Arts and Culture
Dumfries and Galloway is well-known for its arts and cultural activities as well as its natural beauty.
The major festivals including the region-wide Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival and Spring Fling Open Studios, both happen in Spring each year. Other festivals also include Big Burns Supper in Dumfries and the internationally renowned Wigtown Book Festival in Wigtown - Scotland's national book town.
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Famous quotes containing the words arts and/or culture:
“I haven’t seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were asked this week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company’s behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)