UP NEXT

King Lear at Birnam Arts
Fri 4 Apr
King Lear | Auditorium
19:30 - 22:00
Doors Open 19:00

Buy Tickets >

What's on by date

What's on by genre

What's on by date Range

Pick Date Range

End of Summer Song, Birnam Institute Players

End of Summer Song: Beatrix Potter in Perthshire

Part of The Queen's Platinum Jubilee - Dunkeld Celebrations

4 June 2022

Birnam Institute Players present a full-length play with songs about the famous writer.

Every October, a young Beatrix Potter is sad to leave the family’s Highland Perthshire idyll and return to London. For four months each year she has been immersed in nature and local folk tales. 

This comes to an abrupt halt, the year she is 16. A decade later she returns for two summers, now a published illustrator and a promising mycologist. In three remarkable days she makes a worthy scientific contribution, and writes the first drafts of the Peter Rabbit and Jeremy Fisher books. 

And the rest is history...

This one-off performance tells the story of Beatrix Potter's precious and influential time in Perthshire, with some very special cameo appearances from those characters we know and love.

Part of The Queen's Platinum Jubilee - Dunkeld Celebrations

 Festival Info   >

This is Pitlochry musician Tom McEwan's first full-length play, piecing together her Perthshire experience each childhood summer, and how the local flora and fauna stayed with her on her return to London.

Planning Your Visit

Links to our Cafe, opening times and directions.

Visitor Information >

Other Events This Month

MORE
Fri 25 Apr 2025

Bodies of Water

Arts Workshop   |   Auditorium   |   20:00 - 21:00
Bodies of Water at Birnam Arts
Tue 29 Apr 2025

Art Club for Adults

Arts Workshop   |   Studios   |   13:30 - 15:30
Art Club for Adults with Michael Fullerton at Birnam Arts
Sat 17 May 2025

LIFE

Arts Workshop     |   19:30 - 21:30
LIFE at Birnam Arts
Ageing Creatively: Well Kent Places Workshop at Birnam Arts
Map showing Birnam Arts and conference centre in Scotland

Opening Times

Box Office
Open periodically throughout the week | Book online 24/7


Cafe
Daily | 10 - 4



Birnam Arts
Station Road
Birnam Dunkeld
PH8 0DS
admin@birnamarts.com
Tel: 01350 727 674

Entrance

Welcome to Birnam Arts, a boutique multi-purpose arts, conferencing and entertainment venue.

Highlights

Pop in to the Foyer Cafe for breakfast, grab a delicious coffee with a selection of our homemade baking or enjoy a light lunch whilst browsing on the free WiFi. Wander upstairs to view the latest of our monthly art exhibitions before visiting the world of Beatrix Potter, or the Gift Shop to purchase a special gift for your loved ones or yourself!

Star Star Star Star Star

You really are the heart of our community and we can’t afford to lose you. Thank you to everyone working so hard to protect our village treasure.

Cave Family   |   Crowdfunder #savebirnamarts 2020

  • Entrance

  • Kinnaird

  • Cafe

  • Beatrix Potter

  • Shop

  • Gallery

  • Studio

 

 

Our Shop & Beatrix Potter Exhibition will be closed on Monday 31st March and Tuesday 1st April to allow us to carry out an annual stock take. 

We'll be back open as normal from Wednesday 2nd April.

 

(Our Cafe & Gallery will be open as normal)