Visitors to Friends’ Day at the Lismore Gaelic Heritage Centre on 24 November 2013 heard Bob Hay, Helen Crossan, and Douglas Thorburn report on the progress made on the three top areas for development Friends had selected at last year’s meeting. Bob reported that,...
Gilly B is an artist and illustrator. She studied art in England in the eighties, then raised a family on the island, and now after many years of working only for friends and family or to satisfy her own desire to express, she has been persuaded to open her work up....
Anyone attending the Fairtrade Fashion Show on 19 October 2013 at the Heritage Centre organised by Anne Livingstone and Beth Campbell and hosted by Pauline Cameron, started their evening with a glass of Fairtrade wine and a bidding ticket for the silent hat and bag...
A visit to Kilmartin Museum for CELM volunteers was organised for Saturday, 7th September 2013. On the appointed day the ten travellers convened at Achnacroish for the 0900 boat. On arrival at Oban the drivers went off to collect the vehicle, while the remainder...
On Wednesday 28 August 2013 a celebration party was held in the café of Ionad Naomh Moluag to mark the awarding of Accreditation Status to Lismore Heritage Museum from Museums Galleries Scotland. This is a huge achievement and is the culmination of twenty...
The Argyllshire Gathering was established in the 19th century to bring people together once a year in a county which covers a great area. From this came the now justly famous Oban Games where not only sport was celebrated but culture of all kinds including highland...
The Comann Eachdraidh held its annual ceilidh in the Lismore hall on Saturday 17 August. Introduced by Duncan Livingstone with Katy Crossan an entertaining and efficient bean an taigh, the evening featured performers from on and off the island and was opened by...
Argyll Fèis Latharna’s ‘Ceòl mun Cuairt - The Argyll Ceilidh Trail - visited Lismore on 1 August as part of their tour of Argyll and offered a lively musical evening. The band is made up of the best of current young traditional musicians from Argyll and the Isles...
On Saturday 20 July 2013, the hottest day of the year, Lismore Gaelic Heritage Centre hosted a Crofters’ and Crafters’ day which attracted visitors from all over the world. It was extremely well organised by Beth Campbell (in the main), with a treasure hunt, craft...
A concert by Lismore Voices - the island's accomplished choir - celebrated the island’s talent and also raised funds for insulating the hall roof. The evening opened with the singers processing through the packed hall singing the round - “Da Pacem Domine” - which...
The Canadian Walking Youth Theatre with the Walking Theatre Company of Argyll visited the island on the weekend of 29 June 2013 with their unique, moving and polished performance of an original work “Selkirk’s New Nation” which they had previously performed at The...
The Comann Eachdraidh Lios Mòr has appointed Helen Crossan as the Heritage Recorder at Lismore Gaelic Heritage Centre. Funded by Bòrd na Gàidhlig and Argyll & Bute Council (Third Sector), she will be responsible for recording the memories of the older residents...