BE93 March_April 2018

For full details of events visit
www.hawickreivers.com
Friday 23 rd - Sunday 25 th March
Celebrating a turbulent past and a culture
born of FIRE AND STEEL!
Don’t miss this exciting festival for the Borders
PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE
SATURDAY 24 TH MARCH
Borders Kith and Kin
Meet the Border Families, learn their
story past and present. Find out if you are
connected to the Reiving Clans and learn
how to research your own family history
FRIDAY 23 RD MARCH
Photo Credit: Rab Taylor
“Meet the Ghosts of Liddesdale and
Teviotdale“ - Ghost Walks
7.30pm and the second at 8.30pm –
Turnbull Statue, Hawick Civic Space
Come and meet the Ghosts of Hawick past
and hear the grizzly and gory stories of
our ancestors! Tickets £4 each or £10 for
family of 4.
Ghost Talk in the “Auld Baths”
Join Billy Young for an evening of Illustrated
Ghost Stories at 8.30pm. Tickets £5 from
www.borderevents.com T: 01750 725480
16 th Century Market
10.30am till 3pm, Hawick High Street, Town
Hall Area
Including Reivers Trials, Live Entertainment
and Reivers Games
Reivers Encampment
10.30am till 3pm, Wee Haugh
Full programme of re-enactments including
displays of Musket Drills and hand to hand
skirmishes and mock battles with static
displays of life in the 16th Century Border
Lands. Procession - 10.45am, High Street.
16 th Century Crafts
10.30am-3pm, Borders Textile Towerhouse
Primary School Reivers Games
11.30am, High Street
Hawick Primary Schools Reiver
Presentation
Drumlanrig St Cuthbert’s - 12noon. ‘Reivers
Characters’
Stirches Primary School - 12.45pm. “A
Reiver’s Romance’
6 www.borderevents.com 01750 725480