Saturday 7th
10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
The Galloway Levellers

This year sees the tricentenary of the Galloway Levellers’ revolt. Local historian John Leopold honours this important story.

10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
The Pauline Saul Art residency : Dylan Lombard

Kirkcudbright Galleries play host to a month long exhibition from Dylan Lombard. Dylan Lombard is 20 years old and lives in Shawlands, Glasgow.

11:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Street Food & Bar

3 street food vendors serving from 10am – 7pm along with a fully stocked bar

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
EcoArt Repair Shop

Bring your broken or outmoded items along to Eco-Art’s Repair Shop & let our friendly repairers give new life to old things.

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Young Poetry Voices: The next generation

Dumfries and Galloway is famous for its poetic imagination, and a generation of rising voices is emerging with new perspectives and thoughts

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Live at the Harbour Square – Saturday

Live bands from 12 noon – 5pm

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
The 2024 General Election and after with John Curtice

SOLD OUT Hear legendary commentator and academic Professor John Curtice in conversation with Adam Boulton

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Kirkcudbright Horticultural Show

Come and enjoy, take part or just walk round an amazing display of locally grown flowers, plants and vegetables

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Kirkyard Trail Saturday

The setting and history of Kirkcudbright or St Cuthbert’s kirkyard makes it well worth seeking out and is the site of the most southerly Viking burials in Scotland.

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
A journey through the ruins: A guide with John Crace

The man who called Theresa May ‘Maybot’ aims to make us laugh rather than cry about the state of the UK as he entertains you in conversation with Joyce McMillan.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Galapagos Island Journeys

A year on a remote set of desert Islands, a story worth hearing with June Nelson

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
From Scotland to Ukraine and back

Scottish journalist Jen Stout decided to move immediately from Moscow to a border post in Romania where she could assess the cost and scale of Russian aggression.

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
A history of British Comedy in film, TV and radio

A trip through the decades of British Comedy in film, on Tv and the radio with David Stubbs

7:30 PM - 8:45 PM
A conversation with Neal Ascherson

Neal Ascherson has been one of the most influential writers and observers of Scotland, the UK and Europe since the 1960s

8:45 PM - 11:00 PM
Viva Elvis, Viva Kirkcudbright

SOLD OUT Who can resist Elvis? And who can resist a classic Elvis act? ‘Viva Elvis, Viva Kirkcudbright’

11:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Late night at the Fringe

A mix of music, comedy and chat with a late license until 1am

Sunday 8th
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Car boot sale

There’ll be a car boot sale in the Harbour square on Sunday from 10am

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Street Food & Bar

3 fast food traders and a fully stocked bar in the Soaparie gardens

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Seafarers, Seabirds and nature writing

Stephen Rutt, writer and naturalist, is gaining increasing accolades for his books on nature and the environment

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Kirkcudbright Town Walk I

The Kirkcudbright town walk offers a guided tour of the historic centre of the medieval port and burgh, granted a royal charter in 1455.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
When Beatlemania shook Scotland & the World

Ken McNab, one of the foremost Beatleologists in the world and author of numerous books on the band, talks about what it was like then and why it still matters.

11:30 AM - 4:00 PM
The Pauline Saul Art residency: Dylan Lombard

Kirkcudbright Galleries play host to a month long exhibition from Dylan Lombard. Dylan Lombard is 20 years old and lives in Shawlands, Glasgow.

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Live at The Harbour Square – Sunday

Live bands from 12 to 5 pm

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
George Orwell: My father, the man, his writing and influence

Richard Blair, Orwell’s only child, gives candid insights into what he was like as a man and a father, in conversation with Doug Gay.

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Kirkcudbright Town Walk II

The Kirkcudbright town walk offers a guided tour of the historic centre of the medieval port and burgh, granted a royal charter in 1455.

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Kirkyard Trail Sunday

The setting and history of Kirkcudbright or St Cuthbert’s kirkyard makes it well worth seeking out and is the site of the most southerly Viking burials in Scotland.

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Change has come to the UK: The rise of the ‘we’ society

The UK has undergone huge change. But what kind of change and can it succeed in rising to the challenges the UK faces? Join Will Hutton

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
A history of women’s football in Scotland

Julie NcNeil and Rose Reilly in conversation Until 1974 women’s football was banned in Scotland, repressing young women and girls who wanted to play the beautiful game.

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
A slice of Elvis

Comedian Mike McAlpine takes on a hilarious journey of his 30+ years as an Elvis Tribute

6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
The Future of Art and Culture in Dumfries and Galloway and Scotland

The power of arts and culture is recognised the world over; no more so than in D&G and across Scotland. Yet what is the state of arts and culture in the region and nationally?

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Meet the Founder & the Gin distiller : Dark Art Gin and more 18+

A one off talk and tour with Dark Art distiller Gerard Macluskey and founder Andrew Clark Hutchison

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Michaelmas Ceildih

Join parents and pupils of Kirkcudbright Academy for a Michaelmas Ceilidh