Diary
The most comprehensive calendar of local events
in Ullapool & District
APRIL 2019
19 Good Friday Tenebrea Service 7pm Church of Scotland
19 Craig Robertson at the Arch Inn
19 Easter Saturday Eggstravanganza! Morefield Park, Ullapool Activities from 10am.
20 Mairearad & Anna. Farran Tour; Ceilidh Place Venue 8pm
20 Cowans at the Arch Inn
21 Easter Praise on the Pier 9.30am at CalMac Ferry Terminal
21 Sunday Sessions at the Arch
23 Schools re-open
24 & 25 Ruairidh Maclean at the Arch Inn
24 Talisk., Ceilidh Place venue
25 Beach Clean at Stoer Green 10am - 1pm
27 Creative Writing Workshop, 10.30am - 2.30pm
27 Opening of Ascent new exhibition at Rhue Art 12-2pm
27 Unspotted Snow, musical comedy play at The Macphail Centre
27 Will and Wild Horses at the Arch Inn
27 Cyclone Idai and Red Cross Fundraiser
28 Ullapool Village Volunteer Litter Picking Hour 2pm
28 Sunday Sessions at the Arch
29 Motion Sickness, Ivo Graham stand up show at the Ceilidh Place
MAY 2019
1 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
2 Film "Fractured Land" showing at the GReen Screen, St Mary's Church 7pm
1 & 2 Ruairidh Maclean at the Arch Inn
4-6 Adult Feis@ The Macphail Centre
4 Craig Robertson at the Arch Inn
7 Open Book drop-in at the Community Workshop
7 Ruairidh Maclean at the Arch Inn
8 Ullapool Wildlife Watch: Flying! Meet at the Primary School
8 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
8 MS Research Talk, Ullapool Village Hall, 7.30pm
8 & 9 Ruairidh Maclean at the Arch Inn
9 Sam McGee, folk music at The Macphail Centre
10-12 Ullapool Book Festival
11 Annual Remembrance service for WW2 Convoys, Cove 11am
15 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
14 & 15 & 16 Ruairidh Maclean at the Arch Inn
16 Ranger Event. 2-3pm Wee Walk to Nature: Spring Foraging, Ullapool
16 Brexit means Brexit, contemporary dance at the Macphail Centre (provisional date)
17 Ranger Event: 11-3pm Mountain Life: Wester Ross Green Volunteers Stac Pollaidh, Coigach
17 Siobhan Miller. Ceilidh Place Venue
20 Legion Scotland Lochbroom meeting 8pm Arch Inn
22 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
22 Ullapool Fairtrade Group Pot Luck Meal, AGM and ordinary meeting 6pm Church of Scotland Hall
22 & 23 Screen Machine in Gairloch
21 & 22 & 23 Ruairidh Maclean at the Arch Inn
24 & 25 Screen Machine in Lochinver
24 Daimh. Ceilidh Place venue
26 Annual Bird Race, Stoer Penisula 11am Assynt Field Club
28 Open Book drop-in at the Community Workshop
28 National Theatre of Scotland "The Cheviot, The Stag & the Black Black Oil" at The Macphail Centre
29 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
28 & 29 & 30 Ruairidh Maclean at the Arch Inn
30 Dundonnell House Garden open to pujblic 2-5pm Teas available
31 Mike Vass. Ceilidh Place Venue
JUNE 2019
4 Grainne Brady. Ceilidh Place Venue
4 & 5 & 6 Ruairidh Maclean at the Arch Inn
5 Ullapool Wildlife Watch: Rock pooling & crabbing Meet Ullapool Library
5 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
5 Legends 2019, music, at The Macphail Centre
6 Ranger Event. 2-3pm A Wee Walk to Nature: Butterflies, Ullapool
7 & 8 Screen Machine in Ullapoo
l11 & 12 & 13 Ruairidh Maclean at the Arch Inn
12 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
12 Pierre Schryer and Adam Dobres at Coigach Community Hall
12 Budapest Cafe Orchestra. Ceilidh Place Venue
15 Ullapool and District Pipe Band: Highland Games
18 & 19 & 20 Ruairidh Maclean at the Arch Inn
18 Rab Noakes. Ceilidh Place Venue
18 Open Book drop-in at the Community Workshop
19 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
20 Ranger Event 2-3pm A Wee Walk to Nature: Sunlight, Ullapool
21 Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita, music at The Macphail Centre
