Festival Events 2019
Memory Pebbles & Lasting Impressions
Create your own memory pebble! Join staff at the Margaret Kerr Unit at the Borders General Hospital and paint a pebble to create a personalized and lasting memory of a loved one. Also at the Lasting Impressions Workshop, enjoy the opportunity to create a personalized lasting impression tile that will form part of a mosaic on the MKU wall.
Thursday 7 November 2019, 2pm - 4pm
Margaret Kerr Unit, Borders General Hospital, Melrose, TD6 9BS
Unforgettable from Poetry Circus
Poetry Circus presents their annual alternative cabaret with an emotionally-uplifting evening of stories, poems and songs about all the unforgettable folk who are no longer with us but live on in our hearts.
Our feature performer for 2019 is the incredible
Jo
Gilbert
- poet, performer and general Doric goddess - and she is supported by a stellar
cast of astounding spoken word artists: Imogen Stirling,
Rachel
Amey,
Stella
Birrell,
Mairi-Claire
Traynor,
Fiona Scott-Barrett
& Max Scratchmann.
Plus music from our two fabulous chanteuses - Woodstock
Taylor
and Ellen Highwater.
Admission
is free, by ticket. Tickets available
on-line here
Thursday 7 November 2019, 7.30pm - 10.15pm (last entry 8:00pm) The Outhouse, Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh, EH1 3LY
Music Makes My Memories Magical
Once again this year, the Peacock Nursing Home in Livingston are remembering their Absent Friends with a musical afternoon. It will be an opportunity to reunite relatives who have lost their loved ones while they were a resident in the home.
It will be a cheerful afternoon of music and memories with a guest singer performing the favourite songs of past residents. Light refreshments will be provided.
Wednesday 8 November 2018, 2pm
Peacock Nursing Home, Livingston, EH54 6RA
Funeral Link Dundee's Tree of Remembrance
Funeral Link in Dundee will host a gathering of friends to remember those we have loved and lost. Friends, families and partner organisations local to Baxter Park will gather together and dedicate a newly planted tree in Baxter Park to the families Funeral Link has supported this year and their loved ones who have died.
For more information, contact linda@dfss.org.uk
Friday 8 November 2019, 2pm - 2.30pm
Baxter Park, Arbroath Road, Dundee, DD4
Aye' Wi Us
Join local musicians for a night of live music & entertainment at Haining House to remember and celebrate those who have died but who are aye wi' us. Featuring Humble Scribes, Gael Force, Riddell’s Fiddles, Dave Finnie, Kenny Spiers, Millie & Alex, among others.
Tickets, priced £2.50 include a toast sponsored by Selkirk Gin and are available from Laura MacDougall at the Margaret Kerr Unit, Borders General Hospital, on 01896 827914 or laura.macdougall@borders.scot.nhs.uk
Friday 8 November 2019, 7.30pm to 10.30pm
The Haining House, Selkirk, TD7 5LR
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