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13 PERTH: Music - Babel with Gabriela Montero and the Scottish Ensemble plays Shostakovich, Glass, Vasks and Masseaen at Perth Concert Hall. Music from 7.30pm, tickets £16.50, concessions £15.50 from the Horsecross box office on 01738 621031.
13 CRIEFF: Film - ‘Call me by your name’ will be screened at Strathearn Community Campus as part of LGBT History Month. The film will be followed by a discussion comparing the film and the book. Tickets available from the campus reception, film starts at 7pm. Rating 15.
14 ABERFELDY: Film - Sing-along version of Queen biopic, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, The Birks Cinema, 9.30pm. www.birkscinema.co.uk
14 PITLOCHRY: Event - Literary lunch with hillwalker Chris Townsend, part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Entry is £24 including food, starts at 12.45pm, call the box office on 01796 484626.
14 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Mary Miers and Christina Noble talk on ‘Journey to a Highland estate’ as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Mary will speak on littleknown houses in the north and Christina will speak about the Ardkinglas Estate. Talk starts at 10am, tickets £8.50 from the box office on 01796 484626.
14 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Ken Cox will speak on woodland gardening as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Talk starts at 11.30am, tickets £8.50 from the box office on 01796 484626.
14 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Nature writer Gary Sutherland talks on tackling the West Highland Way and other walks as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Talk starts at 3pm, tickets £8.50 from the box office on 01796 484626.
14 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Donald S Murray and John Macleod will speak on the Iolaire disaster as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Talk starts at 4.30pm, tickets £8.50 from the box office on 01796 484626.
14 PITLOCHRY: Music - Poet Liz Lochhead and saxophonist Steve Kettley perform at Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Performance at 7.30pm, tickets £12.50 from the box office on 01796 484626.
14 SCONE: Talk - Love in the Afternoon, a talk from Kinross Mills and Boon author Ella Hays on her new romance ‘Her brooding Scottish heir’ at Scone Library at 2.30pm. Tickets £3 including tea and cake, available from the library, and there will be a raffle.
14 (until Feb 23) PERTH: Drama Miss Julie by August Strindberg, directed by Shilpa T-Hyland, Joan Knight Studio at Perth Theatre, 7.30pm. Tickets £16, concessions £14, under 16s £10 from www.horsecross.co.uk or on 01738 621031.
15 KINROSS: Music - Steve Daggett plays live Backstage at the Green Hotel. Music from 9pm, tickets £15 from www.mundellmusic.com
15 ABERNETHY: Event - Almond and Earn SNP branch celebrate the works of Robert Burns and the political activism of John Maclean with musician Alan Smart and poet Shaun Moore at the Jamesfield Restaurant in Abernethy. Evening starts at 7pm for 7.30pm, tickets £15 including food from henrycllr52@gmail.com
15 BIRNAM: Talk - Climber Leo Houlding will speak on climbing some of the most technical peaks and biggest walls, Birnam Arts, 7.30pm. Tickets £15 from the box office on 01350 727674.
15 PERTH: Event - Annual St Valentine’s Day quiz night at Perth Civil Service Club. Evening starts at 7pm for 7.30pm, entry is £20 for a team of four and money raised will go to the British Heart Foundation.
15 PERTH: Event - Children’s story time with Perth’s own drag queen, Scarlet Skylar Rae, to celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month, AK Bell Library. Free.
15 PITLOCHRY: Music - Ross Arthur plays live at McKays bar. Music from 9pm, entry is free.
15 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Christopher Baker from the Portrait Gallery will speak on the watercolours of JMW Turner as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. His talk starts at 4.30pm, tickets £8.50 from the box office on 01796 484626.
15 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Rugby legend Doddie Weir will speak on his foundation My Name’5 Doddie and his motor neurone disease as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival, 6pm. Tickets £10 from the box office on 01796 484626.
15 PITLOCHRY: Event - Literary lunch with wildlife author Polly Pullar as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Event starts at 12.45pm, entry is £24.50 including food from the box office on 01796 484626.
15 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Professor Sue Black and Dr Richard Shepherd will speak on ‘The truth about life and death’ as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Professor Black is a forensic anthropologist and Dr Shepherd has worked on some of the most highprofile serial killer cases. Talk starts at 7.30pm, tickets £14.50 from the box office on 01796 484626.
15 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Donald S Murray and Robin Crawford talk on ‘Discovering the story of peat’ as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Talk starts at 10am, tickets £8.50 from the box office on 01796 484626.
15 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Andy Howard speaks on ‘The secret life of the mountain hare’ as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Talk starts at 11.30am, tickets £8.50 from the box office on 01796 484626.
15 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Photographer Alex Boyd shares pictures from St Kilda as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Talk starts at 3pm, tickets £8.50 from the box office on 01796 484626.
15 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Hill runner Jonny Muir talks on ‘The mountains are calling’ as part of Pitlochry
16 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Hamish Brown will talk on his family who were caught in Japan at the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Talk starts at 11.30am, tickets £8.50 from the box office on 01796 484626.
16 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Penny Junor will talk on The Queen’s corgis as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Talk starts at 3pm, tickets £8.50 from the box office on 01796 484626.
16 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Gabriella Bennett will talk on coorie, the Scottish version of hygge, as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Talk starts at 4.30pm, tickets £8.50 from the box office on 01796 484626.
16 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Richard Holloway, former Bishop of Edinburgh, talks on a lifetime at the bedsides of the dying as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Talk starts at 6pm, tickets £10 from the box office on 01796 484626.
16 PITLOCHRY: Talk - Historian Neil Oliver speaks on ‘The story of the British Isles in 100 places’ as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Talk starts at 7.30pm, tickets £14.50 from the box office on 01796 484626.
16 PITLOCHRY: Event - Literary lunch with Rosemary Goring as part of Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Winter Words Festival. Event starts at 12.45pm, entry is £24.50 including food from the box office on 01796 484626.
16 PITLOCHRY: Music - The Dirty Jewels play rock music live at McKays bar. Music from 9pm, entry is free.
21 PERTH: Talk - ‘Old Maps of Strathmore and the Northern Glens’ by landscape historian Christopher Dingwall examining maps of the county dating back more than four centuries, AK Bell Library, 2pm. Tickets £5, Friends of Perth and Kinross Archive free, booking essential, call 01738 444949 or email archives@culturepk.org.uk
22 PERTH: Music - BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Carolin Widmann at Perth Concert Hall from 7.30pm. Tickets from £14.50 from Horsecross box office on 01738 621031.
22 PERTH: Event - Cheese and wine night at Forty Four bar and lounge to raise money for Bridge of Earn primary seven leavers and Maisie Moo’s Magical Moments. Evening starts at 7.30pm and includes eight wines and six cheeses. Tickets £20 from Julie on 07812563544 or Ashleigh on 07794990719.
23 KINROSS: Music - Top guitarist John Verity plays Backstage at The Green Hotel. Music from 9pm, tickets £20 from www.mundellmusic.com
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