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12th-17th September 2017www.nairnfestival.co.uk

Welcometo the 14th Nairn Book & Arts Festival

Nairn.Festival

@Nairn_Festival

Tickets can also bepurchased from:

Nairn Community & Arts Centre(credit card, cheque, or cash)King Street, Nairn Tel: 01667 453476

Nairn Bookshop(cheque or cash only)94 High Street, Nairn

By post (please include a self-addressed, stampedenvelope – cheque madepayable to ‘NBAF’): NBAF, c/o 34 Lodgehill Park,Nairn, IV12 4SB or tel: 01667 452624

(no refunds available up to 48 hours prior to an event)

Buy online at:

www.nairnfestival.co.uk

ONLINETICKET

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Logo design: Mary Wilson Cover mosaic: Fi Rodger (more details on page 1 & page 4)

Programme designed and sponsored byDynam, Inverness: www.dynam.co.uk

Check all the latestFestival news by visiting our website:www.nairnfestival.co.ukor follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

The 2017 Festival is truly YOUR FESTIVAL, taking place only as a result of massive support from individuals, localbusinesses and civic organisations following a major fundingchallenge. We are hugely grateful to all, and realise how muchthe Festival is valued. You’ll find information on supportersand sponsors elsewhere in this programme, in which we hope everyone, locals and visitors, will find something of interest. You are welcome to watch, listen and participatein exhibitions, workshops, talks, and concerts. You’ll findacclaimed authors and poets, a great variety of music andvisual arts, competitions and free children’s events.

Our cover this year is a stunning mosaic by local artist Fiona Rodger,reflecting the breadth of the Festival and our local community of Nairnand its surroundings. It will be on display throughout the Festival.

You can buy tickets online (nairnfestival.co.uk), or at the CommunityCentre or Nairn Bookshop, and keep in touch via Twitter, Facebookand our e-newsletter. Buy early to avoid disappointment, and bringyour friends along. We look forward to seeing you. Let’s make this thebest Festival yet!

David Godden Chair, Nairn Book and Arts Festival Committee

Tickets are availablefrom Tuesday 20th June 2017

Fi Rodger – Mosaic ArtistCommission

Our beautiful front cover is the workof local mosaic artist Fi Rodger. When she received our commission,the idea of the true story of Nairnburgher William Gordon swirledaround her head. Several drafts later(the process of which you can seeduring the art exhibition at the Court

12th – 17th September 2017

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Prizewinning author CynthiaRogerson will provide aCreative Writing Workshop tosecondary school age pupils in Nairn Academy. She holds a Royal Literary Fellowship at Dundee University andsupervises on the CreativeWriting Programme atEdinburgh University.

www.cynthiarogerson.comSupported by the EnglishDepartment, Nairn Academy

Barbara Henderson will visit local primary schools to discuss The HighlandClearances through storytellingand drama. Barbara has livedin Scotland since 1991,acquiring an MA in EnglishLanguage and Literature. She now teaches Drama at a secondary school. Herhistorical children’s novel ‘Fir for Luck’ was published by Cranachan in 2016, butBarbara’s writing journeybegan in 2012 when she won the Nairn Festival ShortStory Competition. She wasshortlisted for the ‘KelpiesPrize’ in 2013.

www.barbarahenderson.co.ukSupported by NurturingNairnshire, The HighlandCouncil (Nairn Ward)

Linda MacLeod will visit theCroileagan and MillbankPrimary School where she willspeak to the Gaelic pre-schooland infant classes. Supportedby the Gaelic Books Council.

Festival Café @ NCC

From Wednesday 13th to Friday 15th September 10am-4pm daily

Daily homemade delicious soup,scones and cakes. All welcome. William Mather

Portrait Sketches

Daily, various venues aroundNairn, Tuesday 12th toSaturday 17th September.

Don’t miss William Mather, ourroaming portrait artist!

Festival Club @ The Invernairne

Thurlow Road, NairnFrom Tuesday 12th toSunday 17th September10.30pm-12am

Free Entry

After a great day at Festivalevents, come and enjoy a chatand wind down with friends atThe Invernairne. Live mellowmusic each evening.

Collaborationswith localschools

Daily Events

Nairn Museum

Open Monday to Friday10am-4.30pm and Saturday 10am-1pm.

Free Entry during Festival(apart from special events)

Nairn Museum is delighted toreprise its exhibition of costumes,photographs, drawings andprogrammes from the years of theNairn Performing Arts Guild.

Gordon Macintyre, whose MemorialConcert will be held on Saturday16th September, was the innovativedriving force behind the Guild and,by putting this memorabilia ondisplay, we wish to acknowledge hiscontribution to the arts in Nairn.

House) the character of WilliamGordon developed. Fi’s work wasinspired by a collection of WilliamGordon's poems, which werecompiled into a booklet, ‘Gordon’sGarland’ by Jim Young and the lateGeoff Skeet.

William Gordon was a Tinsmith,Watchmaker, Burgh Councillor and aprolific Poet. He is remembered forusing his expertise to make tin wings

with which he unsuccessfullyattempted to fly from Bunkers Brae, a hill on Marine Road, at the top ofNairn Links. There are hidden wordsin the mosaic – see if you can workout what they are.

Greeting Cards showing the imagewill be for sale. See ‘Tin Wings’ duringthe Court House Art Exhibition, andfind out more details about WilliamGordon at www.nairnfestival.co.uk

Join us at the followingvenues: the Court House,United Reformed Church andNairn Community & ArtsCentre. We are delighted to beable to open our exhibitionslate again this year.

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Exhibitions FREE ENTRYAfter Hours ArtUntil 8pm on Thursday 14th September

New Highland Contemporary 4

The Seamen’s Victoria Hall,Harbour Street, Nairn

Saturday 2nd to Saturday9th September, open10.30am-4.30pm.*

Our fourth annual display of selected works ofcontemporary fine art in avariety of media from paintingto ceramic works by third yearBA (Hons) Fine Art studentsfrom Moray College UHI, in oneof the most atmospheric andbeautiful buildings in Nairn.

*Due to venue restrictions, thisexhibition will only be open theweek before the festival begins.

