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age Initiative (THI), The Hippodrome has seen the 1926 decorative scheme reinstated, new seating installed and Stirling Vue Cinema original seating restored, and digital Stirling Vue, and 35mm projectors fitted to offer the Forthside Way, Stirling FK8 1QZ Vue Stirling is an eight screen, all luxury best cinema experience. Open 6 days a week Screening the stadium seated cinema with wall to ceiling to floor huge screens, enhanced best major new releases Independent by the most progressive projection and films and classics. Tel: 01324 506850 Dolby Digital Surround Sound technol- www.falkirkcommunitytrust.org ogy for the ultimate picture and sound All year quality. The cinema has 1,061 seats Stirling Smith art gallery over eight screens and is the biggest cinema in Stirling. Tel: 08712 240 240 and museum Stirling Founded in 1874 with a legacy from http://www.myvue.com/ Thomas Stuart Smith, Painter and collector. The Smith gallery and muMacrobert Arts Centre - Cinema seum in Stirling houses a wide range Stirling University Campus of paintings, artworks, historical and For full listings of what’s on at the cinema go to: Box Office 01786 466666 archaeological material and a changing http://www.macrobert.org/cinema.htm programme of exhibitions. Programmes for adults and children include art exhibitions, events, workThe Hippodrome - Bo’ness shops and school education service. 10 Hope St Bo’ness EH51 0AA Some 97 years after the first customers Open All year Tues-Sat 10.30-5 and took their seats in the grand picture pal- Sundays 2-5. ace, The Hippodrome re-opens its doors Admission is free. Disabled access and facilities Cafe serves lunches, snacks, to the public, recreating the golden teas and coffees with home baking and age of cinema-going using 21st century technology. The A-listed building, is open daily to 4.30pm. brainchild of film-maker Louis Dickson The friends of the Smith offer guided tours every Wednesday afternoon to and designed by local architect Matthew Steele, was opened on 11 March groups and individuals and 1912, is a rare example of pre-art deco at other times by arrangement. For further information please cinema architecture, and Scotland’s oldest purpose-built picture house. Hav- Tel: 01786 471917 ing undergone extensive restoration as www.smithartgalleryandmuseum.co.uk part of the Bo’ness Townscape Herit-
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all year Stirling University Art Collection Telephone 01786 466050 email art.collection@stir.ac.uk For more info: www.artcol.stir.ac.uk First Saturday of the month 10am - 4pm Scotfairs Antique Fair Albert Halls Albert Place, Stirling FK8 2QL A great shopping experience, antiques for the connoisseur, hidden treasures for the experts, specialist items for the experienced collector, and 1000s of interesting, beautiful and affordable items for the general public. Come along and enjoy the informal atmosphere of the market! Adults £1.50, accompanied children free www.scotfairs.co.uk Second Saturday of the Month starts 11am Stirling Farmers Market Port Street, Stirling City Centre (outside M&S) Outstanding range of superb produce – get the local taste Where else can you talk to the farmer/ producer and find out how the food is grown/reared/made? Highland beef, pork and bacon, venison and wild game, wild boar, fresh and smoked fish, great bread in variety – continental and traditional recipes including sourdoughs, scones and cakes, gluten-free baking, jams, chutneys and preserves, Scottish cheeses and butter, free-range hen/duck eggs, organic vegetables, cold-pressed oilseed-rape products and dressings, fudge and tablet, low sodium sea-salt, savoury pies, country fruit wines, hand-made, jewellery, soaps and body care products, knitted baby clothes, garden plants.
