Some Penicuik events in 2004

(click for today’s up-to-date events upcoming and recent)

Some earlier events in 2004

October 2004

FRIBO: Scots-Norwegian fusion

August 2004

Textured Earth: paintings by Suzanne Whyte, Ulla Hipkin, Jessica Willetts

July

THE CAMMAC 50^TH ANNIVERSARY CHORUS

choir directed by Pierre Perron

present the UK & Ireland premiere of

celtic mass

for the sea.

Celtic mass for the sea performed by CAMMAC at Carnegie Hall New York

Music by Scott Macmillan. Lyrics by Jennyfer Brickenden

Canada Council for the Arts Conseil des Arts du Canada

CANONGATE KIRK, ROYAL MILE, 5 JULY, 8PM

£6, £4

with pre-concert introduction, and some songs from Edinburgh’s

JAMMIES

June

GALLERY CAFÉ: JUNE 2004: SEA CHANGES Catriona Taylor Delves

Sarah-Jane Fifield & James Ross

May 2004

PENICUIK ARTS CENTRE

MEMORABLE

CLOTHES 2004

17^th to 29^th May from 10am to 4pm on

Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays

PENICUIK TOWN HALL

Rolf Carvenius Tuxedo Jazz Band

April 2004

PCAA presents on Friday 2 April

at Penicuik Arts Centre

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

A talk by Margaret Stewart of Dalkeith Arts Centre

March 2004

PENICUIK ARTS CENTRE

Paper, Paint & Stitch

an exhibition by the Textile Group

in the upper gallery 29 March – 3 April

with a preview on Sunday 28 March

PCAA presents on Thursday 18 March 2004

in Penicuik South Kirk

The PAVÂO QUARTET

Sponsored by the Tunnell Trust

The Pavão Quartet: Tunnell Young Musician Award winners in 2003/4 –Click this image for the Quartet’s website

MY FAMILY IN INDIA

Mary Bennett

former Principal

St Hilda’s College Oxford

Penicuik Arts Centre

Sunday 7 March at 4pm

after the Gallery Opening: with wine & refreshments

Ann Steadman’s cousin Mary Bennett tells the unusual story of Doctor John Jackson and the Calcutta Medical College, his wife Maria’s parents James Pattle and Adeline de l’Etang and their many relatives, including her sister the photographer Julia Cameron. The Jackson’s daughter Adeline (Mary Bennett’s grandmother) was married in 1855 and her Parisian wedding dress was shown at the Penicuik Arts Memorable Clothes exhibition last May.

Dr John Jackson photographed by his sister-in-law Julia Cameron, his daughter Adeline, and her Parisian wedding dress

Mary Bennett’s book WHO WAS DR JACKSON? –Two Calcutta Families 1830-1855 was published by the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA), Putney, London, 2002

Mary Bennett died in 2005. Read her obituary here