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Lord Provost’s Youth Parade – 28 August

Join in the City Square on Saturday 28 August for the Lord Provost's Youth Parade. It's a huge celebration of Dundee Youth.

There is a parade from Dundee High School winding down a route to City Square and will see 600 local young people led by Lord Provost John Letford.

The Shore will be taking part in the parade, showcasing local bands and hosting a stall.

Details of the Programme of Entertainment is below;

City Square - On Stage

2.30pm         Young Band from The Shore
2.45pm         Tayside Young Fiddlers
2.55pm          Christine Low Dancers
3.05pm         Claypotts Castle Primary School Singing Choir
3.15pm         Dudhope Centre Bharatiya Ashram Arts Group
3.25pm         Dorwin Stage School
3.35pm         Funky Feet
3.45pm         Urban Moves Dance Company
3.55pm         Dundee Junior Showtime
4.05pm         Royal Scottish Country Dance Society
4.15pm         Sprint Dundee - Medal Awards Ceremony
4.17pm         Showcase the Street
4.25pm         Youth Band from The Shore
4.40pm         End of Event

High Street Stalls & Displays11.00am - 4.00pm - Various stalls and Displays

City SquareFrom 2.35pm - Get cycling with KMX Kart Track

Reform StreetFrom 2.35pm - Sprint Dundee - The final heats of winners from various local fun day events

For more information on The Shore's involvement call 01382 435435

Door Open Days 2010 – 18 September

Come and visit The Shore for the Scottish Civic Trust's Door Open Days 2010.

The building was built in 1828, by architect George Smith. The building has an older vaulted basement which may have been part of an older building on the site.

15 Shore Terrace is currently a venue for young people but is one of Dundee's "best kent" buildings. Built as an Exchange building with a grand pillared frontage it has had many incarnations as a music hall, Masonic Temple, City Assembly rooms and is perhaps best known as the old Winters the printers building.

Tours will be conducted by young people and staff about the history of the building as part of a project that is currently being run by young people at The Shore. The Histshorey project is funded by The Young Roots Heritage Lottery Fund.

Tours will take place between the hours of 1 - 4pm.

Please note that most of our building has disabled access but unfortunately not to our cellar area, which has stairs, uneven floors and low ceilings in parts.

For more information please contact The Shore on 01382 435 435

15 Shore Terrace as the Excelsior Thetre in c. 1880

Be a Kid Again!

Join the S Word for a Cash for Kids Lunch

Menu:

Arrival drink;
Lemonade cocktail
or
Milkshake

Starter;
Tomato Soup
or
Melon with Strawberry Salad

Main Course;
Aberdeen Angus Burger with Potato Wedges & Dip
or
Homemade Chicken Goujons with Potato Wedges & Dip

Desert;
Knickerbockerglory

Tea & Coffee with Sweetie Bag

Cost £5.00 each

Call Sturrock & Moira to book a table.

Old Building has Young Roots

The Shore has been lucky enough to scoop a Young Roots grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to the tune of £24,900 to help them reveal the past.

Now young people will be able to find out there is a lot more to their building than they thought with the project being launched with a tour by city archivist Iain Flett.

Through partnership working with local heritage organisations including Dundee Heritage Trust, young people will investigate the history of the building and its surroundings.

The premises are thought to date back to 1807 when it was constructed on one level as The Exchange buildings. However subsequent extensions meant that the building has had a variety of uses throughout the years; from a Music hall and a Theatre, to a printers and Masonic halls. The basement of the buildings also holds some interest, with parts dating back to c.1690, the era of the Kings warehouse.

As the building sits in the heart of the waterfront regeneration project, the buildings locality to the old docklands and the proposed new docks also holds considerable interest.

During the project young people will interview locals of all ages, dig deep into the census records and create a bank of information about the building and its inhabitants which will be interpreted though art, film making and drama.

It is also hoped that eventually their findings will be open to all in the community by way of dramatised historical tours of the building.

Arts worker Ruth Chalmers said "The idea for the project has developed over several months, with questions about its history coming from the young people who use the old building. Everyone who comes into the building really loves it and although we sometimes have to work around its quirks it is a really great venue and has inspired this project. It's a great way to get young people interested in their local history and we are so grateful that the Heritage Lottery Fund agreed to support our young people to do this."

If you have any information which may be of use to the project, would be willing to be interviewed by the young people involved or would like to become involved in the project as a young participant please contact Ruth on (01382) 435435.