Boat of Garten Community Hall

11/06/2026

🎉 Family Fun day!

Join us for an afternoon packed with loads of FREE entertainment and community fun at our Family Fun Day

📆 Saturday 20 June | 12pm-3pm
📍 Boat of Garten Community Hall

Enjoy all this for FREE:
🎨 Face Painting 🏰 Bouncy Castle 🥷 Gladiator Duel 🚴🏻 Bike Ramp 🚴‍♀️ Dr Bike 🚒 Fire Engine 🤸 Messy Play 🎵 Live Music 🔥 BBQ & Café 🍻 Licensed Bar

We're delighted to welcome fantastic local organisations and special guests, including wildlife experiences, dance demos and family-friendly activities throughout the day

We can’t wait to see you! 💜💛💚

Care and Learning Alliance Starry Eyed Body Art & Face Painting Ride Scotland Cairngorm School of Dance Alan Gristwood Ailsa Villegas Music Highland Wildlife Park

11/06/2026

Gather your pals, family, colleagues, and quiz enthusiasts for a brilliant evening at the 13th Great Big Quiz Night!

📅 Friday 19 June 2026
🕢 7:30pm (Doors open at 7:00pm)
📍 Boat of Garten Community Hall
💷 £5 per person

👥 Teams of 2–6
🏆 £100 Prize for the winning team
🍻 Licensed Bar

This year's specialist round is all about Vegetables 🥕🥦🌽

Best of all, the event is raising funds for Boat of Garten Community Growing Project, supporting a fantastic local community project.

👉 Reserve your place, email [email protected]

09/06/2026

** CANCELLED TONIGHT, BACK NEXT MONTH! **

Anima Pacha Drums, a space where healing begins from within.

You are invited to sink into a sound bath, where gentle vibrations wash over you like waves of calm. Sound bath is a form of meditation allowing the nervous system into deep rest, softening stress and mental noise. As the sounds move through the body, tension unwinds and breath finds an easier rhythm. This is a space to reset, restore balance, and reconnect with a quieter inner knowing. Come as you are, lie back, and let the sound do the healing.

📅 Tomorrow - 10th June at 7pm

animapachadrums.co.uk

08/06/2026

ROOTED: A Visual Art Feature Night with Storylands Sessions 🖼️🏔️🌱
Join us tomorrow for a special evening exploring visual art, landscape, memory and place, as we bring together artists, makers, and musicians for an evening of creative responses to the landscapes and communities around us.

📅Tuesday 9th June, 7pm - 9.30pm
🏡BOAT OF GARTEN COMMUNITY HALL

Amongst the artists who we will be welcoming to share the stories held within their work will be Wendy Grosvenor, Vojta Hybl, Naomi Huq, Sarah Hobbs & David Lintern, Allyson Jones, June Armstrong, Ann Vastano Artist, and Marie-Louise Napier.

Some artists will also bring artwork to display during the evening, creating a relaxed and informal exhibition atmosphere alongside the performances and conversations. The evening will be woven together by live music with harpers, Scots song, Gaelic song, piano pieces and more. 🎶🎨📷🌄

Whether you come to exhibit, speak, perform, listen or simply spend an evening surrounded by creativity and conversation, we would love to welcome you.

Tickets here - https://bit.ly/4nQN7b2

04/06/2026

One week left until we come to Boat of Garten Community Hall and RSPB Loch Garten, Abernethy for an afternoon of music and nature 🎻 🍃

Premiering ALMANAC: Emergence on Saturday 13th June — a new live performance by Glasgow composer Tom Butler, inspired by the transformation of dragonflies from water to air.
Performed by our amazing ensemble Ruth Morley (flute), Gareth Brady (clarinet), Fiona Winning (viola) and Tom Hunter (percussion)

Featuring live music, a guided dragonfly visit with an RSPB ranger, and a post concert Q&A, this intimate event will blend landscape, sound and ecology in a unique afternoon experience.

Boat of Garten Community Hall
Saturday 13 June
£15 / £10 U26
Only 20 places per performance

Book now: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/almanac-part-1-emergence-tickets-1987491156551?

The Almanac cycle is kindly supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation.

Sound Festival RSPB Scottish Music Centre New Music Scotland Cairngorms Connect Speysound Radio The Strathy

A live musical performance tracing the emergence of dragonflies from water to air — including a guided RSPB site visit.

