
Chris Mugan
Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance
Arts/music/culture/travel hack/ed/copywriter @theipaper @courieruk @ArtFund Art Quarterly @Phaidon Books Pub/wedding DJ. Long-suffering #oafc fan
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1 week ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Chris Mugan |Rebecca Baird
Dr Zoe Venditozzi and Claire Mitchell KC are known to many in Dundee as teacher and a human rights lawyer, respectively. They are also the founders of the Witches of Scotland, who in 2022 persuaded then Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon to formally apologise for the injustice of the country’s witch trials between the 16th and 18th centuries.
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2 weeks ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Chris Mugan |Rebecca Baird
This month sees the return of Angus’s annual celebration of its talented and creative craftspeople. Throughout May – and across the county – Angus Festival of Makers offers a programme of open studios, workshops and exhibitions. For its fourth instalment, the festival’s organiser, Angus Creatives, brings together some of its members in four dedicated art markets this weekend in Arbroath, Kirriemuir, Montrose and Forfar.
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1 month ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Chris Mugan |Rebecca Baird
While Dundee’s threatened Keiller Centre lives on borrowed time, it can now count an outspoken Brighton musician among the ranks of its supporters. The city centre shopping precinct continues to host a variety of pop-up shops and art projects among its remaining outlets, even as developers promote plans to pull down the site to make way for student accommodation.
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1 month ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Chris Mugan |Rebecca Baird
It is hard to beat a well-written, brilliantly performed play. Unless, of course, you include a hot meal. Indeed, this concept has already worked for many years at Glasgow’s lunchtime institution A Play, A Pie, A Pint. Now a cherished Fife institution has come up with its own twist for a production about – and set in – a chippy, accompanied by – what else? – a fish supper.
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2 months ago |
thecourier.co.uk | Chris Mugan |Rebecca Baird
Like many actors, Tam Dean Burn is familiar with Dundee Rep’s boards – but he’s got a unique claim to fame round these parts. Nowadays, the Leith-born thespian is known for his scene-stealing TV and film roles, including River City gangster Thomas McCabe, Alastair in Outlander, and a grim-faced clan leader in Robert the Bruce film Outlaw King.
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Just picked up on this - sad to hear about the passing of one of the greats & a sarf London legend https://t.co/qql0dvuFpH

RT @TimNewburn: Once again friends I have two tickets to what will be a belting gig and I can’t go. The wonderful Shack at the Union Chapel…

Looking good for #angus festival of #Makers this weekend https://t.co/R0AJhFDcKF