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Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday Kilted Kangaroo - Australian Bar & Grill House 9 Upper Craigs, Stirling If you’re looking for some tasty tucker, a cold beer and some bonza entertainment the n look no further. We are Scotland’s favourite Australian Themed Bar & Grill House. Located in the heart
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of Stirling, we are also the first choice for a great night out with Open Mic (Tuesdays), Pub Quiz (Wednesdays) & Karaoke (Thursdays) from 9pm! On top of our weekly programme of entertainment we host a number of events thoughout the year. These range from Stand-up Comedy Nights to day-long Music Festivals in the huge beer garden. http://www.kiltedkangaroo.com/events. html
February 2014 tars, mandolin), Richard Butler (vocals, guitar, banjo) and Murray Compton (vocals, piano accordion, keyboards), have a great deal of fun at their regular rehearsals and engagements, and continue to develop their repertoire. Tickets available on the door www.stirlingfolkclub.co.uk
Thu 06 February 7.30pm I Spy Mrs Peery The Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling University Campus Mrs Peery sees everything from behind No. 2 Baker Street her net curtains, she never crosses her Regular entertainment. own door step but she has plenty to 2 Baker St Stirling FK8 1BJ say about the state of her neighbours. Quiz Night (Tuesday) What would she do if the big bad world Traditional Scottish Open Session got in through her nets? (Wednesday) Much more violent than a crash diet, Live music/disco at weekends. more spine chilling than ice cubes A friendly warm welcome awaits. down the back of your nightie, this For those that love...tradition, character funny and uplifting show is a thought and real ale. provoking slice of life focussing on Tel: 01786 448 722 three female neighbours. This hilarious yet at times extremely Drouthy Neebors moving, multi-award winning show is 7 Baker Street FK8 1BJ presented by MsFits Theatre Company. What’s On - Please keep checking back £10.50/£9 (conc) £5 Students in adfor forthcoming events. vance Booking Office: 01786 466666 http://www.drouthyneebors-stirling. www.macrobert.org co.uk/whats-on Fri 7 Feb, 7pm The Winter Tradition Daily Events Diary The Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling, Sat 01 February- Sun 02 February FK8 1DE “Woolly jumpers, catchy choruses and Swan Lake The Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling the tightest live show around. What is there not to like about The Winter University Campus Tradition?” This grizzly comforting Using Tchaikovsky’s stirring score and hybrid from Edinburgh rattle off arena a moving adaptation of the original sized stadium hooks so effortlessly, you choreography, the dancers of Balwonder why every band doesn’t do it. let West tell the story of the love of Their atmospheric brand of alternaa young man for the cursed Odette, tive indie rock is capable of filling any who is destined to spend her life as a grand edifice in the land and will leave swan, unless true love can release her you feeling like you must experience it from the spell of the evil Von Rothbefore they outgrow the local venues bart. £11/£9.50 (conc) £8 Students in they’ve been gracing since the release advance of their long play debut - Gradients Box Office: 01786 466666 (July 2012). www.macrobert.org/dance. Tel Box Office 01786 274000 http://tolbooth.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth/ February 3rd 8pm The Kilmarnock Edition at Stirling Folk Club Stirling County R.F.C., Bridgehaugh Park, Stirling FK9 5AP Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, the Kilmarnock Edition, John Doig (vocals), Dayle Hadlee (vocals, gui-
Sat 08 February 7.30pm Craig Hill - Tartan About! The Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling University Campus Kilty as charged!!! Hot on the heels of last year’s hysterically funny, sold out