Beka Globe moved to the Isle ofHarris when she was 11 yearsold. She studied photographyand darkroom techniques atNapier University in Edinburgh.There, she was inspired by AnselAdams, Paul Strand, HiroshiSugimoto and Sebastião Salgado.

In her work, ‘Land, Sea, Sky’,Beka explores the edge: adynamic place where elementscollide, interact and influenceone another. Photographed

mainly during the winter, theseextremes of environment explodewith energy. Here she capturesan emotive vastness, depth andsimplicity. Her silent images aredeeply moving, stirring aparticular sense of place.

Beka will be signing copies of her book ‘Land, Sea, Sky’ on the afternoon of Saturday 16thSeptember at the Communityand Arts Centre.

www.bekaglobe.com

Photographs by Beka Globe – ‘Land, Sea, Sky’.

First floor, Nairn Community & Arts Centre Saturday 9th to Sunday 17th September (Community Centre opening hours)



Nairn: One Day – Many Lives

United Reformed ChurchMonday 11th to Saturday16th September

Opening times: Monday 11th Sept, 9am-11am, 3pm-5pm

Tuesday 12th Sept, 3pm-5pm

Wednesday 13th Sept, 9am-11am, 3pm-5pm

Thursday 14th Sept, 9am-11am, 3pm-8pm

Friday 15th Sept, 9am-11am, 3pm-5pm

Saturday 16th Sept, 10am-5pm

An exhibition of the photographstaken by the residents ofNairnshire during the ‘One Day-Many Lives’ event on 30th June.The show will offer a uniqueopportunity to appreciate thedifferent lived experiences thatmake up a community’s story.

Photographs will be displayedboth as prints and in a projecteddisplay, and visitors will beencouraged to share their own stories.

Shaun Fraser is an innovativeglass sculptor from Inverness,currently completing an MFA at the Royal College of Art inLondon. He was recentlyawarded residencies at AnLanntair in Stornoway andTimespan in Helmsdale. Hispoetic work, often incorporatinglocal materials, comments uponnotions of identity, links to

Art in Healthcare Exhibition

Nairn Town and County HospitalOpen during normal hours

See page 10 for details.

Open Studio Weekend

WASPS Links StudioSaturday 16th and Sunday17th September

Festival goers will be welcome tovisit the studios and meet theartists between 10am and 4pmon both days.

landscape and connections with'place'. “The Highlands andIslands are a constant source ofinspiration for me. It’s where I’mfrom, it’s where I was brought upand it’s never far from my mind.There’s a certain sense of placewhich I attach to the Highlands,a sense of belonging. It’s raw andit’s emotive; it’s elemental."

Shaun Fraser, KEEK space

Seamen’s Hall, Harbour Street, Nairn, Saturday 2nd to Saturday 9th September 10.30am-4.30pm

and then moving to:

WASPS Links Studios, Grant St. Tuesday 12th to Sunday 17th SeptemberOpening times vary, see Festival website for details.


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Nairn Court House

Monday 11th to Sunday 17th September 10am-4pm

Five Highland artists – Gilyan Noble, Suzie Mackenzie,Fiona Matheson, KatherineSutherland and Tez Watson –selected by the judges of our2016 Open exhibition, showwork encompassing painting,mixed media, printmaking andphotography. This is anexhibition sure to delight alltastes. Also on display at theCourt House will be Fi Rodger’sstunning original mixed mediaand mosaic artwork for theNairn Book & Arts Festival2017 programme cover.


Charlie Phillips, PhotographsNairn Community & Arts CentreSaturday 9th September –Sunday 30th September

Nairn Academy Art Exhibition

Nairn Community & Arts CentreAll hours

Work from art students from S1 to S6, including handmadebooks inspired by this year’s literary line up and winning designsfor our enewsletter header, work by Higher and Advanced Higherstudents, and the winners and runners up from our Flight-themed Illustration competition (Conference Room).

Off the Peg

High St, Leopold St andHarbour Road shop windows Monday 4th September –Sunday 24th September All hours

Unframed works on paper byHighland artists pegged insideshop windows. All work is forsale at affordable prices.

Charlie is an internationally renowned award winning professionalwildlife photographer and was named Scottish WildlifePhotographer of the Year in 2012. He will be displaying selectedworks in the foyer area of the Community and Arts Centre.

www.charliephillipsimages.co.uk

The 2017 Visual Arts programme issupported by The Davidson Trust.


J. David SimonsCreative Writing WorkshopNairn Museum

Wednesday 13th September10am-3pm (Lunch 12noon to 1pm, provided at theFestival Café)

£50

Creative writing workshopprimarily on historical fictionand memoir but also useful for general fiction as well.Looking at setting, character and dialogue.

Participants’ current work of up to 3,000 words may also be submitted in advance for feedback on the day. Full details on booking.

Create your own beautiful clay vessel and learn about natural glazing techniques.

Followed by:

Wednesday 13th September, 7pm-10pm: Ceramic pit firing,Nairn West Beach

Highland artist Sula Grigg graduated in environmental art andsculpture from Glasgow School of Art. She now lives and works in Nairn.

Sula will work with fellow Glasgow School of Art graduate, artist Kevin Morris to create a pit fire where vessels produced in theworkshop will be glazed using natural materials and salt, and fired overnight. Everyone involved in the workshop, together with friends and family, is invited to join Sula and Kevin in watching this fascinating process. Hot drinks will be available from James’s at the Putting Green Café on the Links.

Workshops

Sula Grigg – Ceramic Workshop and Pit Firing

Saturday 9th September: Clay vessel workshopSeamen’s Hall, Harbour Street, Nairn10am-1pm OR 2-5pm.

£25

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Other dates for the diaryPre-Festival Events

Tapas & ‘TailsCafe One One Two on the Brae 112 High Street, Nairn

Thursday 17th August7.30pm until late

£15 (Over 18’s only) Complimentary glass of Prosecco on arrival

An evening of gin, gin, artisan tapas and gin – join Jill Brown,owner and master distiller of Avva Gin as she talks about her passion of hand mixing 11 botanicals (Juniper, Rowan,Coriander seed, Angelica Root, Oris Root, Dandelion, RedClover, Mint, Nettle and Lemon & Orange peels) together toproduce her craft gin. A selection of miniature gin cocktailswill be made to sample during the evening, along with smallplates made from delicious local produce. An evening not to be missed. Book early as places are limited.

