The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
EVENTS IN YOUR AREA
Aberfel6y AIR:SPACE The Watermill, Mill Street, PH15 2BG, 01887 822896, until Sat January 27, MonSat 10am-5pm; Sun 11am-5pm, free.
The seven members of AIR (Artists in Rannoch) present an exhibition featuring oils, installations, words and more. www.aberfeldywatermill.com
Alloa An Audience with John Stahl Coach House Theatre, Tullibody Road, FK10 2HU, Sat January 20, 7.30pm, £12.
Actor John Stahl gives a dramatic performance, followed by tales of his career and a question and answer session with the audience. www.thealman.com
Blairgowrie Rock’n’Pop Tribute Show Night Angus Hotel, Wellmeadow, PH10 6NH, 01250 872455, Sat January 20, 7pm-12.30am, £30. A three-course meal followed by after dinner entertainers and a DJ. www.theangushotel.com Crail Crail Folk Club Burns Night Special Crail Folk Club, Golf Hotel High Street, KY10 3TD, 01333 450572, Thu January 25, 8-10.30pm, £5.
Annual celebration of the works of Robert Burns. All singers, musicians and reciters are welcome to come along and have a go. Burns material is encouraged but not essential. Haggis, neeps and tatties are included in the admission price (veggie option also available). www.crailfolkclub.org. uk
oalgety Bay Peter Panto Dalgety Parish Church, Regents Way, KY11 9UY, 01383 824 092, until Fri January 26, Tue-Thu 7.15pm, £7 (£4).
Family panto fun by Derek Bowman and presented by Dalgety Players. www.dalgetyplayers.org. uk
oun6ee Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, DD1 4DY, 01382 909900, Thu January 25, 6.30-9pm, £85 (£65).
Get started with this nifty piece of software that you can use to create images, enhance or correct your photos and design graphic artwork. www.dca.org.uk
Kate V Robertson: This Mess is Kept Afloat Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, DD1 4DY, 01382 909900, until Sun February 25, Mon-Wed & Fri-Sun 10am-6pm; Thu 10am-8pm, free. New sculptural work in the first solo exhibition in a UK institution by the artist. www.katevrobertson.com Philately: Leisure, Pleasure and Discovery Roseangle Art Gallery, Roseangle, DD1 4LR, Fri January 19, 7.309.30pm, £2 (members free; students free).
A talk by Charles Lloyd on the history of the stamp. www.dundeeartsociety.co.uk
Planetarium Shows Mills Observatory, Balgay Park, Glamis Road, DD2 2UB, 01382 435967, Fri January 19, 7-9.30pm, 50p--£1.
Take a tour of the night sky in the planetarium and learn about constellations, asteroids, galaxies and more. www.leisureandculturedundee.com/millshome
Andy Warhol Class Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, DD1 4DY, 01382 909900, Sun January 21, 11am-5pm, £30.
Learn how to make prints in the same way as Warhol’s iconic pop art pics at this one-day course. Why not immortalise a famous person or friend in multi-coloured panels? Bring along some photos to work from. www.dca.org.uk
Re-Take That Whitehall Theatre, 12 Bellfield Street, DD1 5JA, 01382 434940, Sat January 20, 7.30pm, £20.
Tribute act to the all-conquering boy band. www.whitehalltheatre.com
Simon Kempston Wighton Heritage Centre, Upper Foyer, Central Library, Wellgate, DD1 1DB, Sat January 20, 11am-noon, £5.
Singer-songwriter with lyrics inspired by travel, social commentary and the everyday. www.simonkempston.co.uk
Cyanotype Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, DD1 4DY, 01382 909900, Sun January 21, 11am-5pm, £30.
A one-day course in creating cyanotypes. Bring along a photograph or negative to create striking bluehued prints. Cyanotype is one of the oldest printmaking processes, used as a low-cost process to produce copies of drawings. www.dca.org.uk
A Day to Play The McManus, Albert Square, Meadowside, DD1 1DA, 01382 307200, Sun January 21, 2-3pm, free.
Interactive performance workshop for children and their grown-ups. Featuring song, dress-up, dance and play. www.shapercaper. com/adaytoplay
Soup’n’Song Marryat Hall, City Square, DD1 3BY, 01382 434111, Sun January 21, 1.303pm, £5 (including soup and roll).
Soup followed by Gaelic music and song. Featuring Ainsley Hamill & Alistair Paterson. www.dundeebox. co.uk
The Cribs Fat Sam’s, 31 South Ward Road, DD1 1PU, 01382 228496, Tue January 23, 7pm, £20.
The Wakefield-born Jarman brothers perform their energetic brand of indie-rock, with its strong postpunk and garage-rock influences. www.thecribs.com
Enjoying Poetry Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee, Old Hawkhill, Balfour Street, DD1 4HB, 01382 223181, Tue January 23, 6.30pm, £64 (£56).
