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What’s On
Dedicate a Handmade Tile - Clay Days Workshop
Dedicate a Handmade Tile - Clay Days Workshop
Leave Your Mark on An Tobar and Mull Theatre
Dedicate a Handmade Tile – £10
Mull Highland Games Art Prize Exhibition
For the Mull Highland Games Art Prize and the Highland Art Prize you are all invited to enter a painting, photo, collage or other 2D work and/or any three-dimensional work in any medium.
Eve Campbell - Transit
Transit takes us on a colourful passage through ancient Atlantic woodland and past small rocky islands, exploring the diverse nature of Scotland’s coastal topography. Reflecting maritime history, including Loch Fyne skiffs, Clyde puffers, and the waterways that connected local communities in a collection of bold, vibrant textiles and mixed media pieces.
RSA200 Moving Image Programme film screenings: Florence: New Reactions
RSA200 Moving Image Programme film screenings in the Snug. Florence, New Reactions, including Abigail Dryburgh, Sophie Lunts, Anna Hughes, and Rachel McBrinn
Invasive Species
Invasive Species, featuring Spectrum of Belonging
Step off the beaten track and into a different way of seeing Mull.
This free audio walk through Aros Park combines sound, storytelling and contemporary visual art in an immersive journey through the island’s layered ecological history. Collect your equipment from An Tobar and follow a self-guided route through woodland, shoreline and hidden corners of the park, encountering sculptural installations, environmental soundscapes and stories spanning thousands of years.
Created by Fast Familiar with Play:Vienna and An Tobar and Mull Theatre, and featuring the striking installation Spectrum of Belonging by Surface Agency, Invasive Species explores what it means to belong within a changing landscape shaped by migration, tourism, climate and human intervention.
Launching 28 July 2026.
Free to access during week-day opening hours.
Janice Burns & Jon Doran ** POSTPONED **
Folk songs have always travelled, put down new roots, borrowed and evolved. Janice & Jon bring together songs that have survived through the ages, shapeshifting and adapting as they’ve been passed from singer to singer. Exploring humankind’s connection with nature, love and loss, these are songs with an enduring resonance.
RSA200 Moving Image Programme film screenings: Language, Place and Understanding.
RSA200 Moving Image Programme film screenings in the Snug. Language, Place and Unserstanding, including Oana Stanciu, Ronald Forbes RSA, Alicia Bruce, and Murray Grigor HRSA.
Storytelling in the Snug
Drop in Storytelling for 2-5 year old children. Let the magic unfold and imaginations run wild.
Break Up at Mull Theatre
Break Up is a theatre performance based on true stories of love and loss. Three women in their 20s, 30s and 50s navigate heartbreak with humour, music and raw honesty - a powerful, relatable journey of resilience, reinvention and self-discovery.
Break Up at Bunessan Hall
Break Up is a theatre performance based on true stories of love and loss. Three women in their 20s, 30s and 50s navigate heartbreak with humour, music and raw honesty - a powerful, relatable journey of resilience, reinvention and self-discovery.
The Shackleton Trio
The Shackleton Trio blend vibrant songwriting, fiery musicianship and exquisite three-part harmonies.
Featuring fiddle, mandolin, banjo and guitar, they draw on East Anglian roots and wider folk traditions to create a dynamic sound.
Storytelling in the Snug
Drop in Storytelling for 3-5 year old children. Let the magic unfold and imaginations run wild.
Open Stage at An Tobar
Calling all performers including songwriters, poets, musicians, storytellers, playwrights and spoken word artists.
Open Stage is a night dedicated to original material and authentic expression, a place to share your work without pressure or pretence.
Whether you’re performing for the first time or trying out something new, you’ll find a supportive atmosphere and an audience ready to listen.
Come take the mic, meet other creatives, and be part of a night built around connection, creativity, and community.
RSA200: Celebrating Together - Life Drawing with George Donald RSA
As part of the Royal Scottish Academy's 200th anniversary celebrations throughout 2026, the RSA are working with partners across Scotland and beyond to shine a spotlight on the Academy's past, present and future. RSA200: Celebrating Together will be a unique and far-reaching festival of Scottish art and architecture.
RSA200 Moving Image Programme film screenings: The Moving Sketchbook.
RSA200 Moving Image Programme film screenings in the Snug.
No booking required.
Will Maclean RSA and Andy Rice, Casa Berti, 2012 (16.15)
Victoria Crowe RSA, Inflorescence, 2007 (5 mins)
Joyce Cairnes PPRSA and Andy Rice, Fragments, 2006 (8.06)
Katie Downie RSA, Drawing the Pibroch, 2010 (6.29)
Storytelling in the Snug
Drop in Storytelling for 3-5 year old children. Let the magic unfold and imaginations run wild.
