Big colours, bold shapes—and your chance to help decorate a garden! Join us outdoors in The Unexpected Garden for a colourful finger painting session where you’ll get to make your mark—literally! We’ll be decorating a brand-new outdoor bench for the garden, and we want your ideas about what Stranraer means to you to help shape the design. […]
Return to your creations or join in for the first time to design your own shoes, decorate them with shoreline-inspired patterns, and help create a colourful Zine full of your ideas! We’ll be crafting, drawing, sticking and styling… and discovering a few surprising connections between Stranraer and Norway along the way! Children under 16 must […]
Get creative with materials that would usually go in the bin! Join us for hands-on art-making using recycled and repurposed materials. Led by guest artist Vivien Jones, these playful drop-in sessions are all about experimenting, building and imagining new things from everyday stuff. We’ll have plenty of materials ready to use—but feel free to bring […]
Get creative with materials that would usually go in the bin! Join us for hands-on art-making using recycled and repurposed materials. Led by guest artist Vivien Jones, these playful drop-in sessions are all about experimenting, building and imagining new things from everyday stuff. We’ll have plenty of materials ready to use—but feel free to bring […]
Design your own comic character and bring their story to life! Young comic-makers will create a colourful two-page story featuring their very own character. From big ideas to bold drawings, we’ll guide them through the basics of storytelling and illustration—no experience needed! Each child will take home a page to keep, and the rest will […]
Design your own comic character and bring their story to life! Young comic-makers will create a colourful two-page story featuring their very own character. From big ideas to bold drawings, we’ll guide them through the basics of storytelling and illustration—no experience needed! Each child will take home a page to keep, and the rest will […]
Build your own flying machine and take off from Stranraer! Did you know Stranraer once had flying boats soaring over Loch Ryan? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll discover the story of the town’s skies, and then dream up your own aircraft to match! From gliders to futuristic flyers, it’s your turn to design, build and maybe even […]
The Write On! Classes will embrace the theme of Shorelines by exploring the landscape through theintroduction of poetry and poetic techniques, embracing the relationships we have with ourenvironment, our Shoreline. The classes will explore the sea and our senses, the moon’s tidalinfluences and the landscapes ever changing nature. Through carefully chosen materials that allowphysical and […]
Come along for some messy play with community artist Maya Rose Edwards, making clay sculptures with dredged seabed materials.
Come along for some messy play with community artist Maya Rose Edwards, making clay sculptures with dredged seabed materials.
‘Growing Communities’ with speakers Helen and Nikki 11:15am-12pm Speakers’ Corner ‘Speaking About Stranraer’ with Julia and Elaine 12:15pm- 1pm ‘Shorelines: Vision and Action’ with Maya 1:15pm- 2pm
BUILDING COMMUNITY THROUGH MUSIC Our Singer Songwriting classes, facilitated by Stacey Joy, will involve songwriting through the discovery of what lies where the sea meets the shore. Through the exploration of nature and culture of the Stranraer coastline, the trials and triumphs of its rich history, and the undiscovered treasures which lie waiting to be […]