<p>This project focuses on community health and wellbeing and community spirit in order to reduce the effects of isolation within our elderly population and to give our young people skills for their future in the both the creative arts and social service type careers. We are looking to host a photography exhibtion which will allow&nbsp;senior pupils to display their photographs of the local area&nbsp;to&nbsp;invited local elderly care home residents.&nbsp; We are aware of the isolation facing some of our elderly residents who are no longer able to get out and around the local area by themselves.&nbsp; The aim of the exhibition is to bring the local sights to them within a warm and welcoming environment.&nbsp; Higher Photography pupils will design an exhibition to take place within the school where local residents will enjoy a social afternoon of conversation&nbsp;with young people about their memories of the town whilst seeing&nbsp;the development of the local area through photographs.</p>

<p>Join us for an evening of Murder Mystery in Dalry,</p> <p>The play will be performed by a local theatre comapany (Beith Theatre Company) and can be enjoyed by people of most age groups.</p> <p>These events are great fun and using only the&nbsp;little grey cells, the audience are invited to&nbsp;follow the clues and solve the mystery!</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><meta charset="utf-8" /><b id="docs-internal-guid-77c13dfd-7fff-9620-a038-220aa8712bca">The inaugural Arran International Festival of Chamber Music and Song will launch between 22nd and 25th August 2024. A music festival for Arran that brings international artists to the island to perform for, meet and collaborate with the people of Arran. Cultural exchange to enrich the artistic landscape on the island and the lives of the local community.</b></p>

<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif">Music@Wellwood organises educational events, aimed mainly at Senior School pupils, and concerts which are open to all members of the community.&nbsp; In conjunction with North Ayrshire Council Music Services, Music@Wellwood wishes to organise a Strings Masterclass for young people from across North Ayrshire.&nbsp; Those participating would receive guidance, technical advice and possible progression pathways into music from the Head of Strings at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="background:white"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><span style="background:#fdfdfd"><span style="font-family:&quot;Lato&quot;,sans-serif"><span style="color:#222222">We are a community brass band organisation. We have a contest band, a community / fun band and a youth band. The youth band has&nbsp;25 players of all ages and we have around 20 in our brass and percussion learner groups. We wish to buy musical instruments for new youth learners and additional sheet music arrangements. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Writing for Well-Being is a 6-week, in-person course&nbsp;hosted by So in Flow with Molly Murray&nbsp;in Ardrossan, UK. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Building on my 15 years of experience as a writer and editor, and my knowledge as a Rapid Transformational Therapy Practitioner and Creative Flow Coach, I&nbsp;share tools for writing and for mental well-being. It&nbsp;is scheduled for Spring 2024 and Fall 2024.</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Past participants reach out regularly to request that I hold this again!</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="background:white"><span style="color:black">I have an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford Summer School at Exeter College, and I&rsquo;m the former <i>Outdoor Editor of Panorama: the Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature</i>. I&rsquo;m the author of a nonfiction memoir, <i>Today, She Is</i> (Wipf &amp; Stock, 2014), and my poems and stories have appeared in over 30 publications, including&nbsp;<i>Litro</i>,&nbsp;<i>The Curlew, and Third Wednesday</i>, and one was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.</span></span></span></span></p>

<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Oor Hame is a project looking at what home means. Photo workshops will encourage young people to produce their own idea of what makes &ldquo;Hame&rdquo; and create an open air gallery in local shop windows.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Gaelic is very much alive on Arran with a good number of reasonably competent learner and native speakers from all parts of the community including several part time folk singers and two professionals, we also have a well known Bardach author.We have an annual feish and through the Arran Music School we have a pipe band and a plethora of clarsach and fiddle players.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>It has beed agreed that we establish an Arran Gaelic Choir open at first to adults over 18 the inagural practice took place on Tuesday 14th November at the Ormidale Pavillion Brodick and we enjoyed learning two new songs with a target to sing at the Christmas Carol Service on the 18th of December.Another close target is the potential to attend the annual MOD in Oban 2024.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>We have agreed to meet on a two weekly basis on a Monday and to organise Zoom meetings in between,a President,Treasurer and Social Media administrator have been appointed and our basic constitution is attached.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Currently we are without funds although we are considering a couple of fundraising events including concerts, we do however have a need for funds as summarised below, we would welcome your contribution of &pound;400 together with fundraising each member if able will pay a subscription of &pound;10 per month and a &pound;2 attendance fee to support hall hire. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>