appendix I
profile of arts activity
DANCE
BUTE AND COWAL
Bute Dance Club
Bute Scottish Country Dance Club
Christina Cairns School of Highland Dancing
Cowal Scottish Country Dance Club
Dunoon Disco Dance Club
Sarah Knox School of Dance
Anne McIlroy School of Dance
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society - Innellan
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society - Cowal
Salsa Dance Club
Speirs School of Dance
McKinnon School of Dance
Belly Dancers
Cowal Line Dancers
Strachur and District Scottish Country Dance Group
HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND
Margaret Rose School of Dance
Cardross Scottish Country Dance
Rosneath Scottish Country Dance
Royal Scottish Country Dance Club
MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY
SECNAD: Movement and Dance
Dochas Dancers
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society- Lorn
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society- Mid Argyll
Mid Argyll Community Dancers
OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES
Ballet West
Oban, Lorn and Strathspey Reel Society
Appin Highland Dancing School
Country Dance Club - Kilmore
Country Dance Club - Taynuilt
Royal Scottish Country Dance Society - Lorn
Oban and Mull School of Dance
DRAMA
BUTE AND COWAL
Theatre Wild
Achievement Bute - Drama Club
The Bute Players
Tighnabruaich Players
Benmore Players
Strachur Players
HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND
Peninsula Players
Sightline Productions
Helensburgh Theatre Club
Acting Up (Youth Drama Project)
MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY
Clachan Players
Lochgilphead Drama Club
Fyneside Drama Club
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Drama Club, Carradale
Dunaverty Players
Scottish Community Drama Association (Kintyre)
Scottish Community Drama Association (Argyll)
lascene Players
Future Generations Youth Drama
OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES
Mull Theatre
Lorn Drama Festival
Appin Drama Club – Youth Section
Taynuilt Amateur Dramatic Society
Appin Drama Group
Oban High School Drama Club
Benderloch and North Connel Drama Club ‘Juniors’
Benderloch and North Connel Drama Club
Dalmally and Loch Awe Drama Club
Players, Dervaig
Coll Players
Argyll Youth Theatre
MUSIC
BUTE AND COWAL
Bute Arts Society*
Cowal Music Club*
Kyles Concert Society
Kyles of Bute Music Club
St Andrews Church Choir
Bute Church Choirs
Cowal Choral Club
Cowal Gaelic Choir
Cowal Keyboard and Accordion Workshop
Lochgoilhead Fiddle Workshop
Cowal Youth Piping and Drumming Association
Dunoon Argyll Pipe Band
Cowal Fiddle Workshop
TMSA-Bute
Rothesay and District Juvenile Pipe Band
HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND
Helensburgh Dorian Choir
Helensburgh Oratorio Choir
Helensburgh Orchestral Society
Helensburgh Saturday Orchestra
Helensburgh Savoy
Helensburgh and Lomond Fiddlers
Helensburgh Music Society
MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY
Kintyre Music Club*
Islay Arts Association*
Mid Argyll Arts Association*
Church Choir – Lorn and Lowland
Church Choir - Southend
Coisir og Dhail Riata (junior Gaelic choir)
Real Live Music Club
Combined Church Music Group
Corran Singers
Fyneside Barbershop Chorus
Kintyre Juvenile Pipe Band
Kintyre Piping Society
Mid Argyll Music Society
Mid Argyll Pipe Band
Real Live Music Club
Gaelic Choir – Lochgilphead
Tarbert Gaelic Choir
Tarbert Junior Gaelic Choir
Port Ellen Gaelic Choir
Campbeltown Brass
Dalriada Community Concert Band
Campbeltown Pipe Band
Wild Women
OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES
An Tobar -regular programme
Corran Halls – regular programme
Oban Music Society*
Easdale Hall
Iona Arts
Coll Music Society
Oban Bach Choir and Orchestra
Mouthpiece Music
Oban Pipe Band
Spotlight Music Theatre Group
Gaelic Choir – Oban
Taynuilt Gaelic Choir
Celtic Soul Productions
Red River Music
Mouthpiece Music
Tobermory Primary School Choir
Achaleven School Gaelic Choir
Lochnell School Gaelic Choir
Taynuilt Primary Gaelic Choir
Oban High School Gaelic Choir
Kilninver School Gaelic Choir
Park Primary Gaelic Choir
Easdale Primary Gaelic Choir
Isle of Mull Gaelic Choir
Dunbeg Gaelic Choir
Argyll Male and Female Voice Choir
Oban Clarsach Ensemble
*part of Argyll and Bute Concert Tours
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AN COMUNN BRANCHES
An Comunn Gaidhealach, Cruachan, Taynuilt
An Comunn Gaidhealach, Dunoon
An Comunn Gaidhealach, Islay
An Comunn Gaidhealach, Loch Fyne
