The Nairn Book and Arts Festival runs from the 3rd
to the 8th of September this year but the programme was launched
last night in the Courthouse. Elizabeth Finlay opened proceedings last night, she said:
“It’s a great pleasure to welcome you all
this evening to the launch of the 10th Nairn Book and Arts Festival
programme. We are here tonight in this beautiful room thanks to the generosity
of Provost MacDonald and Nairn Council, one of our chief sponsors. I’m really speaking
on the behalf of a festival team because all this has been done by the various
groups within our festival team and it has been a lot of work over the last
year. So it is wonderful to be here this evening and really launch the
programme.
We’ve listened to all of you and we’ve read
the evaluation; we’ve spoken to many of you and to our visitors and we hope
that we’ve come up with a program that has something for everyone and no
compromise on quality, everything wonderful of its particular type. We’re
indebted to our generous sponsors. We’re indebted too to the extra layer of
diversity and creativity given by the
various voluntary arts organisations within the town that have become involved
with the festival. The fringe is now really enmeshed with the total festival
and that’s wonderful, and of course without our enthusiastic, perceptive, ever
supportive audiences there just wouldn’t be a festival at all. “
Individual images of last nights programme launch on the Gurn flickr pages here.
Elizabeth then introduced Nicky Marr who gave an entertaining insight into the content of the programme. This was followed by a performance by Duncan Chisholm.
There is a special competition this year –
for stories up to 140 characters long, that is to say ‘tweet’ size. This
competition is making a few headlines out there especially on twitter itself
where it was being retweeted by the twitterati late last night.
There will also be a debate between Fergus
Ewing and Danny Alexander on Scottish Independence. That could be quite a
lively one and a must for all the Yes and No folk in Nairn – maybe some of the
undecided will be there too. For further details of the programme go to the Nairn Book and Arts Festival web site.
4 comments:
"Something for everyone" unless of course you happen to enjoy Gaelic culture which seems to have been sanitised from this years event, not even one offering.
Many of us add an extra 'f' to the name of this festival, and for a very good reason
@ windy, why not organise something yourself then if not happy with the programme of events?
Great festival, great programme - would really like to see on-line purchase of tickets?
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