Please scroll down to discover all the latest information about the events that you can enjoy as part of the 2012 Inverness Festivals programme.
Listed below are details of the major events that will be taking place in the Capital of the Highlands until December 2012. In addition to these events, you will find details of the smaller events taking place in the Highland Capital in our What's On Section which is edited by our friends at the Inverness City Advertiser.
As usual we have some GREAT events for kids in our programme and we have highlighted the ones that we think they will REALLY enjoy with a wee star! *
2012 Major Events Programme
Snowman Rally (18 February)
Inverness Music Festival (3-14 March)
Inverness Half Marathon (11 March)
Inverness Whisky Festival (6-7 April)
*The Great Easter Egg Hunt (TBC April)
Race for Life (TBC May)
*Inverness BID City Classic Vehicle Show (TBC May)
Northern Roots Festival (1-3 June)
* Olympic Torch Relay (9 June)
*Inverness Boat Festival (TBC)
Barclays Scottish Open Golf Championship (12-15 July)
* Inverness Bunkers Festival (13-14 July)
*Inverness Highland Games and Armed Forces Day (21 July)
Inverness Book Festival (TBC August)
Summer in the City - Status Quo (24 August)
Summer in the City - Runrig (25 August)
Summer in the City - Jools Holland
*Inverness Raft Race (TBC August / September)
Inverness Flower Festival (TBC August)
Northern Meeting Piping Competition (6-7 September)
Kirking of the Council (9 September)
Baxter's Loch Ness Marathon (30 September)
*Inverness Street Theatre Festival (TBC October)
*Ness Islands Halloween Show (26-27 October)
*Bonfire and Fireworks Display (5 November)
Inverness Film Festival (TBC November)
Remembrance Sunday (11 November)
*Christmas Lights Switch On (17 November)
*Rudolph's Winter Wonderland (8-9 December)
The Red Hot Highland Fling (31 December)
For further information please contact:
The Inverness Festivals Team
c/o Gerry Reynolds (Events and Promotions Officer) 01463 724216
Email: gerry.reynolds@highland.gov.uk
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2012 is Olympic Year and INVERNESS has been awarded a very special honour. It will be the only one of the six Scottish cities to be visited by the Olympic Torch TWICE as it tours the UK ahead of the 2012 Games in London.
The Olympic Torch will first appear on the evening on Saturday June 9th (which is our main celebration) before heading north to Orkney and Shetland and then it will be back on the morning of Monday June 11th before heading off to see our friends in Aberdeen.
Work is now well underway to organise the Saturday evening celebration which will mark the Torch arrive around 5pm at the west end of our city at the end of the longest of the 70 days that the Olympic Torch will be touring the UK.
An official announcement will be made shortly to reveal details of the Coca Cola sponsored headline act who will be appearing at our event; and having heard the whispers coming out of London about who we are likely to be welcoming all we can say is make a note in your diary.
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The Inverness Highland Games and Armed Forces Day celebrations at Northern Meeting Park on Saturday always attracts thousands of spectators, glorious sunshine and a world class field of heavies to the Highland Capital every July.
Since combining with the city’s Armed Forces Day celebrations in 2010; the Inverness event is now one of the largest staged in Scotland, and features a wonderful parade through the streets of Inverness with 6 pipes and drums bands and hundreds of service personnel both past and present. The 2012 parade will start at Noon and pass Inverness Town House before making its way to Northern Meeting Park Arena.
The Games will once again feature a number of activities taking place outside of Northern Meeting Park itself with the Waterside Hotel sponsored Piping Competitions taking place in the grounds of Eden Court Theatre and the giant Highland Council Car Park being used to accommodate a Traditional Music Show and other attractions. The athletics and the heavy events will start at 1.30pm and will provide an outstanding afternoons entertainment.
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The Scottish Open Golf Championship returns to the Highlands this year and will be staghed at the magnificent Castle Stuart course situated between Inverness and Nairn on the Moray Firth coast.
The 2011 Championship suffered from torrential rain which led to the postponement of play on Friday afternoon and the cancellation of play on Saturday. Everybody has their fingers crossed that 2012 will give the Castle Stuart team the gloriously sunny weather that they deserve for bringing such a brilliant event to Inverness
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One of the big hits of 2011 was the Inverness Street Theatre Festival which was organised by Inverness BID and the Eastgate Shopping Centre.
Full details will be posted as soon as we get them!
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CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE 2011 KIRKING EVENT
The City of Inverness Kirking of the Council is a key event rooted in tradition dating back some 400 years. The Kirking involves a procession of Council members and officials from the Town House through the streets of Inverness to the oldest church in the City – the Old High Church. Followers of the procession then attend a service at the Old High Church to seek God’s blessing on the work of elected members, officials and the life of the City.
Colour and pageantry marks the occasion of the Kirking of the Council on Sunday 11 Septembe as the British Legion Pipes and Drums Band lead uniformed youth groups, together with officials and Councillors in bright red robes, in the procession from the Town House down Church Street to the Old High St Stephen's Church.
For an event to have survived 400 years throughout many changes in history indicates the strength of commitment from councillors, officials and the community to mark the annual Kirking of the Council.
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