{"id":1036,"date":"2009-10-24T15:24:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T15:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:11:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:11:38","slug":"dundee-festival-promises-a-packed-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/dundee-festival-promises-a-packed-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Dundee Festival Promises a Packed Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Catherine

Catherine Destivelle (photo: Rene Robert)<\/p><\/div>The programme has now been released for this year’s Dundee Mountain Film Festival. The event, to be held on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 November, showcases an international programme of speakers and award winning films and exhibitions. <\/p>\n

The Festival, in its 27th year, will welcome Catherine Destivelle, the French climbing legend, on her third appearance at the Festival, with her new presentation \u2018From Bouldering to Mountain Climbing’, on Friday evening at the University of Dundee\u2018s Bonar Hall. <\/p>\n

\"Craig

Craig Mathieson<\/p><\/div>Scotland\u2019s own Polar Explorer, Craig Mathieson, will presents his lecture entitled \u2018Some like it Cold\u2019 on Saturday evening, when there will also be a tribute to Irvine Butterfield. <\/p>\n

James Pearson, England\u2019s “E Exponent Extraordinaire”, appears on the Saturday afternoon, courtesy of The North Face with his presentation “Motivations and Milestones of a Mild Mannered Man from Matlock” <\/p>\n

Award winning films from the Banff Mountain Film Festival are being screened alongside some of this year\u2019s new releases including Scottish offerings including Ramabang, produced by Jim Osborne, and three films by Paul Diffley and his Hot Aches team.<\/p>\n

The Festival will also be showing the winning films from Trail Magazine\u2019s Mountain Movie Awards competition, the winners having been announced the previous week.<\/p>\n

Mick Tighe will present an exhibition of memorabilia from Syd Scroggie\u2019s hill life. This year\u2019s featured artist is Claire Yarrington from Dunning, and Douglas Scott\u2019s great niece Kirsty Maguire, will be displaying her own photography of Greenland. Running in parallel with the programme are the trade exhibits from voluntary and retail organisations. <\/p>\n

Tickets are available by post and from Tiso in Dundee and Edinburgh, Craigdon Mountain Sports in Perth and Blacks and Avertical World in Dundee. See the website for details www.dundeemountainfilm.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The programme has now been released for this year’s Dundee Mountain Film Festival. The event, to be held on Friday 27 and Saturday 28 November, showcases an international programme of speakers and award winning films and exhibitions. The Festival, in its 27th year, will welcome Catherine Destivelle, the French climbing legend, on her third appearance at the Festival, with her new presentation \u2018From Bouldering to Mountain Climbing’, on Friday evening at the University of Dundee\u2018s Bonar Hall. Scotland\u2019s own Polar Explorer, Craig Mathieson, will presents his lecture entitled \u2018Some like it Cold\u2019 on Saturday evening, when there will also be…<\/span> <\/p>\n

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