An Comunn Gaidhealach, Mull
Comunn Gaidhealach an Oban
GAELIC PARTNERSHIPS
BUTE AND COWAL
Cowal Gaelic Partnership
Isle of Bute Gaelic Partnership
MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY
Islay, Jura and Colonsay Gaelic Partnership
Kintyre Gaelic Partnership
Mid Argyll Gaelic Partnership
OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES
Mull and Iona Gaelic Partnership
Tiree and Coll Gaelic Partnership
Lorn Gaelic Partnership
STORYTELLING/
LITERATURE/
PUBLISHING
BUTE AND COWAL
Lochgoilhead Writers Circle
Dead Poets Society
Bute Writers
North Bute Literary Society
The Reading Group (Rothesay)
Writers Group, Cowal
Argyll Publishing, Glendaruel
HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND
Helensburgh and District Book Group
Cove and Kilcreggan Literary Society
Bounce & Tickle Pre-5 Mother and Toddler Group –
Helensburgh Library
Bounce & Tickle Pre-5 Mother and Toddler Group –
Kirkmichael Centre
Bounce & Tickle Pre-5 Mother and Toddler Group –
Princess Louise Hall, Rosneath
MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY
Carradale Reading Group
OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES
Tiree Women’s Group (creative writing)
Mull Theatre – new writing workshops
House of Lochar, Colonsay
FEIS
MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY
Feis Dhail-riada (Furnace)
OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES
Feis Mhuile (Mull)
Feis Thiriodh (Tiree)
Feis Latharna (Oban)
VISUAL ARTS /CRAFTS/
PHOTOGRAPHY
BUTE AND COWAL
Mount Stuart
Courtyard Gallery, Benmore Gardens, Cowal
Castle Gallery, Bute
The Studio Shop, Bute
Gallimaufry, Blairmore
Tighnabruaich Gallery
Juno Gallery (Kirn)
Fyne Studios, Newton
Bachie Bhan, Cairndow
Cairndow Art Promotions
Step-up Project – SIP project, Bute
Bute Art Club
Bute Bookbinding
Cowal Patchworkers
Shore Art Club - Dunoon
Glensluin Pottery
Dunoon Ceramics
Camera Club
Cowal Art Club
Community Quilters
HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND
Hill House, Helensburgh
Helensburgh Library (exhibition space)
Pink Gallery, Helensburgh
Simon Ashworth Photography and Portico Gallery
Inverbeg Gallery
Black Sheep Craft Shop, Tarbet by Arrochar
Glen Gallery, Helensburgh
Kilcreggan Woodcrafts (at Kilcreggan PO)
Decoupage Club- Helensburgh
Helensburgh Photographic Club
Helensburgh and District Art Club
Helensburgh and District Quilters
Hand and Machine Knitting Club
Peninsula Art Group
Tyrii Pottery, Helensburgh
MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY
Burnet Building, Campbeltown
Helensburgh Library
Kilmartin House
Elemental Arts
Loch Fyne Gallery, Tarbert
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The Archway Gallery, Lochgilphead
The Oystercatcher Gallery, Campbeltown
Carraig Fhada Farm, Islay
Dochas Gallery, Lochgilphead
Earra Gael, Tarbert
Crafty Kitchen, Ardfern
Square Peg, Lochgilphead
Giving Tree, Craobh Haven
Torrisdale Tannery
Natural Elements, Inveraray
Stable Gallery, Inveraray
Hidden Talents, Campbeltown
Tormisdale Croft Crafts, by Port Charlotte, Islay
Kilmartin Crafts
North Kintyre Art Group
South Kintyre Art Group
Arts and Crafts Guild, Islay
Islay Visual Arts Group
Argyll Green Woodworkers Association
Fyne Art Club
Islay Quilters
Mid Argyll Camera Club
Highbank Pottery
Campbeltown Pottery
Collaig Pottery, Ardfern
Port Ellen Pottery, Islay
Templar Arts and Leisure Centre
Jolomo Gallery, Tayvallich
OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES
An Tobar, Mull
Kranenburg & Fowler, Oban
Carthouse Gallery, Calgary and Calgary Art in
Nature Sculpture Walk, Mull
Blue Beyond Gallery, Tiree
Edna Whyte Gallery, Luing
Iona Pottery and Gallery
Angus Stewart Paintings and Prints
Mhiann Arts, Iona
John Street Studio, Oban
Breadalbane Studio, Mull
The Picture Gallery, Mull
Edna Whyte Gallery House, Luing
Tiree Art Enterprises
Oban Arts Society
Oban Photographic Club
Argyll Scribes
Oban Craft Fair
Island Craft Enterprise – Coll
Iona Pottery
Mull Pottery
Argyll Pottery- Barcaldine, by Oban
The Workshop Gallery
MOVING IMAGE
BUTE AND COWAL
Discovery Theatre, Discovery Centre, Bute
West Coast Cinemas, Dunoon
Bute Film Club
HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND
Cove and Kilcreggan Film Club
Cove Park
MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY
CREAR
Residential retreat for artists/ recording studio
PUBLIC ART/ LANDSCAPE ART/
ENVIRONMENTAL ART
Tiree - An Turas
Bute - Mount Stuart –International artist, Kate
Whiteford “Bute necklace” permanently on the
grounds in front of the house.
