The long-running Hawick Summer Festival has been revamped and reinvented this year and looks set to be a huge hit with all ages.
The annual event is once again forming part of the town's August calendar, but this year the Festival features a host of new events - and is sure to put the sizzle into everyone's summer.
Details for last year were as follows. This year's programme will be updated soon.
The festival fun began on Saturday August 18 2007 with a special opening ceremony at Trinity Gardens, when the young Flower Princess opened proceedings. The popular Fetes, coffee mornings, 10K road race, and guided walks made a welcome return. Also returning were the popular Italian, Chinese and Indian special discounted nights to name but a few. But look out for the Quiz Night, as well as an original Festival event - the Pram Race.
These are only a few of the events detailed in the busy programme, however as the Festival draws to a close it is guaranteed to end in style, with the extravaganza that is 'Party on the Pitch'. On Saturday August 25, the town's Volunteer Park came alive with live music from a host of local bands, as well attractions including a climbing wall, trampolining, bungee run, slides and bouncy castle.
Festival Programme 2007
Saturday 18th August
1 pm Flower Princess at Trinity Gardens
2 pm Junior Talent Show in Town Hall
All Day Hawick Golf Club Festival Cup
11 pm Midnight Walk registration and Warm Up at Common Haugh (prior entry required)
12 midnight Midnight Walk of 13.1 miles around Hawick's streets
Sunday 19th August
2 pm – 4 pm Seek & Search at Hawick Museum
2 pm Pram Race at Common Haugh
Monday 20th August
1 pm – 4 pm Seek & Search at Hawick Museum
6.30 pm Guided walk from Common Haugh
7.30 pm Hawick Pictorial 1968 at Film Group, 8 Croft Road
Tuesday 21st August
2 pm – 4 pm Afternoon teas at Congregational Church
5pm – onwards Indian Night at Shebab Tandoori (book at 379191)
6.30 pm Archaeological Society Walk from Haugh with Ian Landles
7.15 pm Writer Workshop with Evelyn Hood at Hawick Library
7.30pm Hawick Pictorial 1968 at Film Group, 8 Croft Road
Wednesday 22nd August
6 pm Guided Walk from Teviotdale Leisure Centre
7.30 pm Italian Night at Sergio's Diner (book at 370094)
7.30 pm Hawick Sings at Thorterdykes Roadhouse
7.30pm Hawick Pictorial 1968 at Film Group, 8 Croft Road
Thursday 23rd August
5 pm – 10 pm Chinese Night at Laughing Buddha (book at 376060)
7.30 pm Hawick Pictorial 1968 at Film Group, 8 Croft Road
8 pm Tom Hingley of Inspiral Carpets at the Border Club
Friday 24th August
7.30 pm Quiz Night at YM Clubrooms, Orrock Place
7.30pm Hawick Pictorial 1968 at Film Group, 8 Croft Road
Saturday 25th August
10 am Coffee Morning at Trinity Church Hall
10 am – 5 pm Border Rail Exhibition in Town Hall
11 am Football Festival at Hawick Community Astroturf Pitch
12 noon – late Party on the Pitch 2007 at Volunteer Park
Sunday 26th August
10 am – 5 pm Border Rail Exhibition in Town Hall
12.30 pm Two Mile Fun Run from Common Haugh
1 pm Ten Kilometre Road Race from Common Haugh
1 pm It's A Knockout at Volunteer Park
2 pm – 4 pm Fete at Deanfield
4 pm Final of Weel Kent Faces – in tent at Volunteer Park
For fuller information on any of the above see the special Festival Programme leaflet
