appendix I profile of arts activity

DANCE Drama Club, Carradale Dunaverty Players BUTE AND COWAL , LORN AND THE ISLES Scottish Community Drama Association () Scottish Community Drama Association () Bute Dance Club Ballet West lascene Players Bute Scottish Club Oban, Lorn and Society Future Generations Youth Drama Christina Cairns School of Highland Dancing Appin Highland Dancing School

Cowal Scottish Country Dance Club Country Dance Club - Kilmore Dunoon Disco Dance Club Country Dance Club - Taynuilt OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES Sarah Knox School of Dance Royal Scottish Country Dance Society - Lorn Mull Theatre Anne McIlroy School of Dance Oban and Mull School of Dance Lorn Drama Festival Royal Scottish Country Dance Society - Innellan Appin Drama Club – Youth Section Royal Scottish Country Dance Society - Cowal DRAMA Taynuilt Amateur Dramatic Society Salsa Dance Club Appin Drama Group Oban High School Drama Club Speirs School of Dance BUTE AND COWAL Benderloch and North Connel Drama Club ‘Juniors’ McKinnon School of Dance Theatre Wild Benderloch and North Connel Drama Club Belly Dancers Achievement Bute - Drama Club and Loch Awe Drama Club Cowal Line Dancers The Bute Players Players, Dervaig and District Scottish Country Dance Group Tighnabruaich Players Players Benmore Players Argyll Youth Theatre HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND Strachur Players

Margaret Rose School of Dance Cardross Scottish Country Dance HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND MUSIC

Rosneath Scottish Country Dance Peninsula Players Royal Scottish Country Dance Club Sightline Productions BUTE AND COWAL Helensburgh Theatre Club Bute Arts Society* MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND Acting Up (Youth Drama Project) Cowal Music Club* SECNAD: Movement and Dance Kyles Concert Society Dochas Dancers MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY Kyles of Bute Music Club St Andrews Church Choir Royal Scottish Country Dance Society- Lorn Clachan Players Bute Church Choirs Royal Scottish Country Dance Society- Mid Argyll Drama Club Cowal Choral Club Mid Argyll Community Dancers Fyneside Drama Club Cowal Gaelic Choir

25 Cowal Keyboard and Accordion Workshop Campbeltown AN COMUNN BRANCHES Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop Wild Women An Comunn Gaidhealach, Cruachan, Taynuilt Cowal Youth Piping and Drumming Association An Comunn Gaidhealach, Dunoon Dunoon Argyll Pipe Band OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES An Comunn Gaidhealach, Islay Cowal Fiddle Workshop An Tobar -regular programme An Comunn Gaidhealach, Loch Fyne TMSA-Bute Corran Halls – regular programme An Comunn Gaidhealach, Mull and District Juvenile Pipe Band Comunn Gaidhealach an Oban Oban Music Society* HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND Hall GAELIC PARTNERSHIPS Helensburgh Dorian Choir Arts

Helensburgh Oratorio Choir Coll Music Society Helensburgh Orchestral Society Oban Bach Choir and Orchestra BUTE AND COWAL Helensburgh Saturday Orchestra Mouthpiece Music Cowal Gaelic Partnership Helensburgh Savoy Oban Pipe Band Isle of Bute Gaelic Partnership Helensburgh and Lomond Fiddlers Spotlight Music Theatre Group Helensburgh Music Society Gaelic Choir – Oban MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY Taynuilt Gaelic Choir Islay, Jura and Gaelic Partnership MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY Celtic Soul Productions Kintyre Gaelic Partnership Kintyre Music Club* Red River Music Mid Argyll Gaelic Partnership Islay Arts Association* Mouthpiece Music Mid Argyll Arts Association* Tobermory Primary School Choir OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES Church Choir – Lorn and Lowland Achaleven School Gaelic Choir Mull and Iona Gaelic Partnership Church Choir - Southend Lochnell School Gaelic Choir and Coll Gaelic Partnership Coisir og Dhail Riata (junior Gaelic choir) Taynuilt Primary Gaelic Choir Lorn Gaelic Partnership Real Live Music Club Oban High School Gaelic Choir Combined Church Music Group Kilninver School Gaelic Choir STORYTELLING/ Corran Singers Park Primary Gaelic Choir LITERATURE/ Easdale Primary Gaelic Choir Fyneside Barbershop Chorus PUBLISHING Kintyre Juvenile Pipe Band Gaelic Choir