Photo EventFriday 30th June

As part of this year’s Festival, Nairn Camera Club is excited to be involved in a new community event. Over a single day(24hrs) – Friday June 30th June – we are inviting all Nairnshireresidents to pick up their cameras and camera phones and takephotographs that reflect what living in Nairnshire means to them. The places, people, things and happenings – the special to the mundane elements of daily life that connect a community.

There will then be an opportunity for residents to submit theirfavourite shots to the club, who will curate a unique visual recordand Festival exhibition in which a community tells its own story.

Details about the event and how to submit photographs can be found at www.nairncameraclub.co.uk

Nairn: One Day – Many Lives


Alan Barron Walk

2pm-4pmMeet at The Little Theatre

£3, Under 18’s £1.50

Alan, accompanied by his dogRowan, will lead a walk aroundFishertown : a conservation area.No booking required. Proceeds goto Nairn Museum.

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The Pen & I ‘Words, Music and Verse’

7.30pmThe Little Theatre

£5 – Pay at the door

The Pen & I is a group of local writers who meet every Tuesday during schoolterm time, 9.45am-12 noon. They welcome new members,from all levels of experience. For enquiries tel: Helen Wright01667 452505

Art in Healthcare Exhibition & Talk7.30pm | Nairn Town and County Hospital

Free Event

Festival goers are invited toattend an Exhibition and talkgiven by the chief executive of the Art in Healthcare charity Margaret O'Connor. The exhibition includes artworkfrom emerging and establishedScottish artists such as TGMcGill Duncan, David Michie,and also Christopher GilvanCartwright, whose paintings were inspired by recoveryfollowing illness.

Light refreshments will be available.

‘The Late James Ross’D James Ross – Standup ‘Legendary’

9.30pm | The Little Theatre

£10

Launching his latest book ofpoetry ‘Shifting Shores’, poet,musician and raconteur D JamesRoss presents his unique blendof stand-up comedy, anecdoteand performance poetry (withmaybe even an occasional song).This is his eleventh consecutivesolo appearance at the NairnBook and Arts Festival, and inthe inimitable words of theDonald, ‘It’s gonna be GREAT!’

OPENING NIGHT

Hardeep Singh Kohli – ‘Singh for your Supper’7.30pm I Nairn Community & Arts Centre

£21 (including a bowl of selected freshly made curry dishes. Bar available)


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A man of many talents, Hardeepis a respected broadcaster,comedian, writer and chef, andmember of the Board of theNational Theatre of Scotland.

His love of cooking is especiallydeep rooted in his familybackground. During the evening,among many other reflections,he'll tell us how his passiondeveloped. He'll then invite us toshare in a supper he'll make justprior to the event, featuring aselection of appetising dishes to

tickle the tastebuds, includinghis Mum's Chicken Curry and his Gran's Lentil Dahl.

He can be heard on BBC Radio 4,including shows such asHardeep's Sunday Lunch andPick Of The Week. He hasfronted programmes for BBCRadio 2, World Service and AsianNetwork, and is a regular onBBC1's Sunday Morning Live andon Channel 5's The Wright Stuffas both a panellist and guesthost. He has written and

presented documentaries forChannel 4 and wrote, directedand starred in Meet the Magoos.

As a comedian, he tours thecountry and plays regular runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festivalto sell-out audiences.

He is a columnist for the SundayHerald and The New Europeanand contributor to The Observer,The Spectator, The Times andThe Independent.


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Kathy Fraser

For the Love of a Highland Hometraces the early nineteenthcentury struggle of five youngFraser brothers to save theirfather’s impoverished estate inthe Scottish Highlands. Theirexperiences in Guyana and Indiatake place during turbulenttimes – the Napoleonic Wars, the anti-slavery movement, the demise of the MughalEmpire, the Anglo-Nepal war and the changing life in the post-Culloden Highlands.

Against this dramaticbackground, the book alsodocuments the lives of the familyat home, drawing extensively ondiaries and copious lettersbetween the boys and theirparents in Scotland. Only onebrother comes home, making thepreservation of the hundreds ofletters, which travelled halfwayround the world, even moreremarkable.

Dion Alexander

The Potter’s Tale is the accountof an impressionable youngman’s journey of discovery onColonsay, one of the smallest,and most remote inhabitedislands in the Hebrides. With his wife, Jane, and baby Danny,Di Alexander came to live, work,and immerse himself in the lifeof the island during the 1970s.He set up business and quicklybecame known as ‘the Potter’,island custom attaching theGaelic name Photter to othermembers of the family. Thismemoir records the aspects of Colonsay life which left their lasting mark upon him: the characters, language andapproach to living in what wasthen still a predominantlyGaelic-speaking community, his thoughts on keeping a small remote communitydominated by an estate alive and viable under modernpressures. With a foreword byProfessor Jim Hunter, the bookis an autobiography which iswoven with a deep love of themagical place that is Colonsay.

Local Author EventDion Alexander and Kathy Fraser

1.30pm-3pmNairn Library

Free Event


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Cynthia Rogerson

3pm-4pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

£8, Under 18’s £3

Prizewinning author CynthiaRogerson writes mainstreamliterary fiction, set in Scotlandand California. She is the authorof five novels, one of which isunder the pen name AddisonJones. She has also published a collection of short stories. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies, broadcast on BBC radio, andtranslated into five languages.

She won the V.S.Pritchett Prizein 2008, and her work was short-listed for Best ScottishNovel 2011 and serialised on BBC Woman’s Hour.

She holds a Royal LiteraryFellowship at Dundee Universityand supervises on the CreativeWriting Programme at EdinburghUniversity. Originally from theSan Francisco area, she has been based in the ScottishHighlands since 1985 and lives with her husband and hens near Inverness.

The Musick Fyne Soloists and Coronach ‘Remember me, my Deir’Directed by D James Ross‘An exceptional performance– truly spectacular’ (The Musick Fyne Soloists’ 2016 tour).

7pm-8pmUnited Reformed Church

£10, Under 18’s £3

Following their acclaimedperformances last year ofScottish Renaissance churchmusic, the voices of The MusickFyne Soloists are joined by theperiod instruments of Coronachunder the direction of D JamesRoss to evoke all the eleganceand beauty of RenaissanceScotland and France in amemorable performance of the finest 16th-century chansons and partsongs.

