Dunoon Burgh Hall is dedicated to delivering a year-round arts, culture and entertainment programme. Our creative workshops and dedicated projects help to improve the mental well-being of young people, people with disabilities and the elderly in our community.
As a charitable trust, we don’t receive local authority or Government core funding. Our income is generated through grant funding, our arts, culture and entertainment programmes and the generosity of donors and the general public.
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Exhibition
John Perivolaris – Isola
Sat, 11 April 2026 - Thu, 21 May 2026 11.00am - 3.00pm, Wednesday to Saturday
Isola reflects on the idea of the island as an existential condition. The images were photographed at the opposite ends of Europe,...
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Music
Cowal Music Club present Jerry Forde’s New Phoenix Jazz Band
Sun, 3 May 2026 Doors open 2.30pm, show starts at 3.00pm
Jazz concert with Lorne Cowieson, trumpet and flugelhorn player of national reputation, who comes to Dunoon with a seven piece...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong Mastery 05.05.26
Tue, 5 May 2026 6.15pm to 7.15pm
Do you want to develop your confidence and leadership skills? Master Collette is an ex-Vice President of Nike and is...
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Dunoon Film Festival
The Pirates! In an adventure with Scientists! For ARTMIX and friends
Wed, 6 May 2026 Doors open 5.30pm, screening starts 6.00pm
Artmix is a multi-art film project for young people exploring filmmaking and animation skills. Pirate Captain, a boundlessly enthusiastic, if...
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Art, Community
Painting Thursday
Thu, 7 May 2026 11.00am to 2.00pm
Enjoy painting and drawing with like minded people in our weekly drop in sessions which provide a relaxed atmosphere for...
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Dunoon Film Festival
Creative Blethers presents Bugsy Malone
Thu, 7 May 2026 Doors open 2.00pm, screening starts 2.30pm
Creative Blethers provides inclusive creative experiences for the elderly, carers, and adults with disabilities or mental health concerns organised by...
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Dunoon Film Festival
Discovery Film Festival Shorts for Wee Ones
Fri, 8 May 2026 Screenings at 9.30am and 11.00am
Always a popular feature of DFF, this collection of seven short films for young viewers will delight and amuse all...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong 08.05.26
Fri, 8 May 2026 11.30am to 12.45pm
Wellness for all levels. Movement, breath work and developing inner balance and power. Qi Gong is designed to slow the...
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Dunoon Film Festival
The Orkney Dive
Fri, 8 May 2026 Doors open 5.30pm, screening starts 6.00pm
The Orkney Dive is a 30-minute documentary produced between 2023 and 2024 by Open Seas, a Scottish marine sustainability charity...
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Dunoon Film Festival
Alice in Wonderland (1915) with live score from Paul Harrison
Fri, 8 May 2026 Doors open 7.30pm, screening starts 8.00pm
Award winning musician Paul Harrison has composed a live score for this 1915 silent film, bringing the startling costumes, characters...
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Dunoon Film Festival
Ratatouille
Sat, 9 May 2026 Doors open 9.45am, screening starts 10.00am
Remy the rat has big dreams of becoming a world-renowned chef, even though he is a rodent and will likely...
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Dunoon Film Festival
An Argyll & Bute Welcome
Sat, 9 May 2026 10.00am to 10.40am
An Argyll & Bute Welcome is a documentary exploring refugee resettlement in rural Scotland. Through intimate interviews and observational storytelling, the...
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Dunoon Film Festival
The Boat in the Writing Room
Sat, 9 May 2026 10.40am to 11.40am
Retracing the origins of Stonypath, Little Sparta. The Boat in the Writing Room tells the story of an overlooked but...
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Dunoon Film Festival
Songs from Over the Event Horizon
Sat, 9 May 2026 11.45am to 1.00pm
A celebration of the wonders and beauty of life on Earth, A lament for the natural world that is being...
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Dunoon Film Festival, Workshop
Creative Family Workshop with Alasdair Satchel
Sat, 9 May 2026 12.00pm to 1.00pm
After watching Ratatouille, join us for a creative workshop led by Alasdair Satchel. Every time Remy eats something in Ratatouille...
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Dunoon Film Festival
Sailm nan Daonie (Psalms of the People)
Sat, 9 May 2026 Doors open 1.15pm, screening starts 1.30pm
A heart-warming documentary filmed in both Gaelic and English, following a road trip by the film’s lead character, Rob MacNeacail,...
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Dunoon Film Festival, Workshop
Gaelic Psalm Singing Workshop
Sat, 9 May 2026 3.30pm to 4.30pm
The screening of Sailm nan Daonie (Psalms of the People) will be followed by a special psalm singing workshop led...