Royal Zoological Society of Scotland presents: Clinging By A Claw
Clinging by a Claw, created by Saving Wildcats and produced by SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, offers an extraordinary insight into the journey of Scotland's wildcats from the brink of extinction to their return to the wilds of the Cairngorms National Park.
Narrated by Outlander star Sam Heughan, this film captures the breathtakingly beautiful landscapes of the Scottish Highlands where wildcats could have a future if they continue to receive the vital support they need.
Beginners Pottery Residency – Isle of Mull
Slow down, breathe deeply, and spend a week immersed in clay on the Isle of Mull. This intimate, hands-on residency is designed for absolute beginners and anyone seeking time, space, and gentle guidance to explore their creativity.
Clay Days Weekly Pottery Club
Join us every Monday at 6pm from 25th May – 29th June for a welcoming, hands-on session exploring hand-building, wheel work, glazing, and the simple joy of making. With only seven spaces available each week, the club offers plenty of individual guidance in a calm and creative setting.
Coast-Kyst-Strönd
Coast-Kyst-Strönd brings together Haftor Medbøe (guitar and electronics), Gunnar Halle (trumpet, voice and electronics) and Signy Jakobsdottir (drums, percussion and electronics) performing a new programme of collectively composed music
RANT at An Tobar
Bethany Reid from Shetland, Anna Massie and Lauren MacColl from the Highland peninsula of the Black Isle, and Gillian Frame from Arran join forces to showcase the combined resonance of their instruments with repertoire unearthed from both old collections and their own contemporary writing. RANT create a sound which is both spacious and lush, yet retaining all the earthy bite and spark of a traditional Scottish fiddle player.
RANT at Bunessan Hall
Bethany Reid from Shetland, Anna Massie and Lauren MacColl from the Highland peninsula of the Black Isle, and Gillian Frame from Arran join forces to showcase the combined resonance of their instruments with repertoire unearthed from both old collections and their own contemporary writing. RANT create a sound which is both spacious and lush, yet retaining all the earthy bite and spark of a traditional Scottish fiddle player.
Clay Days Weekly Pottery Club
Join us every Monday at 6pm from 25th May – 29th June for a welcoming, hands-on session exploring hand-building, wheel work, glazing, and the simple joy of making. With only seven spaces available each week, the club offers plenty of individual guidance in a calm and creative setting.
Technical Development Workshops
An Tobar and Mull Theatre are thrilled to invite anyone interested in early-career or emerging theatre practice to a unique, hands-on opportunity to dive into the world of technical theatre. Led by our expert Technical & Production Manager, Louise Gregory, this practical workshop will give you the skills and confidence to take your productions to the next level.
Brian Molley Quartet, Tùs/Origin at An Tobar
Glasgow’s Brian Molley Quartet celebrate the Scottish origins of jazz. Experience world-class performing blending traditional roots with contemporary flair. A definitive, soulful journey through Scotland’s unique musical landscape. 'Mesmerising' (Huffington Post).
Clay Days Weekly Pottery Club
Join us every Monday at 6pm from 25th May – 29th June for a welcoming, hands-on session exploring hand-building, wheel work, glazing, and the simple joy of making. With only seven spaces available each week, the club offers plenty of individual guidance in a calm and creative setting.
We Will Hear The Angels
Stunned by her husband’s infidelity, Bea feels heartbroken and alone. If only she knew that her neighbours, Sonia, Van and Ian, were each also trying to get over the pain in their hearts, unable to articulate how they feel. Maybe the mysterious Lou can help them?
Clay Days with Rebecca: Form and Play
Slow down, switch off, and discover the simple pleasure of working with clay. Clay Days with Rebecca is a gentle, hands-on introduction to pottery, perfect for beginners and anyone craving a creative reset.
Clay Days Weekly Pottery Club
Join us every Monday at 6pm from 25th May – 29th June for a welcoming, hands-on session exploring hand-building, wheel work, glazing, and the simple joy of making. With only seven spaces available each week, the club offers plenty of individual guidance in a calm and creative setting.
Finlay Birch | Weight Will Unwind in Concert
Experience the debut album performed live for the very first time with a full band in An Tobar's Live Room. The performance will feature the 30-minute album in full, interwoven with stories, reflections and conversation about each song.