What’s On Stirling Highland Perthshire February 2014 2013 Thu 13 February 7.30pm The Reduced Shakespeare Company- The Bible: The Complete Word Of God (abridged) The Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling University Campus It’s apocalypse now as the three cultural guerrillas of The Reduced Shakespeare Company set their reductive sights on the good book with The Bible: The Complete Word of God Sat 8 Feb, 8pm (abridged). Watt Nicoll Yes, it’s an affectionate, irreverent The Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling, roller coaster ride from fig leaves to FK8 1DE Final Judgment as the bad boys of Watt was one of Transatlantic Records abridgement tackle the great theologiGreat Scots along with Hamish Imlach, cal questions: Did Adam and Eve have Matt McGinn, Gerry Rafferty and Billy navels? Did Moses really look like CharlConnolly. ton Heston? And why isn’t the word Watt is bringing the music that made “phonetic” spelt the way it sounds? him a folk legend with hits such as Whether you are Catholic or Protestant, Greenfields of Dundee as well as his Muslim or Jew, Atheist or Jedi you will newest songs from his latest albums. be tickled by the RSC’s romp through Backed by some of the best musicians old time religion. £16/£14 (conc) in Scotland, the audience is in for an Booking Office: 01786 466666 incredible musical experience! All this www.macrobert.org combined with the comedic storytelling Watt is famous for will insure an unfor- Friday 14th February 12:00pm gettable evening of entertainment I Love Birds Tel Box Office 01786 274000 Stirling Countryside Rangers http://tolbooth.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth/ National Nestbox Week is organised every year by the British Trust for OrniFebruary 10th 8pm thology (BTO) Come and join the RangBroom Beesoms at Stirling Folk ers and make a birdbox of your own to Club take away and put up in your garden to Stirling County R.F.C., Bridgepromote and enhance biodiversity and haugh Park, Stirling FK9 5AP conservation of our breeding birds and Tickets available on the door wildlife. For more details of the event www.stirlingfolkclub.co.uk call countryside on 08452 777 000 or email countryside@stirling.gov.uk Wednesday 12th February 7:30pm to 9:00pm Friday 14th February 7:30pm to Criminals and the Constabulary 9:00pm Central Scotland Family History Stirling Astronomical Society Society Theatre - The Stirling Smith Art Theatre - The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Dumbarton Gallery and Museum, Dumbarton Road, Stirling FK8 2RQ, UK. Road, Stirling FK8 2RQ, UK. Solar sailing: from imagination to realElaine MacGillivray, Archivist, Glasgow ity Life Strathclyde Police Archives Dr. Matteo Ceriotti, University of GlasCriminals and the Constabulary: the gow archives of Strathclyde Police and its Stirling Astronomical Society meets predecessors from September to May during the £2 fee for non members Tea and coffee year. available after the talk. These meetings are free and anyone with an interest in astronomy is welcome to attend whether a Member of the Society or not. www.stirlingastronomicalsociety.org.uk national tour, don’t miss the chance to see Scotland’s favourite Craig Hill’s new show Tartan About! - live and unleashed! The Scotsman said that “Hill live is a revelation” and we absolutely agree - it’s a wickedly delicious evening of pure, unadulterated fun. £15.50/£13 (conc) Booking Office: 01786 466666 www.macrobert.org
Sat 15 February 11am & 2Pm Blown Away The Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling University Campus Join us as a small boy finds himself swept up and whisked away on an Join us as a small boy finds himself swept up and whisked away on an unforgettable journey with her. Flying through the air with the world so small below them, they feel big, and when you’re big you can do anything at all! We invite the audience to come and feel the wind as it blows them to the top of the world. A beautiful and engaging show containing live music, shadow puppetry and movement. For ages 3-5. £7/£13 (Family of 2) £19 (family of 3) £25 family of 4) Booking Office: 01786 466666 www.macrobert.org Sunday 16th February 11am & 2pm Monkey needs a WASH The Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling University Campus Monkey needs a WASH but Anna doesn’t want to let him go! She hides him but somehow he gets pulled in to the laundry... There’s only one thing for Anna to do, she must go and find him! The Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling University Campus Join Anna and Monkey as they discover a world of water, bubbles and spinning. With live music created from the paraphernalia of a washing world, Birdsnest create a gentle adventure, a game of hide and seek with rhythm and song to carry you along the way. £7/£13 (Family of 2) £19 (family of 3) £25 family of 4) Booking Office: 01786 466666 www.macrobert.org Sunday 16th February 2.304.45pm Friends of Scottish Opera Forth Valley Branch - Macbeth (Verdi) During the closure period of the Theatre Royal, Scottish Opera’s home in Glasgow, the company is visiting the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and the King’s Theatre, Edinburgh. They are performing Verdi’s Macbeth with a chamber orchestra and Derek Watson is coming to tell us about the opera.
