It’s Braw! has an arty programme for August
On Sunday, August 5, Pitlochry Festival Theatre hosts a special sing-a-long screening of the much-loved 1965 movie, The Sound of Music.
Let’s start at the very beginning (a very good place to start)… Are you Sixteen Going On Seventeen?
From 6.30pm,with the lyrics shown on-screen, and a host to guide you on, everyone in the audience for Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music can be guaranteed to sing their hearts out with Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and the little Von Trapps to all those well-known songs – all together.
There’s even a free prop bag you’ll be guided to use through the movie and a fancy dress competition with prizes.
The fancy dress is totally optional and only if you ‘fancy it’ but previous events have seen nuns (both boys and girls), girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, a plumber (as in Christopher ‘Plumber’), and even a lonely goatherd.
If you remember being taken to see the movie when it first came out, or have watched as a family for years with your children or grandchildren, don’t miss this fun-packed and nostalgic Sunday evening. Call PFT’s box office team on 01796 484 626 or buy online at www.PitlochryFestivalTheatre.com Blairgowrie and Rattray Arts Week - It’s Braw! - has a programme of events out explaining 100 creative things to do in the seven days from Monday, August 6.
The team behind the week-long celebration of arts, crafts, drama and music are looking forward to what they say is going to be “a braw week filled with workshops, exhibitions, demonstrations, rehearsals, live music, theatre, murder mystery and more”.
Lesley McDonald and Tina Gliddon, who took on the Rattray Arts Festival two years ago when founder Johanna Frampton stepped down, are behind It’s Braw! and, along with artists Ella Stewart and Anick Pitcher and Tracie Dick from Create@Nest, are looking forward to the second year of the event.
Lesley said: “We were keen to build on the Rattray Arts Festival and extend it, both in terms of the length of time it was on and the range of events and activities it offered.
“We wanted to do it in the school holidays again, as that worked well in the October holidays last year, but we wanted to try a different time of year so thought we would bring it forward to the summer holidays.
“Our aim is to get folks interacting and experiencing the wealth of creative arts and activities within the town and maybe to try something new.”
Rattray Arts Festival will be held on August 11 and 12 in Rattray Church Hall as part of the wider event.
Guest artists this year are Keith Brown, Liz Dulley and Johnathan Mitchell from Alyth, while David MacKenzie has donated one of his paintings of a whale and its calf as the prize in this year’s raffle, all proceeds from which will go to Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance.
There will be workshops in oil painting, water colours, weaving, poetry with local poet Jim Mackintosh, needle felting, silversmithing, patchwork and quilting, furniture painting, street art-inspired posters for kids and drawing.
Other events lined up for the festival include a murder mystery evening at Cargill’s Bistro and a performance of ‘Radio Play: Whisky Galore’ at Blairgowrie Town Hall, both with the Blairgowrie Players.
There’s a folk night at Blairgowrie Town Hall with Bob Stewart and friends, an exhibition of memorabilia and historical artefacts, a fused glass drop-in session at Create@Nest and a jam session at the Balmoral Hotel in Rattray.
And the Hamish Matters festival, which takes place in the town in November, will be launched at a poetry, pie and a pint session in Cargill’s on Sunday, August 12.
Copies of the programme are available in shops and businesses throughout Blairgowrie and Rattray, or see www.itsbraw.scot Sing your heart out with Julie Andrews
Watercolour by Liz Dulley, guest artist at the Rattray Arts Festival on August 11 and 12