Scotland’s National Park – public art work in the
grounds
Mull - Calgary Woodland Sculpture Walk
Campbeltown – Young people’s shelter
OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES
FESTIVALS
Mendelssohn on Mull
Sounds of Mull
Sounds of Progress (Mull)
Mull Music Festival
Tobermory Arts Festival (org by An Tobar)
Highlands and Islands Dance Festival
Oban Music Festival
Lorn Drama Festival
Oban Comedy Festival
Iona Storytelling Festival
BUTE AND COWAL
EVENTS/PROJECTS
MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY
The Picture House, Campbeltown
Templar Arts and Leisure Centre Film Club
RESIDENTIAL CENTRES for ARTISTS
HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND
Ardfern and Craobh Haven (org by Elemental Arts)
Mid Argyll Music Festival
SCDA Festival
Islay Festival (Feis Ile)
Islay Jazz Festival
Jura Folk Festival
Harbour Light Youth Festival (2003)
Feis Ile (Festival of Malt and Music)
OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES
Highland Theatre, Oban
Isle of Bute Jazz Festival
Bute Line Dance Festival
ButeLive Festival
Dunoon Festival/Dunoon Country and Western
Festival
St John’s Music Festival, Dunoon
Cowal Walking and Arts Festival
Bute Highland Dance Festival
Nordic Film Festival – Bute – 2003 (through Film
Club)
MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY
Mull of Kintyre Music Festival
Dalriada Revival
Tarbert Music Festival
Gigha Music Festival
Cantilena on Islay
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BUTE AND COWAL
Mod (Dunoon)
Cowal Highland Gathering
Bute Highland Games
Kirn Gala
Innellan Gala
Rothesay Academy- Lighthouse project (The Lade).
Cowal Community Events Association (incl Country
and Western Weekend)
HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND
Rosneath and Clynder Highland Games
Luss Highland Games
Rhu Gala Day
Cardross Gala Day
Kirkmichael/Craigendoran Gala Day
MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY
MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY
Lantern Procession (Lanterns @10)
Provincial Mod – Islay
Provincial Mod – Lochgilphead
Loch Fyne Sea Food Fair (incl music)
Funky Chicken – circus workshops
Morag and Sheelagh
Kintyre Youth Enquiry Service
Mid Argyll Youth Project
Fusion (Kintyre)
Cyber Café – Islay
Kintyre Arts and Activities Development Group
AMP (Kintyre)
KMAT (Kintyre Music and Arts Tuition)
OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES
Mod (Oban)
Argyllshire Gathering
Provincial Mod – Oban
Provincial Mod - Mull
OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES
Ionaid Chaluim Chille Ile
Islay Arts Association
OBAN, LORN AND THE ISLES
Corran Halls, Oban*
An Talla, Tiree
Island Craft Enterprises, Coll
An Tobar, Mull
Mull Theatre
Eilean Eisdeal Trust
*Argyll and Bute Council
Argyll and Bute – Young Scot
OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING
WITH CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
PROMOTERS ARTS NETWORK (PAN
ORGANISATION)
ARGYLL AND BUTE WIDE
BUTE AND COWAL
Achievement Bute
Ballochgoy Resource Centre
Bute Youth Project
Cowal Youth Information Project
Cowal Childrens Creative Workshops
Fusion (Cowal)
Promoting all artforms
HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND
HELENSBURGH AND LOMOND
Helensburgh and Lomond Youth Forum
Helensburgh and Lomond Youth Information
Service
Helensburgh and Lomond Homelink Project
Helensburgh and Lomond Fusions Project
Helensburgh Youth 2 Youth Health Drop-in Project
Victoria Halls, Helensburgh*
Geilston Hall, Cardross
Gibson Community Centre
Puppet Animation Festival- Easter (covering A&B
and 12 other community venues)
MID ARGYLL, KINTYRE AND ISLAY
Storytelling Programme – schools, venues,
museums, libraries, theatres
Screenmachine – Hi Arts
BUTE AND COWAL
Pavilion*
Queen’s Hall, Dunoon
ButeLive
Cairndow Art Promotions
Victoria Hall, Campbeltown*
Campbeltown Picture House
Carradale Tourist promotion Group
Craignish Village Hall
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Local art shows
Paintings in Hospitals
aimhi support for the Creative Industries in the
Highlands and Islands
appendix II
list of independent museums and heritage visitor attractions
Members of the Museums Forum
Oban War and Peace Museum
Slate Island Museum
Scottish Slate Islands Heritage Trust
Bute Museum *
Lismore Historical Society
Dunoon Castle House Museum *
An Iodhlann
MacDougall Trust
Strachur Smiddy
Ross of Mull Historical Society
Campbeltown Heritage Centre
Kilmartin House Museum *
Colonsay & Oronsay Historical Society
Mull Museum *
Museum of Islay Life *
Finlaggan Trust
Iona Heritage Centre
Auchindrain Township Open Air Museum *
Here We Are
Isle of Luing Historical Society
Sheila’s Cottage
Location
Oban
Easdale
Seil
Rothesay
Lismore
Dunoon
Tiree
Oban
Strachur
Bunessan, Mull
Campbeltown
Kilmartin
Colonsay
Tobermory, Mull
Port Charlotte, Islay
Ballygrant, Islay
Isle of Iona
Auchindrain
Cairndow
Cullipool , Isle of Luing
Ulva, Mull
*Museums registered under the national registration scheme supervised by MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives) and administered in Scotland by the
Scottish Museums Council.
