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| Published date | 17 April 2024 |
| Publication title | Stirling Observer |
Graham, co-founder of Scottish Labour Party and founding president of SNP, celebrated in two-day event hosted by The Smith 'Don Roberto and Scotland: International Perspectives', weekend (May 11 and 12) featuring talks, dinner, and visits to Gartmore, former Graham family seat, and optional visit to island of Inchmahome in Lake of Menteith where Graham and his wife Gabriela are buried. Speakers include novelist James Robertson, playwright Chris Dolan and Professor Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. STIRLING LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY Next meeting is in The Smith Museum on Thursday April 25 at 7.30pm. Doors open 7pm. Members free, visitors £3. Lecture by Dr Emma McLeod and titled 'As if the days of Braxfield had come back' - 1790s precedents and the state trials after the 1820 Radical War. Members are reminded that meeting will include AGM. This is last in current series but meetings and lectures resume in September. For details email: enquire@stirling-lhs.org. STIRLING FOLK CLUB Guests at Stirling Folk Club on Monday, April 22, are 'Raging Twilight'. Blending the sounds of guitars, keyboards, washboards, mandolin, cat litter, harmonica and resonator, this fourpiece band combines blues and country, rock and soul, folk and roots. They tell stories, woven into song: tales of the dark side, of hope, of poverty, of despair; tales of ordinary lives, of not giving in, of the magnet of the future and the draw of the past. It's the stuff of life, and you can witness it at Stirling Rugby Club on Causewayhead Road on Monday at 7.30pm. Tickets at door £14, students £5 and under 14s free.
STIRLING BRIDGE CLUB Club holds regular duplicate bridge sessions on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at club premises in Colquhoun Street. Full details on club website www.bridgewebs.com/stirling. New members, all levels of experience, always welcome.
BALAKLAVA PIPES AND DRUMS Balaklava Pipes and Drums, Meadowforth Road, Stirling FK7 7SD. Practice/tuition every Monday 7-9pm.
Entry free. Open to volunteer pipers, all levels welcome - we play at local functions, not competition band, Further info: email balaklavasecretary@icloud.com or tel 07707604793.
FORTH VALLEY SENSORY CENTRE Wee County Hub, at Tullibody Civic Centre, run by Falkirk-based FVSC and open to anyone in Clackmannanshire who has sensory loss and their families. FVSC available to people across central...
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