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Hooked on Words Poems and prose, talks and walks Creative Peebles Takes to the streets Divisions Explored From India then to Istanbul now summer JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER 2017 BOX OFFICE 01721 725 777 www.eastgatearts.com highlights... We offer a range of discounts on discounts selected shows. Look out for the July get in & information icons on the event listings. Lady Boys of Bangkok It just couldn’t be more fabulous ...8 spotlight touch... Friend of a Friend - if you are a Friend Angels in America of the Eastgate, you can bring a friend Eastgate Theatre & Arts Centre 1980s New Yorkers grapple with life summer ... Eastgate Peebles EH45 8AD with you for free and death, love and sex, heaven 2017 and hell in this 2 part classic. ...4 Box Office: 01721 725 777 It’s going to be a hot summer ... Time Friends of the Eastgate - Drop us a line at [email protected] August to pack the picnic basket, update your £2 off the first ticket Visit our website www.eastgatearts.com Highland Fling playlist, and head out to make some for more information about the theatre Funbox battle midges and become new friends. If you were in the south Registered Disabled/Carer - £2 off full price monarchs of the glen. ...37 and to sign up to receive regular emails of France you’d find the perfect spot about things you're interested in. Sisters of Swing beside a river beneath a chateau, with Student Discount - £2 off full price Perfect harmony from The Swingcats - Follow us on Twitter@EastgateTheatre smooth, stylish sisters of swing. .. 9 an accordionist in the distance. But and Facebook/Eastgate Theatre Child - £6 unless specified otherwise The Sky is Safe since you’re in Peebles, then the best Opening times Two characters meet in an anonymous place to start is at the Eastgate. alley in Istanbul. What follows is a story Box Office: Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Family - 1 adult + 3 children or of love and war, a dance of life and death. ...5 First stop the Eastgate Cafe, where Film Sundays 12.30 - 5pm 2 adults + 2 children for a group discount until interval end on show nights September free summer entertainment is provided by the young musicians of Feis Rois, Café OAP - £2 off full price Music in Peebles is 70 Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm Clarinettist Michael Collins joins the and the many talented youngsters of Film Sundays 12.30 - 5pm Heath Quartet for this celebratory concert. ..7 Nomad Beat. There’s also a whole Audio Description service available. until interval end on show nights. Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) series of outdoor adventures starting Printed using vegetable inks on FSC approved paper. All the carbon emissions generated Mozart’s glorious opera launches the from the cafe during the Creative in the printing of this programme will be offset by planting broadleaved trees in a local season of four operas and five ballets Front cover: community woodland resulting in the print becoming completely carbon balanced. Peebles Festival – with guided walks screened live from the Royal Opera Garden Birds by Helen Kemp exploring bridges, buildings, gardens The Eastgate Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support of House, Covent Garden. ...6 See more of Helen’s work in the Out and huts all around town. of The Woods exhibition, The Gallery, Yerma Tweeddale Museum, Peebles from Billie Piper is “stunning, searing, unmissable” as the young woman Then to the Theatre itself for some 16 September to 25 November. in the National Theatre’s inspired perfect summer music – from the sassy www.helenkempceramics.co.uk reworking of Lorca. ...4 style of The Swingcats to the dustbowl harmonies of 3hattrio, from the cool blues of the McAllister Jazz Quartet to the sweet country of The Honeycutters. Not to mention some of

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BOX OFFICE 01721 725 777 Friday 25 August – Sunday 3 September MORE INFO www.eastgatearts.com

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DOGSTAR THEATRE COMPANY presents NATIONAL THEATRE (LIVE) presents The Sky is Safe NATIONAL THEATRE (ENCORE) presents Angels in America Auditorium

Yerma Part 1: Millennium Approaches Two characters meet on the opulent streets and shadowy alleys of Taksim, the commercial heart of Istanbul where every conceivable transaction takes place. Auditorium Auditorium She is a Syrian refugee, he a privileged westerner from northern Europe.

A young woman (Billie Piper) is driven to the This “gay fantasia on universal themes” set in What follows is a dream-like dance, an impossible meeting where these two unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a America in the mid-1980s. In the midst of the acknowledge and ignore the barriers between them. The anonymity of the child in this radical production of Lorca’s AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan metropolis and their own transience allows them to reinvent themselves, achingly powerful masterpiece by Simon Stone. administration, New Yorkers grapple with life though in reality, they can’t escape who they are or what they represent. He has stripped it of washerwomen, shepherds, and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. The Sky is Safe is a love story, a war story and a microcosm of our time. poetic effusions. He has transplanted the action Andrew Garfield plays Prior Walter in a cast that from rural Spain to present-day London, and www.dogstartheatre.co.uk includes Denise Gough, Nathan Lane, James made its heroine a lifestyle journalist and McArdle, and Russell Tovey. blogger. He shows the yearning of the central figure, the pressure that builds up around her, This new staging of Tony Kushner’s multi-award and the desperation that engulfs her, as utterly winning two-part play is directed by Olivier and contemporary. Tony award winning director Marianne Elliott (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Billie Piper was described by the Guardian as Time and War Horse). Thu 31 August “earth-quaking” in the title role as she moves 7.30pm from twinkling with arch knowingness to Age:15 £14 banshee fury and druggy dislocation. The Thu 20 July performance won her the Evening Standard Best Actress Award. 7pm £14, £10 for schoolchildren ★★★★★ “stunning, searing, unmissable” Mail on Sunday Angels in America ★★★★★ “Billie Piper makes a shattering Yerma in Simon Stone’s inspired reworking Part 2: Perestroika will be broadcast live. of Lorca” The Observer Age:15 Age:15 Thu 27 July 7pm Thu 28 September £14, £10 for schoolchildren 7pm £14, £10 for schoolchildren