During the lifetime of MaryQueen of Scots, music flourished at the Scottish andFrench courts, and combiningthe sounds of a galaxy ofauthentic instruments includingrecorders, lute, harp, spinet, viol and chalumeau with some of the finest voices in theHighlands, the performers will bring Scotland’s golden age vividly to life.

Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Nairn


J. David Simons

7pm-8pmNairn Community & Arts Centre£8, Under 18’s £3

Seonaid FrancisMeet the PublisherThunderPoint Publishing

3pm-5pmNairn Community & Arts Centre£8

This year’s festival gives eightaspiring authors the opportunityto have a one-to-one discussionwith a publisher, Seonaid Francisof ThunderPoint Publishing. Youwill get advice on how to presentyour work to an agent orpublisher, and be able to discusshow marketable your book is.

Call Nairn Community Centre on 01667 453476 to book your 10 minute slot.

J. David Simons is a Scottish-born author whose novelsinclude The Credit Draper(2008), The Liberation of CeliaKahn (2011), An Exquisite Senseof What is Beautiful (2013) andThe Land Agent (2014). His workhas been short-listed for TheMcKitterick Prize and he is the

recipient of several writer’sbursaries from Creative Scotlandas well as a Robert LouisStevenson Fellowship. His most recent novel A Woman of Integritywas published by Freight in March 2017.

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Beside the Bothy Fire

8.30pm-9.30pmThe Little Theatre, Nairn

£10

John Burns, mountaineer andactor, and Bob Pegg, storytellerand musician, lead the audiencein a riot of songs, stories, poemsand laughter about the hills, themen who walk them and thecreatures that inhabit them.

Join them beside the bothy fire,as they swap tales and poemsancient and new, bringing to life a world of high mountainsand deep glens where wolvesonce roamed, whose ruggedwilderness brings inspiration and adventure.

A storm rages outside the bothyas they take us on a journey to the remote wilderness of the Highlands, on to the fells of the Lake District and finallyback to a day in 1932 inDerbyshire, when BennyRothman, a young factory workerfrom Manchester, took a standagainst the oppressive landowners. John and Bob re-enactthe Kinder Trespass, a fight thatultimately gave us all thefreedom to roam our hills.

Suitable for all ages. After theperformance, John Burns will be available to sign his new book ‘The Last Hillwalker’.

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Thursday

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Dr Natasha FergusonTreasure Trove Talk

10am-11.30amNairn Community & Arts Centre

Free event – Tea/coffeeprovided

Natasha is the Treasure TroveUnit Officer and specialises inmedieval and post-medievalmaterial culture, as well asengaging with the hobbyist metaldetecting community. Natasha’smain research interest is inconflict archaeology and she has a PhD in the subject fromthe Centre for BattlefieldArchaeology, University ofGlasgow. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and sits on thecouncil of the GlasgowArchaeological Society.

Enthusiasts are invited to bringalong their own ‘finds’.

Charlie Phillips – Scottish Nature Photographer of the YearDolphins in the Moray Firth


£8, Under 18’s £3

Charlie is an internationally renowned award winning professionalwildlife photographer and also happens to be the Whale and DolphinConservation Field Officer, providing constantly updated photos,footage and information about the six Bottlenose dolphins that the public can choose to support through the WDC Adopt a Dolphin programme in the Moray Firth.

Charlie has been studying and photographing these amazingBottlenose dolphins for over 20 years and his images are used in books, magazines and scientific papers worldwide. See page 5 for details of exhibition.


Bookbug Session

11amNairn Library

Free

Enjoy stories, songs and rhymes with your toddler in this fun session. Suitable for pre-school children.

Jennifer Melville – Driver, the Duchesses and Sir Edwin Landseer in the Highlands

2pm-3pm Brodie Castle

£8, Under 18’s £3 (Limited availability)

Jennifer Melville, current Head of Curatorial & ConservationServices, National Trust for Scotland and former Head of Art atAberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, examines the intriguing linksbetween the Brodie and Gordon families, focusing on the famousVictorian artist, Sir Edwin Landseer and his painting of Driver, the favourite dog of George, 5th and Last Duke of Gordon, which now hangs in the library of Brodie Castle.

Ian Riches – Estate records for family researchers

11.30am-12.30pm Brodie Castle

£8, Under 18’s £3 (Limited availability)

National Trust for Scotland Archivist, Ian Riches, hosts an introductionto estate records and archives. Ian will look at the different types ofrecords available for those researching their family tree and introducesome archives and ledgers from the Brodie Castle archives. Thesedocument tenants, land sales and leases on the Brodie estate.

Lunch – is available at BrodieCastle for £7 between theRiches and Melville talks.Advanced bookings arepreferred. Please call BrodieCastle on 01309 641371 oremail:[email protected]

Disabled access – a wheelchairstairclimber is availablewhich must be pre-booked bycalling Brodie Castle.

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Don McIntyre, Design Director, Glasgow School of Art CreativeCampus – Talk and tour

2.30pmThe Blairs Steading, Altyre Estate, Forres

£15

A unique opportunity to visit theGlasgow School of Art’s CreativeCampus at The Blairs Steadingon the Altyre Estate near Forres,tour the newly renovatedbuildings and hear about the pioneering work takingplace at the Campus, a researchand post-graduate teachingcentre for internationalexcellence in creativity andinnovation, from GSA’s DesignDirector Don McIntyre.The BlairSteadings comprises

a group of Grade ‘A’ listed Italianatebuildings, built in the 1830s.

They have been converted into a world-class research andteaching space in spectacularsurroundings, providing studio,workshop and exhibition spacesas well as state of the art areasfor research, teaching,prototyping and flexible lab work.

Don McIntrye has spoken on theemergence of Design Innovationas an integrative discipline at a

number of forums includingCambridge University, MIT andHarvard University. He splits histime between GSA and ChessDigital, where he is Creative Lead.

