Women’s festival programme

Crime writing author and lawyer Helen Forbes will talk about her novels and how she manages to balance her demanding legal career with the life of a published author as part of this year’s Perth and Kinross Women’s Festival.

As a single parent and mature law student, she used her limited spare time to write her debut crime novel, In the Shadow of the Hill, featuring Detective Sergeant Joe Galbraith.

Her talk, Falling into Crime, will be at the Loch Leven Community Library, Kinross, on Wednesday from 7.15pm to 8.15pm.

Another woman with an interesting career, Dr Mhairi Towler, will share how her company “brings science to life” through the use of computer graphic techniques.

Founder and CEO of Vivomotion, a Dundee company which creates 3D animations to help scientists explain their work, she will be at the Soutar Theatre of the AK Bell Library, Perth, on Friday at 7.30pm.

Perth and Kinross Women’s Festival runs until Sunday and coincides with International Women’s Day on Thursday.

For those wanting to try a new sporting activity, Perth College UHI’s Academy of Sport and Wellbeing is hosting a Women’s Climbing Festival this week. There are also free “get into golf” sessions and the chance to try Scottish country dancing.

For information go to the website www.perthiwf.co.uk