Kintyre Piping Society Dunbeg Gaelic Choir BUTE AND COWAL Mid Argyll Music Society Argyll Male and Female Voice Choir Lochgoilhead Writers Circle Mid Argyll Pipe Band Oban Clarsach Ensemble Dead Poets Society Real Live Music Club Bute Writers Gaelic Choir – Lochgilphead *part of Concert Tours North Bute Literary Society Tarbert Gaelic Choir The Reading Group (Rothesay) Tarbert Junior Gaelic Choir Writers Group, Cowal Port Ellen Gaelic Choir Argyll Publishing, Glendaruel Campbeltown Brass

Dalriada Community Concert Band

26 HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND Tighnabruaich Gallery The Archway Gallery, Lochgilphead Helensburgh and District Book Group Juno Gallery (Kirn) The Oystercatcher Gallery, Campbeltown Cove and Kilcreggan Literary Society Fyne Studios, Newton Carraig Fhada Farm, Islay Bounce & Tickle Pre-5 Mother and Toddler Group – Bachie Bhan, Cairndow Dochas Gallery, Lochgilphead Helensburgh Library Cairndow Art Promotions Earra Gael, Tarbert Bounce & Tickle Pre-5 Mother and Toddler Group – Step-up Project – SIP project, Bute Crafty Kitchen, Ardfern Kirkmichael Centre Bute Art Club Square Peg, Lochgilphead Bounce & Tickle Pre-5 Mother and Toddler Group – Bute Bookbinding Giving Tree, Princess Louise Hall, Rosneath Cowal Patchworkers Torrisdale Tannery Shore Art Club - Dunoon Natural Elements, MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY Glensluin Pottery Stable Gallery, Inveraray Carradale Reading Group Dunoon Ceramics Hidden Talents, Campbeltown Camera Club Tormisdale Croft Crafts, by Port Charlotte, Islay OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES Cowal Art Club Crafts Tiree Women’s Group (creative writing) Community Quilters North Kintyre Art Group Mull Theatre – new writing workshops South Kintyre Art Group House of Lochar, Colonsay HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND Arts and Crafts Guild, Islay Hill House, Helensburgh Islay Visual Arts Group Helensburgh Library (exhibition space) Argyll Green Woodworkers Association Pink Gallery, Helensburgh Fyne Art Club FEIS Simon Ashworth Photography and Portico Gallery Islay Quilters Inverbeg Gallery Mid Argyll Camera Club MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY Black Sheep Craft Shop, Tarbet by Arrochar Highbank Pottery Feis Dhail-riada (Furnace) Glen Gallery, Helensburgh Campbeltown Pottery Kilcreggan Woodcrafts (at Kilcreggan PO) Collaig Pottery, Ardfern OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES Decoupage Club- Helensburgh Port Ellen Pottery, Islay Feis Mhuile (Mull) Helensburgh Photographic Club Templar Arts and Leisure Centre Feis Thiriodh (Tiree) Helensburgh and District Art Club Jolomo Gallery, Tayvallich Feis Latharna (Oban) Helensburgh and District Quilters Hand and Machine Knitting Club OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES VISUAL ARTS /CRAFTS/ Peninsula Art Group An Tobar, Mull PHOTOGRAPHY Tyrii Pottery, Helensburgh Kranenburg & Fowler, Oban Carthouse Gallery, Calgary and Calgary Art in Nature Sculpture Walk, Mull BUTE AND COWAL MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY Burnet Building, Campbeltown Blue Beyond Gallery, Tiree Mount Stuart Helensburgh Library Edna Whyte Gallery, Courtyard Gallery, Benmore Gardens, Cowal Kilmartin House Iona Pottery and Gallery Castle Gallery, Bute Elemental Arts Angus Stewart Paintings and Prints The Studio Shop, Bute Loch Fyne Gallery, Tarbert Mhiann Arts, Iona Gallimaufry, Blairmore John Street Studio, Oban