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S.G. MacLean

6.30pm-7.30pmThe Little Theatre

£8, Under 18’s £3

S.G. MacLean was born inInverness and raised in theHighlands, and gained an MA and PhD in History from the University of Aberdeen – with a specialisation insixteenth and seventeenthcentury Scottish history. After beginning to write fiction in Banffshire, she now lives in Conon Bridge with her husband and fourchildren. She is the author of six highly acclaimedhistorical novels, including 'The Seeker', the 2015 winner of the Crime Writers'Association Historical Dagger,and 'The Redemption ofAlexander Seaton' – shortlistedfor the Saltire first book awardand the Historical Dagger.


James MillerThe Finest Road in the WorldThe Story of Travel and Transport in the Scottish Highlands

3.30pm-4.30pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

£8, Under 18’s £3

Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms drivingsailing ships off course, trafficpile-ups on so-called ‘killer’highways – stories abound about the horrors of travel in the Highlands and Islandsthrough time.

James Miller tells the dramaticand sometimes surprisinglyhumorous story of travel andtransport in the Highlands. Some figures are familiar –General George Wade, ThomasTelford and Joseph Mitchell –but there are many others,including the intrepid LadySarah Murray, who offered

sound advice for travellers(‘Provide yourself with a strongroomy carriage, and have thesprings well corded’).

This session will appeal to allwho enjoy stories of travel andtransport, and are interested in changing modes of transportin the Highlands, past, present and future.

James Miller was born inCaithness, studied in Aberdeenand Montreal, and worked for the British Council. He haswritten a number of acclaimedbooks, including Scapa, TheDambuilders, The Foresters,Inverness and Swords for Hire.

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Thursday

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Siobhan Miller Supported by Malachy Tallack8.30pm-10.45pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

£14, Under 18’s £3

Siobhan Miller is regarded as one of the finest singers toemerge from Scotland’s music scene over the last decade.Steeped in music since birth, her soulful and stirring renewalof traditional song has seen her win the Scots Singer of theYear award twice at the Scots Trad Music Awards and a ‘BBCYoung Folk Award’.

A hugely engaging performer, Siobhan will be accompanied onstage by musicians Euan Burton and Innes White and willfeature songs from her latest album “Strata”, among others.

Support will be provided by Malachy Tallack, appearingelsewhere at the festival as an author, but here as anaccomplished singer-songwriter, with five albums under his belt.

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Leo du FeuPainting Scotland'sLandscapes & Nature:journeying by rail

7.30pm-8.30pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

£8 (Limited availability)

Leo is a Scottish artist and arttutor, inspired by landscape andnature and environment (andpretty obsessed with birds!).Since graduating from EdinburghCollege of Art ten years ago Leohas been supported by ScotRailin his work exploring andsketching Scotland by Rail.

Presented by Nairn & DistrictGardening Club

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Friday

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Sam Derbyshire

Undercover Nairn writer SamDerbyshire, is the author of twonovels, What Goes on Tour andthe recently released sequel TextMe No Lies. Referred to behindher back as the 'Jilly Cooper ofNairn', Sam aims to give herreaders good holiday reads thatare fast paced and fun withcharacters that they can easilyidentify with. Her third novelTrust Me, I'm a Personal Traineris scheduled for Dec 2017.

www.samderbyshire.org

BRM Stewart

Brian spent his working life ineducation: he taught mathematicsfor over twenty years, then workedfor Moray Council EducationDepartment, and finally was anHMI before retiring in 2015. Afterdabbling in writing at variousstages during his life, he has beentaking it very seriously for severalyears now. He has self-publishedtwo novels, Digital Circumstancesand Digital Investigations, whichreflect his interest in technology,especially cybercrime.

www.brmstewart.co.uk

Local Author EventBRM Stewart and Sam Derbyshire

10am-10.50amNairn Community & Arts Centre

Free Event

Malachy TallackThe Un-Discovered Islands – An Archipelago of Myths andMysteries, Phantoms and Fakes


£8, Under 18’s £3

The Un-Discovered Islands are twodozen islands once believed to bereal but no longer on the map.These are the products ofimagination, deception and simplehuman error. They are phantomsand fakes: an archipelago of ex-islesand forgotten lands. From the well-

known story of Atlantis to moreobscure tales from around theglobe; from ancient history right upto the present day. This is an atlasof legend and wonder, of placesdiscovered and then un-discovered.

Malachy Tallack is the author ofSixty Degrees North, contributingeditor to the online magazine TheIsland Review, and has written forthe New Statesman, Guardian andmany other publications. He won aNew Writers Award from theScottish Book Trust in 2014 and aRobert Louis Stevenson Fellowshipin 2015. Malachy is from Shetlandand currently lives in Glasgow.

’S ann à Beinn Na Faoghla a thaSeonag Monk. Tha i air a bhith a’sgrìobhadh airson còrr is ficheadbliadhna agus chaidh a’ chiadnobhail shlàn aice, ‘Mil San Tì’fhoillseachadh aig deireadh 2016.’S e sgeul geur, èibhinn a th’ annmu dheidhinn beathannan triùirpeathraichean-chèile eadar-dhealaichte, a tha a’ coimhead‘àbhaisteach’ bhon taobh a-muighach a tha, gu dearbh, gu math tro-chèile.

As parking is limited at theOrchard, a mini bus will leavethe Community Centre 15minutes prior to each tour start time.

Both Gaelic events will be simultaneously translated for non Gaelicspeakers. Both are sponsored by the Gaelic Books Council.

There will be a Gaelic conversation group meeting in the FestivalCafé from 12pm to 1pm – all ages/abilities welcome.

Seonag Monk – Mil san Tì : Honey in the tea

11am-12pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

£8, Under 18’s £3

Des Scholes Nairn Orchard GroupSandownCuairt nan ùbhlan |Apple Tour

1pm – Cuairt nan ùbhlan – Tour in Gaelic 2.30pm – Apple Tour – Tour in English

£3

Gaelic Events


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Award-winning writer andbroadcaster Seonag Monk is fromBenbecula and has been writing fortwenty years. Her first full-lengthnovel, ‘Mil san Tì’ was published togreat acclaim at the end of 2016and is a sharp, humorous look atthe outwardly normal yet inwardlychaotic lives of three very differentsisters-in-law.