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Other major museums and heritage visitor attractions
The Arctic Penguin
Inveraray Castle
Inveraray Jail
Carnasserie Castle
Rothesay Castle
Mount Stuart
The Hill House
Dunstaffnage Castle
Oban Distillery
Bonawe Iron Furnace
Byre Heritage Centre
Torosay Castle
Duart Castle
St Columba Visitors Centre
Iona Abbey
Hebridean Trust sites
Glenbarr Abbey
Saddell Priory
Various distillery museums
Kilchurn Castle
Location
Inveraray
Inveraray
Inveraray
Kilmartin
Bute
Bute
Helensburgh
Nr. Oban
Oban
Bonawe
Mull
Mull
Mull
Mull
Iona
Tiree
Kintyre
Kintyre
Islay
Lochawe
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appendix III
list of libraries
Library
Campbeltown Library
Cardross Library
Cove Library
Dunoon Library
Garelochhead Library
Helensburgh Library
Islay Mobile
Library Headquarters
Lochgilphead Library
Lomond Mobile
Lorn Mobile
Mid Argyll Mobile
Mull Mobile
Oban Library
Rosneath Library
Rothesay Library
Tarbert Library
Address
Contact
Hall Street, Campbeltown PA28 6BS
℡01586 552366 Sue Fortune
Main Street, Cardross G82 5PX
℡01389 841215 Marion Kinns
Burgh Hall, Shore Road, Cove G84 0LY
℡01436 842315 Margaret Olsen
248 Argyll Street, Dunoon PA23 7LT
℡01369 703735 Pauline Flynn
Primary School, Feorlin Way, Garelochhead G84 0DG
℡01436 810579 Cherry Lyne
West King Street, Helensburgh G84 8EB
℡01436 674626 Pat McCann
7 King Street, Portnahaven, Isle of Islay PA47 7SP
℡07884 114390 Ian Turner
Highland Avenue, Sandbank, Dunoon PA23 8PB
℡01369 703214 Andrew Ewan
Manse Brae, Lochgilphead PA31 8QZ
℡01546 602072 Carolyn Mitchell
c/o Helensburgh Library
℡07990 773139 Agnes Robinson
c/o Oban Library
℡07990 773072 Neil McIntyre
c/o Lochgilphead Library
℡07990 773102 Iain McGlynn
Area Office Breadalbane Street, Tobermory, Isle of Mull PA75 6PX ℡07990 773133 Jayne Powers
Corran Halls, Oban PA34 5AB
℡01631 571444 Kevin Baker
Primary School, Rosneath G84 0RJ
℡01436 831630 Marcia May
Moat Centre, Stuart Street, Rothesay, Isle of Bute PA20 0BX
℡01700 503266 Eddie Monaghan
Barmore Road, Tarbert PA29 6TW
℡01880 820424 Ruth Morrison
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appendix IV
historical and civic societies
An Iodhlann
Architectural Heritage Society (North Argyll)
Appin Historical Society
Argyll & Bute Building Preservation Trust
Arrochar Historical Society
Bute Natural History Society
Comunn Eachdraidh Eilean Dhiura
Comunn Eachdraidh Liosmor
Cove and Kilcreggan Literary Society
Cowal Archaeological and Historical Society
Cowal Heritage Trust
Dalmally Historical Society
Friends of Loch Lomond
Helensburgh Civic Society
Helensburgh Heritage Trust
Islay Family History Society
Kintyre Archaeological Society
Kintyre Civic Society
Lorn Archaeological Society
Mull Historical & Archaeological Society
Natural History & Antiquarian Society of Mid Argyll
North Bute Literary Society
Peninsular Historical Society
N.B. The information given on organisations is correct as far as is known at the time of printing.
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