The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
7 THINGS TO DO THIS WEEKEND
ENJOY A PERFORMANCE FROM DUNDEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Dundee Symphony Orchestra will perform its spring concert at the Caird +all today. The orchestra will present Russian composer 1ikolai Rimsky.orsakov’s Schehera]ade in an afternoon of musical storytelling.
In the first half of the concert, the orchestra will be Moined by renowned local actor Barrie +unter to narrate Prokofiev’s Peter And The Wolf.
Attendees will find out what happens to young Peter and his friends the bird, the duck and the cat the morning he steps out into the meadow.
Tickets cost £1 for adults and £12 for concessions, with student offers also available. The show kicks off at 3pm, and tickets can be bought by visiting dundeebox.co.uk
HELP KEEP FIFE’S BEACHES CLEAN
+ead to Largo Bay to take part in the Great British Spring Clean for 2 2 tomorrow.
The clean up has been organised by the Friends of Largo Bay group and will take place between 1 am and noon.
The group has organised five muster points, which are the car parks at Silverburn, Lundin Golf Club and Temple, as well as Dumbarnie 1ature Reserve and Ruddons Point at Cocklemill Burn, arrived at through (lie +oliday Park.
Little Pickers will be granted the perk of a discount at four local establishments throughout the day. Attendance can be confirmed by sending an email to largobay# largocommunitiestogether.org.uk
TAKE IN A SCOTTISH COMEDY COLLECTIVE IN ST ANDREWS
A collection of Scotland’s finest comedians will play at the Byre Theatre in St Andrews tonight.
Performing will be Graham Mackie, Chris Forbes, Cubby and Raymond Mearns
Organisers claim the audience will experience side-splitting stories, howlingly funny observations on life and astonishing one-liners that will leave you gasping for breath.
Tickets cost £1 and can be booked by visiting byretheatre.com book-online
ATTEND A HERBAL WORKSHOP IN KIRRIEMUIR
9eronica Rose will host a herbal bathroom workshop in .irrie today. The workshop will aim to teach attendees how to identify most skinfriendly garden and wild herbs to use for natural aromatherapy in your bathroom. Workshop goers will also gain plenty of hands-on experience with the opportunity to create their own bath teas, bath salts and shower gels, as well as liquid soap kits to take home with them.
The workshop gets under way at 2pm on Bank Street. Tickets cost £2 and are available via (ventbrite.
HEAD TO LIGHT UP NEWBURGH
Light 8p 1ewburgh will return again for its 2 2 edition today.
The event will allow children from Auchtermuchty, Dunbog and 1ewburgh to showcase their colourful withy lanterns and musical shakers as they perform their own choreography.
The event will include music played by local musician and composer Quee MacArthur and Charlie Grey of Fort William.
There will be snacks, a screening of a dance film by Joseph Dalton entitled Together We Dance and a family disco.
The event begins at .3 pm at the Tayside Institute Community Centre on 1ewburgh +igh Street.
TRY PADDLEBOARDING IN KINFAUNS
Wannabe paddleboarders in Perth will have the opportunity to try the sport tomorrow. Willowgate Activity Centre is running a taster session with almost two hours of paddleboarding included.
The session is ideal for both beginners and more experienced paddleboarders.
(xperienced instructors will be on hand to help out and teach the basics of the activity.
The session is open to everyone above the age of six, and tickets cost £3 per person.
The session kicks off at 2pm at the Stockgreen Lodge on the outskirts of Perth.
A spot on the session can be booked by visiting getyourguide. com
LEARN ABOUT WOMEN IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR AT BLACKNESS LIBRARY
Debbie Coupland will host a talk entitled Scarlet Women: Women On The Battlefields Of WW1 today at Blackness Library in Dundee. Debbie was introduced to this conflict by her grandfather who remembered watching the th Battalion Black Watch march through the city on their way to the front.
The event is free to attend, but a spot must be booked, which can be done on (ventbrite.
The talk kicks off at
1 .3 am.