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What’s On in Stirling July 2014 www.Explore-Stirling.com If you have an Event you would like to advertise FREE OF CHARGE e.mail info@explorescotland.net with Date/Time/Event/ Venue/Price NB We try to make sure all the information we post is accurate, but please check directly with the venue concered before committing yourself.
Continuous Events Every Day
Stirling Vue Cinema Stirling Vue, Forthside Way, Stirling FK8 1QZ
Vue Stirling is an eight screen, all luxury stadium seated cinema with wall to ceiling to floor huge screens, enhanced by the most progressive projection and Dolby Digital Surround Sound technology for the ultimate picture and sound quality. The cinema has 1,061 seats over eight screens and is the biggest cinema in Stirling. Tel: 08712 240 240 http://www.myvue.com/
Macrobert Arts Centre - Cinema Stirling University Campus
For full listings of what’s on at the cinema go to: Box Office 01786 466666 http://www.macrobert.org/cinema.htm
The Hippodrome - Bo’ness 10 Hope St Bo’ness EH51 0AA
Some 97 years after the first customers took their seats in the grand picture palace, The Hippodrome re-opens its doors to the public, recreating the golden age of cinema-going using
21st century technology. The A-listed building, brainchild of film-maker Louis Dickson and designed by local architect Matthew Steele, was opened on 11 March 1912, is a rare example of pre-art deco cinema architecture, and Scotland’s oldest purpose-built picture house. Having undergone extensive restoration as part of the Bo’ness Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI), The Hippodrome has seen the 1926 decorative scheme reinstated, new seating installed and original seating restored, and digital and 35mm projectors fitted to offer the best cinema experience. Open 6 days a week Screening the best major new releases Independent films and classics. Tel: 01324 506850 www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org
Daily until 12th October. Stirling Smith Art Gallery Dumbarton Rd, Stirling, FK8 2RQ BANNOCKBURN 700 - REMEMBER BANNOCKBURN!
700 years after the Battle, we take a closer look at how Bannockburn has been celebrated, and remembered down the centuries. A hundred years ago, this picture of Bruce and de Bohun by John Duncan failed to win the 600th anniversary art competition. The picture which did was not liked, as this protest poster shows. Tel: 01786 471917 www.smithartgalleryandmuseum.co.uk
Monday 31st March until: Saturday 21st June Macrobert Art Centre. University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA. Lets Dance 2014
Macrobert’s annual celebration of dance is back with a fantastic season of Scottish premieres, fantastic free shows, international dance and dance-along workshops for everyone. Highlights include: Northern Ballet’s newest production created
especially for children Three Little Pigs Groundbreaking contemporary dance from Erik Kahil: No Man Is an Island/ My True North Spectacular cine-dance performance featuring the films of Stirling’s own Norman McLaren A Chairy Tale The chance to get your rock ‘n’ roll on with Danny, Sandy and the whole Rydell High gang in Dance-along-a-movie: Grease As well as many more events going on all around Stirling throughout our Big Dance Day, Saturday 5th April! See our Live Events Brochure for more informtion! Box Office Tel: 01786 466666 www.macrobert.org
Daily Saturday 7th June 2014 until: Sunday 28th Sept 2014 9:30am - 6.00pm The Three Estates Costume Exhibition. Stirling Castle, Castle Esplanade Stirling FK8 1EJ
Admire the detail and mastery in the costumes created for last year’s unique performances of A Satire of the Three Estates. Gain an insight into the fashions of the time and learn about Sir David Lyndsay’s epic play of Scottish politics, power and reform. Tel: 01786 450000 www.stirlingcastle.gov.uk
Daily Tuesday 24th June 2014 to Sunday 17th Aug 2014 Delightful Dunedin Exhibition. Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum, Dumbarton Rd Stirling FK8 2RQ Celebrating 50 years of twinning, Dunedin in Florida shows why it is Stirling’s sister city. Tel: 01786 471917 www.smithartgalleryandmuseum.co.uk
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What’s On Stirling
Daily Tuesday 24th June 2014 to Tuesday 22nd July 2014 The Scottish Diaspora Tapestry Macrobert Arts Centre University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA
Telling Tales to Scotland! Discover the incredible global legacy of Scots and their culture in this breath-taking artistic tribute to the Scottish Diaspora. Stitched in 25 countries around the world, telling hundreds of individual tales of personal journeys, sacrifice, pride and achievement, this is one Homecoming exhibition which is not to be missed. www.scottishdiasporatapestry.org Tel: 01786 465646 www.mcadirect.com
Weekly Events Mondays Every Monday Night 8pm Stirling County R.F.C., Bridgehaugh Park, Stirling FK9 5AP Stirling Folk Club Tickets available on the
door www.stirlingfolkclub.co.uk
TUESDAYS Every Tuesday Night. Kilted Kangaroo - Australian Bar & Grill House, 9 Upper Craigs, Stirling
If you’re looking for some tasty tucker, a cold beer and some bonza entertainment the n look no further. On top of our weekly programme of entertainment we host a number of events thoughout the year. These range from Stand-up Comedy Nights to day-long Music Festivals in the huge beer garden. Tel: 01786 451130 www.kiltedkangaroo.com/events.html
Every Tuesday Night No. 2 Baker Street 2 Baker St Stirling FK8 1BJ Quiz Night.
