Cowal’s Walking Theatre Company to feature in two of the four nationally...
The Walking Theatre Company specialises in creating interactive plays inspired by community stories and historical events. This places the company squarely in the midst of the objectives of 2009...
View ArticleRed distress flare mischief leads to pointless Oban Lifeboat launch on 1st...
Oban’s RNLI lifeboat, Mora Edith Macdonald, was called out on Sunday 1st February at 19.03. Members of the public were reporting seeing a red flare in Oban Bay.The lifeboat crew searched the bay...
View ArticleOban lifeboat out just now in response to what looks like another hoax flare
By 20.00 tonight Oban RNLI lifeboat, the Mora Edith MacDonald, was out searching Oban Bay in response to more sightings of a red distress flare from the direction of Dunollie.This was the site of the...
View ArticleThe Walking Theatre Company’s Hidden Jewel at Oban’s Dunollie Castle
The Hidden Jewel, a new play celebrating one of Scotland’s National Treasures ‘The Brooch of Lorne’ has drawn MacDougalls from all over the world.The Brooch of LorneThe family, one of the signal Clans...
View ArticleHighland Tourism Awards shortlists Dunollie events, The Hidden Jewel & Sadie...
Dunollie’s MacDougall Clan Homecoming programme, with The Walking Theatre Company’s The Hidden Jewel (a drama born from the Brooch of Lorn) has been shortlisted for the prestigious Highland Tourism...
View Article2009 For Argyll Awards: Nominations update
(As at Midnight 24th December) Nominations have now closed.Below is the final list of all those nominated – and a very interesting document it is. It shows the spread of activity across Argyll, it...
View ArticleSee it: Seil Natural History Group’s survey walk to Dunollie
This is about learning to look at where we are, at the UK’s richest biodiversity hosted in Argyll. The level of expertise and commitment amongst the 100+ strong Seil Natural History Group combine to...
View ArticleOban Lifeboat launch for missing person
The Oban Lifeboat launched today (Sunday 14th February) at 16.04 in response to a request from Strathclyde Police’s Oban base for assistance in a search for a missing person.The search area was to the...
View ArticleChallenge to local election candidates from Museums and Heritage Forum
Catherine Gillies, Curator at Dunollie House in Oban and Chair of Argyll and Bute Museums and Heritage Forum, has issued the followong challenge to all candidates standing in the local authority...
View ArticleBrooch of Lorn goes south to British Museum for Shakespeare exhibition
The British Museum is running an exhibition – Shakespeare: staging the world - from 19th July to 25th November. This is part of the World Shakespeare Festival, itself part of the London 2012 Festival...
View ArticleDunollie children’s club to connect the young to the historical
Oban’s Clan MacDougall heritage at Dunollie has come up with a wonderful strategic initiative.It is running a new (free) club for Children from 8 year old upwards, based in the 1745 house.The club will...
View ArticleOpen air Shakespeare and hogroast at Dunollie
The glorious Dunollie House and Castle, the MacDougall stronghold guarding the northern entrance to Oban Bay, is hosting two spectacular outdoor – and active – theatre events on 24th and 25th August,...
View ArticleA first for Dunollie: Marcelle Kalberer 22 ft tower and dome in living willow
The world’s leading ‘living architecture’ expert, Germany-based Marcelle Kalberer has designed two living willow structures for Dunollie in Oban – the first examples of his work to be shown in...
View ArticleDiary date NOW – 2013 Oban Winter Festival
Every year the innovative Oban Winter Festival has been better than the last. For 2013, it’s adding St Andrew’s Day Events to its growing programmeThe Winter Festival aims to showcase creative talent...
View ArticleFor Argyll 2013 tributes: to the entertainers
2013 was a year of superb entertainment of all kinds provided by a wide range of major events throughout Argyll and the Isles. There will be others beyond those we are singling out for attention –...
View Article£26k funding for 10 clan events in Year of Homecoming, 2 in Argyll
Enterprise and Tourism Minister, Fergus Ewing has today, 14th February, announced over £26,000 in funding to support clan events as part of the 2014 Homecoming Scotland programme.All ten applicants to...
View ArticleACHA call this a ‘repair’– and a family’s been living with it since Christmas
You have to see the photographs to believe this one.This is the ‘repair ACHA effected at Christmas 2013 to solve the problem of a leaking roof above the top flat of three in Dunollie in Oban.The...
View ArticleFasanta Festival of tapestry at Dunollie
The Dunollie 1745 house at Dunollie Castle on the northern entrance to Oban Bay, is running a Festival of Tapestry at the start of November.‘Fasanta’ – introduces the notion of fashion into tapestry,...
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