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Margaret MacLeod, Catriona Murray and Ishbel MurrayLe Mùirn – ‘With Affection’

6pm-7pmThe Newton Hotel

£8, Under 18’s £3

Cuairt nan ùbhlan

Cothrom gus sùil a thoirt air anobair a rinn Buidhean UbhalghortInbhir Narann suas aig Buaile nagainmhich. Fiosrachadh air nadiofar ùbhlan ri fhaicinn agus an obair a tha fhathast a' dol aigan ìre ionadail agus air feadh na h- Alba gus tuilleadhcraobhan a chur.

Apple tour

An opportunity to have a look at the work that the NairnOrchard group have done atSandown. Information on thedifferent apples to be seen andthe work that is still ongoing atthe local level and throughoutScotland to plant more trees.

Tha an tachartas seo a’comharrachadh leabhar air achoimiseanadh le Ceòl ’s Craic, atha a’ leantainn a’ chàirdeiseadar Murchadh MacPhàrlain“Bàrd Mhealaboist” agus MaireadNicLeòid bho Na h-Òganaich.Bidh còmhradh ann ancuideachd Mairead, an t-ùghdarCatrìona Mhoireach agus IseabailMhoireach, air an leantainn leseisean Cheistean isFhreagairtean agus cuid de na h-òrain a tha nan dìleabmhaireannaich don cho-obrachadh eachdraidheil seo.

This event celebrates apublication commissioned byCeòl ‘s Craic, which traces therelationship between “MelbostBard” Murdo MacFarlane andMargaret MacLeod of trailblazingGaelic group Na h-Òganaich.There will be bilingualconversation in the company ofMargaret, the author CatrionaMurray and Ishbel Murray aswell as a Q & A session and aperformance of some of thesongs which are the enduringlegacy of this historiccollaboration.


Simon Mawer

7.30pm-8.30pmThe Little Theatre

£8, Under 18’s £3

Simon Mawer is the author of ten novels and two non fictionbooks. His first novel, Chimera,(Hamish Hamilton, 1989) won theMcKitterick Prize in 1989. Twomore novels and a non-fictionbook followed but it was his fifthwork, Mendel's Dwarf (Transworld,1997) that established him as awriter of note on both sides of theAtlantic. It reached the final ten

Alan Barron Walk

7pm-8.30pmMeet outsideSt Ninian's Church

£3, Under 18's £1.50

Proceeds go to Nairn Museum

Alan, accompanied by his dogRowan, will lead a fascinatingguided walk along Nairn'shistoric High Street. No bookingrequired.

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for the Booker Prize in 1997 andwas a finalist for a Los AngelesTimes Book Prize in 1999. TheGospel of Judas (Little, Brown,2000) and The Fall (Little, Brown,2003) followed, with the latterwinning the 2003 BoardmanTasker Prize for MountainLiterature. The Glass Room (LittleBrown, 2009) was shortlisted forthe 2009 Man Booker Prize andTightrope (Little Brown, 2015)won the Walter Scott Prize forHistorical Fiction.

Hannah QuirkSenior Lecturer in Criminal LawManchester University

6pm-7pmThe Little Theatre

£8, Under 18’s £3

Hannah’s research interest inmiscarriages of justice builds onher previous work at theCriminal Cases ReviewCommission and the InnocenceProject New Orleans. She is anExecutive Board member ofJustice, a director of SouthManchester Credit Union andsits on the editorial board of theCriminal Law Review.

She appears regularly in themedia from local news to BBCWorld Service, commenting oncriminal justice issues and is onTwitter @hannahquirk1

Blues! – 100 years8.30pm-10.30pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

£16 (including a complimentary Bourbon cocktail/soft drink on arrival)

One hundred years of blues, one hundred minutes to play it.

From early delta blues to modern artists still playing today, Blues!plays the songs and tells the stories of the artists that redefinedpopular music around the world. The show features the 6-piece line-up of acclaimed rhythm and blues band The Blueswater, a youngaward-winning, Edinburgh-based band that tours internationally.

Influenced by gritty, old-school rhythm and blues they blend theChicago sound of Chess records with the earthy, droning grooves of Mississippi to create a style that is truly unique. Thick guitar riffs and frenzied harmonica solos are built around driving rhythms to create raucous, high-energy performances.


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Rehearsals @ Nairn UnitedReformed Church onSaturday 16th Septemberfrom 10am-5pm (Bring a packed lunch).

Choir will sing at the FestivalFinale – Details: Choir toarrive at Nairn Community & Arts Centre at 6pm onSunday 17th September for a rehearsal prior to their Finale performance (see page 31).

£10 (over 16’s only)Booking essential

The Three Ages (1921) USilent Movie with Andy May on keyboard

10am-10.55amThe Little Theatre

£7, Under 18’s £2

By popular demand, BusterKeaton returns in one of hisearliest films – a hilarious takeon how love doesn’t changethrough the ages.

From Stone Age through Romantimes and the Nineteen twenties,will weedy but clever Busterovercome his bully boy rival andget his girl?

Dinosaurs, woolly mammoths,chariot racing and a host of otheroutrageous stunts. You can’tmiss this one!

Maestro Andy May makes anequally welcome return onkeyboard.

Presented by Cinema Nairn

We are a contemporaryRock/Pop choir providingprofessional vocal tuition andsimply having fun! Singing ishighly therapeutic in manyways and we would like toinvite anyone to come along to our workshop regardless of experience. Come andescape your every daystresses and enjoy theexperience of singing with our live rock band. Songs fromQueen/Abba/Coldplay/Adele……..and more. We guaranteea fun filled extravaganza.

No choir experience necessary– just join in and sing!

Festival Rock Choirwith Musical Directors Anna Merrouni and Fiona Stuart from ‘Rock Therapy’


Kids Day is sponsored by Nurturing Nairnshire – Highland Council (Nairn Ward)

SULA GRIGG POTTERY –come along to the space in frontof The Wee Studio and join Sulain making pinch pots. Afterwardsyou can choose to take it homestraight away or for a small extracharge it can be glazed and firedso your piece will last longer.Bring your friends and family:everyone is welcome (bring anold top to work in).

HELLYGOG – Fun in theHellygog Tent with kids felting,kids badge making and readingsby Jude from The PyjamaFarmer.

PORTRAIT ARTIST – ourpopular roving portrait artistWilliam Mather will again join uson Kids Day. Find him outsideJames’s at the Putting Green.