01/06/2026

🪧This Month at The Boat Hall: June 2026 🪧

~ Regular Groups, Clubs & Classes ~
❤️ Mondays ❤️
18:00 🧘‍♀️ Callanetics
💙 Tuesdays 💙
10:00 🚼 Wee Bogees
18:00 🧘 Yoga Level 1
19:00 🧘‍♂️ Yoga
🧡 Wednesdays 🧡
09:45 🧘‍♀️ Yoga
11:00 💪🏻 Fit4Life
13:30 🚶‍♀️ Health Walk
🩵 Thursdays 🩵
18:00 🧘‍♂️ Pilates for Men
19:00 🧘‍♀️ Pilates for All

〰️〰️ Dates for your diaries 〰️〰️
Tues 09 June 🎹 19:00-21:30 🎹 ROOTED: A Visual Art Feature Night - Storylands Sessions
Wed 10 June 🪘19:00 🪘Sound Bath with Anima Pacha
Fri 12 June 🧘18:00-19:30 🧘Yin Yoga with Julie
Sat 13 June 🍀 12:50 - 17:00 🍀 Almanac: Part 1 (Emergence) Performance
Fri 19 June 🏆 19:00 🏆 Quiz Night
Sat 20 June 💜 12:00-15:00 💜Family Fun Day
Sun 21 June ☀️ 15:00 - 21:30 ☀️ Summer Solstice Day Retreat
Sun 28 June 🔨 14:00-17:00 🔨 Repair Cafe Cairngorms
Tues 30 June 📈 09:30-12:30 📈 Marketing Monthly with Emma

28/05/2026

Storylands Sessions
JUNE: ROOTED: A Visual Art Feature Night 🖼️🏔️ 🌱

📅Tuesday 9th June, 7pm - 9.30pm
🏡 BOAT OF GARTEN COMMUNITY HALL

Following a spring of poetry, music and community gatherings, we’re delighted to now share more of what lies ahead for the rest of the year - including new themed evenings, new venues, festival collaborations, workshops and familiar faces returning to the stage.

In June, Storylands Sessions arrives in Boat of Garten Community Hall for a special evening exploring visual art, landscape, memory and place.

Theme: ROOTED: roots and routes; hidden landscapes; weathered surfaces; maps and boundaries; peat, stone and water; shelter and exposure; what remains, memory held in land.

ROOTED is a new kind of Storylands Sessions gathering - bringing together artists, makers, and musicians for an evening of creative responses to the landscapes and communities around us. Rather than our usual short mixed-format contributions, artists will be invited to share their work in longer 10-minute slots, speaking about process, inspiration, environment and the stories held within their work. Some artists will also bring artwork to display during the evening, creating a relaxed and informal exhibition atmosphere alongside the performances and conversations.

The evening will include live music between contributors to create atmosphere and weave the evening together.

Whether you have come to exhibit, speak, perform, listen or simply spend an evening surrounded by creativity and conversation, we would love to welcome you.

Tickets here - https://bit.ly/4nQN7b2

20/05/2026

Scotland’s contemporary music ensemble comes to Boat of Garten.

Red Note Ensemble presents ALMANAC: Emergence — a new live performance inspired by the transformation of dragonflies from water to air.

Featuring live music, field recordings and an optional guided dragonfly visit with an RSPB ranger, this intimate new work blends landscape, sound and ecology in a unique afternoon experience.

Performed by musicians from Red Note Ensemble, internationally recognised for creating and touring ambitious new music across the UK and beyond.

📍Boat of Garten Community Hall
📅Saturday 13 June
🎟️£15

Only 20 places per performance
Book now: https://bit.ly/4uzMKE7

The Almanac cycle is kindly supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation.

11/05/2026

🎸 Oh Boy! Get Ready for a Rock 'n' Roll Night to Remember! After an incredible night last year, these guys are back for some more 🎶

Three incredible artists are bringing the music of Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly & Elvis Presley to life – backed by a high-energy live band!

Expect all the classics, from I Drove All Night to Oh Boy and Return to Sender! Can you resist dancing? We dare you to stay in your seats!

🌟 Featuring Marc Robinson from Stars in Their Eyes & Buddy – The Musical, performing hits like Heartbeat, Peggy Sue & True Love Ways!

📅 Friday 09 October 2026
⏰ 19:30 (Doors open 18:30)
📍 Boat of Garten Community Hall

🎟️ Tickets on sale now: https://wegottickets.com/event/687752
🎟️ Paper tickets available from Hall directly - £18.50 each (cash only)

06/05/2026

An exciting event comes to Boat of Garten this June.

Almanac: Part 1 (Emergence)
A live musical performance tracing the emergence of dragonflies from water to air — including a guided RSPB site visit.

📍Boat of Garten Community Hall
📅 Saturday 13 June 2026
🎟️Tickets - https://bit.ly/4uzMKE7 (Eventbrite)

Almanac is a new large-scale project by composer Thomas Butler, commissioned by Red Note Ensemble, using contemporary musical performance to mark events in the natural world.

The first chapter of Thomas Butler’s Almanac marks the emergence of dragonflies and damselflies as they transition from water to air.
Combining live performance and field recordings, Emergence traces this moment of transformation through sound, image and movement. Shaped by ecological research and set within the landscape that inspires it, the work invites audiences to experience this fragile and vital process up close.
The performance includes a guided visit to observe dragonflies and damselflies in partnership with RSPB, followed by a Q&A with composer Thomas Butler.

The Almanac cycle is kindly supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation.