Diary
The most comprehensive calendar of local events
in Ullapool & District
MARCH 2019
15 Curry Night 6.30pm at the Ullapool Church of Scotland Hall
16 Rowing the Minch for MS. C2 rowing marathon
16 Tasters day at The Macphail Centre
16 Efe Paul Azino (Nigerian poet) Ceilidh Place, a free unticketed event
17 Sunday Sessions at the Arch
18 Legion Scotland Lochbroom meeting 8pm Arch Inn
18-29 Seed Swap Ullapool Library
19 Museum Soup and Sandwich Lunch , Church of Scotland Hall
21 The Secret Life of the Sea Trout Assynt Field Club
21 Ranger Event. 2-3pm Wee Walk to Nature: Shapes and Patterns in Nature; Ullapool
21 Ruaraidh Maclean at the Arch Inn
22 Lochbroom Field Club: Eagles Talk at the Macphail Centre
22 British Legion Quiz, Royal Hotel 8pm
23 Launch of the Amber Seeker by Mandy Haggith, Lochinver
23 Highland Community Broadband AGM Ullapool Village Hall Committee Room
23 Lets Go Electric! E-car &e-bike test drive day at Macphail
23 Rhue Lighthouse family workshop in Ullapool Museum 1.30-3.30pm
23 Ross Martin & Calum Alex Macmillan. Ceilidh Place venue
23 Tweed Ceilidh Band. The Arch Inn from 9.30pm
24 Ullapool Film Club film show at the Ullapool ferry terminal
24 Sunday Sessions at the Arch
26 Open Book drop-in group at the Community Workshop
27 Ullapool Wildlife Watch Earth Hour - Games and Aciivities. Meet at Ullapool Library
28 Ruaraidh Maclean attheArch Inn
30 Rag Rug Making Saturday 11am - 1pm Ullapool Church of Scotland Hall
30 Mothers Day Sale : Ullapool Friends of Guiding on the Concourse of Ullapool High School
30 Simon Evans Genius:2.0. At the Ceilidh Place
30 Lochbroom Sailing Club AGM Sailing Clubhouse 4pm.
31 Clocks go forward one hour at 1am
31 Sunday Sessions at the Arch
APRIL 2019
3 Paper Memories, school performance at The Macphail Centre
3 Ullapool Fairtrade Group meeting in Ullapool Village Hall Committee room 7.30pm
4 Black Isle Red Kite re-introduction programme Assynt Field Club
5 Ranger Event: 6.15-8.30am Dawn Riverside Walk, Lael
5-8 April Seed Swop wee extra at Elphin Tearooms
5 Ullapool Rotary Club Burns Supper, Morefield Motel 6.30 for 7pm
5 Salt House. Ceilidh place venue
6 Rowing the Minch for MS: 500 for 5k
6 Peat & Diesel at the Arch Inn from 9pm
7 Sunday Sessions at the Arch
8-12 Junior Feis at The Macphail Centre
10 Ranger Event 2-4pm In search of dinosaur's nest, Laide
11 LUGGS AGM 7pm Ceilidh Place Parlour
11 Ranger Event; 2-3pm Wee Walk to Nature: Trees from around the world. Lael.
13 NWH Writers, 11-1.30. Ceilidh Place Parlour Bar. All welcome
14 Festival of the Sea, Culag Park, Lochinver
14 Sunday Sessions at the Arch
16 Open Book drop-in at the Community Workshop.
18 Ranger Event. 10am-5pm Mountain Life: Golden Eagles on Ben Mhor Coigach.
18 Life down the Microscope Assynt Field Club at Stoer Hall
19 Craig Robertson at the Arch Inn
20 Mairearad & Anna. Ceilidh Place Venue
21 Sunday Sessions at the Arch
24 Talisk., Ceilidh Place venue
27 Unspotted Snow, musical comedy play at The Macphail Centre
27 Red Cross Fundraiser
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
4-6 Adult Feis@ The Macphail Centre
4 Craig Robertson at the Arch Inn
7 Open Book drop-in at the Community Workshop
8 Ullapool Wildlife Watch: Flying! Meet at the Primary School
8 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
9 Sam McGee, folk music at The Macphail Centre
10-12 Ullapool Book Festival
15 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
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
24 Daimh. Ceilidh Place venue
28 Open Book drop-in at the Community Workshop
28 The Cheviot, The Stag & the Black Black Oil at The Macphail Centre
29 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
31 Mike Vass. Ceilidh Place Venue
JUNE 2019
4 Grainne Brady. Ceilidh Place Venue
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
12 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
12 Budapest Cafe Orchestra. Ceilidh Place Venue
15 Ullapool and District Pipe Band: Highland Games
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
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
JULY 2019
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 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
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 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
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
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.
9 Ewan Macintyre Band, music at The Macphail Centre
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
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 Baile. Ceilidh Place Venue
24 Ullapool Angling Competition & Marine Weekend
28 Elphin Craft and Food Market 10am-4pm Elphin Community Hall
29 Doghouse Roses Ceilidh Place Venue
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
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 Josie Duncan & Pablo Lafuente. Ceilidh Place Venue
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
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)
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
JANUARY 2020
7 Museum soup and sandwich lunch
14 Ullapool Museum Big Sale
21 Museum soup and sandwich lunch
27 British Legion Lochbroom AGM