Enjoy a FREE fun day for the Kids

All Ages Welcome! – 12pm to 3pm

KIDS DAY

FI RODGER, MOSAIC ARTIST– join Fi and let your imaginationrun wild, make your own mosaictile to take home with you.Please take shells, stones, beach glass etc with you.

FRESHPAINT – Unleash your creative expression inStreet Art style with felt tipson paper. Join Marc fromFreshpaint and he will showyou how to design your own name or make a poster for your bedroom.www.freshpaint.co.uk

Join us once again in a meander around the trees and pathssurrounding the Putting Green area near Marine Road, Nairn.Look out for the colourful Limelife Bell Tents and discoverthe exciting events taking place in each one. Listen out forthe sound of drums from The Penguin’s Tuxedo welcomingyou, and watch out for the Unicyclists!

Don’t forget your picnic… and enjoy outdoor family fun,discovering something different around each corner!

LILIAN ROSS – a nationalregistered storyteller, sharesstories, poems and songs to

children aged 7+ and parents,includingmaterial from herbook of songsand rhymes inScots “YokieTonsils”. 1pm –Singing 1.45pm– Storytelling.

MANDALA – comes from Sanskritand means both circle and centre.Come and join Therese to helpmake an earth mandala andcreate your own small one too.Please bring any small colourednatural material e.g flowers,leaves, berries, cones etc

NAIRN CAMERA CLUB –Bring your camera. Members of NCC will show you how totake the perfect image aroundthe beautiful Links area.

*This event is weather permitting – please check our website and facebook page for alternative venues if the weather is inclement.

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Wayne Price was born in SouthWales but has lived and worked inScotland since 1987. His fictionand poetry have been widelypublished and have beenshortlisted for, and won, a numberof national and internationalawards. His 2015 pamphlet, FossilRecord (Smith|Doorstop) wasselected by Carol Ann Duffy as oneof her four ‘Laureate’s Choice’collections. He teaches literatureand creative writing at theUniversity of Aberdeen.

Poetry Event

An afternoon of PoetryWayne Price, Jo Shapcott and Owen Lowery

1pm-3.30pmThe Little Theatre

Adult £15, Under 18’s £10

Jo Shapcott was born in Londonand has won a number of literaryprizes including theCommonwealth Writers' Prize forBest First Collection, theForward Prize for Best Collectionand the National PoetryCompetition (twice). Her mostrecent collection, Of Mutability,was published in 2010 and wonthe Costa Book Award. In 2011Shapcott was awarded theQueen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

Owen Lowery, lives in the NorthWest of England. A formerBritish Judo champion, hesuffered a spinal injury whilecompeting and is now atetraplegic. His poetry hasappeared in many publicationsincluding, The Independent, TheTimes, and The Guardian.Owen’s first major collection,‘Otherwise Unchanged’, waspublished in December 2012,while his second,’ Rego Retold’,was published in January 2015.He has performed his work allacross the UK, including atLondon’s South Bank Centre,Belfast’s Lyric Theatre and theSalisbury Arts Festival.

Christina Lawrie – Gordon Macintyre Memorial Concert7.30pm | Nairn Community & Arts Centre

£15

Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso

Grieg: Selection of Lyric Pieces Quilter: Three Pieces for Piano

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Sponsored by Dollar Academy

See details for the Poetry Competition on Page 7. The two winners from thePoetry Competition will be invited to read their winning poems at the event.

Since the 1970’s chamber music of the highest quality has beenperformed in Nairn. This is due entirely to the energy and vision of Gordon and Muriel Macintyre. In 1991 they were instrumental in setting up and running the Nairn Performing Arts Guild whichbecame Music Nairn in 2008. Gordon passed away last year, and is fondly remembered and much missed by many Nairnites.Christina will perform on Music Nairn’s Steinway piano. Presented by Music Nairn.


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Lesley Kelly 3pm-3.45pm

Lesley Kelly has worked in the public and voluntary sectors for the past twenty years, dabbling in poetry andstand-up comedy along the way. She has won a number of writing competitions, including the Scotsman’s Short Story award in 2008. Her first novel, A Fine House in Trinity, was longlisted for the McIlvanney Prize.

Wine & CRIMENairn Community & Arts Centre | Adult £10 per Crime Author or all 3 sessions for £25

Sponsored by The Nairn Bookshop

Louise Welsh4pm-4.45pm

Louise Welsh is the author of eight novels including, TheCutting Room and Death is aWelcome Guest. Her new book,No Dominion, is an apocalypticthriller. It concludes the PlagueTimes Trilogy. Louise wasawarded an Honorary Doctor of Arts by Edinburgh NapierUniversity (2015) and was aUniversity of Otago’s ScottishWriters Fellow at the WallaceArts Centre in New Zealand(2016). She is Professor ofCreative Writing at University of Glasgow.

Nicola Upson 2pm-2.45pm

Nicola Upson's popular crime novelsfeaturing the author and playwrightJosephine Tey have been widelypraised as 'historical crime fictionat its very best' (Sunday Times) anda masterstroke of literary theft'(Independent on Sunday).

Set in the 1930s, each novel weavesan original murder mystery arounda celebration of Tey's life and work,featuring events which definedthose years and bridging the gapbetween the Golden Age and the contemporary. Nine Lessons,the seventh book in the series, is published this autumn.

Alan Bissett9pm-10pm | The Little Theatre

£10

We welcome novelist and playwright Alan Bissett back to Nairn to perform his cult classic ‘one-woman show’ The MoiraMonologues, a tour-de-force about Falkirk’s hardest woman.Outrageously funny, Bissett’s monologue has thrilled audiences and received critical acclaim across Scotland. Expect aheartwarming, provocative and poignant evening, with the instantly-endearing single mum, Moira Bell.

*Very strong language is used throughout – 14yrs+

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One Man Shoe – Workshop


£4 per child

An opportunity before the showfor children to join Jango Starrin an experiential workshop forfamilies exploring skills utilizedin One Man Shoe.

Participants get to explore thephysicality and expression of the Clown.

One Man Shoe Show


£7 adult & £3 child

One Man Shoe, a show forchildren and families sees Jango Starr, a bumbling theatrecaretaker, thrust into the limelightwhen the headline act fails to turn up. Witness Jango’s hilariousjourney of silent physical theatreand contemporary circusclowning, as he magically finds his way to realise his dreams of transforming into a star.

