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Welcome to the Dumfries & Galloway Arts Association website,a focus of information and exchange for artists, performers and audiences in Dumfries and Galloway.

Audiences can find details of events, festivals and performances in the region on our events calendar

After the excitement of Burns Light, which put Dumfries on television and in newspapers from Germany to Canada, and all the British national press, we keep looking forward, as a host of great events for Homecoming on your Doorstep are coming up! Visit www.homecomingonyourdoorstep.com for details, or get in touch on 01387 253383.

DAVIE KELLY is our Literature Development Officer. DGAA Literature has its own blog, www.writerinthestorm.blogspot.com. Look here for reviews and info about upcoming events, and please feel free to contribute news or reviews to the blog - email to jean@dgaa.net.

JAN HOGARTH is our Public Arts Officer, currently working on projects ranging from sculpture by Matt Baker on Cairnsmore of Fleet, to collaborative projects with artist/printmaker Silvana McLean and poet/writer Mary Smith in Voices From Glentrool & Merrick, and work on the Striding Arches project at Cairnhead above Moniaive. Jan can be contacted on jan@dgaa.net.

ALAN THOMSON co-ordinates our three Arts in the Communities workers in Annandale and Eskdale, Nithsdale, Stewartry and Wigtownshire. If you are interested in putting on an event or developing an arts project in your area contact him on alan@dgaa.net.

A directory of arts in South West Scotland is provided via the Artists & Resources section.

Artists, promoters and arts providers can add details of their skills & services to our database (add database entry) and their productions to our events calendar (add event)



You can also take a look at our site disclaimer

Striding Arches is a hugely innovative artist-led project which celebrates and interprets a little known area of Dumfries & Galloway in south-west Scotland. Andy Goldsworthy’s red sandstone arches ‘stride’ around the natural amphitheatre that is Cairnhead, deep in the Southern Uplands. In the heart of the glen, another arch springs from a disused farm building, The Byre, creating a place that is both sculpture and shelter. For more information, please visit www.stridingarches.com.

Open Stage: Songwriting & Poetry Open Mic - The next OPEN STAGE at the Birkhill Hotel will take place on Wednesday 24 June. 
For further information 

Homecoming on your Doorstep - Dumfries & Galloway Celebrates 
Find out about Homecoming in Dumfries and Galloway during 2009 - visit www.homecomingonyourdoorstep.co.uk  

July 2009

17th RAB WILSON
Poetry Prizewinners and their Craft

27th DOUGLAS DUNN
Poetry Prizewinners and their Craft