<p>The Garnock Valley Pipes &amp; Drums are a group set up to provide free traditional music education to young people in the Garnock Valley.</p> <p>The group currently engage around 30 students each week to learn&nbsp;the bagpipes and snare drum, from as young as primary four up to sixth year at secondary school.</p> <p>This project not only allows young people to learn a new instrument completely&nbsp;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.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><meta charset="utf-8" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>LMC offers an informal setting for amateur musicians to meet on a regular basis and encourage one another to improve their skill level on their preferred musical instrument.</p>

<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We would like to re-run our free six-week adult art workshop Everyone an Artist, at the North Ayrshire Foodbank in Ardrossan. We would like to purchase new materials to learn new skills. </span></span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Chauvet Wash FX Hex LED light would help enhabnce the annual pantomime produced by Livingstone Players. The idea would be to purchase 2 and have them located near the sound station at the back of the hall so that additional effects can be added in addition to the lighting that the backstage crew control..&nbsp;</p> <p>This is a comminity based project and is made up of a variety of local people of different ages and backgrounds who come together to produce, choreograph and write an annual pantomime as well as support all the technical background required to put the show on.&nbsp;&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>

<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><u><a href="http://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. 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">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</a></u></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>