Arcadia Scotland
Stirling Happenings: February 2016
Date
January 11, 2016
Art and Culture
Jimeoin Yeehaa!: 4 February, Tolbooth, 7:30pm
Refining a lost art of the commonplace, Jimeoin is a comic with a delightful sense of the absurd and a uniquely low-key style.
How you gonna live your dash: 10 February, Macrobert Arts Centre, 7:30pm
One of Scotland’s most visionary theatre makers, Jenna Watt, presents her latest performance following the award-winning Flâneurs. This shattering piece explores the life-altering decisions we make in order to get the most out of our time on earth: giving up a high-flying career, confronting an addiction, dropping it all and moving to a new continent. Based on real life testimonies and featuring beautiful pyrotechnic effects, this epic performance looks at the moment we choose to detonate our own lives, the smokey fall out and how we piece together a new future.
Julia Linden Bicket: Images of Devotion in the Poetry of George Mackay Brown: 15 February, Smith Art Gallery & Museum, 7:30pm
A lecture about religious imagery in the work of the poet.
Music, Comedy and Dance
The Tailor of Inverness: 5 February, Tolbooth, 8pm
Ben Harrison directs Matthew Zajac's solo account of his own long journey towards the truth of his father's wartime story. Featuring the violinist, Gavin Marwick.
Storm & Stress: 26 February, Macrobert Arts Centre, 7:30pm
Haydn String Quartet Op 76 No 2 Bartók String Quartet No 3 Grieg String Quartet No 1 in G minor. Storm & Stress derives from the loose translation of the German ‘Sturm und Drang’ movement of the eighteenth century, where passionate expression was given free rein in literature, but also in music with works by Haydn and Mozart at the forefront. The Edinburgh Quartet performs a typical ‘Sturm und Drang’ work by Haydn alongside masterworks inspired by extremes of expression by Bartók and Grieg.
Lectures, Sports and Local Festivals
Stirling's Famers' Market: 13 February, Port Street
A busy market with 20 to 25 stalls, traders gather on the 2nd Saturday of the month. Producers represent a good cross-section of some of Scotland’s finest food and drink suppliers, from Churchill's wild venison, Barker's Highland beef and Arbroath Fishery's fresh and smoked fish to Bellfield Organic vegetables and soft fruit. Stallholders include drinks (Cairn O’Mohr fruit wines), artisan pies, hand-made bread and bakes from Achray, Different Breid and gluten-free Cookroom, Perthshire Preserves and Summer Harvest Oils. Hand-made clothes, jewellery and beauty products are also available.