Kilbirnie Kirk. 
©Roger Griffith
Links to Arts Workers: Garnock Valley District
Follow this LINK for Irvine and district Tourist Information.
Dalgarven Mill, near Kilwinning.
©Roger Griffith
Valley ARC
(Arts Resource Centre)
The Valley ARC is situated in the grounds of Garnock Academy, Kilbirnie and hosts a varied programme of classes for adults and children such as ceramic, drama, art, mixed media and textiles.
The Arts Outreach Team, who coordinate community arts provision and Commotion Youth theatre, are also based at the Centre.
Tel: +44 (1505) 684225
E-Mail: valleyarc@north-ayrshire.gov.uk
Beith Arts Guild was established in 1964 with the aim of encouraging the development and appreciation of music, drama and art - not just in Beith, but in the whole Garnock valley and beyond. Events include a Winter programme of concerts and a Summer Art Exhibition.
Beith Arts' Sunday afternoon concerts bring professional musicians to sing and play before a local audience, in a friendly and more intimate atmosphere than can ever be achieved in a large concert hall. These are held once a month on Sunday afternoons at 2.30p.m.
We meet at 2.30pm on the dates advertised, usually in Beith Community Centre in King's Road, sometimes in Trinity Church.
Programme for 2012
26th February 2012 ~
David Vernon & Dick Lee
25th March 2012 ~ The Ivor Novello Story
22nd April 2012 ~ Aria
28th May - 3rd June 2012 ~ Art Exhibition
For further information, please follow this LINK
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Beith Old Kirk 
Kirkyard at Kilbirnie
©MBailey
Glengarnock Station ©MBailey
Autumn in Kilbirnie.
Glengarnock. ©MBailey
Museum of Ayrshire Country Life and Costume
The Museum is located in a group of Listed mills, granaries, kilns and agricultural buildings which date from fifteen hundred and seventy, but can be traced back to Kilwinning Abbey in the early thirteenth century.
The collection falls into three identifiable themes, the first is the Victorian Grain Mill and it’s machinery, water wheel, lades, sluices and weir.
Costume exhibition at Dalgarven Mill 2008
The second, displayed in the original granaries, contains exhibitions of tools and agricultural machinery, craft tools, dairy artefacts, and extensive room settings showing, life, furnishings and memorabilia from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The third is a comprehensive collection of costume, worn and donated by local families and dating from seventeen seventy to the present. It includes an outstanding group of men’s, women’s and children’s clothing from all sections of local society. There is also a large collection of Ayrshire whitework and other textiles including Mandarin Chinese silks.
The Summer costume exhibition will continue until the end of September. This year the empahsis is on wedding dresses.i
There is
a charge for admission to this museum.
Opening Times
Easter to October
Tuesday - Saturday 10.00 - 17.00
Sunday 11.00 - 17.00
From October to Easter the
times remain the same, except we close at 16.00 on weekdays
Closed Mondays
Tel. 01294
552448
Email: admin@dalgarvenmill.org.uk
Web: www.dalgarvenmill.org.uk
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