90th year Celebrations for Sunset Song publication

Sunset Song – A 1932 novel by Scottish Writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon celebrates 90th year in 2022 since the first publication. A call for double celebrations as The Grassic Gibbon Centre and Café was opened in 1991 (31 years ago) to commemorate his life and work....

Joan Eardley Centenary Celebration Dinner

Joan Eardley Painting at Catterline Arbuthnott Village Hall Saturday, May 14th, 2022 7.pm for 7.30pm Principal Speaker Patrick Elliott  Chief Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art  National Galleries Scotland Tickets: £25 To reserve tickets, please...

COURIER ARTICLE by Gayle Ritchie

Gayle heads to the Grassic Gibbon Centre and is shown some exhibits by chairman Jim Brown. Picture: Kath Flannery. It’s 90 years since Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song was published – plus it’s the 30th anniversary of a centre dedicated to the Mearns novelist. Gayle...

Hugh Black

We were much saddened at the Centre at the passing of Hugh Black. Hugh and Doreen and their friends have been  staunch supporters of the events at the Centre  and we will greatly miss his support. The Centre was privileged to be asked to host his  Funeral...

Judge’s Comments (Content by Emma Miller)

Judging this contest on behalf of the Grassic Gibbon Centre has been one of my most pleasant tasks ever as a director – and indeed the challenge in deciding on a winner is a tribute to the standard of the entries, with local artists joined by submissions from further...

Art Contest Entries

Lockdown Art Competition Please find the lovely entries to our Lockdown Art Competition. We asked participants to submit artwork and photos that illustrate or were inspired by a quote from Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic...