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A Write Highland Hoolie Programme 2024

 

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8th

 

5.00pm TOY FIGHTS: A BOYHOOD

Don Paterson

&

Announcement of the winner of the Deirdre Roberts Poetry Competition 2024

 

DINNER 7.30pm

Music in the Bar

Ross Martin & Eilidh Shaw

(Toy Fights ticket holders and residents only)

 

 

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9th

 

9.30-10.30am DOUBLING BACK: TEN PATHS TRODDEN IN MEMORY

 Linda Cracknell

 

11-12 noon THE LAST SUNSET IN THE WEST: BRITAIN’S VANISHING WEST COAST ORCAS

Natalie Sanders

 

LUNCH 12.15-1.15pm

 

1.30-2.30 pm A CASE OF MATRICIDE

 Graeme Macrae Burnet

 

3.00-4.00pm VITAL ORGANS: A HISTORY OF THE WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS BODY PARTS

Suzie Edge

 

4.30-5.30pm THE HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND: A NEW HISTORY

Alistair Moffat

 

6.00-7.00pm THE BONE CAVE: A JOURNEY THROUGH MYTH & MEMORY

Dougie Strang with music from Ingrid Henderson & Iain MacFarlane

 

DINNER 7.30pm

Music in the Bar

Ingrid Henderson & Iain MacFarlane

(The Bone Cave ticket holders and residents only)

 

 

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10th

 

10.00-10.55am COLUMBA’S BONES

David Greig

 

11.00-11.15am – REMEMBRANCE DAY - minute’s silence, piping 

& reading by Angela Gilchrist

 

11.45 -12.45 COFFEE FIRST THEN THE WORLD

Jenny Graham

 

LUNCH 1.00-1.45pm

 

2.00-3.00pm THE SEAN ROONEY PSYCHO-SLEUTH SERIES

Tom O. Keenan

 

3.30pm GRAND FINALE PRIZE-GIVING TEA PARTY

KEVIN THE ORANGE

Alan Windram

Gaelic singing – Mallaig Primary School

 5pm FESTIVAL ENDS

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