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Dunoon Film Festival
The Gleaners and I
Sat, 9 May 2026 Doors open 5.00pm, screening starts 5.15pm
A painting from 1867 by Jean-Francois Millet inspired French documentarian Agnes Varda to cross the French countryside and videotape people...
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Dunoon Film Festival
The Breakfast Club with 80’s Indie Disco
Sat, 9 May 2026 Doors open 7.00pm, screening starts 7.30pm
In this iconic coming-of-age comedy-drama, five high school students from very different backgrounds find themselves stuck in Saturday detention. Under...
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Dunoon Film Festival
Bugsy Malone
Sun, 10 May 2026 Doors open 9.45am, screening starts 10.00am
This musical starring a brilliant young cast, many of whom were stars of the future, turns 50 this year! Expect...
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Dunoon Film Festival, Workshop
Creative Family Workshop with Jim Parkyn
Sun, 10 May 2026 12.00pm to 1.00pm
Inspired by Bugsy Malone’s most infamous sequence, take part in a plasticine Grand Slam Splurge Out and make custard guns...
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Dunoon Film Festival
The Golden Spurtle
Sun, 10 May 2026 Doors open 12.45pm, screening starts 1.00pm
A hilarious and heart-warming film about the Scottish Porridge Championships. Held in a highland Scottish village, competitors get together to...
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Dunoon Film Festival
Made in Argyll: A selection of films made across the region
Sun, 10 May 2026 Doors open 2.30pm, first film starts 2.45pm
2.45pm Dunoon goes POP presents: Made in Valrose This short animation, made by Dunoon Goes POP in partnership with Argyll...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong Mastery 12.05.26
Tue, 12 May 2026 6.15pm to 7.15pm
Do you want to develop your confidence and leadership skills? Master Collette is an ex-Vice President of Nike and is...
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Art, Community
Painting Thursday
Thu, 14 May 2026 11.00am to 2.00pm
Enjoy painting and drawing with like minded people in our weekly drop in sessions which provide a relaxed atmosphere for...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong 15.05.26
Fri, 15 May 2026 11.30am to 12.45pm
Wellness for all levels. Movement, breath work and developing inner balance and power. Qi Gong is designed to slow the...
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Music
Hugh Reed and the Velvet Underpants with special guests Electric Wytch
Sat, 16 May 2026 Doors open 7.00pm, show starts 7.30pm
Join us for an epic night of music and mayhem with the marvelous Hugh Reed and the Velvet Underpants, supported...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong Mastery 19.05.26
Tue, 19 May 2026 6.15pm to 7.15pm
Do you want to develop your confidence and leadership skills? Master Collette is an ex-Vice President of Nike and is...
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Art, Community
Painting Thursday
Thu, 21 May 2026 11.00am to 2.00pm
Enjoy painting and drawing with like minded people in our weekly drop in sessions which provide a relaxed atmosphere for...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong 22.05.26
Fri, 22 May 2026 11.30am to 12.45pm
Wellness for all levels. Movement, breath work and developing inner balance and power. Qi Gong is designed to slow the...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong Mastery 26.05.26
Tue, 26 May 2026 6.15pm to 7.15pm
Do you want to develop your confidence and leadership skills? Master Collette is an ex-Vice President of Nike and is...
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Art, Community
Painting Thursday
Thu, 28 May 2026 11.00am to 2.00pm
Enjoy painting and drawing with like minded people in our weekly drop in sessions which provide a relaxed atmosphere for...
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Art, Community
Painting Thursday
Thu, 28 May 2026 11.00am to 2.00pm
Enjoy painting and drawing with like minded people in our weekly drop in sessions which provide a relaxed atmosphere for...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong 29.05.26
Fri, 29 May 2026 11.30am to 12.45pm
Wellness for all levels. Movement, breath work and developing inner balance and power. Qi Gong is designed to slow the...
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Comedy
Cowal Comedy Club presents Stuart McPherson & Friends
Fri, 29 May 2026 Doors open 7.00pm, show starts 7.30pm
The best of Scottish comedy is coming to Dunoon on Friday 29th of May, as Cowal Comedy Club presents a...
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Exhibition
Alasdair Taylor
Sat, 30 May 2026 - Sat, 18 July 2026 11.00am - 3.00pm, Wednesday to Saturday
Alasdair Taylor (1936 – 2007) was born in Edderton in the Highlands of Scotland and studied at the world-famous Glasgow...
