Event Archive

2015

May

• Toulmin Prize 2015

  31 May 2015

  The winner of the Toulmin Prize 2015 is Aemilia Balkham Ross from Inverness, with her story, titled Siren City. Aemilia received her award at the May Festival, at a special event on Sunday 31 May, where her entry was read aloud to the assembled audience by writer and story-teller Sheena Blackhall....

• Scottish Stepdance Taster

  30 May 2015, 16:00 - 17:00

  May Festival Event

• Totem Pole Carving

  30 - 31 May 2015

  May Festival Event

• The Fiddle at Sea: Exploring the Musical Traditions of Northern Sailors

  29 May 2015, 16:30 - 17:30

  May Festival Event

• Banishing the Beastie: Pioneering Haggis for Modern Times

  26 May 2015, 19:30 - 21:00

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Scots in the Subarctic: Musical Exchanges with the James Bay Cree

  19 May 2015, 19:00 - 21:00

  Saltire Society Lecture

• Ethnographic Film Series - Two Years at Sea

  05 May 2015, 19:30 - 22:00

  Using 16mm cameras, artist Ben Rivers documents the solitary existence of Jake, a man who lives in isolation in the middle of the forest in a remote part of Scotland. The film follows his unconventional life, capturing moments of profound beauty. Jake is seen in all seasons, surviving frugally, passing...

April

• A Filthy, Dirty, and Abominable Practice: A Short History of the Blackening

  28 April 2015, 19:30 - 21:00

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Ceilidh for Cullerlie

  25 April 2015, 19:30 - 23:55

  An Evening of Scots Song and Music

March

• Niel Gow's Legacy

  31 March 2015, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture (This talk replaces the previously scheduled 'Timespan- Remote Possibilities in Scotland's North: Programming a cultural organisation on the edge with Anna Vermehren, due to unforseen circumstances)