Creative Stranraer

Hubbub Holidays: Recycled Art 2
2025-08-07 10:00 - 15:00 UTC | Creative Stranraer Hub, 23 King Street, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 7JU, United Kingdom
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 along any bits and bobs from home too! What will you make? That’s up to you! Expect plenty of colour, cutting, sticking and surprises…

Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult

Hubbub Holidays: Kids' Comic Creation 1
2025-08-14 10:00 - 15:00 | Creative Stranraer Hub, 23 King Street, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 7JU, United Kingdom
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 become part of a special exhibition at the end of summer! Materials provided—just bring your ideas and let’s draw!

Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult

Hubbub Holidays: Kids' Comic Creation 2
2025-08-15 10:00 - 15:00 | Creative Stranraer Hub, 23 King Street, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 7JU, United Kingdom

Hubbub: Take to the Skies
2025-09-06 11:00 - 13:00 | Creative Stranraer Hub, 23 King Street, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 7JU, United Kingdom
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 make it fly… just bring your ideas and imagination! Perfect for curious minds and crafty hands!

Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult

Write On! 🌊
2025-09-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Creative Stranraer Hub, 23 King Street, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 7JU, United Kingdom
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 visceral memories to come to the forefront, the classes will take a journey throughmemory, heritage, history and hope.

Hubbub 🌊 at The Oyster Festival
2025-09-13 11:00 - 16:30, 2025-09-14 11:00 - 16:30 | Stranraer Oyster Festival, Breastworks Car Park, Stranraer, DG9 7RF, United Kingdom
Come along for some messy play with community artist Maya Rose Edwards, making clay sculptures with dredged seabed materials.

Shorelines 🌊 at The Oyster Festival
2025-09-14 11:15 - 14:00 | Stranraer Oyster Festival, Breastworks Car Park, Stranraer, DG9 7RF, United Kingdom
‘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

Singer Songwriting 🌊
2025-09-18 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-09 18:00 - 20:00 | Creative Stranraer Hub, 23 King Street, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 7JU, United Kingdom
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 found, our aim is to write songs that share all of these.

Community Choir 🌊 Come and Try!
2025-09-20 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-09-27 14:00 - 15:00 | Lochryan Pipe Band Hall, Bridge Street, Stranraer, DG9 7JF
HARMONY, HERITAGE, AND SHARED VOICECome and along and sing with us! You don’t need to have sung in a choir before, Lighthouse Musicians show you how it’s done. Make new friends, learn a new skill and be part of something really special. Ages 8+

Write On! 🌊
2025-09-25 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-10-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Creative Stranraer Hub, 23 King Street, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 7JU, United Kingdom
CREATING CONNECTION THROUGH THE POWER OF WORDS

Our Write On! Classes, facilitated by Diana Hamilton, will embrace the theme of Shorelines by exploring the landscape through the introduction of poetry and poetic techniques, embracing the relationships we have with our environment, our Shoreline. The classes will explore the sea and our senses, the moon’s tidal influences and the landscapes ever changing nature. Through carefully chosen materials that allow physical and visceral memories to come to the forefront, the classes will take a journey through memory, heritage, history and hope.

Hubbub! 🌊 Creative Play
2025-10-04 11:00 - 13:00 | Creative Stranraer Hub, 23 King Street, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 7JU, United Kingdom
Join us for some Cosy Crafts!

Autumn is in full swing and we’re all feeling the cold…. But at Creative Stranraer, we’re also feeling inspired by nature and all the colourful changes to the environment outside. Come along to this cosy craft session making, stick pumpkins, hedgehogs, bats and ghouls, using paper and pom poms!

Park Primary School Exhibition
2025-10-10 10:00 - 2025-10-31 17:00 | Creative Stranraer Hub, 23 King Street, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 7JU, United Kingdom
The Scottish Civic Trust’s My Place Photography Competition is a Scotland-wide photography competition for school age young people aged 4 to 18. It encourages young people to explore the buildings, architecture, and history in the places they live, and experiment with using photography as a means of investigation and creative expression.

With support from The Wheatley Foundation, 28 pupils from Park Primary School took part in outdoor photography workshops in different areas of Stranraer – this exhibition showcases the creativity and hard work of these local young people.

Community Choir 🌊
2025-10-11 14:00 - 15:30 | Lochryan Pipe Band Hall, Bridge Street, Stranraer, DG9 7JF
HARMONY, HERITAGE, AND SHARED VOICECome and join our Community Choir, where Lighthouse Musicians will teach you to learn about singing together, elements of music theory and have a lot of fun! This is an amazing opportunity to come together as a community, take pride in where we are from and create music together.

