Harbour Arts Centre

19/06/2026

🍃🍃 Summer at Eglinton Country Park 🍃🍃

Thursday 2 July
Toddler Storytelling and Craft: Gnome Says Go Home
10am – 11am
£6
Room @ the Courtyard, Eglinton Country Park

Join author Ruairidh Forde for a heart-warming and humorous tale of acceptance and friendship.

Gnome likes to be alone. All he wants is peace and quiet, but one day he is interrupted by some noisy insects who want to stay in his garden. Gnome shoos them out and tells them all to 'Go Home!' But will Gnome realise that life is better with friends?

Gnome Says "Go Home!" is the first picture book written by Ruairidh Forde, co-creator of the popular children's theatre company The McDougalls

This interactive and engaging storytelling session is sure to entertain and delight young readers and their grown-ups too!

Suitable for babies – age 5. One ticket per child (accompanied by an adult). Ticket includes storytelling and a craft activity.

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19/06/2026

Big Top Circus Event - ages 5 -10 🎊🎪

Friday 17 July from 1030am to 1230pm

Join us for a fun filled Circus themed workshop with games, music, glitter tattoos and crafts! (This event will take place inside the HAC.)

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18/06/2026

🎤✨ Artie’s Singing Kettle “LIVE” ✨🎤

📍 Harbour Arts Centre
🗓 Sunday 12 July - 11am & 1pm

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✨ DRESS UP in your SPARKLES! ✨
Get ready for a fun-filled, feel-good family favourite as Artie takes you on a musical trip through classic Singing Kettle hits — LIVE on stage!

Sing, clap and giggle along to much-loved favourites including:

🍌 Buy Me a Banana
🐰 Bunny Fou Fou
🚌 Shove Yer Granny Aff a Bus

It’s huge fun for kids and pure nostalgia for grown-ups, featuring the original Singing Kettles, packed with playful clues and audience participation throughout the show 🎶💛

Perfect for families, first theatre trips, and anyone who grew up singing along at the top of their lungs!

🌟 Sparkles on, voices ready — don’t miss this joyful, memory-making live show! 🌟

18/06/2026

Needle Felted Highland Cow Workshop 🐂

Saturday 8 August - 1pm to 4pm

Make your own hanging highland cow character with 3D horns and eyes by following instruction from art school trained full-time artist Alison Thomas. Alison has over 27 years teaching experience and will explain the art of needle felting through a series of demonstrations and talks.

A really fun workshop suitable for adult beginners and the more experienced. 🐂

Children over age 12 are welcome if accompanied by an adult.

Book here ➡ www.ticketsource.com/harbour-arts-centre

17/06/2026

Maggie MacInnes and Band; The Kalokerinos Tapes

Friday 19 June

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Award winning Gaelic singer, Maggie MacInnes, will be performing contemporary arrangements of songs from a previously unreleased private archive recorded by her mother, the great traditional singer from the island of Barra, Flora MacNeil MBE.

The archive of around 180 songs was recorded in the 1950s and 60s by an Australian folklorist, Dr James Kalokerinos, and includes many rare gems alongside some of the many traditional songs which Flora helped make popular today.

With assistance from Creative Scotland, Maggie has put together a show which pays tribute to Flora and to other tradition bearers who passed on the songs to her. She has also recently recorded the songs from the show on her new album, Uiseagan Bharraigh (Barra Skylarks), which is to be launched at this event.

The show was first performed at Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival in January of this year to a sell-out crowd and is to tour the highlands and islands in the summer.

Further information at www.maggiemacinnes.co.uk

Accompanying Maggie will be some of Scotland’s finest musicians including Wendy Weatherby (cello), Calum Park (fiddle & guitar), Conal McDonagh (pipes & flute) and Dan Brown (keyboards) and Alex Palmer (percussion)

17/06/2026

💜Arts & Crafts: Kids Art: Design your Own Silk Painted Journal - ages 9+

Get creative and hand paint your very own journal to take home.

Age 9+

Friday 7 August from 10am to 1130am

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17/06/2026

We are delighted to showcase The Divine 9 Collective Exhibition in our large studio space here at the HAC. On display until Saturday 11 July.

Please call ahead to view ensure access to this beautiful exhibition to avoid disappointment when workshops are taking place.

10am to 4pm

I’m absolutely delighted to announce that seven artists from my recent mentoring programme, The Divine 9 Collective, are joining me as part of my LIVE LIFE IN COLOUR exhibition!

Their beautiful, bold and wonderfully varied work is now exhibited and available to buy in Studio 1 at the Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine, from 17 June until Saturday 11 July.

This exhibition is a celebration of the joy of creativity, collaboration and what can happen when artists support, encourage and champion one another.

I am incredibly proud of them and the work they have created. Please pop in, soak up all that glorious colour and see their wonderful work in person! And missing Janelles Art who can't join us this time.

Debra Wiggin Caroline Dyet Art Sue Howat at Sixpenny Studio Morvenhowellart Elizabeth Lawson Art Lesley Herd Art

16/06/2026

Live Music at the HAC this June
✨ La Dolce Vita Swing Collective — Live in Irvine ✨

📍 Harbour Arts Centre - www.ticketsource.co.uk/harbour-arts-centre

🗓 Saturday 20 June - 7.30pm

https://youtu.be/s_13HoU63sk

"We are delighted to be coming back to the Harbour Arts Centre and feel excited to perform again to such a lovely audience"

La Dolce Vita Swing Collective return, wrapped in the late-night glamour of vintage Las Vegas and kissed with true dolce vita spirit 🍸

Expect lyrical piano, velvet sax, warm bass lines, skipping drums and smooth vocals — the kind of sound that feels tailor-made for a martini in hand and a slow smile across the room.

Shaped by the Great American Songbook and the effortless Rat Pack cool of Sinatra, Dean Martin and their sharp-suited circle, the band weave mid-century American swing with a touch of Italian romance. Think moonlit piazzas, elegant melodies and an irresistible amore per la musica 🇮🇹✨

Pop favourites drift through the set in sumptuous swing-jazz style — The Beatles, The Jersey Boys, Queen and Michael Jackson — all reimagined with polish, charm and a whisper of bella notte magic.

It’s the kind of evening you plan your week around: intimate, uplifting and impossible to leave without a smile. 🎶💫

🎟 Not to be missed — join us for a night of swing, style and pure La Dolce Vita.

16/06/2026

⚽🎾Arts & Crafts: Design your own Sports Bag ⚽🎾

Inspired by the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow? Come and get creative and design your very own sports bag! Join our tutor Lynn.

Two sessions:
Ages 5 to 7 at 10am
Ages 8 to 11 at 1130am

Thursday 6 August

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15/06/2026

Arts & Crafts: Children’s 8-12 Years Paper Mache Fox Head Workshop (over 2 days)
🦊

To celebrate this year's National Year of Reading we will be making our very own Fabulous Mr Fox! We will create our own wall mounted fox head using the fun art of paper mache. We will create our creatures on the first day and paint them the second when they are dry. We will use plastic eyes, make whiskers from wire and bring them to life with acrylic paints. Make yours a wolf if you prefer!

Booking is for both days - 🦊🦊

Ages 8 to 12 at 1pm - 230pm

Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 July

Book here ➡ www.ticketsource.com/harbour-arts-centre