Galloway Gatherings

Every Wednesday from 4 - 25 February

2.00pm - 4.00pm

£8.00 per lecture or £30.00 for all 4 lectures

A series of lectures on the heritage of Galloway, details as follows

4 February: Stuart McCulloch BSc (Hons), MEd- ‘The Balliol Lords of Galloway'

11 February: Professor Ted Cowan - ‘New Galloway's Most Famous Son: Robert Heron'

18 February: Mike Duguid MA (Hons) - ‘The Boys of Borgue: William Nicholson and John MacTaggart'

25 February: Dr David Steel - ‘The Artists of Galloway'

Storytelling Café

Thursday 5 February

7.30pm

This month's guest host is Stripey Dog with the theme, "Stripey Dog's Tales." This is a regular event on the first Thursday of every month.  Cakes and coffee will be available and audience participation will be encouraged!  Eat, drink and let your imagination run away with you!

Valentine's Tea Dance

Friday 13 February 3.00pm-5.00pm

With music from the Saxachord Dance Band, and delicious delicacies from Catherine Braid of the Green Tea House. Enjoy an afternoon of pleasant music and dancing at The CatStrand's  Valentine's Tea-Dance.

CatStrand Young Musicians

Alex McQuiston, accompanied by Maxine Windsor

Saturday 14 February

7.30pm

£8.00 / £6.00

A Valentine's evening of romantic music with Alex McQuiston on Cello accompanied by Maxine Windsor on piano. The programme includes Martinu sonata no 3, Shostakovich sonata 1st and 2nd movements, Miaskovsky sonata no.1 opus 11, Rachmaninov Vocalise and Saint Saens Allegro Appasianato. 

Alex is currently studying at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester where he learns with Nicholas Jones.  Alex attended the Junior Department of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and over the years has performed locally and nationally as a soloist and member of the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland and has performed in some of Europe's most prestigious concert halls, including Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and the Konzerthaus Berlin.

Maxine Windsor has played in many solo and chamber concerts in Africa and South America as well as the UK; she now teaches piano in Dumfries.

The Blank Album

Gilmore Productions

Saturday 21 February

7.30pm

£5.00 (£3.00 under 18s)

Live music, comedy and dance that literally rocks - The Blank Album!  A unique combination of rock music, pop imagery and complex choreography directed by Natasha Gilmore ‘The Catherine Tate of contemporary dance' and composer Quee McArthur of Shooglenifty, with a five strong cast of multi-talented dance artists/musicians.

Dancers who sing standing on their heads, cellos that dance, and sketch show guitars- hysterical yet strikingly poetic. Performed live on stage with guitars, fiddle, cello, and voice, the music and movement are completely intertwined. Laced through with references to youth and popular culture.

"Brilliant." THE TIMES

Catstrand Cinema Club: Man on Wire

Wednesday 25 February

7.30pm

£4.50 (£3.50 CCC members and concessions)

On August 7, 1974, a 24-year-old French high-wire artist named Philippe Petit committed one of the most astonishing performance stunts of the late 20th century: he strung a thin cable in between the two towers of the World Trade Center and not only walked across, from one building to another, but did a nerve-wracking series of knee-bends and acrobatic movements on the cable, some 1,350 feet above the ground, before turning himself in. This occurred to the consternation and chagrin of Port Authority policemen, who immediately arrested Petit for the act -- prompting many to dub Petit's stunt "the artistic crime of the century."

Cert 12, 94 minutes.