Tradition pub full of character and real ale. Live music/disco at weekends. A friendly warm welcome awaits. For those that love...tradition, character and real ale. Tel: 01786 448 722
WEDNESDAYS Every Wednesday Night Kilted Kangaroo - Australian Bar & Grill House, 9 Upper Craigs, Stirling Pub Quiz. Australian Bar & Grill House, If
you’re looking for some tasty tucker, a cold beer and some bonza entertainment then look no further. Tel: 01786 451130 www.kiltedkangaroo.com
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Every Wednesday Night No. 2 Baker Street 2 Baker St Stirling FK8 1BJ Traditional Scottish Open Session.
tion pub full of character and real ale. Tel: 01786 448722
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Every Wednesday Night Kilted Kangaroo - Australian Bar & Grill House, 9 Upper Craigs, Stirling Pub Quiz. Australian Bar & Grill House, If you’re looking for some tasty tucker, a cold beer and some bonza entertainment then look no further. Tel: 01786 451130 www.kiltedkangaroo.com
Every Wednesday Night No. 2 Baker Street 2 Baker St Stirling FK8 1BJ
Traditional Scottish Open Session. Tradition pub full of character and real ale. Tel: 01786 448722
THURSDAYS Every Thursday Night from 9.00pm Kilted Kangaroo - Australian Bar & Grill House, 9 Upper Craigs, Stirling Karaoke! Australian Bar & Grill House, If you’re looking for some tasty tucker, a cold beer and some bonza entertainment then look no further. Tel: 01786 451130 www.kiltedkangaroo.com
FRIDAYS Every Friday Night Drouthy Neebors, 7 Baker Street FK8 1BJ Live local music Tel: 01786 450858 http://www.drouthyneebors-stirling.co.uk
Every Saturday and Sunday Drouthy Neebors 7 Baker Street FK8 1BJ
What’s On - Please keep checking back for forthcoming events. Tel: 01786 450858 http://www.drouthyneebors-stirling.co.uk/whatson
SATURDAYS Every Saturday Night Drouthy Neebors, 7 Baker Street FK8 1BJ Live local music Tel: 01786 450858 http://www.drouthyneebors-stirling.co.uk
First Saturday of the month 10am - 4pm Albert Halls Albert Place, Stirling FK8 2QL Scotfairs Antique Fair
A great shopping experience, antiques for the connoisseur, hidden treasures for the experts, specialist items for the experienced collector, and 1000s of interesting, beautiful and affordable items for the general public. Come along and enjoy the informal atmosphere of the market! Adults £1.50, accompanied children free. Tel: 01764 654555 or 654340 www.scotfairs.co.uk
Second Saturday of the Month starts 11am Port Street, Stirling City Centre FK8 2LJ Stirling Farmers Market
Highland beef, pork and bacon, venison and wild game, wild boar, fresh and smoked fish, great bread in variety - continental and traditional recipes including sourdoughs, scones and cakes, gluten-free baking, jams, chutneys and preserves, Scottish cheeses and butter, free-range hen/duck eggs, organic vegetables, cold-pressed oilseed-rape products and dressings, fudge and tablet, low sodium sea-salt, savoury pies, country fruit wines, hand-made, jewellery, soaps and body care products, knitted baby clothes, garden plants.
