

Tickets £5

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Join us at Gairloch Museum, where author Shona MacLean will share with us the inspiration and research that go into her award winning writing. 

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Shona was born in Inverness and grew up in the Highlands where her parents were hoteliers. She has an M.A. and Ph.D in History from the University of Aberdeen. She started writing fiction while bringing up her four children on the Banffshire coast. She currently has two series of historical crime in print – The Alexander Seaton novels, set in C17th Scotland, and the Damian Seeker novels, set mainly in Oliver Cromwell’s England. She has twice won the CWA Historical Dagger for novels in the Seeker series, and her standalone Jacobite adventure, The Bookseller of Inverness, was chosen as Waterstone’s Scottish Book of the Year, 2023. 

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To book your ticket you can either contact the Museum or book online via Art Tickets.

Winter Talk: Protecting Native Wildlife through the control of Mink with Prof Xavier Lambin

Friday 21st February, 7pm

Tickets £5 in person,

£4 view online

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Mink, originally escapees from fur farms, have proved devastating to bird and mammal species living along waterways in Scotland. Chair of Zoology at the University of Aberdeen, Professor Lambin will share with us recent research and conservation efforts to protect wildlife through the control of Mink. 

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Creative Writing Group 
Tuesday 25th February
2.30pm - 4pm 
GALE Snug Room


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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Museum Pub Quiz at

Gairloch Hotel

Friday 28th February

Doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm start

£20 per team of four

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Teams of four are warmly invited to join us in Am Bàrd (the Museum cafe) for the first in our series of pub quizzes. As well as a fun and entertaining general knowledge quiz, there will of course be great prizes in our magnificent raffle.  

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Space is limited, so please be in touch if you wish to book a table for your team. 

Museum Book Group​

In person:  Tuesday 18th March

3.30pm - 4.30pm

Online: Wednesday 19th March
7.30pm - 8.30pm 

£2 donation per person appreciated.

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Our current Museum Book Group read is The Tailor of Inverness by Matthew Zajak. You can join our friendly group for tea, coffee, cake and lively discussion in person at the Museum or online via Zoom. If you'd like to take part please get in touch. 

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