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Legend: 🚴 Sports & Active · 🐟 Food & Drink · 🌳 Nature & Outdoors · 🎵 Music · 🎭 Theatre & Performance · 🎉 Festivals · 🏫 Community & Civic · 🎐 Crafts & Making · 🎨 Arts & Exhibitions
This week
Lombard Rally Festival
Sat 30 May · 10:00 · Drumlanrig Castle & Gardens · Thornhill
🚴 Sports & Active
The Lombard Rally Festival returns to Scotland in 2026 following the success of the previous events in 2024 and 2025. On 30th and 31st May, around 60 historic rally cars will gather at the spectacular...
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Dunskey Fire Feast
Sat 30 May · 18:00 · Dunskey Estate · Portpatrick
🐟 Food & Drink · 🌳 Nature & Outdoors
A secret woodland, a roaring fire, and a menu cooked entirely over open flame. Vietnamese grilled scallops, a recipe born on the street food stalls of Saigon, brought to the heart of a Scottish woodla...
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Opera Caledonia: La Traviata
Sat 30 May · 19:30 · Barwhillanty Estate · Parton
🎵 Music · 🐟 Food & Drink
Part of the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival 2026 Violetta Valéry, a Parisian courtesan abandons her former life after falling in love with a young nobleman, but social convention and family pressu...
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BOILER ROOM SIX: A Titanic Story / Tom Foreman Productions
Sat 30 May · 19:30 · Annan Academy Theatre · Annan
🎭 Theatre & Performance · 🎉 Festivals
Witness the impossible true survival story of Titanic stoker Frederick Barrett. Working in the boiler rooms of the maiden voyage, Barrett’s fight for survival is one of the most devastating accounts o...
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Road User Awareness Training
Sat 30 May · 10:30 · Eskdalemuir Community Hub · Eskdalemuir
🚴 Sports & Active · 🏫 Community & Civic
Josh Wood from South West Scotland Cycle Training will be delivering a presentation usually delivered to professional drivers on what the highway code says around how to interact with those more vulne...
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Shambellie Quilters ‘QUILT FLING’ 2026
Fri 22 May · 10:00 · Shambellie House · New Abbey
🎐 Crafts & Making · 🎨 Arts & Exhibitions
Drop in on our Quilters of Shambellie House who will be in residence for our annual ‘QUILT FLING’ with a small exhibition of quilts, demonstrations and fabric sales. The exhibition includes the quilts...
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THE SAILMAKERS PALM / Oceanallover
Sun 31 May · 14:00 · Stranraer Millennium Centre · Stranraer
This is a story about salt and sails, about the persistence of mystery, transmutation and transcendence. It is an allegorical tale told through music, dance, costume and words. It follows a sailmaker and a salter on a journey to find a rele...
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