View from a Croft
Artist: Sarah Helen Dowse
Exhibiting: May & June 2022
Working mainly in pastel on paper or card, Sarah has taken inspiration for her exhibition from the views she sees daily from her home as well as still life studies of homegrown flowers, fruit and vegetables.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