Clay Days Weekly Pottery Club
Join us every Monday at 6pm from 25th May – 29th June for a welcoming, hands-on session exploring hand-building, wheel work, glazing, and the simple joy of making. With only seven spaces available each week, the club offers plenty of individual guidance in a calm and creative setting.
Clay Days with Rebecca: Form and Play
Slow down, switch off, and discover the simple pleasure of working with clay. Clay Days with Rebecca is a gentle, hands-on introduction to pottery, perfect for beginners and anyone craving a creative reset.
SOUP!
SOUP! is comical family performance in which two lively chefs use clowning antics, acrobatic dance and nonsense language to entice audiences into making a delicious, unique soup together. This surreal and joy-filled show is inspired by the tastes and smells of ancestral cooking and by a desire to bring diverse groups of people together through the a creative and collaborative act as much as through laughter.
Community Advisory Group
We’re inviting residents, local groups, and anyone with a passion for our islands to join us for an afternoon of conversation, connection & cake
POSTPONED - It's Not Where You Start
From foster child to foster carer, high-school dropout to university graduate, and Glasgow’s back streets to Hollywood sets — Scott Kyle’s journey is anything but ordinary.
Open Stage at An Tobar
Calling all performers including songwriters, poets, musicians, storytellers, playwrights and spoken word artists.
Open Stage is a night dedicated to original material and authentic expression, a place to share your work without pressure or pretence.
Whether you’re performing for the first time or trying out something new, you’ll find a supportive atmosphere and an audience ready to listen.
Come take the mic, meet other creatives, and be part of a night built around connection, creativity, and community.
A Vase In Relief : Pottery Decorating Workshop
This July, join Patricia Atkinson and Rebecca Atkinson-Lord for a special one-off workshop celebrating two generations of potters working within the same ancient craft tradition.
Iona Lane at Bunessan Hall
Swilkie, the new album from Highlands-based songwriter Iona Lane, weaves ecology, conservation, islands and folklore into poetic songs and contemplative melodies. Written during three residencies on the Isle of Eigg, Isle of Mull and Sanday in Orkney, sense of place and landscape are at the core of these songs.
Iona Lane at An Tobar
Swilkie, the new album from Highlands-based songwriter Iona Lane, weaves ecology, conservation, islands and folklore into poetic songs and contemplative melodies. Written during three residencies on the Isle of Eigg, Isle of Mull and Sanday in Orkney, sense of place and landscape are at the core of these songs.
Thin Places: A Theatre Research Workshop
Want to contribute to new work?
A free one-hour workshop exploring folklore, place, and the meanings that connect them.
The Thin Places is an intimate storytelling performance exploring the folklore and legends born from the landscape of our islands: from Balmoral to Barbrook, from Iona to the Mendip Hills.
RSA200 Moving Image Programme film screenings: RSA Academicians' Showcase - Part Two.
RSA200 Moving Image Programme film screenings in the Snug. RSA Academicians' Showcase - Part Two, including Rachel Maclean, Graham Fagen and Kate Downie
A Home For Hamish
Playfully merging dance and British Sign Language in a sensory world, A Home for Hamish follows the story of May and their imaginary friend, Hamish the Haggis as they travel across Scotland to find a perfect night’s sleep.
Clay Days Weekly Pottery Club
Join us every Monday at 6pm from 25th May – 29th June for a welcoming, hands-on session exploring hand-building, wheel work, glazing, and the simple joy of making. With only seven spaces available each week, the club offers plenty of individual guidance in a calm and creative setting.
Ahmed Dickinson Cuban Guitarist at Bunessan Hall
Experience the vibrant spirit of Cuba through the music of its greatest composers. Guitarist Ahmed Dickinson Cárdenas brings passion, rhythm, and lyricism to life in an evocative programme celebrating Cuba’s rich cultural identity and contemporary musical voice.
Ahmed Dickinson, Cuban Guitarist at An Tobar
Experience the vibrant spirit of Cuba through the music of its greatest composers. Guitarist Ahmed Dickinson Cárdenas brings passion, rhythm, and lyricism to life in an evocative programme celebrating Cuba’s rich cultural identity and contemporary musical voice.
Clay Days Weekly Pottery Club
Join us every Monday at 6pm from 25th May – 29th June for a welcoming, hands-on session exploring hand-building, wheel work, glazing, and the simple joy of making. With only seven spaces available each week, the club offers plenty of individual guidance in a calm and creative setting.
RSA200 Moving Image Programme film screenings: RSA Academicians' Showcase - Part One.
RSA200 Moving Image Programme film screenings in the Snug.