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Derek is always a popular speaker, thanks to his combination of erudition (he has written extensively on music and also composes) and performance skills (he is also an actor). All very welcome. Members £5.00 Visitors £6.00 Students £1.00, including tea/coffee and biscuits February 17th 8pm Adam McCulloch at Stirling Folk Club Stirling County R.F.C., Bridgehaugh Park, Stirling FK9 5AP Adam McCulloch’s earliest memories are of hearing his mother – esteemed Scots singer Gordeanna McCulloch – singing traditional Scottish ballads and songs at home and at festivals. Singing and songwriting has therefore always been a part of his life, although in recent years his focus has been firmly fixed on traditional and folk music. Tickets available on the door www.stirlingfolkclub.co.uk
Orchestra and Kate Rusby. His live performances are truly special, allowing audiences to enjoy the sheer energy as well as subtlety of his music.. He has collaborated with the likes of Jim Kerr, Youssou N’Dour, John Cale and Zakir Hussian amongst many others. £14/£12 Tel Box Office 01786 274000 http://tolbooth.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth/
Fri 21 Feb, 8pm Stuart Maconie The People’s Songs The Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling, FK8 1DE Spend an evening in the company of this popular and prolific TV and radio presenter, journalist, columnist and author as he talks about his new book and epic radio series, The People’s Songs, a social history of modern Britain told through pop singles. It’s a project that Stuart is both proud of and passionate about and tells the story of modern Britain through the records that we listened to and loved during Wednesday 19th February 7.30pm the dramatic and kaleidoscopic period Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet from the Second World War to the Theatre: Socks in Space present day. £12.50 The Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling Tel Box Office 01786 274000 University Campus http://tolbooth.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth/ The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are “The Abbott & Costello of Sat 22 February Sun 23 February the sock world” (Time Out) or “Filthy 7.30pm Wee Tykes” (The Scotsman). These The Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling stars of stage, screen & Youtube bring University Campus you a new show of songs, sketches, YDance presents two inspiring evenings socks and violence with a Sci Fi theme. of dance performed by some of Scot£10.50/£9 (conc) £5 students land’s best youth dance groups. Booking Office: 01786 466666 These two performances, which are www.macrobert.org part of the flagship YDance Routes national dance programme, are also a Thu 20 Feb, 8pm stepping stone to the 2014 CommonMcGoldrick, McCusker & Doyle wealth Youth Dance Festival (A Get The Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling, Scotland Dancing Commission as part FK8 1DE of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural ProA welcome return from three of the gramme). busiest and finest musicians from the Up to 8 groups will be selected over current folk scene - after their stunthese 2 evenings to represent Scotland ning sell out last time they were at the at the Festival. Tolbooth, we are delighted they have Booking Office: 01786 466666 found time to tour together once again. www.macrobert.org Master of flutes, whistles and Uillean pipes Mike McGoldrick is a foundMonday 24th February 7:30pm to ing member of Flook and Lunasa and 9:00pm is a current member of CapercailFriends of the Smith Lecture Series lie. Regarded as one of the greatest - The Vikings flute players of all time, Mike has with Lecture Theatre - TheStirling toured Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler, Smith Art Gallery and Museum, as well as with The Afro Celts, RTE Dumbarton Road, Stirling FK8 2RQ
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February 2014 Julian Ward will ask “What do we know about the people we call the Vikings?” Warriors, explorers, pirates, merchants ofr farmers - and how they lived over 1,000 years ago. Members £4 Non-members £5 price includes tea/coffee & biscuits.Tickets from Smith Reception Tel: 01786 471917 February 24th 8pm Collins and Collins at Stirling Folk Club Stirling County R.F.C., Bridgehaugh Park, Stirling FK9 5AP Tickets available on the door www.stirlingfolkclub.co.uk Tue 25 February 6.30pm Janice Galloway The Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling University Campus Janice Galloway’s debut novel The Trick Is To Keep Breathing was published in 1990 and is regarded as a modern classic, recently being voted as one of the top 10 Scottish novels of the last 50 years. Her subsequent novels and short stories have picked up a host of awards, including the Saltire Book Of The Year and the EM Forster Award, she has written and presented 3 radio series for BBC Scotland and has been a guest on several BBC radio 3 shows. Join Janice at macrobert for an informal and enlightening look back at her 23 year career. Booking Office: 01786 466666 www.macrobert.org Wednesday 26th February 7:30pm to 9:00pm Singing Bowl Meditations and Healings with Peter Halley Lecture Theatre - TheStirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Dumbarton Road, Stirling FK8 2RQ Singing bowls create a deeply nuturing special environment. The healing resonance and magic inherent in the song of the bowls allows deep releasing at cellular levels. Everyone has a distinctly individual evolving experience and usually find that thet connect with the bowls effortlessly and quickly. The style andthe depth of healing received is controlled by you. Effects include feeling revitalised,
What’s On Stirling February 2014 What’s On Highland Perthshire 2013 rejuvenated and generally a greater lightness of being. Further information and tickets available from www.peterhalley.co.uk Thursday 27th February 7.30pm Hedda Gabler The Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling University Campus Icarus Theatre Collective present Ibsen’s classic. “These impulses come over me all of a sudden, and I just can’t resist them.” Hedda Gabler, one of the most notorious heroes in theatre, saw her time as a single girl run out and so she married academic George Tesman, a man she clearly no longer loves - if, indeed, she ever did. Now Hedda is driven to diabolical ends trying to discover purpose in her life as she increasingly finds the world closing in on her. £13.50 conc £12 Students £7 Booking Office: 01786 466666 www.macrobert.org
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