Perthshire’s creatives

unique furniture and art will be sharing the secrets of his craft with audiences.

At Breadalbane Community Library Lu Kemp, the director of Perth Theatre, is reviving Linda Cracknell’s drama The Lamp, originally broadcast on BBC Radio Four in 2011.

Inspired by Innerpeffray Library, the story revolves around a friendship between a visiting Kenyan librarian and a widow from a nearby farm.

And if you’re a fan of the great outdoors there’s the Corbenic Poetry Path.

This is a 3km (just under two miles) path at Trochry, near Dunkeld, which meanders through hills, woodlands, moors and riverbanks, all complemented by lines of poetry etched, burned, encased, carved and installed in the landscape.

Iliyana adds: “I am doubly pleased that during Platform we will shine a spotlight on 26 out of the 150 artworks in the Horsecross Arts collection of contemporary art.

“These works, on display at the Threshold art space, feature many international and Scottish artists with a strong sense of pride and belonging or contributing to Perthshire’s creativity.”

Threshold is open to the public from 10am to 6pm.

All 26 works are accompanied by oneoff artists’ and curators’ talks and off-site including exclusive festival editions of the coffee, croissant and art guided tours led by Iliyana.

“You don’t need any prior knowledge of the creative arts and it’s a gentle, fun introduction to the festival,” she says. “Platform is for anyone of any age. “I was on the train this morning and I extended an invitation to the festival to a young mother and her baby.”

I was on the train this morning and extended an invitation to the festival to a young mother and her baby

ations; part of the Corbenic Poetry path and one of figures by Georgia Cook, who is also exhibiting at Platform.