Wigtown Spring Book Weekend

This weekend sees Wigtown Book Town hosting it's Spring Book Weekend. There are events for children of all ages, with authors including Alan Temperley author of Harry and the Wrinklies, Simon Puttock and Lari Don along with a paper making workshop.
The adult programme sees visits from Ted Cowan, Dr David Clark and Michael Ansell. A full programme is down loadable from the Book Town website.
Spring Fling and Wigtown Booktown will be collaborating during the Spring Fling weekend this year, 29th to 31st May when Wigtown will be hosting "Place, Identity Memory" an exhibition archive of artists books made by artists from all over the world and curated by Iris. This will be held in The Hut at Reading Lasses Bookshop, 17 South Main Street, Wigtown.

Saturday at Stranraer

A great turn out at Stranraer Museum this last saturday for the opening of the Spring Fling Taster Exhibition there. Our very warm thanks go to all those who took the time to attend and of course special thanks to our special guest Marion Brewis, Lord-Lieutenant for Wigtown who took a collection of excitable artists quite in her stride. Thanks also to Ken Pearson of Ken Pearson Photography who provided the photograph above and also one for the local press.

Stranraer Taster Exhibition Launch

Saturday April 24th sees the launch of the Spring Fling Taster Exhibition at Stranraer Museum. We Spring Fling members would like to invite all participants, supporters and all those interested in the event to join us from 2pm for the launch of this exhibition which will be opened, we are very pleased to say, by Marion Brewis, the Lord-Lieutenant for Wigtown.
Do feel free to call into Stranraer Museum which is in The Old Town Hall, George Street, Stranraer to meet some of the artists and craftspeople involved in this years Spring Fling, to partake in strawberries and pink fizz and to browse some of the work produced by this region's many talented artists and craftspeople.

SF 2010 Photo Shoot

On a sunny afternoon this week you may, if you were lucky have caught sight of this gathering in Kirkpatrick Durham village. This year Juliet and Alan who live in the village have organised Spring Fling tours with a difference, they are offering tours over the weekend from the comfort of a motorcycle side car. To help promote this with the help of Dumfries and Galloway Life Phil McMenemy, Hazel Campbell and Spring Fling's own Rhiannon Batten got into the 1950's swing for a photo shoot with DG Life photographer Phil Rigby, pictured below.

The sidecars will each take one passenger and the tours have no set charge but donations are being given to the National Autistic Society and the Greek Cat Welfare Society. For more information contact Alan on 07887 821613.

Look out for the results of the afternoon photo session in the June issue of Dumfries and Galloway Life out in early May. Thanks to all involved, including Lochside Theatre for helping with the props.