27 Breadalbane Studio, Mull MOVING IMAGE Ardfern and Craobh Haven (org by Elemental Arts) The Picture Gallery, Mull Mid Argyll Music Festival Edna Whyte Gallery House, Luing BUTE AND COWAL SCDA Festival Tiree Art Enterprises Discovery Theatre, Discovery Centre, Bute Islay Festival (Feis Ile) Oban Arts Society West Coast Cinemas, Dunoon Islay Jazz Festival Oban Photographic Club Bute Film Club Jura Folk Festival Argyll Scribes Harbour Light Youth Festival (2003) Oban Craft Fair HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND Feis Ile (Festival of Malt and Music) Island Craft Enterprise – Coll Cove and Kilcreggan Film Club Iona Pottery OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES Mull Pottery Mendelssohn on Mull MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY Argyll Pottery- Barcaldine, by Oban Sounds of Mull The Picture House, Campbeltown The Workshop Gallery Sounds of Progress (Mull) Templar Arts and Leisure Centre Film Club Mull Music Festival

RESIDENTIAL CENTRES for ARTISTS Tobermory Arts Festival (org by An Tobar)

Highlands and Islands Dance Festival OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND Oban Music Festival Highland Theatre, Oban Cove Park Lorn Drama Festival

Oban Comedy Festival MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY FESTIVALS Iona Storytelling Festival

CREAR Residential retreat for artists/ recording studio BUTE AND COWAL EVENTS/PROJECTS Isle of Bute Jazz Festival PUBLIC ART/ LANDSCAPE ART/ Bute Line Dance Festival BUTE AND COWAL ButeLive Festival ENVIRONMENTAL ART Mod (Dunoon) Dunoon Festival/Dunoon Country and Western Cowal Highland Gathering

Festival Bute Tiree - An Turas St John’s Music Festival, Dunoon Kirn Gala Bute - Mount Stuart –International artist, Kate Cowal Walking and Arts Festival Innellan Gala Whiteford “Bute necklace” permanently on the Bute Highland Dance Festival Rothesay Academy- Lighthouse project (The Lade). grounds in front of the house. Nordic Film Festival – Bute – 2003 (through Film Cowal Community Events Association (incl Country ’s National Park – public art work in the Club) and Western Weekend) grounds

Mull - Calgary Woodland Sculpture Walk MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND Campbeltown – Young people’s shelter Mull of Kintyre Music Festival Rosneath and Clynder Highland Games Dalriada Revival Luss Highland Games Tarbert Music Festival Rhu Gala Day Music Festival Cardross Gala Day Cantilena on Islay Kirkmichael/Craigendoran Gala Day

28 MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY Ionaid Chaluim Chille Ile Lantern Procession (Lanterns @10) Funky Chicken – circus workshops Islay Arts Association Provincial Mod – Islay Morag and Sheelagh Provincial Mod – Lochgilphead Kintyre Youth Enquiry Service OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES Loch Fyne Sea Food Fair (incl music) Mid Argyll Youth Project Corran Halls, Oban* Fusion (Kintyre) An Talla, Tiree Cyber Café – Islay Island Craft Enterprises, Coll OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES Kintyre Arts and Activities Development Group An Tobar, Mull Mod (Oban) AMP (Kintyre) Mull Theatre Argyllshire Gathering KMAT (Kintyre Music and Arts Tuition) Eilean Eisdeal Trust Provincial Mod – Oban Provincial Mod - Mull OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES *Argyll and Bute Council Argyll and Bute – Young Scot OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE PROMOTERS ARTS NETWORK (PAN ORGANISATION) ARGYLL AND BUTE WIDE BUTE AND COWAL Promoting all artforms Achievement Bute Screenmachine – Hi Arts Ballochgoy Resource Centre BUTE AND COWAL Bute Youth Project Pavilion* Local art shows Cowal Youth Information Project Queen’s Hall, Dunoon Cowal Childrens Creative Workshops ButeLive Paintings in Hospitals Fusion (Cowal) Cairndow Art Promotions aimhi support for the Creative Industries in the HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND Highlands and Islands

Helensburgh and Lomond Youth Forum Victoria Halls, Helensburgh* Puppet Animation Festival- Easter (covering A&B Helensburgh and Lomond Youth Information Geilston Hall, Cardross and 12 other community venues) Service Gibson Community Centre

Helensburgh and Lomond Homelink Project Storytelling Programme – schools, venues, Helensburgh and Lomond Fusions Project MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY museums, libraries, theatres Helensburgh Youth 2 Youth Health Drop-in Project Victoria Hall, Campbeltown*

