Bow of Fife, Collessie & Letham News January 2009

Big Tent 2009 tickets are now on sale with a 10% discount for early birders.

Organisers of this year's Big Tent Festival are predicting this year's event will be the biggest and best yet. Tickets on sale now.

The second Fife Jazz Festival is bigger, brighter and better than last year - there are more concerts in more places (incl the Howe), with more musicians from different countries taking part.

'artsmart' issue 26 (wb 26/1/09) - the market place for creative knowledge and information for professionals from a range of services/schools who work with children and young people in fife and artists with an interest in linking with education and community developments.

Free adult education course 'WEIGHING IT UP' brought to you by Fife Council and the Big Plus.

Muchty Youth Club is the latest addition to the Howe's youth facilities. It's based at Auchtermuchty Community Centre, and starts Monday 2nd February.

Belly Dancing Classes for Women of all ages the Dance of Life

A relaxing and energizing gentle exercise technique. £5 all welcome

seeking past records of Freuchie

Read the minutes from Collessie Community Council from November 2008

This is the first major research study on rural Scotland's community facilities; and looks at their provision, condition, management, funding, use and implications for future use. The findings will help support informed debate about the future of these vital community facilities.

From a handful of people involved in the Fife Diet just over a year ago, more than 600 people have now pledged to eat local, seasonal produce for 12 months. Organisers have told The Scotsman that, with the help of £144,000 from the Scottish Government, they want to expand that to 5,000 Fifers over the next three years.

A LINE-UP of legends is heading for Fife next month for an event billed as '22 days of music heaven'.

SIX youngsters from Newburgh are to take a major ambassadorial role in marking the historic 65th anniversary of the allied landings at Anzio

The Culture Talk Challenge consultation which involved over 3500 people who worked and lived in Fife has resulted in the new Cultural Strategy document - Generations of Change. This document is now available.

In these weekly classes we will look at examples of a range of approaches to drawing the figure. We will discuss why some artists favoured certain techniques, how their drawings vary, and what we ourselves wish to achieve when we start to draw.

A workshop for anyone interested in sketchbooks...

We have almost certainly succeeded in securing a booking for Letham Nights from Chicago (!!!) - delta blues band the Black Oil Brothers.

Hot on the heels of the massively successful inaugural Letham Nights on 12th December 2008, we bring you the low-down on Letham Nights #2.

FIFE is planning a huge catalogue of events to mark Homecoming Scotland 2009.

Average gross annual pay for full-time workers in Fife is £25,928, which puts the region 17th out of 32 council areas in Scotland.

Search dogs have been used in the hunt for a Fife pensioner who has been missing since last week.

Trina Samson, proprietor of Muddy Boots at Balmalcolm, is inviting ladies to think pink and help raise funds for breast cancer research by baring their boobs to create a unique piece of art.

Nikki Jones (50) will trek 100 kilometres in the Sahara in just under five days in March to raise funds for RP Fighting Blindness.

From October 2007 until June 2008 a Fife-wide consultation 'Culture Talk' took place to find out what the people who live and work in Fife thought of the current 'state of culture' in the area and what their aspirations for the future of culture in Fife into the 21st Century were. Over 3500 people became involved along the way.

Waste Aware Scotland has once again teamed up with the Woodland Trust to encourage NE Fifers to recycle their Xmas cards.

Applications are being invited for the Scottish Biomass Heat Scheme, which will give grants of up to £100,000 to small and medium sized businesses to install renewable heating systems.

The Scottish Education Awards were first launched in November 2001 with the specific aims of celebrating the successes and recognising the achievements taking place within Scottish education.

Introducing PC Ian Laing

Jan 09 newsletter