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Adult Events

FRIDAY 6th MARCH, 7PM-9PM 

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A MURDER MYSTERY

WITH THE WALKING THEATRE COMPANY

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The Walking Theatre Company present a ‘Fawlty Towers’ Murder Mystery Tribute.   Inspired by the much-loved comedy show, join Basil, Sybil and cast to see if you can solve the mystery that has happened at Tipsy Towers.  Lots of laughs to be had along the way.

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Tea and nibbles will be provided but you are welcome to bring your own bottle.

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Tickets are £10, available from Portsoy Ice Cream Shop or can be reserved by phoning 01261 861333.

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SATURDAY 7TH MARCH, 12PM-1PM

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A TALK & A TASTING WITH LIZ ASHWORTH

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LIZ ASHWORTH has been involved with, and written about, food most of her life.  She is passionate about preserving and promoting Scotland’s food heritage.

 

In this session, Liz tells the amazing story of one of the oldest recorded grains in the world, Bere barley.  Originating in the ‘Fertile Crescent’, a region in the Middle East covering Iraq, SE Turkey, Western Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt, it was cultivated extensively as a wild cereal crop and is even described in Genesis Chapter two.  Its nutritional, medicinal and healing properties are extolled in many scriptures including the Koran, the Torah, Buddhist and Hindu texts.

 

Eventually over centuries this staple found its way to Britain. Grains dating back as far 3,600BC have been found on Neolithic sites in Orkney where a similar crop still grows today.  A grain that has affected lives on Orkney and beyond, from international trade to the building of the great cathedral and more besides. For centuries the fertile lands of Orkney were ‘a breadbasket.’

Liz discovered that her own family grew Bere barley, milled it and baked it commercially. The bakery was in Kirkwall almost exactly the spot where she worked over 200 years later with baker Paul Groundwater.

 

How did Bere barley find its way to Scotland?  Join Liz to hear this intriguing and fascinating story of the humble grain and even taste if for yourself.

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Tickets are free and available from the Portsoy Ice Cream shop or can be reserved by calling 01261 861333

SATURDAY 7TH MARCH, 2PM-4PM

 

CHRIS BROOKMYRE & DR MARISA HAETZMAN

JOINT AUTHORS OF AMBROSE PARRY SERIES

Ambrose Parry is a pseudonym for a collaboration between CHRIS BROOKMYRE and DR MARISA HAETZMAN. The couple are married and live in Scotland.

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Chris Brookmyre is the international bestselling and multi-award-winning author of over twenty novels, including Black Widow, winner of both the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Novel of the Year. Dr Marisa Haetzman is a consultant anaesthetist of twenty years’ experience, whose research for her Master’s in the History of Medicine uncovered the material upon which the Ambrose Parry novels were based.

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The Way of All Flesh and The Art of Dying are the first two novels set in 19th Century Edinburgh featuring apprentice obstetrician, Will Raven and housemaid, Sarah Fisher.  A time when there were constricted boundaries for women and medical procedures were evolving.

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Tickets cost £5 for each session and are available from the Portsoy Ice Cream Shop on Seafield Street or make a reservation by calling 01261 861333

SUNDAY 8TH MARCH, 11AM-1PM

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JEFF ZYCINSKI

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JEFF ZYCINSKI began his career more than thirty years ago as a news reporter with Moray Firth Radio going on to be Head of Radio at BBC Scotland.  His book, The Red Light Zone: An Insider’s Laugh ‘n’ Tell of BBC Radio, describes his encounters with politicians, Royal Family and Hollywood stars as well as some of the more absurd happenings and baffling decisions during his 24 years.

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Jeff is also an occasional stand-up comedian, as well as award-winning public speaker, a board member of the Platforms arts organisation and lecturer.  He now runs his own production company, Writes and Speaks, based in Inverness.

 

His next book You Had to be There will be published in September 2020 and describes his childhood, Polish heritage and travels around Scotland.

Tickets cost £5 for each session and are available from the Portsoy Ice Cream Shop on Seafield Street or make a reservation by calling 01261 861333

SUNDAY 8TH MARCH, 2PM-4PM

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AN AUDIENCE WITH LIN ANDERSON AND GILLIAN GALBRAITH

LIN ANDERSON is a Scottish novelist and screenwriter best known for her bestselling series featuring forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod of which there are currently fourteen novels, four of which have been long listed for the Scottish Crime Book of the Year with Follow the Dead being a 2018 finalist.

 

  Lin is co-founder of the international crime writing festival Bloody Scotland which takes place annually in Stirling, Scotland, mid-September    

 

www.lin-anderson.com

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GILLIAN GALBRAITH was an advocate specialising in medical negligence and agricultural law cases before turning to writing fulltime.  She worked for a period as an agony aunt for teenager magazines and subsequently went on to be the legal correspondent for the Scottish Farmer as well as writing on legal matters for The Times.  She is the author of The Alice Rice Mysteries series and, in 2014 began the Father Vincent Ross series with The Good Priest.  In June 2019, she created a new mystery series featuring antiquarian book dealer, Anthony Sparrow, in her novel, The End of the Line.

Tickets cost £5 for each session and are available from the Portsoy Ice Cream Shop on Seafield Street or make a reservation by calling 01261 861333

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