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Workshop
Free! Stepdance Workshop with Amy Geddes and Alison Carlyle
Sat, 30 May 2026 3.30pm to 5.00pm
Join Amy and Alison for an exciting Stepdance or Fiddle workshop to explore the fundamentals of this traditional style of...
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Workshop
Fiddle Workshop with Amy Geddes & Alison Carlyle
Sat, 30 May 2026 3.30pm to 5.00pm
Join Amy and Alison for an exciting Stepdance or Fiddle workshop to explore the fundamentals of this traditional style of...
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Dance
Deiseil: Dancing In Time
Sat, 30 May 2026 Doors open 7.00pm, show starts 7.30pm
“It is the most joyful show I have seen (so far) …… tells an important story with the lightest of touches and...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong Mastery 02.06.26
Tue, 2 June 2026 6.15pm to 7.15pm
Do you want to develop your confidence and leadership skills? Master Collette is an ex-Vice President of Nike and is...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong Mastery 09.06.26
Tue, 9 June 2026 6.15pm to 7.15pm
Do you want to develop your confidence and leadership skills? Master Collette is an ex-Vice President of Nike and is...
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Art, Community
Painting Thursday
Thu, 11 June 2026 11.00am to 2.00pm
Enjoy painting and drawing with like minded people in our weekly drop in sessions which provide a relaxed atmosphere for...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong 12.06.26
Fri, 12 June 2026 11.30am to 12.45pm
Wellness for all levels. Movement, breath work and developing inner balance and power. Qi Gong is designed to slow the...
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Event
The Sundown Sessions – Daytime Disco with DJ Russell Watt
Sat, 13 June 2026 5.00pm to 9.00pm
Join us for The Sundown Session with DJ Russell Watt. Clubbing has long been part of Scotland’s culture but for...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong Mastery 16.06.26
Tue, 16 June 2026 6.15pm to 7.15pm
Do you want to develop your confidence and leadership skills? Master Collette is an ex-Vice President of Nike and is...
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Art, Community
Painting Thursday
Thu, 18 June 2026 11.00am to 2.00pm
Enjoy painting and drawing with like minded people in our weekly drop in sessions which provide a relaxed atmosphere for...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong 19.06.26
Fri, 19 June 2026 11.30am to 12.45pm
Wellness for all levels. Movement, breath work and developing inner balance and power. Qi Gong is designed to slow the...
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Art, Community
Painting Thursday
Thu, 25 June 2026 11.00am to 2.00pm
Enjoy painting and drawing with like minded people in our weekly drop in sessions which provide a relaxed atmosphere for...
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Exhibition
Spotlight on the Richard Demarco archives
Sat, 25 July 2026 - Sat, 29 August 2026 11.00am - 3.00pm, Wednesday to Saturday
The Demarco Archive is a comprehensive record of continuous contemporary and collaborative artistic practice from the second half of the 20th century...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong Mastery 25.08.26
Tue, 25 August 2026 6.15pm to 7.15pm
Do you want to develop your confidence and leadership skills? Master Collette is an ex-Vice President of Nike and is...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong 28.08.26
Fri, 28 August 2026 11.30am to 12.45pm
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Qi Gong Mastery 01.09.26
Tue, 1 September 2026 6.15pm to 7.15pm
Do you want to develop your confidence and leadership skills? Master Collette is an ex-Vice President of Nike and is...
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Wellbeing
Qi Gong 04.09.26
Fri, 4 September 2026 11.30am to 12.45pm
Wellness for all levels. Movement, breath work and developing inner balance and power. Qi Gong is designed to slow the...
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Music
Cowl Music Club present The Celebrating Trio
Sun, 20 September 2026 Doors open 2pm, show starts at 2.30pm
Details coming soon.
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Comedy
Fred MacAulay – “Good Evening!”
Fri, 16 October 2026 Doors open 7.30pm, show commences 8.00pm
For reasons out with his control, Fred had to cancel his 2025 Edinburgh Fringe shows and his Autumn Tour –...
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Theatre
Jordan & Skinner presents DO NOT PASS GO
Sat, 17 October 2026 Doors open 7.00pm, show starts 7.30pm
We heart Lizzie Magie! Feminist, economist, disruptor, and games designer who wanted to show the world there was an alternative to capitalist...
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Music
Simply Rod Stewart & Band
Sat, 21 November 2026 Doors open 7.00pm, show starts 7.30pm
Get ready for a spectacular night of music, charisma, and pure showmanship as James Frew brings the magic of Rod Stewart to the theatre...
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Music
Cowal Music Club present Resol Quartet
Sun, 29 November 2026 Doors open 2pm, show starts at 2.30pm
Details coming soon.
