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Lockdown Eats | Caithness Pizza

July 18, 2020 by Susan Barrie Leave a Comment

Caithness Pizza

This post is not an #ad or sponsored post for Caithness Pizza – I’m sharing about small local businesses during times of lockdown! Caithness Pizza first offered some delicious Italian fare from the doors of Lyth Arts Centre in Summer 2019, and have continued providing a socially distanced takeaway service for two nights a week…

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Filed Under: NC500 Tagged With: Caithness pizza, Lyth Arts Centre, pizza, takeaway

Coming up in ‘e county | 2020 Events in Caithness

February 7, 2020 by Susan Barrie 2 Comments

UPDATE: Due to the ongoing situation of COVID-19, a lot of the events planned for this year have been cancelled/postponed. Now that we’ve left the long month of January behind, we can look at the events that are coming up in Caithness throughout 2020. This post will be added to regularly throughout the year to…

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Filed Under: NC500 Tagged With: caithness, events, john o groats book festival, Lyth Arts Centre, mey games, What's on, year of coasts and water, year of coasts and waters

Autumn 2019 at Lyth Arts Centre | my pick of the programme

August 29, 2019 by Susan Barrie Leave a Comment

We’ve enjoyed a great spring and summer season heading out to Lyth Arts Centre – the most northerly Arts Centre on the UK mainland. My post way back in February highlighted my pick of the programme for the months leading up to the end of June. During July and August, Lyth has hosted a summer…

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Filed Under: NC500 Tagged With: caithness, dance, family friendly, Lyth Arts Centre, performance, theatre

It’s all Greek to me | Theatre and Food at Lyth Arts (GIFTED)

April 18, 2019 by Susan Barrie Leave a Comment

Greek

Lyth Arts Centre kindly invited us to a night of Greek food and theatre this week. In their Spring programme, three themed nights were scheduled which paired a themed menu connected to the theatrical/musical performance later in the evening.

Filed Under: Travel Tagged With: Achilles, greek, live theatre, Lyth Arts Centre, play, whaligoe steps

Spring at Lyth Arts Centre, Caithness – My pick of the programme

February 14, 2019 by Susan Barrie 3 Comments

Greek

We’re big fans of Lyth Arts Centre – the most northerly arts centre on the UK mainland. I was given a sneak peek of the Spring programme and in this post I’m excited to share my picks of what’s coming up on the theatre, music and film front! (This post is not sponsored)

Filed Under: NC500 Tagged With: art, Arts, caithness, food, friends of Lyth, Lyth, Lyth Arts Centre, music, theatre, theatre club, trad

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