Hubbub!
2025-10-22 10:00 - 16:00 | Creative Stranraer Hub, 23 King Street, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 7JU, United Kingdom
Lets get spooky!

Join us in the Hub for some fun Halloween activities! Decorate Halloween lanterns or make your own spider puppet. Then come with us as we take a walk down to The Unexpected Garden where there will be scarecrow making and pumpkin picking. A great hands-on activity for all ages

Write On! 🌊
2025-10-23 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-11-13 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-11-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Creative Stranraer Hub, 23 King Street, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 7JU, United Kingdom
CREATING CONNECTION THROUGH THE POWER OF WORDS

Our Write On! Classes, facilitated by Diana Hamilton, will embrace the theme of Shorelines by exploring the landscape through the introduction of poetry and poetic techniques, embracing the relationships we have with our environment, our Shoreline. The classes will explore the sea and our senses, the moon’s tidal influences and the landscapes ever changing nature. Through carefully chosen materials that allow physical and visceral memories to come to the forefront, the classes will take a journey through memory, heritage, history and hope.

BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE

Community Choir 🌊
2025-10-25 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-11-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Stranraer Millennium Centre, 75 George Street, Stranraer, DG9 7JP, United Kingdom
HARMONY, HERITAGE, AND SHARED VOICE

Come and join our Community Choir, where Lighthouse Musicians will teach you to learn about singing together, elements of music theory and have a lot of fun! This is an amazing opportunity to come together as a community, take pride in where we are from and create music together.

BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE

Singer Songwriting 🌊
2025-10-30 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-11-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Creative Stranraer Hub, 23 King Street, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 7JU, United Kingdom
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 found, our aim is to write songs that share all of these.

BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE

Hubbub! 🌊 Creative Play
2025-11-01 11:00 - 13:00 | Creative Stranraer Hub, 23 King Street, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 7JU, United Kingdom
Join us for a morning of spooky fun!

Bring your own haunted house to life as we revel in the mischievous magic of Halloween! Using tetra pack cartons and roguish imagination, what ghosts, ghouls or monsters will you invite into your house?

The Drawing Collective 🌊
2025-11-08 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-15 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-11-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Creative Stranraer Hub, 23 King Street, Stranraer, Dumfries & Galloway, DG9 7JU, United Kingdom
A SPACE TO DRAW, SHARE, AND CONNECTThe Drawing Collective is a fun, no-pressure workshop that invites you to explore your creativity through the joy of drawing. Whether you’re picking up a pencil for the first time, looking to develop your skills, or simply hoping to meet new friends, The Drawing Collective offers a nurturing space for all to explore their creativity.

During these sessions, local artist Barry Mitchell will teach you the basics, from simple scribbles and shading to more structured drawings, exploring texture and tone and how understanding these techniques can transform doodles into works of art.

BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE

Talk of the Toon
2025-12-03 18:00 - 20:00 | The Fitba’ Bar, 9-15 N Strand St, Stranraer, DG9 7LD, United Kingdom
Talk of the Toon is a community‑driven platform that celebrates local achievements, shares inspiring stories, and helps shape bold visions for the future.

Join us as we shine a light on the town’s regeneration journey, looking back at what’s been accomplished in 2025 and offering a preview of the exciting events and projects set to unfold in 2026.

Guest Speakers

Wendi Cuffe, Water Sports Association

Join Wendi Cuffe for a look back at Skiffie Worlds 2025 and learn how the Water Sport Association supports the local community.

Nikki Vjatschslav, Unexpected Garden

Discover the story behind the Unexpected Garden and the incredible impact it’s had on our community. Nikki will bring its journey to life and show you the many ways you can get involved.

Maya Rose Edwards, Harbourland Project

Maya Rose Edwards is back to revisit Harbourland’s history and bring the community up to speed on the newest research and development as the project enters phase 3.

Faith Hillier, Scamp and Biosphere

Faith Hillier will introduce the work of the GSA Biosphere and how it’s shaping the future of Stranraer and the Rhins. She’ll walk you through the SCAMP initiative before exploring two key Biosphere projects: Solways Youth Entrepreneur and Community-Led Tourism.

Harry Harbottle, Stranraer Development Trust

Harry Harbottle will share the journey behind projects like the Oyster Festival, the impact they’ve had on our community, and the exciting plans for what’s coming next. He’ll also bring updates from the Town Team, outlining the projects currently underway and what they’ll mean for our future

BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE
