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Big Community Dinner @ Lauderdale
Fri 21 Aug · Wishing Tree by the Sea, Dunbar
A regional culture & discovery guide · Updated daily
A regional culture & discovery guide · Updated daily
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Spotlight
Spotlight
Halfway along Dunbar High Street, a short walk from the cottage where John Muir was born, there is a deep blue shopfront with the number 84 painted either side of the name. The windows are the giveaway. They are not so much dressed as gathered: paintings, ceramics, jewellery, cards and prints, the kind of arrangement that makes you slow down on the pavement and then, usually, go in.
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Going on
Festivals, markets and good reasons to get out into East Lothian.
Eat, drink, gather
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Family
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Curated
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Coast
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Hidden gems
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Listings
21 things to do · longer runs grouped
Running now
Series and programmes over several weeks
Today
18 events on today
Tomorrow · 10:30am · Lauderdale Park
Tomorrow · 8:30am · Dunbar
Today · 9:30am · Hallhill Sports Centre
Today · 9:30am · Whitekirk Hill, near
Today · 9:30am · Meadowmill Sports Centre
Today · 10:00am · Newhailes House & Gardens
+5 more times today
Today · 10:30am · John Gray Centre
Wed 19 Aug · 8:00pm · Wishing Tree by the Sea
Fri 21 Aug · 6:30pm · The Harbour Chapel
+1 more time
Fri 21 Aug · 2:00pm · Dunbar
Thu 20 Aug · 7:00pm · Lauderdale Park
Tomorrow · 12:00pm · The Harbour Chapel
Tomorrow · 7:00pm · The Harbour Chapel
Tomorrow · 4:00pm · St Anne's Church, Westgate
Mon 17 Aug · 9:30am · Belhaven Beach
Tomorrow · Cockenzie
Tomorrow · 12:00pm · Lennoxlove House
+11 more times
Tue 18 Aug · 7:45am · Ravensheugh Sands
Wed 19 Aug · 6:30pm · Belhaven Community Garden
Wed 19 Aug · 10:00am · Archerfield Walled Garden
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