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MUSIC IN PEEBLES presents 70th Anniversary Concert Michael Collins (clarinet) ROYAL OPERA HOUSE (LIVE) ROYAL OPERA HOUSE presents Season & The Heath Quartet Die Zauberflote Five ballets and six operas, each live Auditorium from the Royal Opera House. (The Magic Flute) Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat, Op.34 Ballet Live: Alice’s Adventures by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Wonderland Jörg Widmann String Quartet No.1 Mon 23 October Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581 7.15pm Auditorium Ballet Live: The Nutcracker A truly special concert to mark both a The Queen of the Night persuades Prince Tue 5 December special anniversary and the close of 7.15pm Tamino to rescue her daughter Pamina from another Creative Peebles Festival. Opera Live: Tosca captivity under the high priest Sarastro; instead, Michael Collins is one of the world’s Wed 7 February 2018 he learns the high ideals of Sarastro's foremost clarinettists and he joins forces community and seeks to join it. Separately, then Opera Encore: Carmen with the outstanding Heath Quartet. together, Tamino and Pamina undergo severe Sun 11 March 2018 Together, they perform two much-loved trials of initiation, which end in triumph, with the 2pm works; the sparkling clarinet quintet by Queen and her cohorts vanquished. The earthy Ballet Live: Bernstein Centenary Weber and that by Mozart; one of the Papageno, who accompanies Tamino on his Tue 27 March 2018 most popular pieces in the entire quest, fails the trials completely but is rewarded 7.15pm chamber music repertoire. anyway with the hand of his ideal female companion Papagena. Opera Live: Macbeth www.musicinpeebles.org.uk Wed 4 April 2018 Conducted by Julia Jones and starring Roderick 7.15pm Williams, Siobhan Stagg and Mauro Peter, the Sun 3 September Ballet Live: Manon production is directed by David McVicar. 7.30pm Thu 3 May 2018 £14, £7, free for MiP members Wed 20 September 7.15pm and students under 25 7.15pm Ballet Live: Swan Lake in full-time education £17, £10 for schoolchildren (new production) Tue 12 June 2018 7.15pm

Book for any three performances from Season Saver the nine in the season and pay just Tickets for each performance are £17 for adults and £45 for adults or £25 for under 16s £10 for schoolchildren Ask box office for details

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THE LADY BOYS OF BANGKOK presents Who Runs the World! The Swingcats – Sisters of Swing

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It just couldn’t be more fabulous! The Swingcats new show, Sisters of Swing is a tribute to the great female vocalists from the jazz and swing era. From big bakd singers - Ella Fitzgerald, Hotter....cheekier....funnier than ever – the country’s number one touring cabaret show Peggy Lee and Nina Simone, to leading ladies of the silver screen – Doris Day, returns to the UK with a lavish new production. Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland. Elections and referendums may come and go, but in the stakes for the best party night out The smooth stylish Swingcats - Alyson Orr, Laura Ellis and Nicola Auld - will in town, there’s no doubt who wins the popular vote. WHO RUNS THE WORLD! is not a deliver these timeless classics with their unique three part harmony political question – it’s a positive celebration of the fair sex performed by 16 of Thailand’s arrangements. They will be accompanied by the Karen MacIver trio. most alluring and stunning Lady Boys. Escape the drab greyness of everyday life and luxuriate in a bubble of laughter, beauty, glitz and music. The Swingcats are established as one of the nation’s finest vocal groups and have fronted some of the UK’s top big bands including The Glenn Miller With more songs and big-scale musical production numbers than you could pout a painted Orchestra, The BBC Big Band and The RAF Squadronaires. They have also lip at, the Lady Boys pay tribute to a host of stars ranging from Beyonce, Rhianna, Nikki appeared with many international names in jazz including Annie Ross, Minage, Fifth Harmony, to Gloria Gaynor, Boy George, Pitbull, Tom Jones, Queen Latifah – Carol Kidd, Claire Martin and Martin Taylor. the list goes on and on.

Deliciously naughty....risqué but never risky...a show that you hope won’t reach an end. “World Class Vocalists” Smooth Radio No one leaves without a smile on their face and a song in their heart. “For glitter, for glamour, for goodness sake Wed 12 July don’t miss them, they're fabulous” 5.30pm & 8pm The Jazz House, BBC Radio Scotland £20, £18 www.theswingcats.co.uk

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Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham The Tannahill Weavers The Honeycutters 3hattrio

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Expect jig ‘n’ reel fireworks, sublime airs and The Tannahill Weavers sound combines Out of hip and happening Acheville North One of the outstanding successes at this year's scurrilous banter as these two stellar musicians, traditional melodies on pipes, flute and fiddle; Carolina, their music has been described as in Celtic Connections Festival, 3hattrio was born in now embarking on their 31st year of working driving rhythmic accompaniment on guitar and between the country pop of today and the gritty the Utah desert, the band’s music an astonishing together, perform almost telepathically. bouzouki and rich three and four part vocal sound of yesterday, a honky-tonk flavoured aggregation of old time Americana, chamber Phil Cunningham, now in his fifties, was still at harmonies. sound bursting with driving rhythmic ambition, music and jazz. primary school in 1968, when Aly Bain, a young Over the years the members of the band have enchanting melodies and deeply poetic lyrics Shetland fiddle virtuoso and disenchanted Hal Cannon, Greg Istock and Eli Wrankle are a joy been trailblazers for Scottish music. They have straight from the Utah desert. time-served joiner arrived in Glasgow, bearing to hear and see. Cannon roots the sound but his been inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music only his fiddle case with a large, freshly caught There’s been quite a hunger in the UK to see guitar playing is eloquent and not confined to Hall of Fame and toured the world with their salmon tied to it. Fast forward to 1986, Aly’s this band following the release of two stunning rhythm while Wrankle’s violin adds texture and electrifying acoustic sound. accompanist couldn’t make it to a performance albums, each winning glowing reviews and effects. Istock meanwhile coaxes sliding jazz at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Phil “The Tannahill Weavers - properly harnessed - putting them in many “Best-Of” end-of-the-year sounds from his double bass then knocks and stepped in. could probably power an entire city for a year lists. This is their first major British tour. knuckles its percussive possibilities. on the strength of last night’s concert alone. 31 years on they are established as the epitome The music may be old time Celtic, bur the “Brilliant - absolutely brilliant” Ricky Ross, of excellence in the world of traditional music. “One of those gorgeous heartache-drenched drive and enthusiasm are akin to straight BBC Another Country With their musical magic and quick-witted voices that brings to mind Loretta Lynn or ahead rock and roll” Winnipeg Free Press humour they will pull your emotional strings Sheryl Crow” Acoustic magazine (UK) “Soulful grooves, good-time revelry and a keen one moment and have you falling off the seat www.tannahillweavers.com affinity for the stark, deceptively beautiful “Remarkable! Delicious country songs” with laughter the next. textures and contours of the desert which fuel Wed 13 September R2 (Rock ‘n’ Reel) magazine (UK) “probably the best traditional musicians you 7.30pm their visionary spirit” Songlines magazine www.honeycutters.com are ever likely to hear”. Mike Russell £14 “Rare music beautifully played and dripping with emotion” Blues Matters magazine Wed 27 September Fri 11 August 7.30pm 7.30pm www.3hattrio.com £18 £14 Sat 16 September 7.30pm £14

