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Tales from the Riverbank
Riverwoods, Destination Tweed’s Tweed Stories and Innerleithen Community Trust invite you to a drop-in creative storytelling and story-gathering event exploring the River Tweed and its river woodlands. Come along to share your own stories, listen to others, and join in on fun creative activities in a relaxed and welcoming environment. Flowing through landscape, history and imagination, the River Tweed […]
Rave On for the Avon – Screening & Discussion
Join Connecting Threads for a screening of Rave On for the Avon, a tender documentary directed by Charlotte Sawyer about a community of wild swimmers in Bristol fighting to save their beloved bathing spot, affected by raw sewage pollution of the river Avon. Stay for a post-screening discussion with open water swim coach and botanist Ingrid Campbell of Tweed […]
Rave on the Avon – Workshop & Swim
Join Connecting Threads for a flying fish flag puppet-making workshop, procession & optional community swim in celebration of the River Tweed. Following the April 24th screening of documentary Rave On for the Avon, we’re delighted to be joined by river bride Meg Avon and artists Grace Morton and Elvey Anna Stedman for a workshop, procession, and swim celebrating the River Tweed! […]
FULLY BOOKED Excavations at Fairnilee, 11-19 May
FULLY BOOKED Join AOC Archaeology Group as they return to the newly discovered medieval moated site on the banks of the Tweed at Fairnilee, identified in LiDAR data and excavated for the first time in 2025. Read more about previous work at Fairnilee No experience is needed, AOC will provide all equipment and training. Find […]
Rope and Flame
From the shadows of history, a forgotten story rises in fire and breath. Dragonfly Theatre Productions presents a haunting new drama inspired by the Peebles Witch Trials of 1629. Honouring the 27 “good folk” condemned as witches, this powerful community production explores stigma, shame and compassion. Performed by over 30 volunteer performers, this 60-minute show […]
Rope and Flame
From the shadows of history, a forgotten story rises in fire and breath. Dragonfly Theatre Productions presents a haunting new drama inspired by the Peebles Witch Trials of 1629. Honouring the 27 “good folk” condemned as witches, this powerful community production explores stigma, shame and compassion. Performed by over 30 volunteer performers, this 60-minute show […]