Event · Free
Heart of Dunbar Festival Parade & Funday
Sat 15 Aug · Dunbar Town Centre
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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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Sat 15 Aug · 1:00pm · Oldhamstocks
Sat 15 Aug · 2:00pm · Whittinghame Drive
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Sat 15 Aug · 2:00pm · Whittinghame Drive
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Fri 14 Aug · 1:00pm · Biel House
Fri 14 Aug · 8:00pm · West Barns Village Hall, West Barns
Sat 15 Aug · Foxlake Adventures
Sat 15 Aug · 7:00am · Royal
Sat 15 Aug · 9:00am · Gullane
Sun 16 Aug · 1:30pm · Belhaven Beach and Belhaven Surf Centre
Fri 14 Aug · 11:30am · Newhailes House & Gardens
Tomorrow · 10:00am · Newhailes House & Gardens
+17 more times
Tomorrow · 11:00am · Newhailes House & Gardens
+14 more times
Sat 15 Aug · 9:30am · Hallhill Sports Centre
Sat 15 Aug · 9:30am · Meadowmill Sports Centre
Sat 15 Aug · 9:30am · Whitekirk Hill, near
Tue 18 Aug · 7:30pm · Station Yard Micropub
Tomorrow · 12:00pm · Lennoxlove House
+7 more times
Sat 15 Aug · 1:30pm · Newhailes House & Gardens
Tue 18 Aug · 7:45am · Ravensheugh Sands
Fri 14 Aug · 5:00pm · West Barns Village Hall, West Barns
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