Nairn as a centre for the arts?
Michael Barnett posts on Nairnmatters a case for turning Nairn into a centre for the arts in the Highlands: Make Nairn a cultural centre by building a modern Arts Centre capable of supporting and promoting the entire spectrum of arts and culture – ie music, theatre, dance, art (painting, drawing, sculpture), camera, and so on. [...]
Cinema of Dreams to go mobile?
Interesting comments on Indiewire from Tilda Swinton, which if reported correctly, suggests that this year could see the Cinema of Dreams repeated – but in a mobile format: “Unfortunately, our bingo hall is [no more],” she said. “Somebody bought a house behind it. And said they didn’t want us to do it again because our [...]
Moray Coast: A Tourist Destination or not?
At the beginning of the week I went to the Visit Nairn association AGM, to see what was planned for promoting Nairn as a tourist destination. Certainly there was a lot of very constructive talk, not least with addressing some of Nairn’s most outstanding issues. I’ll admit to being cautiously optimistic (and that’s from a [...]
Stolen Order
Last August Nairn hosted a little known and little attended event – Rock Nairn – which saw a string of local rock bands performing at the community centre. Turn out was poor, really – perhaps no more than 40 people overall – which was pretty bad considering the fact that at least 3 bands were [...]
Cinema of Dreams forum saved from axe
UPDATE: December 2009 – the forums have moved here: Nairnshire Community forums Mark Cousins has sent an email telling everyone he wants the forum on Cinema of Dreams shut down, partly because the current admin is struggling to dedicate time to it, and additionally because Mark would prefer the festival to keep spontaneous rather than [...]
Congratulations, Ruairidh Macmillan!
Congratulations are in order for Ruairidh Macmillan, a Nairn lad who just won the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician competition: Nairn Fiddler Wins The Quaich In the end, the big silver quaich went to Ruairidh Macmiilan from Nairn. He had wowed the audience with some fantastic fiddling but he also had great stage presence [...]
Nairnshire won’t promote Cinema of Dreams site?
Stephen Smerdon, the administrator behind the Cinema of Dreams website, complains that while the Aberdeen Press and Journal, Highland News, and Inverness Courier were all happy to carry coverage of the opening of the new website, the Nairnshire Telegraph decided against it. Stephen says: as everyone is aware Nairn is on the map for hosting [...]
Cinema of Dreams gets new website
Just to let you all know that Cinema of Dreams is moving to it’s own domain: CinemaOfDreams.co.uk. I registered the domain and offered to rebuild the Spanglefish site on it, without charge, and Tilda and Marc have taken me up on this. I already copied the original spanglefish site to the domain after their agreement, [...]
Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams finishes
Well, Tilda Swinton certainly turned the Cinema Of Dreams at the Ballerina Ballroom a roaring success – once it launched most viewings sold out very very quickly. While they did try to keep some tickets available on the door, they would sell out within 10 minutes of the box office opening, even though it was [...]