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2015
March
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Ethnographic Film Series - Pressure Point: Stories Confronting Inequality
-Three Stories from Palestine, Columbia and India
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Collective Compositions Showcase Concert
-Enjoy an evening of music from around the world performed by Aberdeen-based musicians.
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Ethnographic Film Series - Lomax the Songhunter
-Alan Lomax was 'the song hunter'. He devoted his life to recording the world's folk tunes before they would disappear with the rise of the modern music industry. In Lomax the Songhunter, filmmaker Rogier Kappers seeks to tell Lomax's story by interviewing friends such as Pete Seeger, combining it with archival...
February
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Making It Our Own: Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland
There is a worldwide movement to nurture intangible heritage, but what is it and who decides? Where is it in Scotland?
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Curiosity Killed the Cat: Margaret Fay Shaw, Folklorist in the Southern Hebrides
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Ethnographic Film Series - Searching for Sugar Man
-The Academy Award-winning producer of Man on Wire unveils the incredible and moving story of Rodriguez, a ‘70s U.S. rock icon who never was. In the late ‘60s, a musician was discovered in a Detroit bar by two celebrated producers who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics....
January
2014
November
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Caring for Bennachie and Its Landscape
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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The Evolution of the Blackening
When Sheila started to research the origins of the blackening she discovered it had largely been ignored by academics and was generally, poorly understood. Sheila set out to trace its history, document the form of the contemporary blackening and in so doing, discover what it tells us about men and women...
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Open Evening
-Elphinstone Institute