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Theatre Rachel Hair Trio Feis Rois Eastgate Auditorium Café DAY Enjoy an evening of strong melodies, rootsy Enjoy the outstanding young musicians of Feis PEN songs and majestic instrumental flair from Rios as they entertain café customers with a O one of Scotland’s favourite folk bands. N blast of the finest traditional Scottish music. FU Sat 29 July E Featuring Rachel Hair on Scottish harp, RE family… Jenn Butterworth on guitar and vocals and 12.30 – 2.30pm F ll the Cameron Maxwell on double base, the Free for a band has just released Tri, its second album, to huge critical acclaim. NOMAD BEAT presents “Utterly spellbinding. . . full of subtle delights and innumerable charms” T in the Café NetRhythms Bursting with free fun for everyone, the Engage Open Day is a chance Café to have a go at any or all of the theatre’s different arts activities. Ever www.rachelhair.com Join Nomad Beat Community Music School for find yourself absentmindedly drumming? Maybe try the percussion Sun 27 August a fun afternoon of musical performances, workshop. Looking forward to collecting your Oscar one day? There 7.30pm showcasing some of the best music from the are beginner’s drama workshops and masterclasses on offer. Budding £14 school’s summer workshops and music groups Hockney or Hepworth? Art Sparks is probably for you. – including Rock & Pop, Breaking Sound Barriers, Trad Fiddle, #Banter Beat and the Add outdoor activities, dressing up and prizes. Why would you want famous Demon Drummers. Why not try a clarsach workshop to do anything else with your Saturday? at 4pm. The combined ticket for Sun 3 September Meet the Eastgate team and find out how you can... the workshop and concert is just 2.30 – 4.30pm £16, £8 child Pay what you can …play…create...learn

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time for children and adults to engage, Stag’s Head Constructed Textile and get creative with Trish Ward Weekend Course Upcycle milk bottles, card and tissue paper with Deborah Campbell to create your very own colourful stags A visually exciting course where you will head for your bedroom wall. explore a variety of textile techniques Age: 7 – 12 including printing and felting. You will make a Tuesday 25 July selection of your own fabrics which will then 1.30 – 3.30pm be collaged together using a combination of £10, bring a brother or sister for £8 machine and hand embroidery to create a unique textile artwork. Centrestage Summer Saturday 8 July 10am – 4pm Production Week Sunday 9 July 12noon – 6pm Start with a script on Monday and perform a £90 for 2 days (all materials included). full stage show on Friday! Join playwright Douglas Roberts and actor Scott Noble in this week long drama course. Following a comedy script all week you will help design props, scenery and costumes, as well as performing your character on stage at the end of the week. Everyone will receive a speaking role. Age: 10 – 17 Monday 31 July – Friday 4 August Children & Young People 9.30am – 4pm Performance on Friday 4 August at Scottish Theatre & Music Jump Into Summer 2017 7.30pm (see page 36 for more Summer School with Fiona Henderson School of Dance information) Join in this year for a fantastic weeklong & Performing Arts £180 acting course which includes singing A high energy, fun week of dance. Learn and dancing. different dance styles as well as team work, Age: 6 – 12yrs performance and choreography skills. Mon 17 – Fri 21 July Age: 5-11 (primary school children) 10am – 3pm Mon 24 – Fri 28 July Short family performance on Friday 9.30am – 1pm £60 Short family performance at 2.30 – 3pm on Friday £65 (includes healthy snack and commemorative t-shirt) All tickets from Eastgate Box Office 01721 725777 creative classes for

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Open Galleries Evening The Bridges BORDERS WRITERS FORUM presents Peebles has a large number of galleries producing, displaying and selling a huge of Peebles Abridged range of visual art, much of it created by local artists. This evening they look Jim Lyon leads a fascinating four mile walk A selection of readings, in poetry and prose by forward to welcoming you with all sorts of art and a few surprise treats. looking at the detailed work that went into members of Borders Writers’ Forum whose Various venues, see centre pages for a detailed listing and map. the design and building of the very different new anthology is inspired by the many bridges bridges that cross the Tweed. 7 – 9pm, FREE spanning the River Tweed and its tributaries Meet at Kingsmeadows Car Park throughout the Borders The galleries are open during the day for most 10.30am Eastgate Theatre £6 of the Creative Peebles Festival; studios may 2.30pm be open for this weekend onl y. Narrative Ark £6 A short film by artist Neil Stewart illustrating THE SWINGCATS the process of print-making. This will be present Beyond Borders International Festival followed by a practical workshop giving participants the opportunity to use lino- Sisters of Swing 70 years since the momentous partition of India, Beyond Borders International The sassy trio of singers team up with cutting tools and develop new skills in Festival has made the Indian subcontinent one of the central focuses this year. instrumentalists from the Karen MacIver Tro print making. The Journey Within is the third in a series of three films showing the impact of for this stylish tribute to the female vocalists partition at the time and the reverberations through to today. Anne Younger Studio, Eastgate from the jazz and swing area, with songs by Theatre Ella Fitzgeral, Nina Simone, Doris Day, Judy The Journey Within Film 2pm, FREE Garland and many more. Workshop 2.30 – 4.30pm (2015, 78 mins, English/Urdu with sub titles) Eastgate Theatre The story of the Pakistan’s celebrated Coke Studio - a television music show that £15 (includes materials and tools) 7.30pm helped reclaim the rich and vast musical heritage of this region, launched at a £15, £13, £6 for schoolchildren time when Pakistan was faced with the challenges of war and conflict. Secret Peebles Film 7pm followed by a Q&A at approx. 8.30pm Join photographer and writer Liz Hanson £9, £6 (student) for a fascinating tour of some of the town’s less well known streets, squares and closes – A combined ticket to see the Partition Trilogy of films, where mason’s marks, inscriptions and Wed 23 to Fri 25 August place names provide clues to the history £20, £15 (student) of Peebles. Meet at Eastgate Café 2.30 – 4.30pm £6

