What’s On November 2018 Aberfeldy, Blair Atholl, Dunkeld, Kenmore, Pitlochry and Rannoch Organising an event? – Go to our web site’s What’s on section http://www.pitlochry-scotland.co.uk/pitlochry-whats-on/ fill out the Event detail form or by emailing [email protected]. The earlier the better. Please check the details with the venue before committing yourself to any event, - make sure there have been no change in details since publication. Also look at www.Pitlochry-Scotland.co.uk for updates. Daily until 27th January 2019 She is known primarily for her abstract painting and Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th November Rhythms of Colour: Late Paintings and print-making, but she also produced a distinctive Perthshire Amber body of graphic work, several of which will be on Prints – Wilhelmina Barns-Graham show here. Royal Dunkeld Hotel, Atholl Street, The Watermill Gallery, Aberfeldy Dunkeld, Perthshire, PH8 0AR Born in St Andrews, Fife Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Three key elements unify her work: form, Amber Central The festival hub is in the picturesque was one of the foremost British abstract artists movement and colour. So, whether painting, and historic town of Dunkeld. For the 3 days of the working in the second half of the twentieth century. drawing or print-making her boundless creativity festival we transform the Royal Dunkeld Hotel into She divided her time between Scotland and St Ives, and insatiable curiosity shine through and make her our ‘Amber Central’. The spacious upstairs function where her work contributed greatly to the work both distinctive and uplifting. room, dubbed “Wee Festival Hall” by the festival development of Modernist British art. team, is the home for the afternoon Open Mic The Watermill is open Mon-Sat 10am – 5.30pm & sessions and early evening Cabaret Amber concerts. This exhibition, the third organised by The Watermill Sun 11am – 5.30pm. Tel: 01887 822896. Exhibition By day it remains bright and airy with its large Gallery in collaboration with the Wilhelmina Barns- website: http://www.aberfeldywatermill.com/art/ windows and high corniced ceiling and by night it is Graham Trust, will be an opportunity to view a transformed with the help of our lighting and design significant collection of her late work. 14 SEP – 19 DEC 2018 (Most Fridays team into an atmospheric and intimate 11am) performance space. For the full Perthsire Amber Barns-Graham had an extraordinary creative Festival details. flowering in her later years which became the most SECRETS OF THE STAGE fruitful of all. The exhibition will feature a Pitlochry Festival Theatre 2nd & 3rd November 2018 remarkable group of paintings from this period, This hugely popular illustrated talk is led by our Aberfeldy Festival which will include full-sheet works on paper. The Community & Education Director, Drew Scott. It rhythms of colour and the dynamic brushstrokes in covers all aspects of PFT’s stage productions: from Aberfeldy Townhall, Crieff Road, Aberfeldy these later paintings convey a vivacity and joie de set design and auditions to the rehearsal and set The festival takes place the first weekend in vivre that is irresistible. building process, using set models, props and November every year and the majority of it is held costumes from past PFT shows. Having spent in Aberfeldy Townhall. The Line-up focuses on Towards the end of her life Barns-Graham came to several years as Stage Manager here at PFT, Drew is bands and music on the Scottish music scene that regard print-making as equally important as her ideally placed to give a personal insight into life are maybe under represented but still have a good painting. She found print-making a liberating backstage. Tickets: £7.50 (Includes tea or coffee and following or have had critical acclaim and played on experience. The thirty prints presented in the a Danish pastry) | Time: 11.00am – 12.30pm Talks radio stations like BBC6. Although that’s not always exhibition are mostly from her time working with take place on most Fridays from 29 June to 12 the case nor an exclusive ruling on who we invite Graal press. They fully express her zest for life and October. More on Secrets of the Stage but we do try to include bands that have made an her creative energy. impact on the music scene in Scotland in that year. Ian Rankin has helped to curate for a number of 1 | P a g e years now and always has a good handle on what Royal Dunkeld Hotel, Atholl Street, Magical Mozart by Candlelight @ Pitlochry bands are worthy of a listen. Dunkeld, Perthshire, PH8 0AR Festival Theatre http://aberfeldyfestival.com Amber Central The festival hub is in the picturesque 2 November @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm and historic town of Dunkeld. For the 3 days of the Pitlochry Festival Theatre Port-Na-Craig Magical Mozart by Candlelight @ Pitlochry festival we transform the Royal Dunkeld Hotel into Festival Theatre our ‘Amber Central’. The spacious upstairs function Rd, Pitlochry PH16 5DR 2 November @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm room, dubbed “Wee Festival Hall” by the festival