Performed by Jango Starr, directed by Gerry Mulgrew,designed by Becky Minto withoriginal music by Philip Pinsky.www.onemanshoe.uk Produced by SC²ENE (sc2ene.com)

(Suitable for children 5yrs to 11yrs and families)Sponsored by Nurturing Nairnshire, The Highland Council (Nairn Ward)

Sponsored by the Nairn Literary Institute

The Circus Skills of juggling andbalancing various objects.

And some quick to learn but funvisual Magic tricks. Suitable forchildren 7+.

All equipment supplied.

(Limited availability –parent/carer must remain with child/ren)

In this talk, Kirstie Blair willdiscuss her research intoScotland’s forgotten poets:writers, mostly from theworking-class, who wrote forand about their local communityand usually published in thelocal newspaper press. She willintroduce the rich, lively andentertaining culture of localVictorian poetry, and focusespecially on poets who camefrom Nairn and surroundingsand celebrated the region intheir work.

Prof Kirstie Blair is Head of theSchool of Humanities at theUniversity of Strathclyde. Her main research interests are inVictorian literature and history,particularly poetry. Her researchinto Scotland’s working-class poets has led to several academicpublications, including aforthcoming book, Working Verse inVictorian Scotland: Poetry, Press,Community, and the anthology The Poets of the People’s Journal,published by the Association forScottish Literary Studies in 2016.

Prof Kirstie Blair – The Lost Poets of Victorian Scotland

12.30pm-2pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

£12, Under 18’s £3 (Sandwich Lunch included)

Deaf and Hard of Hearing –fully accessible


Bernard Ponsonby –

30 years of reporting Politics A view from the coalface


£8, Under 18’s £3

Bernard started in journalism asa radio reporter at BBC Scotlandin the late eighties before joiningSTV as a Reporter/Presenter in1990. He was made the station’sPolitical Editor in 2000. He hasbeen the main anchor at allelection, referendum, by-electionand election results programmesin the last two decades as wellas presenting a number ofcurrent affairs programmes. He has reported on seven UKGeneral Elections and fiveScottish Parliamentary votes and has interviewed 4 PrimeMinisters and all of Scotland’sFirst Ministers. He appearsnightly on STV News at 6.Bernard was awarded the RoyalTelevision Society (Scotland)Television Journalist of the Year for 2015 and 2016. In thispresentation, we can expectfascinating insights andanecdotes drawn from Bernard’slong experience of meeting andinterviewing key politicians ofthe last 3 decades.

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Festival Finale & Big Thank You Party7.30pm-9.30pmNairn Community & Arts Centre

FREE EVENT

The 2017 Nairn Book and Arts Festival is your festival!It would not have happened without the extraordinarygenerosity and support of the local community andbeyond in supporting our fundraising campaign.

We invite everyone to join us in our Festival Finale,celebrating 2017 with canapes, a bar, scrolling imagesfrom the week’s events and entertainment from ourFestival Rock Choir.

The choir has been together for one day only, but underthe expert guidance of their Musical Directors AnnaMerrouni and Fiona Stuart their inner rock vibe willshine through and provide us with a fabulous celebratoryfinish to our 2017 Festival, with a selection of songsfrom Queen, Abba, Coldplay & Adele and more! Comeand join us for a fun and entertaining evening.

See page 26 if you would like to take part in the choir.

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Altyre Estate, Forres16 James’s at the Putting Green,

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We stock a wide range of new books, includinglocal history, which caters for readers of all agesand interests. As well as books, we offer a goodselection of cards, gift wrap, postcards,notebooks, tea-towels and jigsaws includingthree bespoke Nairn images.

Our friendly staff looks forward to welcoming you to our shop.

94 High Street, Nairn.T: 01667 455528 E: [email protected]

Opening HoursMon – Sat 9.30am – 5pm

Festival at a Glance

Monday 11thSeptember7.30pmThe Pen & I

7.30pm

Art in Healthcare

Wednesday 13thSeptember10amCreative Writing Workshop

1.30pmDion Alexander & Kathy Fraser

3pmCynthia Rogerson

3pmSeonaid Francis

7pmCeramic Pit Firing

7pmJ. David Simons

7pmThe Musick Fyne Soloists

8.30pmBeside the Bothy Fire

Tuesday 12thSeptember

2pmAlan Barron Walk

7.30pmHardeep Singh Kohli

9.30pmJames Ross

Friday 15thSeptember10amBRM Stewart & Sam Derbyshire

11amSeonag Monk

1pmCuairt nan ùbhlan

2pmMalachy Tallack

2.30pmApple Tour

6pmMargaret MacLeod,Catriona Murray & Ishbel Murray

6pmHannah Quirk

7pmAlan Barron Walk

7.30pmSimon Mawer

8.30pmThe Blueswater

Saturday 16thSeptember10amFestival Rock Choirrehearsals

10amSilent Movie

12pmKids Day

1pmPoetry Afternoon – Wayne Price, Jo Shapcott& Owen Lowery

2pmNicola Upson

3pmLesley Kelly

4pmLouise Welsh

7.30pmChristina Lawrie

9pmAlan Bissett

Sunday 17thSeptember12pmOne Man Shoe Workshop

12.30pmProf Kirstie Blair

2pmOne Man Shoe Show

3pmBernard Ponsonby

7.30pmFestival Finale

Thursday 14thSeptember10amDr Natasha Ferguson

10am‘Identity’ – A Making Workshop

11amBookbug Session

11.30amIan Riches

2pmJennifer Melville

2pmCharlie Phillips

2.30pmDon McIntyre

3.30pmJames Miller

6.30pmS.G.MacLean

7.30pmLeo du Feu

8.30pmSiobhan Miller

Daily Events

10.30pm-12am

Festival Club @ The Invernairne

10am-4pm, (Wed, Thurs & Fri only)

Festival Café @ NCC

Art ExhibitionsSee programme for

opening hours

Pre-Festival events

30th June – All dayNairn: One Day – Many Lives

17th August – 7.30pm till lateTapas & Tails

2nd September – 10am-2pmFood Fair

9th September – 10am-1pm OR 2-5pmClay vessel workshop

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