Skip to the lous at Duntroon Hall
Try your hand at building an outhouse for the Duntroon Halls’ Throne of Bowmore international design contest and exhibit, during the Small Halls Festival.
The outhouses can be either full scale and fully functional for use as an outhouse or 1:15 scale models.
Bowmore was an earlier name for the village of Duntroon, in reference to the administrative capital of the Isle of Islay, Scotland, from which many of the first European settlers came in the early 1800s. Bowmore, Scotland is famous for its scotch whiskey distillery of the same name, and is home to The Bowmore Round Church, reputedly so shaped in order that the Devil could not hide in the corners. The name Duntroon, applied to the village in the last half of the 1800s, was derived from Duntrune Castle, 60 kilometres to the northeast of Bowmore, the longest continuously inhabited castle in Scotland, dating to the 12th Century and home to the ghost of a handless bagpiper.
Submissions to the competition will be exhibited and judged the weekend of Oct. 2-4 during Clearview’s award-winning Small Halls Festival.
The winners will be announced at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 3 before the outhouses go up for sale on Sunday, Oct. 4 during the Silent-but-Deadly live auction, beginning at 1:30 p.m.
Register by 2 p.m. on Wednesday Sept. 30 and submissions are due by 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2. Awards to be provided for first, second, and third place with both 1:1 and 1:15 scale entries, for all five classifications of professional, post-secondary, secondary, elementary and other, with cash prizes of up to $1,000 for post-secondary finalists and sponsored prizes such as merchandise and gift certificates.
Also at Duntroon Hall during Small Halls Festival will be the poultry-in-motion high-speed chicken race, which was a festival favourite last year, from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. on the Saturday, and Ron James is appearing at a brunch event on Sunday, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
For all the details on the Throne of Bowmore international design contest and a full schedule of Small Halls Festival events, visit www.smallhallsfestival.ca.
