CAP Exhibition - Jenni Thompson and Jackie McDonald
2025-07-06 10:00 - 2025-08-29 15:00 (Europe/London) | Penicuik Storehouse, 22 High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HW, United Kingdom

CAP Yarn Group
2025-08-27 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-09-03 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-09-10 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-09-17 10:00 - 12:00, 2025-09-24 10:00 - 12:00 | Town Hall, High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HS, High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HS, United Kingdom

Artists Out and About: an exhibition by Penicuik Sketchers in the Town Hall
2025-08-30 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-31 19:00 - 21:30, 2025-09-06 10:00 - 16:30, 2025-09-07 19:00 - 21:30 | Town Hall, High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HS, High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HS, United Kingdom

Penfest - Mini Open Exhibition for Penicuik Turner and People's Choice prizes
2025-08-30 10:00 - 2025-09-06 15:00 | Penicuik Storehouse, 22 High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HW, United Kingdom

Penfest - Open exhibition for the mini-Penicuik Turner and People's Choice prizes
2025-08-30 10:00 - 2025-09-06 16:00 | Penicuik Storehouse, 22 High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HW, United Kingdom

Penfest 2025 Open Studios and Art Trail
2025-08-30 11:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-31 11:00 - 16:00
At various locations throughout town – FREE!
Saturday 30th/Sunday 31st August 11am – 4pm
Saturday 6th/Sunday 7th September 11am – 4pm
PLEASE NOTE:
Christine Finlayson’s studio will not be open this weekend due to illness. Please check the Community Arts Website (www.penicuikarts.org) for updates.

Penfest 2025 Open Studios and Art Trail
2025-09-06 11:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-07 11:00 - 16:00
At various locations throughout town – FREE!
Saturday 30th/Sunday 31st August 11am – 4pm
Saturday 6th/Sunday 7th September 11am – 4pm

Penfest - Closing event for the Open Exhibition and prize-giving
2025-09-06 15:00 - 16:00 | Penicuik Storehouse, 22 High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HW, United Kingdom

CAP Music Group
2025-09-06 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-09-20 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-04 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-11-01 15:00 - 17:00 | St James the Less Church, Broomhill Road,, Penicuik, EH26 9EE
Please email hello.communityarts@gmail.com for information.

Penfest - concert from local musicians
2025-09-06 19:30 - 21:30 | St James the Less Church, Broomhill Road,, Penicuik, EH26 9EE
Tickets available online – please click here!

Penfest - Paper Portraits screening in the Town Hall
2025-09-07 19:00 - 21:30 | Town Hall, High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HS, High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HS, United Kingdom
PAPER PORTRAITS – a community film, 2024This is a film about the paper makers of Penicuik, which, for almost three hundred years, was a leading paper-making town in the UK. PAPER PORTRAITS is a unique project, created with the Penicuik Community Arts Association, based on interviews with local paper makers, written and directed by Gerda Stevenson, the cast of actors drawn from the local community. The film vividly captures the landscape and way of life of the mill workers, their families and communities living along the Esk – the river which fed the mills – and the great pride these people felt in their local industry.
Our wonderful film “Paper Portraits” involving almost 100 people in the local community has been screened at Penicuik Cinema to full houses three times already. It’s also been screened at the National Portrait Gallery to a packed audience, and in other art cinemas throughout Scotland. We are currently submitting it to Film Festivals.
Penicuik has a chance to see the film again on Sunday 7th September as part of Penfest 2025. It will be shown with “The End of Papermaking on the River Esk 2014 (U)” – a film by Allan Dickson, 2014 about the paper making process and its demise at Dalmore – live footage of the mill and its workers in the 1980s and 1990s.
People on the waiting list can buy tickets now.
Tickets will go on sale to the public on Monday 18th August 2025.

CAP Exhibition - Sandra Vick
2025-09-08 10:00 - 2025-11-08 15:00 | Penicuik Storehouse, 22 High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HW, United Kingdom

Penfest concert - Penicuik Community Choir and friends
2025-09-13 07:30 - 21:30 | North Kirk, John Street, Penicuik, EH26 8AG, 95 John Street, Penicuik, EH26 8AG, United Kingdom
Penicuik Community Choir formed in 2012 under the leadership of Liz McKeon with the support of husband Andrew McFarlane. The aim of the choir is to promote community spirit, fun and, of course, the pleasure of singing together, we sing a wide variety of song styles in a relaxed and fun way.
Over the years the choir has grown in numbers and we enjoy supporting local events and groups with concerts in and around Mid Lothian.
Please click here to buy tickets

Writing workshop with Gerda Stevenson
2025-09-13 10:30 - 15:30 | Penicuik Trinity Community Church Hall, Kirkhill, Penicuik, EH26 8HX
Maximum 12 places – PRE-BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL!
Please click here to buy your tickets! (£30 / £25/ £15)
The theme is “New Beginnings” to commemorate Community Arts Penicuik’s first year.
New Beginnings can take many forms: …when a baby arrives, when a child is adopted, going to a new school or uni, a new relationship, a new home, a new job, a new marriage, new beginnings for refugees, new beginnings in a post-war world, even just a new day….
Gerda Stevenson is an award-winning writer, actor (trained at R.A.D.A.), director, singer-songwriter, working in theatre, television, radio, film, and opera, throughout Britain and abroad. Her poetry, drama and prose have been widely published, staged, and broadcast. She has written extensively for BBC Radio 4 “original plays”, as well as dramatisations of classic Scottish novels. Her theatre productions and literary festival readings include Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Trinidad, Italy, USA, UK and Ireland.

CAP Music Group
2025-10-18 10:00 - 12:00 | Town Hall, High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HS, High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HS, United Kingdom

Concert - Northcott Caird Smith
2025-10-25 19:30 - 21:30 | St James the Less Church, Broomhill Road,, Penicuik, EH26 9EE
At St James the Less Church Hall, Broomhill, EH26 9EE:
The concert (postponed from 13th June) of traditional style music from the Northcott Caird Smith band.
Sarah, Duggi and Matt will give us a fabulous evening of music and craic. Tickets £10/£5 on sale at the end of August.

Matt, Duggi and Sarah play a mix of self-penned and traditional-style tunes from Scotland and beyond on guitar, accordion and fiddle, from gentle melodies to gritty reels via tunes of celebration and fun. They enjoy weaving tunes and accompaniments together in intricate arrangements, giving each instrument a voice, and betray their strong pedigree in ceilidh bands by regular forays into toe-tapping jigs and reels. The concert will feature some of their greatest hits and a range of new material.

CAP Exhibition - Jan Miller and Friends
2025-11-09 10:00 - 2025-12-31 15:00 | Penicuik Storehouse, 22 High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HW, United Kingdom
Jan Miller and Friends’ annual exhibition of Art and Craft opens on Sunday 9th November. There is an opening event on Sunday 9th November 2-4pm in the Storehouse

Opening of Exhibition - Friends in November (Jan Miller and Friends)
2025-11-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Penicuik Storehouse, 22 High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HW, United Kingdom
