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	Date (dd/mm/yyyy) Event Type Select... Buffet Supper Childrens Comedy Dance Drama Family Event Film Folk Jazz Lecture Linked Event Literature Music Rock & Pop Supper Visual Arts Event Title Artist Venue Show All 23/05/2008 Drama Yellow Moon (The Ballad of Leila and Lee) TAG Theatre DG One, Hood's Loaning, Dumfries. 24/05/2008 Folk The McCalmans Ian McCalman, Stephen Quigg and Nick Keir The Lochside Theatre, Lochside Road, Castle Douglas 24/05/2008 Comedy Laugh Out Loud, Moniaive Kevin Hayes, Rory Motion with Compere Charmian Hughes The George Hotel, Moniaive 24/05/2008 Literature No! I Don't Want To Join A Book Club Growing old disgracefully Virginia Ironside The Brigend Theatre, Market Square, Dumfries 24/05/2008 Literature From Laptop to Bookshop Writing Workshop First Impressions - choosing a title with Debbie Taylor The Studio, Rutherford McCowan Building, University of Glasgow Crichton Campus, Bankend Road, Dumfries 24/05/2008 Childrens Related Workshop What's Rubbish Dragonfly Dreaming The Old Well Theatre, Old Well Road, Moffat. 24/05/2008 Drama Surfacemen Matt Baker, Alex Rigg. Written by Debbie Kent Cairnsmore of Fleet National Nature Reserve 24/05/2008 Linked Event Laughing in the Dark The extraordinary story of a Holocaust Ventriloquist Written and performed by Graeme Messer The Bakehouse, 44 High Street, Gatehouse of Fleet 24/05/2008 Childrens That's Rubbish Dragonfly Dreaming The Old Well Theatre, Old Well Road, Moffat. 24/05/2008 Childrens The Box It Came In Cartoon Theatre The Lochside Theatre, Lochside Road, Castle Douglas. 25/05/2008 Literature Writer's Free-For-All Bank Street Books, Bank Street, Dumfries 25/05/2008 Drama Surfacemen Matt Baker, Alex Rigg. Written by Debbie Kent Cairnsmore of Fleet National Nature Reserve 25/05/2008 Music Aleksander Kudajczyk (Piano) St. John's Scottish Episcopal Church, Lovers Walk, Dumfries 25/05/2008 Comedy Laugh Out Loud, Lochside Kevin Hayes, Rory Motion, Deep Vein Thrombosis with compere Charmian Hughes The Lochside Theatre, Castle Douglas 26/05/2008 Literature True North Gavin Francis The Brigend Theatre, Market Square, Dumfries 27/05/2008 Music When Lights Are Low Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and Claire Martin Theatre Royal, Shakespeare Street, Dumfries 27/05/2008 Linked Event Dougie MacLean in Concert Lockerbie Academy, Dryfe Road, Lockerbie. 27/05/2008 Folk James Fagan and Nancy Kerr Shawhead Village Hall, Shawhead, By Dumfries 28/05/2008 Jazz Classic Big Band Jazz and Swing Ken Mathieson's Classic Jazz Orchestra Woodland House Hotel, Newbridge, Dumfries 28/05/2008 Folk James Fagan and Nancy Kerr Colvend Public Hall, Colvend, By Dalbeattie 28/05/2008 Music The Scottish Chamber Orchestra The Buccleuch Centre, Buccleuch Square, Langholm 28/05/2008 Comedy Fred MacAulay SOLD OUT The CatStrand, High Street, New Galloway 29/05/2008 Folk James Fagan and Nancy Kerr Moffat Water Hall, Moffat Water Valley (5 miles from Moffat on the A.708 road to Selkirk www.moffatwaterhall.org.) 29/05/2008 Jazz Jeff Barnhart (Piano) with Anne Barnhart (Flute) and Solway Rhythm Aces PLEASE NOTE, THIS VENUE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO THE KING'S ARMS HOTEL, HIGH STREET, DALBEATTIE. 29/05/2008 Music The Different String Quartet Status Cymbal Broughton House, 12 High Street, Kirkcudbright. 30/05/2008 Drama The Shankly Show Richard Greenhow Centre, Central Avenue, Gretna 30/05/2008 Music Gordon Giltrap (Guitar) Middlebie Community Centre, Middlebie 30/05/2008 Drama The Lady of Burma SOLD OUT with Liana Mau Tan Gould as Aung San Suu Kyi. The CatStrand, High Street, New Galloway 30/05/2008 Jazz Jeff Barnhart (Piano) with Anne Barnhart (Flute) and Solway Rhythm Aces Kirkmichael Parish Hall, Parkgate 30/05/2008 Music That Damn Tune! Opera WoW! Theatre Royal, Shakespeare Street, Dumfries 30/05/2008 Comedy Karen Dunbar DG One, Hood's Loaning, Dumfries 31/05/2008 Music Robert Burns Concert Hector Scott and Julia Lynch Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Mill Road, Dumfries 31/05/2008 Film Archive Film Screening with live musical accompaniment Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Mill Road, Dumfries 31/05/2008 Visual Arts Dumfries Riverside Painting Challenge Lui Fusco Exhibition at The Secret Gallery, 58 Friars Vennel, Dumfries 31/05/2008 Music Gordon Giltrap (guitar) SOLD OUT The CatStrand, High Street, New Galloway 31/05/2008 Rock & Pop Abba Mania Handshake Ltd. DG One, Hood's Loaning, Dumfries 31/05/2008 Supper Buffet Supper Hullabaloo at Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre 31/05/2008 Music Guitar Workshop Gordon Giltrap The CatStrand, New Galloway 31/05/2008 Linked Event Festival Kids Club Gracefield Studios, 28 Edinburgh Road, Dumfries. 31/05/2008 Childrens Song from the Sea Visible Fictions Thornhill Community Centre, East Back Street, Thornhill. 31/05/2008 Childrens The Wolf and the Goat Compagnia Rodisio (Italy) Brigend Theatre, Market Square, Dumfries 31/05/2008 Drama The Shankly Show Kirkconnel Miners Memorial Hall, 1 Needle Street, Kirkconnel