Dalziel + Scullion RSA, Raven, 2025 (19mins). Wendy McMurdo RSA, Olympia, 2011 (5.12). Edward Summerton RSA, The Landscape Artist, 2021 (8.17). Tracy Mackenna RSA, Gaps and Slippages, 2017 (4.23). Kate Whiteford RSA, Wings of Desire, 2018 (9.42)
Pride
Join our annual Pride gathering on Tobermory beach at 2pm with face painting, glitter, music, followed by the ‘loud and proud family disco’ at An Tobar with licensed bar and great entertainment.
A Fraction of a Second - Photography workshop with Ben Douglas
Street photographer Ben Douglas will lead a photography workshop using polaroid cameras. With his guidance you’ll explore how curiosity, timing and composition can turn a simple observation into a profound one.
Open Stage at An Tobar
Calling all performers including songwriters, poets, musicians, storytellers, playwrights and spoken word artists.
Open Stage is a night dedicated to original material and authentic expression, a place to share your work without pressure or pretence.
Whether you’re performing for the first time or trying out something new, you’ll find a supportive atmosphere and an audience ready to listen.
Come take the mic, meet other creatives, and be part of a night built around connection, creativity, and community.
Tracing Marks of Wear - Textile workshop with Rhona Jack
Join artist Rhona Jack for a textile workshop exploring human marks on our natural and built environment. Using second hand materials, elements of printmaking and craft techniques centred around repair and mending, you will create textile artworks which can be used as decorative or functional objects.
A Mark in Time - Drawing workshop with Calum Wallis
Artist Calum Wallis will lead a day of drawing in the landscape at Kilninian Beach. While geological change is slow, it can be observed if one looks closely. In this workshop you’ll make drawings which mark a point in time, giving a fixed point against which change can be measured a month, a year or ten years from now.
Clay Days Weekly Pottery Club
Join us every Monday at 6pm from 25th May – 29th June for a welcoming, hands-on session exploring hand-building, wheel work, glazing, and the simple joy of making. With only seven spaces available each week, the club offers plenty of individual guidance in a calm and creative setting.
Tobermory High School exhibition
We're excited to invite parents, carers, families, and the wider community to a special exhibition celebrating the fantastic work of our pupils in the Creative Faculty at Tobermory High School.
Strength In A Whisper at Bunessan Hall
New folksong and theatre performance by acclaimed Scots folksinger Kirsty Law.
Snowed in, the power’s out - a young woman stills, a young deer shivers - and it’s a journey of resilience, story, folksong and dance to reach the other side.
Strength In A Whisper at Mull Theatre
New folksong and theatre performance by acclaimed Scots folksinger Kirsty Law.
Snowed in, the power’s out - a young woman stills, a young deer shivers - and it’s a journey of resilience, story, folksong and dance to reach the other side.
Clay Days Weekly Pottery Club
Join us every Monday at 6pm from 25th May – 29th June for a welcoming, hands-on session exploring hand-building, wheel work, glazing, and the simple joy of making. With only seven spaces available each week, the club offers plenty of individual guidance in a calm and creative setting.
Clay Days Weekly Pottery Club
Join us every Monday at 6pm from 25th May – 29th June for a welcoming, hands-on session exploring hand-building, wheel work, glazing, and the simple joy of making. With only seven spaces available each week, the club offers plenty of individual guidance in a calm and creative setting.
RSA200 Moving Image Programme film screenings: Culture Above and Beyond - Part Two
RSA200 Moving Image Programme film screenings in the Snug.
Dalziel + Scullion RSA, Source, 2007 (14.49) An Tobar commissioned this piece of work for our tenth anniversary. Edward Summerton RSA, Dighty Burn, 2011 (5.08). Graham Fagen RSA, Baile an Or, 2011 (8.04). Kate Whiteford RSA (with Alex Graham), A'bheinn/The Mountain, 2009 (24.12)
Stand and Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In
Faced with the threat of their factory closing, and with 240 jobs on the line, there’s no way the women of the Lee Jeans factory are going down without a fight.
Clay Days Weekly Pottery Club
Join us every Monday at 6pm from 25th May – 29th June for a welcoming, hands-on session exploring hand-building, wheel work, glazing, and the simple joy of making. With only seven spaces available each week, the club offers plenty of individual guidance in a calm and creative setting.
RSA200 Moving Image Programme film screenings: Culture Above and Beyond - Part One
RSA200 Moving Image Programme film screenings in the Snug. Culture Above and Beyond - Part One.
Daniel Cook, Love Letters from Aberdeenshire, 2022 (20.10)
Tim Sandys, North Platte, 2016 (10.27)
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