This week on EventsDG

Light: Joshua Miles

Sat 4 Jul · 10:00 · Kirkcudbright Galleries · Kirkcudbright

🖼 Visual Arts · 🔍 Exhibition

Kirkcudbright Galleries are delighted to welcome a solo exhibition by Joshua Miles: ‘Light’ Joshua Miles is a local artist and printmaker who specialises in Reduction Linocuts. He was born in South Af...

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Summer Holidays at Ellisland: Heritage Arts & Crafts

Thu 9 Jul · 11:00 · Robert Burns Ellisland Museum & Farm · Auldgirth

🎈 Family & Children · ✂️ Crafts & Making

Weekly Arts & Crafts sessions running throughout the summer holidays at Ellisland Museum & Farm! Step into history and get creative this summer at Ellisland Museum & Farm, the home built b...

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Summer Trad Festival 2026

Fri 10 Jul · 14:00 · Festival Marquee @ The Vault Arts Centre · Newton Stewart

🎵 Music · 🎉 Festivals

Celebrating 13 years of delivering traditional Scottish music, dance and Gaelic language events in rural Dumfries & Galloway, and the only event of its kind in the Wigtownshire region, we return w...

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Cake, Coffee & Craft

Fri 10 Jul · 14:00 · Shambellie House · New Abbey

✂️ Crafts & Making · 🎤 Talks & Lectures

This month, local craft tutor Carol Moyes will be introducing two fascinating braiding traditions: Japanese Kumihimo – including a demonstration of the traditional marudai braiding stand. Medieval Fin...

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Ivan Skanavi, cello & Mana Oguchi, piano

Fri 10 Jul · 19:30 · Easterbrook Hall · Dumfries

🎵 Music

Ivan Skanavi, winner of the 2022 Grand-Prix Emanuel Feuermann, is one of the leading cellists of his generation, captivating audiences with his broad stylistic sound spectrum, clear projection and vas...

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Soundwave JAM

Sat 11 Jul · 10:30 · Studio Moffat · Moffat

🎯 Youth and Young People · 🎵 Music

Soundwave JAM is a twice-monthly meet-up for young and emerging musicians and bands to play music together – somewhere to learn and grow, find your sound, and have a platform for your amazing talent....

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SEASONAL BIRD WATCHING: Summer with RSBP Expert Chris Rollie

Sun 12 Jul · 10:00 · St Johns Town of Dalry Town Hall · Dalry

These seasonal guided walks will find and identify our wonderful local birds by sight and sound, providing useful birdwatching tips for beginners and information on the behaviour and ecology of the sp...

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Colin Steele's Kings of Swing

Sun 12 Jul · 19:30 · Easterbrook Hall · Dumfries

🎵 Music

Trumpeter Colin Steele, named Scottish Jazz Musician of the Year 2025, brings together a stellar line-up of Scotland’s finest swing players for a night of timeless jazz from the ’30s and ’40s. Expect...

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Forest School Holiday Camps

Mon 13 Jul · 10:00 · The Wild Playground · Cargenbridge

🎈 Family & Children · 🌳 Nature & Outdoors

Come and join us for our holiday camp sessions your child will learn bushcraft skills, fire skills, how to care for nature and nature identification. Example activities could include: Outdoor cooking...

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Summer Forest Day

Tue 14 Jul · 10:00 · St Mungo's House · Kettleholm

🎈 Family & Children · 🌳 Nature & Outdoors

Summer kids camps. Fun filled outdoor days in the woods and garden by the river Annan, near Lockerbie. Games, camp fire cooking, bushcrafts, arts and crafts. All ages 5+ years. Booking essential as sp...

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Woodworking / Repair Shop

Wed 15 Jul · 11:00 · Whithorn Museum · Whithorn

🎈 Family & Children · ✂️ Crafts & Making

Beginner friendly sessions for ages 10-17. Learn with the experts! Free lunch provided. Contact The Whithorn Trust to book your space. enquiries@whithorn.com 01988 500508

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Wild Things Forest School: Free Taster Sessions

Thu 16 Jul · 12:00 · Barwhillanty Estate · Parton

🎈 Family & Children · 🌳 Nature & Outdoors

Drop in 12-4pm on Thursday 16th July to experience a FREE taster session of Wild Things at Barwhillanty. Kids aged 3-12 can enjoy a carousel of outdoor adventures, from den building and mud kitchen mi...

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