Up and Coming Events

Please look below at the up and coming events over the next couple of months in the stewartry area.

Art Therapy

Tuesday 21st January 2014

A 10 week block of Art Therapy with a trained art therapist, will start on the 21st of January from 2.00- 4.00pm at Dalbeattie Fire Station.

You don't have to be good at art to attend. Explore your emotions and feelings and move forward with more personal insight and awareness.

There are a couple of places left so if you are interested please telephone to book a place.

Self Management Programme

Wednesday 29th January

Six week Self Management Programme run in partnership with Arthritis Care will be held at Castle Douglas Community Centre from 10.30-12.30am.

This programme is for anyone with a long term/chronic health condition and is person-centred. It will cover topics such as:

Effective communication

Pain management

Activity and exercise

Finances and managing change

Please contact me to book a place.

Let's Cook

Thursday 13th March

'Let's Cook' sessions will be starting in Corsock Hall in March. You will have the opportunity to make two courses which can be finished off at home. All ingredients and equipment will be provided.

This will be a small group so booking is essential.

Let's Cook

Thursday 10th April

'Let's Cook' sessions will be starting in Castle Douglas Church Hall in April. You will have the opportunity to make two courses which can be finished off at home. All ingredients and equipment will be provided.

This will be a small group so booking is essential.

Dalbeattie Tai chi

The first of the 10 week block of classes took place on Wednesday in the town hall in Dalbeattie and 12 out of 15 participants attended. The class went well and everyone enjoyed it although the room was rather large and the acoustics could have been better. Julie’s music was rather lost so we will have to find bigger speakers for next time.

Julie is our volunteer who teaches the tai chi classes and it would be wonderful if we could clone her. There is a lot of demand for tai chi in the Stewartry and so hopefully we can train some more volunteers next year.

“I Could Eat A Horse”

The Glenkens cooking group were chosen by the theatre company ‘A Moment’s Peace’ to represent Dumfries & Galloway along with Dumfries High School and Gatehouse Primary.

I Could Eat A Horse is a multi-artform project exploring the diverse relationships that individuals and communities have with food and the food industry. It investigates personal choices around food consumption to examining who is in control of our access to food.

The theatre company worked with the three groups in Dumfries & Galloway and three groups in each of Aberdeenshire, Edinburgh and Glasgow, producing 12 short films. Wednesday saw the first local screening at the Catstrand in New Galloway alongside an interactive event which provoked debate amongst the audience.

The Glenkens group thoroughly enjoyed the experience and created a wonderful film which promoted ‘growing old disgracefully’.

I am hoping to get a copy of this film next year and will hopefully be able to set up a link to it and share it with everyone.