The galleries are open during the day for most of the Creative Peebles Festival. Sunday 27 August Celebrating the Scottish Harp An opportunity to experiment, learn and enjoy the music of the clarsach, with expert Lost and Found The Railway Heritage guidance from some of Scotland’s leading harp players. An artists’ book workshop with Susie Wilson. of Peebles This one day workshop will start with a quick A walk through Peebles in search of the Come and Try walk around Peebles collecting imagery remnants of the two railway lines that used to An introduction to the Scottish harp for through drawing, printmaking and found serve the town before the Beeching cuts of complete novices of any age, led by objects. Back at the studio these ideas will the 1960s. The walk is organised by Friends Charlotte Petersen and Heather Yule. be developed into a concertina book using of the Eastgate, and ends with a convivial Anne Younger Studio, Eastgate different sewing and folding techniques. afternoon tea. Theatre www.susiewilson.org Meet at Eastgate Café 2 – 3pm Silver Tree Studio, Pennel’s Close 2.30 – 4.30pm FREE (instruments provided) 10am – 4pm £6 £25 (includes all materials) Traditional Tales with a Touch of Music PENTLAND WRITERS Heather Yule adds some clarsach Dancing in the Street present their accompaniment to Scottish folktales. InChorus leads a giant, musical street mob in John Buchan Eastgate Café the centre of town. Everyone who is willing to Experience 3.15 – 3.45pm have a boogie and try a bit of lip synching (to FREE the track Dancing in the Street) is invited to Join six writers for an evening of fun, join the mob in the High Street. This, one of flights of wild imagination and some facts, the most ambitious community film projects with a variety of stories, observations and Elementary Harp Rachel Hair Trio ever seen in the Scottish Borders, will be poetry inspired by a selection from the A workshop session where elementary in concert filmed to become a momentous InChorus many intriguing artefacts contained within students can work on a variety of tunes from Enjoy an evening of strong music, rootsy songs music video. the John Buchan Story Museum. Expect to around the world, using written music, with and majestic instrumental flair from one of hear about feathers, fishing and walking, expert guidance from Charlotte Petersen Videos of simple routines will be posted in Scotland’s favourite folk bands. Featuring warthogs, head-dresses and an ostrich. Anne Younger Studio, Eastgate advance on the facebook page Dancing in Rachel Hair on Scottish Harp, along with Jenn Theatre the Street – Peebles and on vimeo. John Buchan Story Museum Butterworth and Cameron Maxwell. 7pm 4 - 5.30pm Peebles High Street Eastgate Theatre £6 £5 (bring your own instrument) 2 – 3.30pm 7.30pm FREE £14, £6 child Intermediate Harp Combined ticket for Rachel Hair leads this workshop for workshop + concert intermediate students, exploring a selection £16, £8 child of Scottish tunes, old and new. Eastgate Theatre 4 – 5.30pm £5 (bring your own instrument) Monday 28 August Drawing with Hidden Gardens Charcoal Forget the ornamental shrubs and fragrant blooms; this tour of Peebles’ gardens is all Local artist Deborah Campbell leads a Tweed Art The Tontine Hotel about the magic of growing food that you workshop focusing on various ways of 1 Biggiesknowe, Peebles EH45 8HS Lounge and Bistro can eat. Expert horticulturalist Jan Cameron working with charcoal, experimenting with Open Monday to Saturday High Street, Peebles EH45 8AJ leads a tour of some of Peebles’ less well- different approaches to mark making before 9.30am – 5pm Open daily 7am – 11pm known green spaces and offer the tackling a large still life drawing. Tel: 01721 720246 Tel: 01721 720892 opportunity to meet and talk with other Eastgate Theatre www.tweedart.co.uk www.tontinehotel.com gardeners about why they like to get their 10.30am – 12.30pm A collection of paintings by contemporary hands dirty, and what they get out of Ken Ferguson Exhibition £12 Scottish artists Fiona Millar, Alan Richmond growing their own fruit and vegetables. Ken has been drawn to the west coast and (includes charcoal and and Moy Mackay. Meet in Eastgate Café mountains of Scotland and much of his work other materials) 2.30 – 4.30pm explores the open space of mountain tops School Brae Studios £6 and coastlines. Totally Plastered Newby Court, Peebles EH45 8SF Followed at 7pm by a screening of Breeze Art Gallery Tel: 01721 722875 Visit this gem of a museum, housed in the the film comedy Grow Your Own 88 High Street, Peebles EH45 8SW busy plaster workshop which has been (see below) Open Monday – Saturday 10am – 5.30pm La Petite Chambre operating for 175 years. It is full of intricate Combined ticket with film Sunday 12noon – 5pm School Brae, Peebles EH45 8AT pieces from 7ft long friezes to the plaster Grow Your Own Tel: 01721 721684 Tel: 01721 724622 miniature of the Elgin marbles. £12, £10 child www.breeze-gallery.co.uk www.lapetitechambre.co.uk L. Grandison & Sons Ltd, Showcasing work by a number of artists Lively painting group Creative Space Innerleithen Road, Peebles including Bradford born Danny Abrahams. celebrates people, places and things 1pm Grow Your Own from far and near. Pay what you can A touching and hilarious homegrown Port Brae Studios comedy about allotments and the people Old Police Station, Port Brae who love them. Starring a host of British Peebles EH45 8AW A Sense of History stars including Olivia Colman, Historical novelist Margaret Skea leads this Open Friday 7 – 9pm Eddie Marsan, Omad Djalili Saturday & Sunday 10am – 5pm writers workshop, looking a history as the and Benedict Wong. foundation of convincing fiction. She www.deborahcampbell.com Eastgate Theatre Artists studios will be open to the public examines what history can offer the writer 7pm in terms of inspiration, plot, context, colour exhibiting a collection of new paintings, £9, £6 child textiles and photography by Deborah and constraint. Combined ticket with Eastgate Theatre Campbell, Irene Campbell, Hilary Forbes Hidden Gardens tour and Douglas Roberts. 2.30 – 4.30pm £12, £10 child £12 For more information www.creativepeeblesfestival.co.uk ING IES EVEN ALLER stival PEN G year’s fe O rt of this s the sta Mark 7-9pm August, Friday 25

Creative Peebles Festival 25 August ~ 3 September 2017

Exhibitions in Art Trail venues that are NOT full time galleries run from Friday 25- Sunday 27 August.

