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Whatever the Weather Wednesdays
Wednesdays
10.30am – 3pm
Donations welcome
In the morning, our session uses Museum objects and other inspiration to aid discussion. Am Bàrd, the Museum cafe, will be offering a soup lunch on a pay-what-you-can donation basis. This is open to anyone in the community as well as those attending the Wednesday session.
In the afternoon, we play bingo and other group games. All our activities are accessible and dementia friendly. If you need help with transport please get in touch.
With thanks to The Hugh Fraser Foundation, GAMS and the Highland Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund for their support, as well as the individual donors who help to keep these sessions going.
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Cearcall Còmhraidh
Fridays
2pm - 3pm
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Join us for these engaging Gaelic language conversation sessions aimed at both fluent speakers and learners of all ages. These sessions will be welcoming and supportive, using the inspiring environment of the Museum to get you using and developing your Gaelic language skills.
School pupils are especially welcome to join, as we aim to provide students with the opportunity to speak Gaelic outside the classroom We gratefully acknowledge the support of Bòrd na Gàidhlig in making these sessions possible.
​Our last meeting this session will be on Friday 13th December 2024. We will restart from Friday 10th January 2025.
Ceilidh House Gathering
Monday 20th January
7pm - 9pm (doors open at 6.30pm)
£2 donation appreciated
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Our Ceilidh House gatherings meet once a fortnight and are a welcoming group who enjoy making music, singing or the spoken word. Come and sit in front of the virtual fireside, sing a song, tell a tale, read a poem, play a tune, bring your knitting or just sit back and enjoy the atmosphere. We look forward to welcoming you!
Museum Pub Quiz
Gairloch Museum
Friday 24th January
Doors open at 7pm for 7.30pm start
£20 per team of four
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Teams of four are warmly invited to join us in Am Bàrd (the Museum cafe) for the first in our series of pub quizzes. As well as a fun and entertaining general knowledge quiz, there will of course be great prizes in our magnificent raffle.
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Space is limited, so please be in touch if you wish to book a table for your team.
Winter Talk
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Insights into Wester Ross from early maps with Nevis Hulme
Friday 31st January, 7pm - 8pm
Tickets £5 in person, £4 view from home
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The first precisely surveyed maps of Wester Ross were not available until Ordnance Survey maps were published in the nineteenth century. Before this, the earliest maps were based largely on travellers’ reports or imprecise survey, but they do reveal detail that would otherwise have been lost. This talk will examine the most significant maps covering the area and discuss their place in helping us to understand the names of Wester Ross.
Nevis Hulme is a former Geography teacher in Gairloch. Now in retirement, he has time to pursue his interest in maps, place-names and Gaelic. He is currently editing Roy Wentworth’s place-name collection and has written articles on diverse topics such as Ordnance Survey name books, nineteenth-century rifle ranges, the Principal Triangulation in Skye and place-names.
To book your ticket you can either contact the Museum or book online via Art Tickets.
Museum Book Group
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Tuesday 4th February
3.30pm - 4.30pm (in person)
7.30pm - 8.30pm (online)
£2 donation per person appreciated.
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Our current Museum Book Group read is The Secrets of Blythswood Square by Sarah Sheridan. You can join our friendly group for tea, coffee, cake and lively discussion in person at the Museum or online via Zoom. If you'd like to take part please get in touch.
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History & Other Inspiration
Meet the author: S G Maclean
Thursday 13th February
3pm - 4pm
Tickets £5
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Join us at Gairloch Museum, where author Shona MacLean will share with us the inspiration and research that go into her award winning writing.
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Shona was born in Inverness and grew up in the Highlands where her parents were hoteliers. She has an M.A. and Ph.D in History from the University of Aberdeen. She started writing fiction while bringing up her four children on the Banffshire coast. She currently has two series of historical crime in print – The Alexander Seaton novels, set in C17th Scotland, and the Damian Seeker novels, set mainly in Oliver Cromwell’s England. She has twice won the CWA Historical Dagger for novels in the Seeker series, and her standalone Jacobite adventure, The Bookseller of Inverness, was chosen as Waterstone’s Scottish Book of the Year, 2023.
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To book your ticket you can either contact the Museum or book online via Art Tickets.
Creative Writing Group
Tuesday 25th February
2.30pm - 4pm
GALE Snug Room
Our Creative Writing Group is a friendly, relaxed session to help you get writing. We will maybe do some writing exercises and share our endeavours. The sharing of writing can be either what we have produced during the brief writing exercise or could be something that we have worked on at home.
