Music@Wellwood organises educational events, aimed mainly at Senior School pupils, and concerts which are open to all members of the community.  In conjunction with North Ayrshire Council Music Services, Music@Wellwood wishes to organise a Strings Masterclass for young people from across North Ayrshire.  Those participating would receive guidance, technical advice and possible progression pathways into music from the Head of Strings at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.  

Oor Hame is a project looking at what home means. Photo workshops will encourage young people to produce their own idea of what makes “Hame” and create an open air gallery in local shop windows.

Arts workshops open to the public to tackle social isolation. The workshops would take place in partnership with KA Leisure and sessions would take place free of charge within a KA building. This will give adults in the community, the opportunity to come together in a group setting and learn new skills, meet new people, build confidence, and improve mental health and wellbeing whilst working with a North Ayrshire Artist, Lynn McNally. 

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 senior pupils to display their photographs of the local area to invited local elderly care home residents.  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.  The aim of the exhibition is to bring the local sights to them within a warm and welcoming environment.  Higher Photography pupils will design an exhibition to take place within the school where local residents will enjoy a social afternoon of conversation with young people about their memories of the town whilst seeing the development of the local area through photographs.

Writing for Well-Being is a 6-week, in-person course hosted by So in Flow with Molly Murray in Ardrossan, UK.

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 share tools for writing and for mental well-being. It is scheduled for Spring 2024 and Fall 2024.

Past participants reach out regularly to request that I hold this again!

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’m the former Outdoor Editor of Panorama: the Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature. I’m the author of a nonfiction memoir, Today, She Is (Wipf & Stock, 2014), and my poems and stories have appeared in over 30 publications, including Litro, The Curlew, and Third Wednesday, and one was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Arran Rock n Blues Festival is a family friendly music festival hosting live bands. It is a welcoming inclusive festival run over two days with two stages one being the village hall the other the garden at the hotel in Lochranza. Opportunities are given to local musicians to perform and a backline and professional sound engineer is provided. To supplement the festival we are hosting a market on the green which showcases local food, drink and crafts

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.

The Garnock Valley Pipes & Drums are a group set up to provide free traditional music education to young people in the Garnock Valley.

The group currently engage around 30 students each week to learn the bagpipes and snare drum, from as young as primary four up to sixth year at secondary school.

This project not only allows young people to learn a new instrument completely free of charge, but also focuses on helping the attendees develop their confidence and social skills, developing their connection to one another as well as the wider community.