Find out lots more about the festival at www.creativepeeblesfestival.co.uk Tuesday 29 August Thursday 31 August

DOGSTAR THEATRE COMPANY Speaking in Turn presents John writers Philip Hutton and Anita John for a relaxed evening swopping poems and The Sky is Safe prose, and exchanging their thoughts about A Syrian refugee and a privileged European how they approach their work and where meet in the opulent streets of Taksim, the they find their inspiration. With a musical commercial heart of Istanbul. This is a play Tweeddale Museum & Gallery Old School Studios interlude from Colin Hall on saxophone. about identify and power, choice and its The Gallery, Chambers Institute, Pop Up Shop in The Coal Shed Eastgate Theatre absence, about survival, and about love. Chambers Terrace, Peebles, EH45 8AJ Edinburgh Road Car Park, 7.30pm Eastgate Theatre Open Monday – Friday Edinburgh Road, Peebles £8 7.30pm 10.30am – 12.30pm and 1 – 4pm Showcasing the work of young artists, (includes a glass of wine or a soft drink) £14, £12, £6 Tel. 01721 724820 craft makers, upcyclers and more. www.liveborders.org The Summer Show features contemporary Anne Younger Studio, Eastgate Theatre Wednesday 30 August Friday 1 September abstract paintings by two graduates of Eastgate, Peebles EH45 8AD Edinburgh College of Art and an Open Monday – Saturday 10am – 6pm American artist trained in Kentucky; Sunday 10am – 4pm TWEEDDALE SOCIETY DOWNRIGHT HOMESPUN Anne Forbes, Marta Utsler and Tel: 01721 725777 FESTIVAL LECTURE RADIO COMPANY Jacqueline Watt. www.eastgatearts.com Stem Cells – A New presents Neil Stewart presents Narrative Ark. An Small Town Summer Silver Tree Studio exhibition of intricate lino-cut prints showing Era in Medicine Pennels Close, 3B High Street many instantly recognizable scenes from in Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, who became Sarsaparilla Peebles EH45 8AG and around Peebles. internationally renowned for his contribution A sparkling summer show with DHRC’s Tel: 07988 786481 to the cloning of Dolly the sheep, presents Royal Company of radio actors offering A group exhibition by local artists. The Park Hotel an illustrated lecture about developments razor-sharp post-election comedy, backed 2 Innerleithen Road in stem cell research and their impact on by a house band hot from Nashville. Moy Mackay Gallery Peebles EH45 8BA medical advances. Eastgate Theatre 17 Northgate, Peebles, EH45 8RX Open daily Eastgate Theatre, Peebles 7.30pm Open Monday – Saturday 10am – 5pm Tel: 01764 651550 7.30pm £12, £6 for young ‘uns Sunday 12noon – 4pm www.parkpeebles.co.uk £12 Tel: 01721 722116 The Park is bursting at the seams with (includes a glass of wine or a soft drink) www.moymackaygallery.com upcycled art pieces and installations using Showcasing work by over thirty materials salvaged from the, sadly now contemporary artists and makers along closed, March Street Mills – a living with gallery owner artist Moy Mackay’s testament to the Borders’ textile renowned felted paintings. industrial past.

For more information www.creativepeeblesfestival.co.uk Saturday 2 September Step Out and Dance Family Ceilidh A fun, lively afternoon of workshops in all sorts An opportunity to try out dances learned of styles of dance - social, traditional, historical earlier, and to enjoy other favourites, with a Annual Busking A Hutter’s Life and Latin. Open to adults and teens - live band and someone to call the dances. Competition Soonhope Burn behind Peebles Hydro is a experienced dancers, or not. Followed by an Leckie Church Hall unique rural retreat, with almost 50 home- Fill Peebles with music. Open to everyone energetic early evening celidh for all 6 – 8pm made cabins built along the valley before and with a song and/or a tune or three. Register the family. £6, £4 child, £16 family of four after World War II to encourage miners and your entry at the Tontine Hotel Courtyard, ex-servicemen to enjoy fresh air and exercise High Street, Peebles from 1.30pm and return Three traditional workshops: in the country. Join to explore this hidden at 4pm when The Callants will present the 2 – 3pm French couple dance valley and learn more about Scotland’s Hutter Dennis Todd Memorial Shield. movement. 3.20 – 4.20pm Swedish couple dance High Street, Peebles Meet at Eastgate Café 4.40 – 5.40pm Scottish country dance 2pm – 4pm 2.30 – 4.30pm Eastgate Theatre FREE £6 £5 each session, £12 for all three

Open Mic Three Latin workshops: DOWNRIGHT HOMESPUN 2 – 3pm Charleston Poetry Slam RADIO COMPANY 3.20 – 4.20pm Jive and Lindyhop Join members of Borders Writers Forum for presents 4.40 – 5.40pm Salsa an impromptu exchange of original poems. Small Town Summer Come along and read from your own work, Anne Younger Studio, or simply enjoy listening to others. Sarsaparilla Eastgate Theatre Silver Tree Studio, Pennel’s Close The summer’s not over till you’ve laughed £5 each session 2.30 – 4.30pm and clapped your way through the £12 for all three Pay what you can company’s brilliant sketches, sizzling sounds, and sparking sarsaparilla punch. Three historic dance workshops: Book early, tickets sell out fast! 2 – 3pm Historic Playford Eastgate Theatre 3.20 – 4.20pm Rueda 7.30pm 4.40 – 5.40pm Contra £12, £6 for young ‘uns Leckie Church Hall £5 each session £12 for all three Sunday 3 September OTHER EVENTS IN AND AROUND THE TOWN

Peebles’ Ecclesiastical The Big, Big Beyond Borders Peebles Scouts History Peebles Draw International Festival Annual Craft Fair The church has featured strongly in the life of Announcement of prize winners The platform for small nation dialogue and Lots of local craft stalls. Peebles Scouts Peebles for centuries – from St Kentigern’s and silent auction cultural exchange. Beyond Borders works and parents offer homemade soups, teas, early visits to the area, through the medieval During the festival the Eastgate Café has through several mediums - literature, arts, coffees and baking. turmoil of the Reformation, to the Disruption displayed an exhibition of postcard sized film, politics and dialogue - to harness Burgh Hall, High Street, Peebles of 1843. Stuart Akers leads a guided walk to artwork on all aspects of life in Peebles. Scotland's unique heritage to provide a Sat 3rd September explore some of the historic remnants of this During the exhibition visitors were invited to platform to cultural leaders from around 10-4pm complex history. vote for their favourite postcards and, if they the world to exchange experiences, in an www.peeblesscouts.co.uk 2.30 – 4.30pm would like to own one, to make a secret bid effort to promote understanding and help £6 to buy it. The results are announced today. reduce conflict. 5pm Traquair House Peebles Highland Witch Wood Walk FREE Sat 26 and Sun 27 August Games A guided walk around some of the places in www.beyondbordersscotland.com Exhibition: Fri 25 August – Sun 3 Hay Lodge Park, Peebles and around Broughton that John Buchan September Sat 2 September 2017 used as inspiration for his atmospheric novel PEEBLES HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 11am – 5pm Witch Wood. The walk will incorporate a few www.peebles-highland-games.org stops to appreciate Buchan’s writing, his Flower Show MUSIC IN PEEBLES descriptions of people, places and the presents The annual grand exhibition and landscape. competition. Tour o the Borders Meet at Broughton Community Hall Drill Hall, Walker's Haugh, Michael Collins & 2 routes (car parking available) Peebles EH45 8AU Full Route 120kms/74 miles Walk will end with tea/coffee and The Heath Quartet Sat 26 August 2 – 5pm Elevation gain: 1430m or shortbread in the hall For the final concert of Creative Peebles Contact Ann Dodds 01721 722491 2.30pm, £6 Festival the Heath Quartet combines forces Challenge route 88.8km/56 miles with clarinettist Michael Collins for a Elevation gain: 890m T in the Café performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet Dawyck Botanic Sun 3 September 2017 in A, along with works by Weber and www.tourotheborders.com Join Nomad Beat Community Music School Widmann. Gardens Age 16 and over for a fun, bright afternoon of music Eastgate Theatre Explore the borders, avenues and wilder showcasing some of the best sounds from stretches of Dawyck Gardens in the company the school’s summer workshops and music £14, schoolchild FREE of an expert guide. Scottish Borders groups – including Rock & Pop, Breaking Dawyck Gardens Visitor Centre Sound Barriers, Trad Fiddle, #Banter Beat Walking Festival Sun 27 August and Sun 3 September and the amazing formation drumming of the 2.15pm (Peebles) famous Demon Drummers. www.rbge.org.uk/the- Sun 3 September to Sat 9th September Eastgate Café 2.30 – 4.30pm gardens/dawyck www.borderswalking.com Pay what you can Special thanks to Isobel Finnie for giving permission creative classes for to use one of her intricate images of Peebles. adults...

