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Iona Lane at Birnam Arts
Thu 15 Oct
Iona Lane | Auditorium
20:00 - 22:00
Doors Open 19:30

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Kids at Birnam Arts

Jude Reid - The Nightkeeper's Apprentice

with Gillian Martin
Part of Birnam Book Festival

Sat 24 Oct 2026
13:00 - 14:00 | Studios
Set in Orkney during WW2, an evacuee investigates the secrets and magical folklore surrounding a mysterious lighthouse.

Tickets for Jude Reid - The Nightkeeper's Apprentice

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Creative Storytelling Workshop

with Debra Murphy
Part of Birnam Book Festival

Sun 25 Oct 2026
10:00 - 11:00 | Studios
Children and their carers will love this creative storytelling workshop, exploring the magical adventures of Florence, the black and white Border Collie.

Tickets for Creative Storytelling Workshop

General Entry

£5.00

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Arty Workshop For All (Morning)

With Kate Leiper
Part of Birnam Book Festival

Sun 25 Oct 2026
10:00 - 11:30 | Studios
Don’t miss a chance to join the festival illustrator to draw, paint, scribble, glue, and stamp as we create a community artwork.

Tickets for Arty Workshop For All (Morning)

General Entry

£5.00

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Bookbug Meets Peter Rabbit


Part of Birnam Book Festival

Sun 25 Oct 2026
10:30 - 11:00 | Reading Room
Interactive session encouraging parents, carers and children to share stories and rhymes.

Tickets for Bookbug Meets Peter Rabbit

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Velda and the Wild Unicorn Chase


Part of Birnam Book Festival

Sun 25 Oct 2026
11:00 - 12:00 | Auditorium
Meet Velda the Awesomest Viking in her latest fierce and funny adventure, this time to track down a magical unicorn horn.

Tickets for Velda and the Wild Unicorn Chase

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Gaelic Storytelling


Part of Birnam Book Festival

Sun 25 Oct 2026
11:15 - 11:45 | Reading Room
Sgeulachd Pheadair Rabaid (The Tale of Peter Rabbit) and other stories told in Gaelic.

Tickets for Gaelic Storytelling

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'River Of Words' Book Launch

with Maria Navarro Pimentel and Jane Archer
Part of Birnam Book Festival

Sun 25 Oct 2026
14:15 - 15:00 | Auditorium
Working with community Writer in Residence Elizabeth Kostova of Asheville, North Carolina, children at the Royal School of Dunkeld wrote poetry about the River Tay.

Tickets for 'River Of Words' Book Launch

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Arty Workshop For All (Afternoon)

With Kate Leiper
Part of Birnam Book Festival

Sun 25 Oct 2026
15:00 - 16:15 | Studios
Don’t miss a chance to join the festival illustrator to draw, paint, scribble, glue, and stamp as we create a community artwork.

Strathspey & Reel Society

Annual Concert & Ceilidh

Fri 6 Nov 2026
19:30 - 22:00 | Auditorium
Come along for a warm, toe-tapping night out and experience Dunkeld's living musical heritage first hand.

Tickets for Strathspey & Reel Society

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£10.00

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For full details on eligibility, visit this page of our website.

Concession

£8.00

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Ballet Classes

Mondays - Thursdays
16:00 - 19:00 | Studios
The Birnam Arts Ballet School has been running since 2003 and has grown to offer classes to children and adults, Monday to Thursday evenings.

Dunkeld & Birnam Traditional Youth Music Group

Every Monday
16:00 - 20:30
We run classes for whistle, guitar, fiddle, and accordion with an emphasis on learning traditional Scottish music. 

Tickets for Dunkeld & Birnam Traditional Youth Music Group

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Beatrix Potter™ at Birnam Arts

Open Daily
10:30 - 15:30 | Beatrix Potter Experience
Come along to Dunkeld and Birnam's exclusive Beatrix Potter™ Perthshire Experience at Birnam Arts!

Celebrating the kids in Dunkeld and Birnam - helping them find their way to express their creativity - through art, music, and movement.

Map showing Birnam Arts and conference centre in Scotland

Opening Times

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


Cafe
Daily | 09:00 - 17:00



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

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I have enjoyed taking part in events such as Scots Opera before we came to live in the area. Since then we have enjoyed both attending events and the splendid cafe In the foyer. It is a brilliant example of a local/regional community arts initiative and must not be allowed to falter.

Christopher D Morris   |   Crowdfunder #savebirnamarts 2020

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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!

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What a warm and lovely welcome for this Yorkshire author. Thank you. Birnam Book Festival, author

Rose George   |   Birnam Book Festival 2018

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Beatrix Potter Garden

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We had not planned to present a hybrid festival, however that changed when one of our main authors tested positive for Covid. I greatly appreciated how the team worked with us to pivot and present remotely in part, making full use of your enhanced video conferencing equipment. As a result, we were able to deliver quite complex events with several elements all showing on screen simultaneously. The audio-visual quality was excellent, and our audiences were delighted that these events could still go ahead, in spite of Covid. The author in question was really pleased that he could join us on screen and remarked that he had not been so well supported in this way at any other festival.

Fiona Ritchie   |   Birnam Book Festival 2022

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