What's On Larne

After the huge success of ‘Dance is Life’ in 2017, Giovanni is once again set to get your hearts beating a little faster, showcasing a story of love and passion, with even more heat, even more energy, and even more drama than ever before!

Sign up now for the 2018 Hospice Walk on Saturday 21st April and Saturday 28th April. There’s a lot of good reasons to join in the Hospice Walk on Saturday April 21st or 28th! Walking is a great way to keep fit and lose a pound or two. We are offering a choice of 6 scenic routes to enjoy plus a D.I.

Take on the challenge of a lifetime for Northern Ireland Hospice by running the Belfast City Marathon 2018. Whether you’re up for taking on the full marathon, half marathon, team relay, 8 mile walk or 5k fun run, The Belfast City Marathon offers something for everyone!

A lecture about spiritual healing and help through the teaching of Bruno Groening. Through the absorption of the divine power, many people are experiencing the healing of illnesses and pain, that have been declared as “incurable” by the medical profession.

This award-winning charity event returns as part of Pet Month and celebrates our four legged friends. Bring along your dog and be entertained by agility and training demonstrations. This award-winning charity event returns as part of Pet Month and celebrates our four legged friends.

Mount Stewart and surrounds is an ornithologist’s delight with a wide range of feathered friends calling it home throughout the year. Join our resident bird-enthusiast Gemma Sandford on a monthly bird watching tour around the gardens and wider Demesne. Suitable for beginners or experienced birders.

Come along and sell your unwanted items or browse around the many stalls and pick up a few treasures. Come along and sell your unwanted items or browse around the many stalls and pick up a few treasures. Booking Not Needed.

Join us for a one day series of tours and lectures to be held at The Temple of the Winds. Earlier this year Mount Stewart formed a part of the British and Irish Botanical Expedition to Tasmania. This expedition collected seed and herbarium specimens for both Glasnevin and Kew.

The Corn Mill at Castle Ward was once the heart of this historic estate. Dating from 1835, this busy mill once ground the corn from the fields into flour for the estate. Join our volunteers as they celebrate National Mills Weekend and see this piece of industrial heritage in full swing. Booking Not Needed.

Join a National Trust Ranger for a walk around Minnowburn and learn about the history, plants and animals in this corner of the Lagan valley. Booking Not Needed. Children Welcome. Dogs on leads welcome.

Set in the middle of our rich apple-growing county, Ardress House will be celebrating the apple blossom with apple treats and fun for the family. There will be orchard tours, local ciders and apple produce on sale, and an apple trail for the kids. Booking Not Needed.

Join Jo Whatmough for another of her walks through the nature and history of Murlough. This ones takes us the dunes at Murlough to discover why they’re such a richly diverse nature habitat. Booking Essential. Phone: 028 4375 1467. Dogs on leads welcome.

Join our Rangers for bluebell season at Murlough. Discover the best views of the bluebells that carpet the shadier parts of the reserve on a walk through the heathland. Booking Essential. Phone: 028 4375 1467. Dogs on leads welcome.

Hundreds of vintage vehicles will descend upon The Argory as we host our famous vintage vehicle rally. A must-see event for all vehicle enthusiasts. Booking Not Needed.

A lecture about spiritual healing and help through the teaching of Bruno Groening. Through the absorption of the divine power, many people are experiencing the healing of illnesses and pain, that have been declared as “incurable” by the medical profession.

Join us for our weekly open mic or open mike (derived from the expression "open microphone") night. This is a live show in Craft Hotel Bar where audience members who are amateur performers or professionals and want to try out new material or plug an upcoming show are given the opportunity to perform live in the bar.

Our Monthly spoken word event. Are you an author, poet or playwright looking to practice public speaking, discuss your work or the pieces that inspired you. This is the event for you.

Come and see the Top 20 exotic trees of the Demesne, and secret Arboretum in late Spring. Come and see the Top 20 exotic trees of the Demesne, and secret Arboretum in late Spring. Booking Not Needed.

HOLLYWOOD Live, with Francis Kelly, a night of swing and rat-pack In aid of the Scottish liver transplant unit, Edinburgh

This is your chance to get back to basics, firstly try your hand at lighting a fire, with no match in sight. Once your fire is roaring make your own charcoal to then create your own natural art work.

A chance for families to combine a healthy stroll whilst learning about the wonderful surroundings of Drumlanrig Castle and the wider Estate. Pick up an I Spy activity sheet from the Gift Shop and match all the pictures to the real thing in the historic Drumlanrig stableyard.

Join the Ranger’s during our drop in session at the playground to make some awesome grass head monsters that you can take home and watch their grass hair grow! 50p Per Monster.

Budding Rangers are invited to accept our fantastic den building challenge. Under the expert supervision of our talented Rangers, can you build a sturdy den using only materials that the glorious woodlands surrounding Drumlanrig Castle provide you with?

Paisley’s only symphony orchestra presents an evening of well-known classics: Leonard Bernstein: Overture ‘Candide’ Malcolm Arnold: Four Scottish Dances, Op 59 Kester Clark: Three Orchestral Dances on the Highland Midge Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No 9 in E minor, Op 95 (‘From the New World’) Conductor:

Silverburn, Glasgow’s leading shopping and leisure destination, will host a brand-new fashion and beauty event, The Art of Style. Combining free beauty makeovers, live pop-up catwalks and fashion sculptures, shoppers will be invited to enjoy the latest trends with an art exhibition twist.