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Dance Modern Ballet (All levels) Tap (Experienced) with Sara Boles with Sara Boles A modern take on this classical art form. Get into the rhythm with this fast, Mondays 21 August – 2 October fun (noisy) class. 7.15 – 8.15pm Tuesdays 15 August – 3 October £31.50 for 7 weeks or £5 each class 10 – 10.55am £36 for 8 weeks or £5 each class Starlight Egyptian Bellydance with Tigerlily Classical Ballet (Experienced) A beginners class to help with confidence, with Sara Boles toning, building flexibility in your hips and Develop your balance, poise and posture. strength in your core. All women, any size or Tuesdays 15 August – 3 October age, are welcome. This particular 11 – 11.55am performance art, following basic Egyptian £36 for 8 weeks or £5 each class moves, will strengthen you physically, mentally and spiritually. For information on the Mondays 21 August – 2 October workshops with a CPF 8.30 – 9.30pm logo see the Creative £31.50 for 7 weeks or £5 each class Peebles Festival pages.

All tickets from Eastgate Box Office 01721 725777 Still Moving NEW Jazz for Exercise (All levels) with Sara Boles with Sara Boles Join Sara in this brand new seated dance Practise those jazz hands and so class for adults aiming to improve stability, much more. strength and mobility in a fun and safe Fridays 18 August – 6 October environment. 11 – 11.55am Tuesdays 15 August – 3 October £36 for 8 weeks or £5 each class 12 – 12.45pm £36 for 8 weeks or £5 each class Tap (Introductory) with Sara Boles Let’s Dance with Alex Saunders Lace up your tap shoes and make Burst out some moves in a range of some noise. different dance styles in this fun, energetic Fridays 18 August – 6 October class. 12noon – 12.55pm Thursdays 17 August – 5 October £36 for 8 weeks or £5 each class 7.15 – 8.15pm Music £36 for 8 weeks or £5 each class Step Out to Dance Workshops Drama Three traditional, three Latin, three historic Acting Up Peebles Players Modern Ballet (All levels) dance. with Clare Prenton with Claire Garnett with Sara Boles Sat 2 September 2 – 5.40pm If you are aged 55 + and interested in Lively music sessions for adults with A modern take on this classical art form. £12 for each group of three theatre, acting and plays then join theatre disabilities. Sing well-loved songs, choose Fridays 18 August – 6 October or £5 each session director and acting tutor Clare on an from a selection of colourful percussion 10 – 10.55am adventure. Each week we will look at a and make music together with friends. £36 for 8 weeks or £5 each class different aspect of drama and will shape More information from Claire the latter part of the course with any T: 01721 740 256 requests for favourite playwrights. E: [email protected] Throughout the term Shakespeare’s Macbeth is the reference point for acting Come and Try Scottish Harp and voice work We will also look at John led by Charlotte Petersen Godber’s comedy September in the Rain. and Heather Yule Mondays 21 August – 10 October Sun 27 August 2 – 3pm 11am – 12.30pm FREE (instruments provided) £70 for 10 weeks or £7.50 each class Elementary Harp led by Charlotte Petersen Sun 27 August 4 - 5.30pm £5 (bring your own instrument)

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Writing Group A friendly and informal opportunity to bring, read and discuss new writing in FUNBOX poetry and prose. presents Fortnightly on Wednesdays Contact box office 01721 725777 Highland Fling for the first date 7pm Auditorium Free Hoots mon and help ma boab! Take the high road A Sense of History (or the low road) and get roamin in the gloamin writers workshop led by Margaret Skea for Funbox's brand new show. Join Anya, Kevin Mon 28 August and Gary and Bonzo the dog as 2.30 – 4.30pm they take a trip to the Highlands £12 of Scotland to battle midgies, become monarchs of the glen and hear the skirl of the bagpipes in their latest singalong adventure.

There's silliness galore and songs to sing as you help us get the Funbox open. It contains everything you need to sing a song or have an Art adventure - but which of our special keys should we use? You may even be lucky enough to help Narrative Ark the gang on stage! A lino cutting and print making workshop led by Neil Stewart Packed with family favourites like Buy Me Sat 26 August A Banana, Shove Yer Granny Aff a Bus Workshop 2.30 – 4.30pm and The Midgies Are Comin, as well as brand £15 (includes materials and tools) new songs, Highland Fling is the perfect treat Drawing with Charcoal for kids of all ages - from nought to ninety. led by Deborah Campbell Wear something tartan and join the hoolie! Mon 28 August 10.30am – 12.30pm £12 (includes charcoal Sat 12 August and other materials) 1pm & 3.30pm £12.50, £10 for schoolchildren, £40 family of four

For information on the workshops with a CPF logo see the Creative Peebles Festival pages.

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TWEEDDALE SOCIETY BORDERS WRITERS FORUM Eagles - Hotel The Bridge Benefit presents presents California and all that jazz Stem Cells – A New Abridged Auditorium Auditorium Era in Medicine Studio Professor Sir Ian Wilmut This band delivers an authentic celebration of A fundraising evening on behalf of The There are thought to be more than 3000 bridges the masterfully crafted tunes of the Eagles, the Bridge, Tweeddale, to raise money for Auditorium in the Borders, ranging from tiny wooden Californian band that sold more than 100 million two new community buses. Musical footbridges hidden away in forest trails, to the albums worldwide. entertainment will be provided by the Since 1996 when he became known across the magnificent spans of the Leaderfoot Viaduct. Kenneth McAllister Jazz Quartet playing a Eagles songs merge country-tinged vocal world for his work in creating the first cloned Abridged, the latest anthology from Borders selection of jazz standards from Duke harmonies with hard-rock guitars and lyrics that mammal Dolly the Sheep, Professor Sir Ian Writers’ Forum includes both prose and poetry, Ellington and Count Basie to Dizzy are alternately yearning – One of These Nights, Wilmut has continued his work on the role of fiction and non-fiction. Gillespie and Benny Goodman. There will Best of My Love – and romantically jaded – Life genetic mechanisms in human diseases and the also be a charity auction offering some star Sat 26 August in the Fast Lane, Hotel California. use of stem cells in new treatments. Tonight he 2.30pm prizes. The Bridge provides community will outline these medical advances. Sir Ian is £6 Originally formed in 1999 Hotel California and voluntary sector support across Chair and Emeritus Professor at the Scottish created The Eagles Story in 2003 and toured the Tweeddale. Centre for Regenerative Medicine. world, even performing with Don Felder. Sat 23 September Wed 30 August www.hotelcaliforniamusic.co.uk 7.30pm 7.30pm £15 £12 (includes a glass of wine or a soft drink)

Fri 18 & Sat 19 August 7.30pm This events is sponsored by Speaking in Turn £16 Auditorium

Writers Philip Hutton and Anita John read from their poetry and prose and discuss sources of inspiration. They will be accompanied by Colin Hall on saxophone.

Tue 29 August 7.30pm £8 (includes a glass of wine or a soft drink)

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DOWNRIGHT HOMESPUN TWEED THEATRE RADIO COMPANY CENTRESTAGE presents presents presents Small Town Summer Summer Comedy Men Should Weep Sarsaparilla Premiere Auditorium This extraordinarily moving and uplifting play Auditorium Auditorium tells of lives lived in grinding poverty, The DHRC’s shimmering summer show brings All this week a group of local young people has unemployment and overcrowding in the east a house band hot from Nashville with sizzling been working with playwright Douglas Roberts end of Glasgow in the 1930s but, like Sean sounds, and razor-sharp post-election comedy and actor Scott Noble to produce this comedy O’Casey’s plays about the Dublin poor, it from the Royal company of radio actors. The stage show. The script was a secret until the becomes a surprisingly funny celebration of summer’s not over ‘til you’ve laughed and start of this week, but if you like your comedy life and courage. clapped your way through our sparkling local and fresh then take a punt and come along At the centre is Maggie, the mother of seven sarsaparilla punch. Book early - tickets sell to see death, romance, confusion and happy children ranging from baby to adult, who holds out fast! endings all rolled into the Centrestage summer the family together in a grim tenement slum, production. Fri 1 September & Sat 2 September coping with unemployment, TB, errant children, 7.30pm Friday 4 August prying neighbours and a censorious sister. £12 7.30pm Playwright Ena Lamont Stewart depicts a world £5 where a slice of bread and jam is a treat, yet somehow the fractious Morrison family survive through a mixture of love and dogged determination.

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40 ... EASTGATE PEEBLES EH45 8AD BOX OFFICE 01721 725 777 for more information visit www.eastgatearts.com ... 41 eg... Film ...Film This is the Film Sunday programme for this season. The film programme can occasionally be Marking 70 years since the partition of India, this year’s Beyond Borders International affected by distribution problems – so please look online www.eastgatearts.com or in the Festival’s focus on the Indian sub-continent includes the screening of three films that printed film brochure for updates. explore the impact of this momentous event in history, and its reverberations today. Ticket prices for Sunday Cinema are £9 for adults, £6 for schoolchildren BEYOND BORDERS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL presents a partition trilogy of films. and £25 for a family of four. Please check the film certificate before booking. Garam Hava The Journey Sun 9 July Churchill Cars 3 Guardians of the Galaxy: 7.30pm 2.30pm (‘Scorching Winds’) Within Vol 2 May 23rd, 1944: beleaguered Lightning McQueen sets out Gandhi (1973, 146 mins, Urdu (2015, 78 mins English/Urdu 2.30pm Prime Minister Winston to prove to a new generation (1982, 191 mins, English) with English subtitles) with subtitles) & Q&A Action-packed plot, dazzling Churchill (Brian Cox) must of racers that he's still the best visuals, and irreverent humour. prepare a final attempt to crush race car in the world. Hitler's encroaching army. The Auditorium Auditorium Auditorium The Mummy stakes have never been higher. Spider-man: Homecoming 4.30pm 4.30pm This acclaimed biographical The first film to deal with the This award-winning docu-film Tom Cruise stars in this A young Peter Parker begins to human consequences of the details the origins of the Coke drama explores the life of imaginative new take on the Sun 6 August navigate his newfound identity Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi, 1947 partition of India, Garam Studio – a Pakistani music show classic tale that ushers in a new as the web-slinging super hero Despicable Me 3 the Indian leader who stood Hava focuses on the plight of dedicated to reclaiming the rich world of gods and monsters. then new villain the Vulture 2.30pm a North Indian Muslim musical heritage of the country. emerges against British rule of his More adventures with Gru, Berlin Syndrome country. Dedicated to non- businessman who, in the In a post 9/11 Pakistan full of Lucy, their adorable daughters- 7.30pm Dunkirk violent resistance, Gandhi months after Gandhi’s conflict, the Coke Studio has Margo, Edith and Agnes - and A night of passion turns very 7.30pm (Ben Kingsley) is initially assassination in 1948, wrestles grown from humble beginnings the Minions. sinister in the morning. Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, dismissed by officials, including over whether to join many to become a major initiative that Cillian Murphy and Mark the influential Lord Irwin others in moving his family to brings together a variety of Transformers: The Last Rylance co-star in this World Knight (John Gielgud), but over time Pakistan, or remain in India. musical genres, with artists War II thriller. Sun 23 July 4.30pm Directed by M.S. Sathyu, this creating music that resonates his cause gains international Pirates of the Caribbean: Humans and Transformers are renown, and his gatherings controversial film remains both within Pakistan and across Salazar’s Revenge at war, Optimus Prime is gone. one of the most poignant the globe. Directed by Mian 2.30pm of passive protest move India The key to saving our future Grow Your Own towards independence. examinations of the post- Adnan Ahmad. Captain Jack must forge lies buried in the secrets of the alliances to hunt for the Trident The arrival of political refugees and Directed by Richard partition flight of Muslims past, in the hidden history of of Poseidon if he is to survive phone company inducements raise Attenborough. in India. Transformers on Earth. the attentions of the terrifying all sorts of tensions, alliances and Wed 23 August Thu 24 August Fri 25 August Captain Salazar. Alone in Berlin committees on the allotments in 7pm 7pm 7pm 7.30pm this touching and hilarious My Cousin Rachel £9 £9 £9 Berlin 1940 and a very ordinary homegrown comedy. Stars a 4.30pm couple begin to pour their rage host of acclaimed British actors This dark romance stars and grief over the death of including Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin their son into postcards Eddie Marsan, Omid Djalili and Iain Glen. emblazoned with anti-Nazi A combined ticket to see the partition trilogy of films: and Benedict Wong. slogans. A small protest soon £20, £15 (student) Mon 28 August becomes a huge manhunt. 7pm Beyond Borders International Festival is at £9 Traquair House on Sat 26 and Sun 27 August.

