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Whether you visit the festival every year or this is your first time, we wish you the warmest of Galloway welcomes.
Take a look at Lucy Cartwright’s beautiful cover illustration, and you will find words in the fields, pages in the trees and questions sprouting from the ground. It perfectly embodies this year’s Wigtown Book Festival.
Words flourish in few places as they do in Scotland’s National Book Town. So much of the culture and history of this beautiful part of south-west Scotland is written in its landscape, a central theme of 2019. And we hope that the seeds that we plant in our children’s and young people’s programmes will grow over the years to come.
As ever, our sincere thanks to everyone who has made this year’s festival possible – generous sponsors, dedicated funders and, especially, our volunteers. You have done so much to nourish us all year. We hope you enjoy the harvest.
https://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/programme/
Wigtown Book Festival 2020 is the 22nd annual festival. Over 200 events for all ages including literature, music, film, theatre, arts and crafts. The 10 day Wigtown Book Festival is based in and around Scotlands Book Town and grows in popularity and size every year. Another great reason to holiday in South West Scotland. (more…)
Kirkcudbright Festival of Light 2019
Come to Kirkcudbright in October for Kirkcudbright Festival of Light.
Kirkcudbright Festival of Light is 10 days of performances. art installations and illuminated experiences
Find out all about this amazing event in Kirkcudbright, South West Scotland by visiting their website on the link button below.
Kirkcudbright is also on the newly launched road route – South West Coastal 300. Why not combine your festival experience with exploring some of this delightful new route?
Probably the largest Burns Supper Event in Scotland or beyond – 12 days, many venues and a Burns Night Carnival with a cast of over 5,000!
One of the mail attractions for 2019 was none other than K T Tunstall!
Not one to miss – entertainment includes cabaret, comedy, music and poetry.
For all the details, visit BigBurnsSupper.com now!
is held each year in Dumfries House, Cumnock.
The Festival is named after James Boswell, a writer from Ayrshire who is regarded as being the inventor of modern biography.
Bestselling authors put the art of confessional memoir and biography-writing on show in the glorious setting of Dumfries House, southwest Scotland.
Authors featured by Boswell Book Festival in the past have included Sally Magnusson, Kate Adie, Bill Paterson, John Byrne and many more.
Please check the programme for Boswell Book Festival for full details
Robert Burns was a great admirer of James Boswell. Boswell was perhaps best known for being the biographer of Samuel Johnson and also wrote an account of a Tour to the Hebrides he made with Samuel Johnson.
Dumfries House, in which the festival is based is a beautiful stately home and was designed by the Adams Brothers. It is home to an amazing collection of Thomas Chippendale furniture and is set in 2,000 acres in Ayrshire. The house and furniture was secured for the nation as a result of an initiative brokered by HRH Prince Charles and using £20 million of his own charitable foundation funds.
Studios of artists, designers, photographers potters and all manner of creative crafts are on display for this magical long weekend at the end of May.
Renowned as the most successful contemporary visual art & craft open studio event in Scotland and one of the best in the UK, Spring Fling brings around 30,000 visitors from across the world to artists’ studios in Dumfries & Galloway, South West Scotland each year in Spring.
2020 sees the 18th anniversary of Spring Fling in Dumfries & Galloway!!
https://www.facebook.com/springflingopenstudios/
Have a look at the Spring Fling 2015 Video
Organised by Wigtown Festival Company, ‘The Kist’ events take place 3 times a year, Spring, Summer and Autumn.
The Autumn Kist takes place during the Book Festival from Friday 27th September until Sunday 6th October with loads of fabulous businesses on show
February 28th 2020 until May 10th 2020
Gallery open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 10am – 4pm and Sundays 10am -5pm
Other times by appointment.
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THE 2021 FESTIVAL WILL RUN FROM 21st-30th MAY.
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of oil and Watercolour paintings from Galloway
2nd September 2020 – 12th September 2020
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