This sumptuous, fully costumed show will immerse audiences in the 18th Century world (and wonderful Pitlochry Festival Theatre Port-Na-Craig team, is the home for the afternoon Open Mic sessions and early evening Cabaret Amber concerts. music!) of one of the world’s greatest romantic Rd, Pitlochry PH16 5DR By day it remains bright and airy with its large composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Featuring This sumptuous, fully costumed show will immerse windows and high corniced ceiling and by night it is beautiful stage settings, costumes, lighting and, of audiences in the 18th Century world (and wonderful transformed with the help of our lighting and design course, candles, the European Baroque Ensemble, music!) of one of the world’s greatest romantic team into an atmospheric and intimate together with world-class opera singers, will composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Featuring performance space. For the full Perthsire Amber transport you back to a gone but not forgotten era. beautiful stage settings, costumes, lighting and, of Festival details. Tickets: £20.00 Box Office on 01796 484 626 or course, candles, the European Baroque Ensemble, book online: www.PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com together with world-class opera singers, will Fri 2nd (11am-4pm) Sat 3rd & Sun 4th Nov transport you back to a gone but not forgotten era. (10am-4pm) Fri 2nd November 9.30pm Tickets: £20.00 Box Office on 01796 484 626 or Jono at The Old Mill Inn book online: www.PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com Blair Castle Christmas Fair Rhythms of Colour: Late Paintings and Prints Blair Castle Blair Atholl, Pitlochry, PH18 The Old Mill Inn, Mill Lane, Pitlochry PH16 8 September 2018 @ 10:00 am - 27 January 2019 @ 5TH 5BH 5:30 pm A singer/songwriter from Glasgow playing a mind- The Blair Castle Christmas Fair is our first Christmas Perthshire United Kingdom + Google Map blowingly eclectic mix of hits, old & new. FREE Fair of the season. Over 50 of our finest Arts, Crafts Free Entry Admission T: 01796 474 020 and Food producers will gather in the grand www.oldmillevents.co.uk ballroom and the Banvie Hall in the breathtaking www.theoldmillpitlochry.co.uk 4th October to 4th November. setting of Blair Castle. A glorious opportunity to see The Enchanted Forest and buy from a wide range of the finest crafts and Faskally Woods, Pitlochry. sumptuous foods. Glassmakers, patissiers, Friday 2nd to Sunday 4th November The Enchanted Forest is an outdoor sound and light preservists, textilers, chocolatiers, artists, Perthshire Amber show which takes place at Forestry Commission silversmiths, jewellers, bakers and seamstresses, all Royal Dunkeld Hotel, Atholl Street, Scotland’s Faskally Wood near Pitlochry. Visitors are of whose goods are lovingly handmade in Scotland. Dunkeld, Perthshire, PH8 0AR The Castle as always will be beautifully dressed for treated to a series of choreographed sound and Amber Central The festival hub is in the picturesque Christmas, the restaurant loaded with a full range of light shows while they follow the path around the and historic town of Dunkeld. For the 3 days of the tempting delights and with ample parking it’s the forest. You should expect to be in the forest for festival we transform the Royal Dunkeld Hotel into nicest way to start your Christmas shopping. between 60 to 90 minutes to fully appreciate the our ‘Amber Central’. The spacious upstairs function Gardens and parking are free, and entrance to the show. Most visitors walk around the forest more room, dubbed “Wee Festival Hall” by the festival Fair is £3. than once during their visit. Once you arrive in the team, is the home for the afternoon Open Mic forest you can stay as long as you like. The show sessions and early evening Cabaret Amber concerts. closes at 10.30pm Whisky Tasting By day it remains bright and airy with its large start times vary throughout the run of the show and 2 November @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm windows and high corniced ceiling and by night it is are largely driven by when darkness falls. Buy tickets Wild Space Visitor Centre, Station Road transformed with the help of our lighting and design on line. Pitlochry, Perthshire PH16 5AN team into an atmospheric and intimate https://www.enchantedforest.org.uk/tickets/ performance space. For the full Perthsire Amber Join us in Pitlochry’s Wild Space Visitor Centre for an Festival details. informal whisky tasting hosted by experts from the Spooky Spotlight Safari Ben Nevis Distillery – established in 1825, it’s one of Wednesday 31th October & Thursday 1st Scotland’s oldest licensed distilleries. Choose from a Fri 2nd (11am-4pm) Sat 3rd & Sun 4th Nov November at 5.30pm (Booking Essential) dram of McDonald’s Traditional Si ngle Malt Scotch (10am-4pm) Highland Safaris, Aberfeldy PH15 2JQ Whisky £4 or Nevis Dew 12 Years Old Deluxe Blend Blair Castle Christmas Fair As dusk turns to night climb aboard your Land Rover £3 – or try them both £5 – and discover more about Blair Castle Blair Atholl, Pitlochry, PH18 uisge beatha the water of life.