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Mike Bauer is staging a retrospective of 50 works including landscapes, still lifes and animals. A Beyond Borders fundraising exhibition for The Borders Asperger International Festival & Autism Support Group. www.mikebauer.co.uk Wed 26 July – Tue 22 August 26-27 August 2017 “It’s like joining a rather wonderful Traquair House, Innerleithen, EH44 6PW party, but you are talking about serious matters, interesting matters” Full programme launched in June 2017 Kate Adie, Narrative Ark www.beyondbordersscotland.com Former BBC Chief News Correspondent Anne Younger Studio

An exhibition of intricate lino-cut prints by Neil Stewart showing many instantly recognisable scenes from in and around Peebles. Fri 25 August – Sat 23 September Thomas the Rhymer

Anne Younger Studio FOLKSY THEATRE presents Michael Jessing and Ross MacRae show their large scale design for a mural interpreting the legend of Twelfth Night Thomas the Rhymer. The exhibition will also include Shakespeare’s famous comedy about love and mistaken identity. The action takes place in the examples of work by other artists influenced by the open-air and will be performed with live music, bold characterisations and audience interaction. Rhymer’s adventures in the otherworld. Fri 29 September – Sat 21 October Thu 13 July, 7pm Glen House Gardens, Innerleithen, EH44 6PX Tickets: Adults £13.50, OAP & Students £10 The Big, Big Peebles Draw Children £8, Family of four £38 Box Office: 01721 725777 Eastgate Foyer www.eastgatearts.com An exhibition of postcard sized artwork on all aspects of life in Peebles. During the exhibition visitors will be invited to vote for their favourite postcards and, if they would like to own one, to make a secret bid to buy it. The results will be announced on Sun 3 September at 5pm. Fri 25 August – Sun 3 September

Please note that access to the Anne Younger Studio is limited when it is in use for classes. We advise telephoning to check on the best times to visit exhibitions – especially if you are making a special journey.

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JULY Sun 9 Film: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 2.30pm £9 43 Sun 9 Film: The Mummy 4.30pm £9 43 Sun 9 Film: Berlin Syndrome 7.30pm £9 43 Wed 12 Lady Boys of Bangkok 5pm & 8pm £20 8 Thu 20 Drama NT Live Angels in America Part 1 Millenium Approaches 7pm £14 4 Sun 23 Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge 2.30pm £9 43 Sun 23 Film: My Cousin Rachel 4.30pm £9 43 Sun 23 Film: Churchill 7.30pm £9 43 Thu 27 Drama NT Live Angels in America Part 2 Peristroika 7pm £14 4 Sat 29 Music: Feis Rois Ceilidh Trail 12.30pm FREE 12

AUGUST Fri 4 Drama: Summer Comedy Premiere 7.30pm £5 40 Sat 5 Family: Eastgate Open Day 10am FREE 13 Sun 6 Film: Despicable Me 3 2.30pm £9 43 Sun 6 Film: Transformers: The Last Knight 4.30pm £9 43 Sun 6 Film: Alone in Berlin 7.30pm £9 43 Fri 11 Music: The Honeycutters 7.30pm £14 11 Sat 12 Family: Funbox, Highland Fling 1pm & 3.30pm £12.50 37 Fri 12 & Sat 19 Music: Eagles - Hotel California 7.30pm £16 38 Sun 20 Film: Cars 3 2.30pm £9 43 Sun 20 Film: Spiderman: Homecoming 4.30pm £9 43 Sun 20 Film: Dunkirk 7.30pm £9 43 Wed 23 Film: Gandhi 7pm £9 42 Thu 24 Film: Garam Hava (Scorching Winds) 7pm £9 42 Fri 25 Film: The Journey Within 7pm £9 42 Sat 26 Literature: Abridged 2.30pm £6 39 Sat 26 Music: Sisters of Swing 7.30pm £15 9 Sun 27 Music: Rachel Hair Trio 7.30pm £14 12 Mon 28 Film: Grow Your Own 7pm £9 39 Tue 29 Literature: Speaking in Turn 7.30pm £8 39 Wed 30 Talk: Stem Cells - A New Era in Medicine 7.30pm £12 39 Thu 31 Drama: The Sky is Safe 7.30pm £14 5

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Fri 1 & Sat 2 Radio Variety Theatre: Small Town Summer Sarsaparilla 7.30pm £12 40 . e v i

Sun 3 Music: T in the Café 2pm PWYC 12 t a e r

Sun 3 Prize giving and auction result: Big, Big Peebles Draw 5pm Free 40 c e s i

Sun 3 Music: MiP Michael Collins & The Heath Quartet 7.30pm £14 7 o n e t

Thu 7, Fri 8 & Sat 9 Drama: Men Should Weep 7.30pm £10 41 i h w

Wed 13 Music: The Tannahill Weavers 7.30pm £14 10 d e c

Sat 16 Music: 3hattrio 7.30pm £14 11 u d o Sun 17 Film: See Press for Details 2.30pm £9 43 r p

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Sun 17 Film: See Press for Details 4.30pm £9 43 a

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Sun 17 Film: See Press for Details 7.30pm £9 43 n g i s

Wed 20 Opera on Screen: Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) 7.15pm £17 6 e d Sat 23 Music: The Bridge Benefit and All That Jazz 7.30pm £15 38 Wed 27 Music: Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham 7.30pm £18 10 Thu 28 Drama: NT Yerma 7pm £14 4 Visit www.eastgatearts.com to download a bigger printable version for your noticeboard

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