Every Wednesday at 1.30pm until the end of October 2018 Discover what makes the ancient landscape of Kilmartin Glen so unique by joining our knowledgeable volunteer guides on a guided glen walk. Walks are free, just sign up at the Museum shop on the day.

The park is Glasgow’s largest park and the only Country Park within Glasgow. Its extensive woodlands and gardens provide a quiet sanctuary for both visitors and wildlife. The park is rich in rural history formerly being part of the Old Pollok Estate and ancestral home to the Maxwell Family.

A Dose of Blushes tells the tales of the Women’s Samaritan Hospital in Glasgow. Based on true stories the play follows the lives of 3 women Winnie, Maggie and Aggie as they flip through the Womans Own. Hysterical about hysterectomy,poignant about "periods" in their lives from girls to wives.

Badapple Theatre Company is celebrating 20 years on the road and to mark the milestone, it is re-presenting the first show the Company ever toured with. ’Amy Johnson’ will tour nationally starting in Yorkshire, travelling down through the Midlands, Surrey, Gloucestershire and finally Somerset.

A care home in East Kilbride is inviting local people to join in its celebrations for Care Home Open Day. On Saturday 21st April, from 2pm-4.30pm, the team at Cathkin House care home on Glasgow Road will be opening the doors to the care home for a free family-friendly event.

Nightrider has chosen Glasgow to stage its inaugural charity night ride in Scotland on 19 / 20 May 2018. The city is set to make cycling history this year by hosting four European Cycling Championships - road, track, BMX and mountain biking - in the same place at the same time.

Fast & Furious Live!: Tickets avaiable.

An exhibition of limited edition prints by established landscape artist Minette Bell Macdonald. The exhibition depicts beautiful scenes of the Solway and its changing light and moods.

Ellis O’Connor is a Contemporary Landscape Artist living on the Outer Hebridean island of North Uist in Scotland.

Angela Alexander Lloyd is our Artist in Residence. ’Artful Migration’ is a pilot residency programme developed with Upland, Moving Souls Dance and WWT. Angela’s exhibition, ’Faileas’ is the culmination of her research on climate change and whooper swans wintering at WWT Caerlaverock.

Try before you buy the latest binoculars and telescopes from the huge range available today. In Focus experts are on hand all day to give advice. WWT Caerlaverock benefits from every sale.

Take the opportunity to go on an early morning walk with an experienced warden, who will help identify a number of different warblers by their songs and calls. Learn the differences between willow warblers, chiffchaffs, black caps, garden warblers and sedge warblers.

Sit in our cosy yurt and listen to a nature related story told by one of our engaging storytellers. Then take a short walk around the reserve to look for some wildlife!

Discover the wildlife that emerges after dark, on our walking safari around the reserve. We may encounter wildlife such as badgers, moths, hares, owls or otters!

Enterteasement is Glasgow’s monthly Comedy Magic Burlesque show. They proudly boast a 4.7 star average customer rating and have a reputation for sell out shows. If you’re looking for something new, fun and exciting, get your tickets now while you still can

Glasgow Speed Dating How speed dating in Glasgow works A great event to go to is Speed Dating in Glasgow. How it works is our friendly professional hosts will greet you and they will settle you in by briefly explaining the format of the Speed Dating evening.

The franchise industry is booming in Scotland, with the British Franchise Association (bfa) predicting that the sector will be worth £1bn by 2020.

An interesting garden tucked away in a small hamlet. Meandering gravel paths lead around the garden with imaginative, colourful planting. Take a look around a productive, organic potager, wildlife pond, mini spring and summer meadows and a pretty summer house.

Big Kid Circus returns with an all new show, in the year we celebrate 250 years since the creation of the modern circus. To mark this event we introduce great new ground and aerial artists from England, Ukraine, Cuba and an hilarious new Clown Papeluxo. A perfect show for all the family to enjoy!

The Blackheart Orchestra are a British singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist duo comprising long term collaborators Chrissy Mostyn and Richard Pilkington.

A classic, a cult favourite or a hidden gem... a FREE film every Friday at 2pm. All welcome! To find out what’s on please email florence@florenceartscentre.com

CLARE HAMMOND, piano Haydn Fantasia in C major, Hob XVII: 4 Schubert 4 Impromptus, D899 Szymanowski Métopes: L’Isle des Sirènes & Calypso Malcolm Hayes Purgatorio Chopin Études, Op 25 Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artist Award in 2015, Clare Hammond has been acclaimed as a rising star by BBC

Back for the third consecutive year, Gig in the Goil is set to be bigger and better than ever before. The brainchild of award winning holiday park operator Argyll Holidays, the boutique festival will showcase the very best of Scottish musical talent over three days (11 to 13 May) for what will be a fantastic weekend...

Step back in time with the servants. Meet the maid or manservant and take in a 10-minute talk about the harsh realities of 18th-century life. Booking Not Needed. Assistance Dogs only are welcome.

An evocative special exhibition commemorating the end of the First World War. Where Poppies Blow tells the story of a doomed generation, including poet Edward Thomas, author of Adelstrop, who fought to protect the fields, flowers and birds of Britain.