Campbeltown Picture House

Carradale Tourist promotion Group Village Hall

29 appendix II list of independent museums and heritage visitor attractions

Members of the Museums Forum Location Oban War and Peace Museum Oban Slate Island Museum Easdale Scottish Heritage Trust Bute Museum * Rothesay Lismore Historical Society Lismore Dunoon Castle House Museum * Dunoon An Iodhlann Tiree MacDougall Trust Oban Strachur Smiddy Strachur Ross of Mull Historical Society Bunessan, Mull Campbeltown Heritage Centre Campbeltown Kilmartin House Museum * Kilmartin Colonsay & Oronsay Historical Society Colonsay Mull Museum * Tobermory, Mull Museum of Islay Life * Port Charlotte, Islay Trust Ballygrant, Islay Iona Heritage Centre Isle of Iona Auchindrain Township Open Air Museum * Auchindrain Here We Are Cairndow Isle of Luing Historical Society Cullipool , Isle of Luing Sheila’s Cottage , Mull *Museums registered under the national registration scheme supervised by MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives) and administered in Scotland by the Scottish Museums Council.

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Other major museums and heritage visitor attractions Location The Arctic Penguin Inveraray Inveraray Inveraray Jail Inveraray Kilmartin Rothesay Castle Bute Mount Stuart Bute The Hill House Helensburgh Dunstaffnage Castle Nr. Oban Oban Distillery Oban Bonawe Iron Furnace Bonawe Byre Heritage Centre Mull Mull Duart Castle Mull St Visitors Centre Mull Iona Abbey Iona Hebridean Trust sites Tiree Glenbarr Abbey Kintyre Saddell Priory Kintyre Various distillery museums Islay Lochawe

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appendix III list of libraries

Library Address Contact Campbeltown Library Hall Street, Campbeltown PA28 6BS ℡01586 552366 Sue Fortune Cardross Library Main Street, Cardross G82 5PX ℡01389 841215 Marion Kinns Cove Library Burgh Hall, Shore Road, Cove G84 0LY ℡01436 842315 Margaret Olsen Dunoon Library 248 Argyll Street, Dunoon PA23 7LT ℡01369 703735 Pauline Flynn Garelochhead Library Primary School, Feorlin Way, Garelochhead G84 0DG ℡01436 810579 Cherry Lyne Helensburgh Library West King Street, Helensburgh G84 8EB ℡01436 674626 Pat McCann Islay Mobile 7 King Street, Portnahaven, Isle of Islay PA47 7SP ℡07884 114390 Ian Turner Library Headquarters Highland Avenue, Sandbank, Dunoon PA23 8PB ℡01369 703214 Andrew Ewan Lochgilphead Library Manse Brae, Lochgilphead PA31 8QZ ℡01546 602072 Carolyn Mitchell Lomond Mobile c/o Helensburgh Library ℡07990 773139 Agnes Robinson Lorn Mobile c/o Oban Library ℡07990 773072 Neil McIntyre Mid Argyll Mobile c/o Lochgilphead Library ℡07990 773102 Iain McGlynn Mull Mobile Area Office Breadalbane Street, Tobermory, Isle of Mull PA75 6PX ℡07990 773133 Jayne Powers Oban Library Corran Halls, Oban PA34 5AB ℡01631 571444 Kevin Baker Rosneath Library Primary School, Rosneath G84 0RJ ℡01436 831630 Marcia May Rothesay Library Moat Centre, Stuart Street, Rothesay, Isle of Bute PA20 0BX ℡01700 503266 Eddie Monaghan Tarbert Library Barmore Road, Tarbert PA29 6TW ℡01880 820424 Ruth Morrison

32 appendix IV historical and civic societies

An Iodhlann Architectural Heritage Society (North Argyll) Appin Historical Society Argyll & Bute Building Preservation Trust Arrochar Historical Society Bute Natural History Society Comunn Eachdraidh Eilean Dhiura Comunn Eachdraidh Liosmor Cove and Kilcreggan Literary Society Cowal Archaeological and Historical Society Cowal Heritage Trust Dalmally Historical Society Friends of Loch Lomond Helensburgh Civic Society Helensburgh Heritage Trust Islay Family History Society Kintyre Archaeological Society Kintyre Civic Society Lorn Archaeological Society Mull Historical & Archaeological Society Natural History & Antiquarian Society of Mid Argyll North Bute Literary Society Peninsular Historical Society

N.B. The information given on organisations is correct as far as is known at the time of printing.

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