- Calendar
- Anster Cinema
- Anster Nichts
- Dreel Babies & Toddlers
- Dreel Burn Project events
- Dreel Crafters
- Duck Race
- Seasonal Coffee Mornings
- Vintage Day
- Other Events
We also list events on our Anstruther Improvements Association and Dreel Halls Facebook pages. You can view them even if you’re not a member of Facebook.
One of John Henry Lorimer’s sisters affectionately accused him of ‘persistent burrowing’: of being inclined to retreat from the world. After finding early success as a portrait painter, with studios in both Edinburgh and London, he was lured to the East Neuk by his protective mother, concerned by his persistent ill health. A studio was purpose-built for him at their summer residence of Kellie Castle, where he came to spend more and more time; after his mother’s death in 1916 it became his principal residence. However, his career stagnated after its brilliant beginning; his professional reputation certainly faded, despite his continuing to paint until his death in 1936.
On a beam in the room below his studio a line from one of John Donne’s poems has been inscribed: ‘Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail’. Martin Gulbis, from Kellie Visitor Services, will consider whether Lorimer found his peace at Kellie Castle.
Members and non-members are welcome to attend our public talks at Dreel Halls in Anstruther. If you are not yet a member of the AIA you can attend individual Anster Nichts for £3 per event. Membership is £10 per year and to find out more please visit our Membership page:
http://www.anstrutherimprovements.org/support-us/membership/
Join us for the annual AIA Duck Race when we launch 1,000 yellae deuks into the Dreel Burn and cheer them on as they race to the finish line!
You will be able to sponsor a duck at shops in town (look out for a duck in the window) for £2 from late March.
Brilliant prizes to be won – you’d have to be quackers to miss it 🙂
Weather permitting, prize giving will be from the terrace at the back of Dreel Halls.
And don’t forget to make an Easter bonnet and enter our bonnet competition (child and adult contest). This year the Easter bonnet competition will take place just before the duck race prizes are given out, on the Dreel Halls terrace.
All funds raised from the race go to the AIA for Anster Community Development Project and the upkeep of the halls.
Join us at our early Summer coffee morning for all the generations. We can offer you a cup of tea or coffee, some home-baking, a book swap and stories, a craft table and a good blether.
Drop in any time between 10.30am -12pm
Entry: £3.50 per adult, £1.50 per child
To find out more please email: julia@anstrutherimprovements.org or phone 07497 370556
Join us at our Harvest coffee morning for all the generations. We can offer you a cup of tea or coffee, some seasonal home-baking, a book swap and stories, a craft table and a good blether.
Drop in any time between 10.30am -12pm
Entry: £3.50 per adult, £1.50 per child
To find out more please email: julia@anstrutherimprovements.org or phone 07497 370556
Join us at our early Winter coffee morning for all the generations. We can offer you a cup of tea or coffee, some seasonal home-baking, a book swap and stories, a craft table and a good blether.
Drop in any time between 10.30am -12pm
Entry: £3.50 per adult, £1.50 per child
To find out more please email: julia@anstrutherimprovements.org or phone 07497 370556