22 Summer Solstice BBQ, bonfire and ceilidh. Elphin Community Hall
23 Mahler Players at The Macphail Centre
25 & 26 & 27 Ruairidh Maclean at the Arch Inn
26 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
27 Brogan Beaga Ceilidh Ullapool Village Hall at 6.30pm
29 Coigach Gathering 2019
29 Craig Robertson at the Arch Inn
30 Loch Beannach, Little Assynt for Insects. 11am Assynt Field Club
JULY 2019
1 Cathy Nardeilo - Pianist at the Macphail Center
2 Eriska. Ceilidh Place Venue
3 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
3 Ullapool Wildlife Watch event to be confirmed
5 End of School Term - start of holidays!
5 Moishe's Bagel. Ceilidh Place Venue
9 Rachel Hair & Ron Jappy. Ceilidh Place Venue
10 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
10 Scottish Ballet: Wee Hansel and Gretal at the Macphail Theatre
11 Ranger Event. 2-3pm A Wee Walk to Nature: Cloud Watching, Ullapool
11 Snuffbox. Ceilidh Place Venue
13. Rotary Pier Day
15 Legion Scotland Lochbroom meeting 8pm Arch Inn
17 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
17 Assynt. Ceilidh Place Venue
18 Ranger Event. 4-5.30pm Food for Free Foraging Walk, River Blackwater, Garve.
19 Can You Catch The Killer - Murder Mystery at the Macphail Theatre
19 Craig Robertson at the Arch Inn
20 Rowing the Minch for MS, Soup and Pudding Lunch, Ullapool Village Hall
23 McKerron, Brechin, O h'Eadhra. Ceilidh Place Venue
24 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
24 Ranger Event. 2-4pm Schools Out! Young Naturalist, Laide
25 Ranger Event. 2-3pm A Wee Walk to Nature: Tree Leaves, Ullapool
25 Alister McCulloch Trio. Ceilidh Place Venue
26 Museum Vintage Machinery Day
27 - 2 Aug Variations Summer School at the Macphail Centre
28 Laxford River for riverside and woodland flowers 11am Assynt Field Club
30 Hannah Rarity Ceilidh Place Venue
30 Ranger Event. 10am-5pm Mountain Life Coul Mor, Coigach
31 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
AUGUST 2019
3 Lochbroom Sheep Dog Trials, Inverbroom Farm
7 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
7 Routes Quartet, Ceilidh Place Venue
8 Ranger Event. 11.30-1pm Schools Out! Meet a tree, Lael Forest Garden.
8 Ranger Event. 2-3pm A Wee Walk to Nature: A wander at Lael.
10 Rowing the Minch for MS
11 Lapwyng. Ceilidh Place Cafe/Bar
13 Westward the Light. Ceilidh Place Venue
14 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
16 Craig Robertson at the Arch Inn
17 Ryan Young & Jenn Butterworth Ceilidh Place Venue
18 Ullapool Flower, Craft & Produce Show 2019, Ullapool Village Hall
20 School reopen for winter term
21 Ullapool Wildlife Watch: Fish! 2019 Year of the Salmon
21 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
22 Ranger Event. 2-3pm A Wee Walk to Nature: Maths in Nature, Ullapool
22 Dundonn ell House Garden open to the public 2 -5pm (no teas)
22 Baile. Ceilidh Place Venue
24 Ullapool Angling Competition & Marine Weekend
25 Fungus Foray at Dundonnell House 11am Assynt Field Club
28 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
29 Doghouse Roses Ceilidh Place Venue
31 The Chosen - Dance at the Macphail Theatre
SEPTEMBER 2019
3 Tannara, Ceilidh Place Venue
4 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
5 Ranger Event. 2-3pm A Wee Walk to Nature: Looking for Fungi, Ullapool