SUNDAYS Every Sunday Drouthy Neebors 7 Baker Street FK8 1BJ
What’s On - Please keep checking back for forthcoming events. Tel: 01786 450858 http://www.drouthyneebors-stirling.co.uk/whats-
Daily Events Diary Wednesday 2nd July 8pm Summer Ceilidhs @ The Tolbooth The Tolbooth, Jail Wynd Stirling FK8 1DE
The Tolbooth summer ceilidhs are back. Always popular, these nights are a great celebration of the very best traditional music and a fantastic opportunity to have a wee dance too! The ceilidhs are always friendly and informal and led by some of the very best traditional musicians on the circuit. £8 in advance/£10 on the door + £1 online Tel: 01786 274000 http://tolbooth.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth/whatson. htm
Friday 4th July 7pm The Comedy of Errors Macrobert Arts Centre University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA
Glasgow’s Bard In The Botanics perform Shakespeare’s enchanting romantic comedy on the beautiful grounds of the University of Stirling. Tel: 01786 466666 www.macrobert.org/live.htm
What’s On Stirling Highland Perthshire 2014 2013 Friday 4th to Sun 6th July 6pm The Spokesmen Macrobert Arts Centre University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA
been voted the ‘BEST GROUP 2014’ in the publicly voted Spiralearth awards. £13/£11 Tel: 01786 274000 http://tolbooth.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth/whats_ on_at_the_tolbooth.htm
Bikes and helmets provided - please note this event requires participants to be competent bike riders. The nature of the performance will require Saturday 19th July 8pm NYJOS The Magic of Brecker participants to cycle (on mostly flat terrain) outside, in stints of 10-15 mins over the course The Tolbooth, Jail Wynd Stirling of an hour. We will require age and height details FK8 1DE off all audience members at the point of booking. Widely considered as one of the most influential Tickets £8. tenor saxophonists of all time, multi Grammy Tel: 01786 466666 www.macrobert.org/live.htm award winner Michael Brecker has inspired jazz musicians in a way like few others. NYJOS, directed by Malcolm Edmonstone and Andrew Tuesday 7th July 7.30pm North Sea Gas @ Stirling Folk Club Bain, and featuring soloist Gordon McNeil on saxophone, will recreate the magic of Brecker, Stirling Folk Club, Bridgehaugh from moving ballads to upbeat fusion. The Park, Stirling FK9 5AP ground breaking repertoire will offer performers and audiences alike an insight into one of the One of Scotland’s most popular bands, with Guitars, Mandolin, Fiddle, Bouzouki, true greats of the jazz world. The National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland is the flagship jazz Bodhrans, Whistles, Banjo, great vocals with orchestra of NYOS. As one of Scotland’s foremost tremendous three part harmonies. 34 years, 17 youth jazz ensembles, it represents the wealth albums, literally 1000s of venues, more miles of innovation and skill possessed by Scotland’s that anyone wants to think about, and a lot of talented young jazz musicians. £10/£5/Under 16 fun and music. Founded in 1979, North Sea Gas have been performing their own brand of Scottish FREE Tel: 01786 274000 http://tolbooth.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth/whats_ music all over the world ever since. Their most on_at_the_tolbooth.htm recent album, Tak A Dram Before You Go, received great reviews, and we hope the next one, to be released in July 2013. Saturday 19th July 7.30pm www.stirlingfolkclub.co.uk
Wednesday 8th July 7.30pm Singing Bowl Meditations and Healings with Peter Halley. Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum, Dumbarton Rd Stirling FK8 2RQ Singing bowls create a deeply nutur-
ing special environment. The healing resonance and magic inherent in the song of the bowls allows deep releasing at cellular levels. Everyone has a distinctly individual evolving experience and usually find that thet connect with the bowls effortlessly and quickly. The style andthe depth of healing received is controlled by you. Effects include feeling revitalised, rejuvenated and generally a greater lightness of being. Further information and tickets available from Tel: 01786 471917 www.peterhalley.co.uk
