What’s on this week in the Scottish Borders

November 6

Stellar Quines presents Threads, Tower Mill, Hawick, 7.30pm. A play about women, work and knitting, inspired by the local textile industry featuring real life stories. Tickets £10. Contact the box office on 01450 360688 or drop in to the Visit Scotland desk.

music

November 5

Bain, Moller & Molsky, Eastgate Theatre, Peebles, 7.30pm. Scotland’s supreme traditional style fiddler Aly Bain joins forces with Swedish multi-instrumentalist Ale Möller and fiddler, guitarist, banjoist and singer Bruce Molsky. Tickets £16. Contact 01721 725777, or see www.eastgatearts.com

November 7

Lowland & Border Pipers’ Society presents Heartlands & Boundaries, Eastgate Theatre, 7.30pm. See some of the finest exponents of the music of the bellows-blown bagpipes of the Scottish Lowlands and Border regions. Tickets £12. Contact details as before.

Clive Gregson and Liz Simcock, The Songs of Gregson and Collister, Etal Village Hall, 7.30pm. Gregson and Simcock revisit the seminal back-catalogue of his recordings with Christine Collister. Tickets £12, available on 01890 820566 or by emailing [email protected]

November 9

String Theory presents Tony McManus and Willie Logan, Tower Mill, Hawick, 7.30pm. Live music Mondays. Admission £10.

November 12

Mairearad & Anna, Eastgate Theatre, 7.30pm. Two of Scotland’s most revered traditional musicians, Mairearad Green on accordion and bagpipes and Anna Massie on guitar, banjo and fiddle, deliver a warm, highly energetic performance. Tickets £14 (£12 concs, £5 for schoolchildren). Contact details as before.

comedy

November 6

Craig Hill, Playing with my Selfie, Eastgate Theatre, 7.30pm. Get snap happy with Scotland’s favourite kilted treasure for an evening of gloriously camp, no-holds barred comedy … live and unleashed! Tickets £15. Contact details as before.

film

November 5

13 Minutes (Elser), Tower Mill, Hawick, 6pm. During Georg Elser’s confinement after a failed attempt to assinate Hitler, he recalls the events leading up to his plot. Tickets £6 (£4.50 concs). Contact details as before. (15)

November 7

Zafara, Tower Mill, Hawick, 4pm. A young boy who escapes from slave traders, befriends a giraffe intended as a gift for the King of France and travels from Africa to Paris to bring him back to his native land. Tickets and contact details as before. (PG)

A Walk in the Woods, Tower Mill, Hawick, 7pm. After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) returns to the US, where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends. Tickets and contact details as before. (15)

November 8

Hotel Transylvania, Eastgate Theatre, 2.30pm. Dracula and his friends try to bring out the monster in his half human, half vampire grandson in order to keep Mavis from leaving the hotel. Tickets £8 (£6 for schoolchildren). (U)

MacBeth, Eastgate Theatre, 4.30pm, 7.30pm. Michael Fassbender tackles the title role in Shakespeare’s great play. Tickets and contact details as before.

exhibitions

Till November 8

Swatches, Sketches and Samples, Borders Textile Towerhouse, Tower Mill, Hawick. Heriot Watt University teaching staff from the Design for Textiles programme showcase an exhibiton of work. Free.

November 6-28

Solvitur Ambulando, Mad Nomad Gallery, Hawick. New collaborative paintings: one canvas, two artists, one journey, by Catherine and Keith Ryan, as well as individual paintings, drawings and sculpture. See Mad Nomad Gallery on Facebook.

Throughout November

Galawater Camera Club, exhibition of photographs, Cloudhouse Café, Stow. People are invited to come along for light refreshments, a chat and a leisurely viewing. Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 4pm and Sunday 10am to 3pm and closed on Mondays.

Till December 7

‘Spaicial Folk wi Spaicial Stories’ - Ian Landles Oral History Archive Exhibition, Heritage Hub, Tower Mill, Hawick. An exhibiton centred around retired teacher and local historian Ian Landles’ vast collection of oral histories, now part of Heritage Hub collection. Open daily from 10am.

Till December 20

Next of Kin, Hawick Museum, Wilton Lodge Park, Hawick. A picture of Scotland during the First World War through treasured objects. Admission free.

October 10 – January 31

Between Myth and L(edge)nd, Tower Mill, Hawick, from 10am. Myths and legends inspire this mixed media exhibition by the Edge textile artists group. Contact details as before.

talk

November 10

Tweeddale Society presents Hatless but Happy with Olive Geddes, Eastgate Theatre, 7.30pm. The stories of four very different women who travelled in Scotland in the 1800s and early 1900s and recorded their impressions. Tickets £6, (free for members of Tweeddale Society and schoolchildren). Contact details as before.

November 12

Scottish Wildlife Trust Central Borders Group presents international expert David Long, Langlee Community Centre, Galashiels, 7:30pm. An introduction to the intriguing world of mosses and liverworts in his talk “Bryophytes of the Borders and Beyond”. Non–members welcome (small

donation).

walk

November 8

Coldstream Ramblers, Selkirk, BAW, Lindean Reservoir, Whitmuir Loch, Selkirk. 8 miles. Meet at 10am at car park next to Police Station in Scott’s Place, Selkirk (NT 473 288). Please call 01896 820004 the evening before if you would like to come (mobile on day 07929 906678). Note: this is not as advertised in ‘Trail’.

AGM

November 6

Scottish Borders Hill Walking Club AGM, Lindean Hall, 7pm.

workshop

November 12

Janet Cleghorn, Flower Painting with Style, Galashiels Studio Club, Old Gala house, Galashiels, 7.30pm. New members welcome. Members free/ visitors £4. Enquiries please phone : 01896 820023.

Festival

November 5-8

Denholm Folk Festival, various venues throughout the town. See preview on p44.

drama comp

November 6, 7

SWI National Drama competition, Victoria Hall, Selkirk, Friday from 7pm and Saturday from 2pm. Tickets available in advance from 01750 62219 or on the door, £9 for both days or £6.50 for a single day.

event

November 11

Border Ballads on Martinmas Eve, Abbotsford House, 7.30pm (drinks at 7pm). Traditional singing with Naomi Harvey, Elsa Lemaitre, Kathy Hobkirk and Henry Douglas, set in historical context by Dr Kaye McAlpine and Dr Lucy MacRae. To book tickets call 01896 752 043, email

[email protected] or to book tickets online see www.scottsabbotsford.com/events/.