An eight-week course in poetry. Gain a deeper understanding of some of our best-loved poems and be inspired to put pen to paper with some simple writing exercises. www.dundee.ac.uk
Etching for Beginners Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, DD1 4DY, 01382 909900, Tue January 23, 6-8.30pm, £95 (£75).
A six-week course teaching you how to create prints using metal plates. www.dca.org.uk
Scottish Dance Theatre: Meet The Choreographer Dundee Rep, Tay Square, DD1 1PB, 01382 223530, Wed January 24, 6.30pm, free.
Join Scottish choreographer Colette Sadler and artistic director Fleur Darkin as they discuss the creative process of RITUALIA, a re-imagining of the ballet Les Noces by Stravinsky/ Nijinska. www.dundeerep.co.uk
ounfermline Acoustic Eagles Carnegie Hall, East Port, KY12 7JA, 01383 602302, Sat January 20, 7.30pm, £5.
The tribute band perform acoustic interpretations of the Eagles’ early work. www.onfife.com
Glenrothes Dance and Discover Scotland Rothes Halls, Kingdom Centre, KY7 5NX, 01592 612121, Sat January 20, 7pm, £8 (£5).
Dance performance from Sarah Hendry School of Dance. www.onfife.com
Kinross Edgar Broughton The Green Hotel, 2
Muirs, KY13 8AS, 01577 863467, Fri January 19, 8pm, £19.80.
A solo acoustic show by Edgar Broughton, a founding member of the Edgar Broughton Band. www.green-hotel.com
Billy Walton Band The Green Hotel, 2 Muirs, KY13 8AS, 01577 863467, Sat January 20, 8pm, £22. Old-style blues mixed with rock and soul. www.green-hotel.com Kirkcaldy The Twilight Tease Burlesque Revue Adam Smith Theatre, Bennochy Road, KY1 1ET, 01592 583302, Sat January 20, 8pm, £10 (£8).
Brandy Montmartre, Kirkcaldy’s very own burlesque sensation, shares the stage with Rock Hart, Ebony Silk, Ruby Trix and Poppy Fields. There are showgirls, circus skills and even a singing saw. www.onfife.com
Montrose Specialized Charity Ska Night Montrose Town Hall, Melville Gardens, DD10 8HG, Sat January 20, 7pm, £10£12.
Charity show featuring King Hammond and The Rude Boy Maffia plus Big Fat Panda and DJs Shaun Tierney (Soul Collective Aberdeen), Molzer (Twisted Vinyl Aberdeen) and Ryan Thain (Saint Louie). www.specializedproject.co.uk
Perth JAneAnne GilChrist: ABove, Below, Beyond Fergusson Gallery, Marshall Place, PH2 8NS, 01738 783425, until Sat March 24, Tue-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 12-4.30pm, free. Images of objects found in the sea, from the award-winning photographer. www.culturepk.org.uk Women Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, PH1 5HZ, 01738 621031, until Thu March 8, times vary, free.
Sixty works including artists’ films, photography, critical writing, podcasts and limited editions by 40 women artists from over 20 countries featured in the Horsecross Arts collection of contemporary art since 2005. www.horsecross.co.uk
VAn Kuijk String QuArtet Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, PH1 5HZ, 01738 621031, Mon January 22, 1pm, £8.
Piano soloist Tom Poster joins this young quartet in a programme to begin a new collaboration between BBC Radio 3 and Perth Concert Hall. www.horsecross.co.uk
Ret’s EAnCe Perth Concert Hall, Mill Street, PH1 5HZ, 01738 621031, Tue January 23, free.
Creative dance classes for adults with mental or physical disabilities. www.horsecross.co.uk
St Andrews Iife And Kinross Young IArmers CABAret Byre Theatre, Abbey Street, KY16 9LA, 01334 475000, Fri January 19, 7.30pm, £10 (£8).
Come along and support your local young farmers club as they compete to become the winners of the District Cabaret Eliminations. The winners go on to perform at the East Region Competition in February. www.byretheatre.com
PreCious Prints Museum of the University of St Andrews, 7a The Scores, KY16 9AR, 01334 461660, Sat January 20, 1-3pm, free.
Learn the basics of linocut printmaking and discover how to make visually stimulating compositions inspired by a range of contemporary prints in the collection. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ musa
Out of the Box
Museum of the University of St Andrews, 7a The Scores, KY16 9AR, 01334 461660, Sun January 21, 1-3pm, free. Pop into MUSA and try a new ‘Out of the Box’ challenge each month. This month’s theme is Africa. www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ museum/events
Burns Night GxperienCe Forgan’s, 110 Market Street, KY16 9PB, 01334 466973, Wed January 24 & Thu January 25, 7.30pm, £29.95.
Celebrate Rabbie Burns with a four-course dinner, a dram, live Scottish entertainment and a ceilidh. www.forgans.co.uk