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**JUPITER+NATION DUMFRIES** **With special opening hours for the October holidays - now also open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 11-4.** Growing Pains is a site-specific installation by artist Lindsey Mendick set in an abandoned estate agent's office. Referencing her teenage years, Mendick has transformed the space into a haunting, immersive experience that explores the uncertainty, awkwardness, and societal expectations surrounding adolescence. Assembled on a spiralling desk that references the often cruel loop of teenagehood, Growing Pains features Alice-in-Wonderland-style ceramic dolls' houses that burst open, with teenage figures erupting from within. The work captures the surreal pressures that emerge at the threshold of adulthood, underlining the tension between a yearning for parental acceptance and the simultaneous urge to reject it. Jupiter+Nation is an ambitious off-site programme by Jupiter Artland that brings world class art to high streets across Scotland. Content warning: The supporting documentary film contains strong language, references to suicide, bullying and negative body image that some viewers might find difficult. Young people must be accompanied.

Do you have a business idea but struggle with self-doubt, overthinking, or knowing where to start? Do you have a business idea but struggle with self-doubt, overthinking, or knowing where to start? LEAP for Young Entrepreneurs is a practical, inspiring and interactive workshop designed to help young people develop the mindset, confidence and skills needed to turn ideas into action. This engaging workshop by Lindsay Thomson supports aspiring entrepreneurs, side hustlers and ambitious young people who want to build confidence, overcome barriers and take meaningful steps towards their goals. Participants will explore practical strategies for managing self-doubt, setting realistic goals, overcoming procrastination and building resilience. Through real-life examples, interactive activities and actionable tools, attendees will learn how to develop a positive mindset, handle challenges, and take confident steps towards creating their future. **What participants will gain:** * Increased confidence and self-belief * Tools to manage fear, overthinking and procrastination * Goal-setting and action-planning techniques * Resilience and coping strategies for setbacks * Practical entrepreneurial and employability skills * A greater sense of motivation and purpose * Ideal for: * Young people with a business or creative idea * Aspiring entrepreneurs and side hustlers * Schools, colleges and youth organisations * Employability, enterprise and personal development programmes * LEAP for Young Entrepreneurs empowers young people to move beyond doubt, embrace opportunities, and transform possibility into action. Because big ideas start with a brave mindset. *Free to Attend, Open to All!*

Bertrand Usclat and Martin Darondeau's hilarious laugh-a-minute comedy is a wonderfully chaotic love letter to the theatre. The Comédie-Française is the oldest still-performing theatre company in the world. There is one golden rule: the play is NEVER cancelled.

We warmly welcome fresh faces, so why not come join us. Young or old, there is room for all. You don’t have to be an experienced singer or have sung in a choir before. So what else is worrying you? You don’t read music? Well neither do most of the choir. You are not a really good singer? You don’t need to be; enjoying music, singing and performing is enough, although you will be encouraged to learn your section part, i.e. bass, baritone, 1st or 2nd tenor. Section parts are readily available for members either via our website or on CD to assist learning. Why not come along and try it out for yourself, you will be most welcome. You don’t even need to sing just come for a listen. The choir meet for rehearsal every Wednesday from 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm between September and May, we meet at "St Teresa's Catholic Church and Hall, St Teresas Presbytery, Glasgow St, Dumfries DG2 9DE. Should you require any additional information please contact our Secretary, Tom Millar at Choir@dumfriesmvc.org.uk

After a harrowing plane crash, Special Forces officer James Belmont (Brad Pitt) and his combat dog, Odin, find themselves stranded deep in the Alaskan wilderness. From acclaimed filmmaker David Ayer, HEART OF THE BEAST is an intense adventure thriller that explores the unbreakable bond between a man and his best friend.

Tributaries brought together communities, artists and scientists along the River Nith to explore the river, its tributaries and the life they sustain. Through activities including moth trapping, bat walks, water sampling, birdwatching and species recording, local people worked alongside scientists to observe and learn about the river and the ecological changes taking place around them. These encounters brought together different generations and forms of knowledge, from scientific observation to lived experience of the river. This knowledge and experience became the starting point for creative workshops with textile artist Elizabeth Stephenson in which participants designed and made traditional trade union-style banners reflecting their communities’ particular relationships with the river and its tributaries. The banners joined the Salty Coo procession in this year’s Nithraid in August. The trade union banner is a symbol of solidarity, collective action and the demand for change. Here, we extend that idea beyond the human: could solidarity also be imagined between species, and between human and more-than-human communities? The banners celebrate the river and give visual expression to the interconnected lives that depend upon it. Collective making created space for conversation, skill-sharing and intergenerational learning, offering a practical and creative way to respond to environmental change. Tributaries is an outreach project for Nithraid, Dumfries’s annual river festival and boat race and we would like to continue the project. If you would like information about how to become part of the banner making project please contact: nithriverunion@gmail.com Many thanks to everyone involved in the making and……. Emily McLatchie (Artist – Thornhill workshops) Old School Thornhill Deborah Iden and the Moniaive Initiative Kirsty Johnson and Nith Life Malcolm Haddow at SWSEIC, Antoine Lemaire at Alouette Nature Tours, Leah Belford – Wallacehall Academy Nithraid and the Tributaries Project are EcoArt productions

**JUPITER+NATION DUMFRIES** Growing Pains is a site-specific installation by artist Lindsey Mendick set in an abandoned estate agent's office. Referencing her teenage years, Mendick has transformed the space into a haunting, immersive experience that explores the uncertainty, awkwardness, and societal expectations surrounding adolescence. Assembled on a spiralling desk that references the often cruel loop of teenagehood, Growing Pains features Alice-in-Wonderland-style ceramic dolls' houses that burst open, with teenage figures erupting from within. The work captures the surreal pressures that emerge at the threshold of adulthood, underlining the tension between a yearning for parental acceptance and the simultaneous urge to reject it. Jupiter+Nation is an ambitious off-site programme by Jupiter Artland that brings world class art to high streets across Scotland. Content warning: The supporting documentary film contains strong language, references to suicide, bullying and negative body image that some viewers might find difficult. Young people must be accompanied.

Meet at the Cupcake Cafe for the start of the walk

Come along to our Junior Youth Group ( 5-10 years) every Monday and Thursday 6pm till 7.30pm at Summerhill. Multi Sports / Supper / Fun / New Friends

#### WHAT? Join us on your glowing and lit up bikes for a family friendly bike ride. We'll be riding from Dock Head to Kingholm Quay along the cycle path then back via the partially closed quiet Kingholm Road. Come and celebrate the new lighting along the cycle path and show your support for the #MyRideOurRight campaign calling for safer routes for women to cycle. When it's safer for women, it's safer for everyone. Bring your lights and come glow with us! #GlowRides #CyclingUK #### WHY? Good lighting on cycle routes is a key part of making cycling safer year round - particularly for women, but also for lots of other people who might find a path like this worrying after dark. In the last couple of years Dumfries and Galloway Council have added lights to a number of key routes - the Kingholm Quay path, the Maidenbower path and the curly wurly bridge in Lincluden - something we welcome! The lights have also been fixed on the Greensands where the work is going on, which makes that route feel a lot safer. Our Glow Ride on Thursday will highlight the importance of lighting where appropriate as a way of making cycling feel socially safe for everyone, as well as safe from traffic.

Gene Hackman plays Harry Caul, a paranoid, secretive surveillance expert who has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered. Francis Ford Coppola's brilliant paranoia thriller was filmed between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II.