Friday 11th July 8pm Jamie Smith’s MABON The Tolbooth, Jail Wynd Stirling FK8 1DE
The mighty Jamie Smith’s MABON , the International, award winning, Welsh based band are Britain’s finest original Inter-Celtic music performers, travelling beyond borders to explore the forms and styles of the Celtic traditions and work them anew. Combining traditional instruments and a modern rhythm section, the band perform outstanding original compositions - both instrumental and vocal – written and composed by acclaimed accordionist Jamie. The energetic sound of jigs and reels; or a graceful mazurka, an ecstatic muiñera; a haunting Welsh-language love-song or a driving, sing-along, fantasy epic. Most recently, the band are delighted to have
Rock for Strathcarron Bad Name + Whits’nake The Albert Halls, Dumbarton Road Stirling FK8 2QL Two of Scotland’s top tribute acts come together, for one night only, to raise funds for Strathcarron Hospice! Bad Name (Bon Jovi) and Whits’nake (Whitesnake) will take you back to the 80’s and 90’s when rock ruled the charts and deliver a great night of classic Rock Anthems for a terrific cause! Tickets £13.50 All profits to Strathcarron Hospice. Tel: 01786 473544 http://alberthalls.stirling.gov.uk/alberthalls.htm
Monday 21st July 8pm Archie Fisher @ Stirling Folk Club Stirling Folk Club, Bridgehaugh Park, Stirling FK9 5AP
Archie Fisher MBE (born October 23, 1939) is a Scottish folk singer and song writer. He has released several solo albums since his first, selftitled album in 1968. Fisher composed the song, “The Final Trawl,” which he recorded on the album, Windward Away. Several other groups and singers, including The Clancy Brothers, have also recorded it. Starting in the mid-1970s, he produced four folk albums with Makem and Clancy. He also performed with them and other groups as a backup singer and guitarist. He hosted his own radio show on BBC Radio Scotland for almost three decades. www.stirlingfolkclub.co.uk
Wednesday 23rd July 8pm Summer Ceilidhs @ The Tolbooth The Tolbooth, Jail Wynd Stirling FK8 1DE
The Tolbooth summer ceilidhs are back. Always popular, these nights are a great celebration of the very best traditional music and a fantastic opportunity to have a wee dance too! The ceilidhs are always friendly and informal and led by some of the very best traditional musicians on the circuit. £8 in advance/£10 on the door Tel: 01786 274000
Friday 25th to Sunday 27th July 2014. 7.45pm Continental Circus Berlin. Kings Park Stirling FK8 2QR
Continental Circus Berlin brings its brand new spectacular show to Scotland and will also be performing in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Sterling, Dundee and St Andrews. Tel: 020 8540 8122
Monday 28th July Barluath Stirling Folk Club, Bridgehaugh Park, Stirling FK9 5AP
A young Scottish folk band based in Glasgow and made up of six talented musicians: Ainsley, Alistair, Eilidh, Colin, Edward and Luc. Barluath are a traditional/folk music band who embrace a wide range of musical styles including Gaelic and Scots song, bagpipes, whistles, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, bass, clarinet and piano. With these instruments the band members explore both the Traditional and Contemporary music of Scotland. www.stirlingfolkclub.co.uk
Wednesday 30th July 8pm The Scottish Chamber Orchestra Stirling Castle, Castle Esplanade Stirling FK8 1EJ
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra returns to Stirling Castle for their annual summer concert with the truly talented, young, French conductor Alexandre Bloch. Scottish guitarist Sean Shibe, has been described as “a prodigious technician and supremely expressive player”. A recent first class honours graduate from Scotland’s Conservatoire, Sean is a trailblazer for classical guitar: he is the first guitarist to be admitted to the prestigious BBC New Generation Artists Scheme, and the only solo guitarist to have received a Borletti-Buitoni Fellowship.The programme is sure to sparkle with energy, enthusiasm and summer warmth. Tel: 01786 450000 www.stirlingcastle.gov.uk and www.sco.org.uk.. Tickets available from The Albert Halls Box Office, Albert Place, Dumbarton Road, Stirling FK8 2QL. Tel: 01786 473 544
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