Festival Events 2017
Remembrance Supper & Jazz Improv
The people of Eskdalemuir are gathering together for an evening of supper, stories and music in honour of people who have died and yet are significant in the memories of community members.
The evening will feature readings and songs from:
- Esk Valley Scribblers
- Eskdalemuir Jazz Improv choir
- Jilly Jarmin founder of Bluejam Arts
All are welcome to come and enjoy a supper, music and conversations. If you would like to sing, play or recite, please get in touch. Please if you wish bring a small photo or artefact to place on the tree of remembrance.
Friday 3 November, 6.30pm
Eskdalemuir
Community Hub and Café The School, Eskdalemuir, Langholm, Dumfriesshire, DG13 0QJ
A Night to Remember
The Caithness Big Band invites you to join them in an upbeat remembrance and celebration of lives which were lived to the full and which ended too soon.
For the band, it is a night to remember their founder, Jim Marshall. For the audience it is an opportunity to remember and celebrate the lives of anyone they've lost to cancer.
So come along for a lively social tea dance featuring the Caithness Big Band and the Sunday Night Band.
Saturday 4 November 2017, 7.30pm
The Weigh
Inn, Thurso, Caithness
Concert To Absent Friends
Crossraguel Community Choir hosts a musical evening in the beautiful and historic Kirkoswald Church, allowing the people of Carrick to come together to celebrate and remember absent friends.
The newly formed choir is led by Musical Director Liz Kelly. We will also welcome children from Maidens Primary school, local Maybole choir 'Hugh and Friends', and guest soloist Adele Corns. All voices combine to offer a harmony of song, words and images to celebrate the lives of people who have died yet are alive in our hearts.
There is a rare opportunity to see the To Absent Friends photographic exhibition and light refreshments follow the concert.
Sunday 5 November, 7pm
Kirkoswald Church,
Kirk Rd, Maybole, KA19 8HZ
All are welcome. Ticket donation £2 towards Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief at the door.
An Evening of Remembrance
A quiet place, a memory space.
This will be an evening to remember our loved ones who have died, how they shaped our lives and their continuing place in our lives now.
This will be a reflective and uplifting evening of storytelling and gentle activities. People will be free to share, or sit quietly in our company to reflect on their memories.
The evening will begin with inspiration from poet and storyteller Margot Henderson. We will then have a chance to hang a memory on the memory tree, light a candle, walk the spiral.
There will be a space for small mementos we can bring along - a photo, a book, a song - which capture the essence of the person for us.
Monday 6 November, 7pm-9.30pm (end time flexible)
Eden Court (Maclean Room), Bishops Road, Inverness, IV3 5SA
Free entry, please register if possible by emailing or calling 0300 102 4444.
To Absent Friends Community Supper
Share stories over a simple three course meal. The evening will be interspersed with entertainment from local artists, reflecting on loss through music, poetry and storytelling, featuring:
- cat loud, cabaret singer
- donald smith, storyteller and director of the scottish storytelling centre
- max scratchmann, spoken word artist
All are welcome - invite some people you'd like to spend the evening with, book a table, and raise a toast to Absent Friends. Your table will your own space to remember people who have died who are important to you - with friends, family or work colleagues.
7pm for 7.30pm start, Tuesday 7 November, Broughton St Mary's Parish Church Hall, Edinburgh. £6.00, BYOB. More information here.
Photo credit: Snookie Mono
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