10 Ranger Event. 6.15-8.30 am Seawatch and Sunrise, Mellon Udrigle, Laide
11 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
12 Poet of the Impossible, magic at The Macphail Centre
14 Highland Chamber Orchestra at the Macphail Theatre
18 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
18 Ullapool Wildlife Watch Fungi Walk Meet at Lael Forest Gardens car park
19 Ranger event. 2-3pm A Wee Walk to Nature: Collecting Tree Seeds, Ullapool
20 Ranger Event. 1-4pm Wester Ross Green Volunteers Badentarbet Beach Clean, Coigach
21 Ullapool Sprint Triathlon
21 Scottish Opera at the Macphail Theatre
21 Josie Duncan & Pablo Lafuente. Ceilidh Place Venue
22 Traligill Valley Inchnadamph: water courses and caves 11am Assynt Field Club
25 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
27/28 Loopallu
OCTOBER 2019
1 Ranger Event. 12-2pm, Foraging Walk, Isle Martin, Ullapool
4,5,6 Ullapool Guitar Festival 2019
7 Legion Scotland Lochbroom meeting 8pm Arch Inn
10 Ranger Event. 2-3pm A Wee Walk with Nature: Colour Changes in Nature, Ullapool
11 Tibetan Monks at the Macphail Theatre
12 Coigach Half Marathon starts 1pm from Achiltibuie playing field
15 Ranger Event. 11am-1pm The Salmon's Journey, Rogie Falls, Garve
16 Ranger Event 10am-4.30pm Over the Hill, Dundonnell-Clachan on the Coffin Route, Lochbroom.
19 Ranger Event. 10am-12 noon. Wester Ross Green Volunteers: Ullapool Hill Path Day
21- 25 Senior Feis at the Macphail Centre
24 Ranger Event. 2-3pm A Wee Walk to Nature: How does wildlife cope with winter, Ullapool
30 Ullapool Wildlife Watch Survival !: Games and activities
NOVEMBER 2019
5. Museum soup and sandwich lunch
6 Ranger Event. 11am-3pm Around Loch Kernsary, Poolewe
10 Remembrance Sunday
12 Ranger Event. 4.30-7.30pm Full Moon Walk, Ullapool Hill
14 Ranger Event 2-3pm A Wee Walk to Nature:Feed the Birds, Ullapool
16 Ranger Event 10am-12 Wester Ross Green Volunteers: Riverside Paths, Ullapool
18 Legion Scotland Lochbroom Meeting 8pm Arch Inn
19 Museum soup and sandwich lunch
26 Ranger Event 11am -2pm Tree Walk at Bad an Sgalag, near Gairloch
27 Ullapool Wildlife Watch Trees! National Tree week
28 Ranger Event 2-3pm A Wee Walk to Nature: National Tree Week, Ullapool
DECEMBER 2019
3. Museum soup and sandwich lunch
10 Ranger Event. Mountain Life: Inspired by Mountains Gairloch (time tbc)
11 Ranger Event. Mountain Life: Inspired by Mountains Achiltibuie (time tbc)
12 Ranger Event. 2-3pm A Wee Walk to Nature: Festive Plants and Animals, Ullapool
13 Ranger Event. Mountain Life: Inspired by Mountains. Ullapool (time tbc)
15 Service of Nine Lessons and Carols by candlelight 3.30pm St Mary's Church
17 Ranger Event. 11am-1pm Get away from it all! Gruniard Bay.
17 Museum soup and sandwich lunch
18 Santa Float tours Ullapool Village
18 Ullapool Wildlife Watch Christmas presents for nature Meet at Ullapool Library
24 Children's Crib Service 4.30pm at St Mary's Church
24 Midnigth Mass 11.30pm at St Mary's Church
JANUARY 2020
7 Museum soup and sandwich lunch
14 Ullapool Museum Big Sale
21 Museum soup and sandwich lunch
27 British Legion Lochbroom AGM
FEBRUARY 2020
4 Museum soup and sandwich lunch
18 Museum soup and sandwich lunch
MARCH 2020
3 Museum soup and sandwich lunch
12-15 Ullapool Dance Festival
17 Museum soup and sandwich lunch
