Men Don't Talk...coming to the Barn on Friday 8 November!
THEATRE | MEN DON'T TALK
📅 Friday 8 November at 7.30pm
📍the Barn, Banchory
Tickets https://tinyurl.com/mendonttalkatthebarn
Three men find banter, bird boxes and biscuits in a fictional men’s shed, which celebrates companionship, camaraderie ... and custard creams. Clare Prenton’s poignant, hilarious, moving and thought-provoking play, Men Don’t Talk, explores the myth that ‘men don’t talk’.
Written following cups of tea, cake and spirited conversations with real ‘shedders’, the play welcomes audiences into a friendly fictional shed, inspired by real mens’ stories. Presented in conjunction with the Scottish Men’s Shed Association, the play has been praised in the Scottish Parliament for promoting the benefits of this growing mental health and wellbeing movement - vital in Scotland today.
Age 14+
Content warning: The play tackles the subject of men’s mental health in a poignant and light touch way. Themes include grief, loss, PTSD, Military experience, divorce, substance misuse, depression, social isolation, men’s health (prostate cancer).
Scottish Men's Sheds Association
Dementia The Musical - Coming to the Barn on Saturday 3 November!
THEATRE | DEMENTIA THE MUSICAL
📅 Saturday 3 November at 7.30pm
Dementia the Musical! is a new musical theatre production by Ron Coleman, Scottish poet and writer living with dementia, in collaboration with renowned director Magdalena Schamberger and one of Britain’s top jazz musicians Sophie Bancroft as composer and musical director. Additional music is by esteemed songwriter Andrew Eaton-Lewis and design by Karen Tennent.
Written for and with those living with dementia this brand-new musical is based on the campaigning work of three of Scotland’s longest serving dementia activists James McKillop, Nancy McAdam & Agnes Houston, and the fight they have led to ensure people with dementia have a voice in what happens in their lives.
Dementia the Musical is a funny but moving production telling the history of Scottish dementia activism and their role front and centre of it.
Set in the not-too-distant future where the ‘British Bill of Rights’ has replaced the ‘European Convention on Human Rights’ and is being used by organisations and care-home owners to deny residents their rights to a family life by allowing the system to control what individuals with dementia can do, where they live, who can visit and when they can visit. The musical sees the three activists as characters reimagined to be back in their youth, being brought to a care home in Dundee to face a tribunal, led by the character ‘Rigid System’ that is accusing them of both not having mental capacity and of being troublemakers. At the end of the performance the audience will be asked to reach a verdict, either supporting the dementia activists right to live a fulfilled life at home in spite of their diagnosis or to confine them indefinitely to a care home until their demise.
Please note that this performance may not be suitable for those living with dementia in care, due to the complexity of story and length of performance.
Tickets https://tinyurl.com/rxdajnrn
Kim Carnie will be LIVE at the Barn on Thurs 24 October at 8pm
✨The magic of Kim Carnie and her captivating voice!
Don't miss her LIVE at the Barn next week...
🎵 KIM CARNIE
📅 Thursday 24 October at 8pm
📍the Barn, Banchory
Tickets https://tinyurl.com/mr28krv5
Award-winning singer and composer, Kim Carnie, has featured on some of the UK’s biggest stages as well as across the world via film and computer game soundtrack, from Netflix’s 'Outlaw King’ and ‘Black Mirror’ to Hallmark’s ‘A Scottish Love Scheme’. Since launching her solo career in 2018, Kim has become one of the most sought-after singers and session vocalists that Scotland has to offer, having worked with producers such as Jim Sutherland (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen), Donald Shaw (Capercaillie) and Ged Grimes (Simple Minds). In 2019 and 2020, she joined bands Mànran and Staran, respectively, as lead singer.
Rachel Newton & Mairearad Green present Anna Bhán
When the music tells a story...❤
🎵 Rachel Newton & Mairearad Green present Anna Bhán
📅 Saturday 12 October at 8pm
📍 At the Barn, Banchory
Rachel and Mairearad, both well established and celebrated Scottish musicians, are also cousins. Let them take you on a musical journey to celebrate and remember their Great Great-Grandmother Anna Bhán's involvement in the successful women-led Coigach resistance of 1852 during the Highland Clearances.
Inspired by recent community plans to build a sculpture in honour of these women in the area, they composed a body of work together in Coigach and have made a beautiful duo album, due for release in the Autumn of 2024. Expect songs in both Gaelic and English, pipes, accordion, harp and fiddle.
Tickets https://tinyurl.com/3pfwctw2
30 years of the Barn! 🥳
Thank you to all who came to celebrate with us at the weekend! We hope you enjoyed the photos, artwork and memorabilia out on display.
A wonderful day filled with conversations, sharing precious memories, enjoying the music from The Blue Lamp's Community Jazz Band and eating lots of delicious cake! 🎂
Roll on the next 30 years...we're excited for what's ahead! Have your say and share what you wish to see and experience at the Barn in the comments below 👇👇👇
The Community Jazz Band from the Blue Lamp are here helping us celebrate 30 years of the Barn! They're on til 5pm...come and join us! FREE ENTRY.
Next week at the Barn! Live screening of 'Edward Scissorhands: Matthew Bourne's dance version of Tim Burton's classic'
🎬 EDWARD SCISSORHANDS: MATTHEW BOURNE'S DANCE VERSION OF TIM BURTON'S CLASSIC
📅 Wednesday 25 September at 6.30pm
📍 At the Barn, Banchory
Tickets https://tinyurl.com/3fkbbt67
Quintin Davies & Shona Cammack are at the Barn as part of NEOS. Come along and meet them in the Gallery, where they are busy painting and exhibiting their beautiful artworks! Open 7-15 September from 11am-4pm (closed Mondays and Tuesdays).
EXCITING NEWS!!! The ROYAL BALLET & OPERA cinema season 2024/25 will be showing here at the Barn! 🩰🎭
EXCITING NEWS!!! The ROYAL BALLET & OPERA cinema season 2024/25 will be showing here at the Barn! 🩰🎭
SCREENING DATES:
📅 10 Sep 2024 - The Royal Opera, Marriage of Figaro
📅 15 Oct 2024 - The Royal Ballet, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
📅 10 Dec 2024 - The Royal Ballet, Cinderella
📅 14 Dec 2024 - The Royal Opera, Wolf Witch Giant Fairy
📅 18 Dec 2024 - The Royal Ballet, The Nutcracker
📅 15 Jan 2025 - The Royal Opera, Tales of Hoffman
📅 27 Feb 2025 - The Royal Ballet, Swan Lake
📅 20 Mar 2025 - The Royal Ballet, Romeo & Juliet
📅 1 Apr 2025 - The Royal Opera, Turandot
📅 22 May 2025 - The Royal Ballet, Ballet to Broadway: Wheeldon Works
Bookings now open https://tinyurl.com/4nw7fz4f
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Did somebody say DISCO?!
Celebrate the end of term at our festive family disco on Thursday 21 December @ 6pm.
Join us and Un1que Disco where we’ll be playing an eclectic mix of music to get both children and adults on the dancefloor. Think disco balls, lights, music, licenced bar, mocktails, tuck shop, chill zone and lots of festive fun!
Grab your dancing shoes and festive attire and get ready to party.
Tickets are selling fast, book early to avoid disappointment: https://ow.ly/rKuQ50Q7qmc
Around The Top...the last in a series of short interviews with artist duo Luke Pell Makes and Lucy Cash of Phos in which they share a bit more about the research and work that went into their current exhibition with us.
To Gather Together To Touch is open Thursday - Saturday @ 12pm - 3pm.
No booking required.
