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Button Boxes and Moothies 2025
-A unique opportunity to learn more about a wonderful family of small free reed instruments - button boxes, concertinas, melodeons, mouth organs and Jews harps!
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The Carrying Stream: 60 Years of Education in the North
-Aberdeen and Beyond Storytelling Festival
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Charlie Allan Tribute Concert
-Longtime friend of the Elphinstone Institute, Charlie Allan (1939–2023) of Little Ardo, Methlick, was a renowned farmer, journalist, broadcaster, bothy ballad singer and maker, and one-time World Caber-Tossing Champion. The evening pays tribute in words and music to the full life of a kenspeckle North-East figure.
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Musical Echoes of Al-Andalus in Granada (2025), Dir. by Matthew Machin-Autenrieth and Dario Ranocchiari
-Ethnographic Film Series
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David Buchan Lecture: Connecting People, Connecting Culture
-Song, weaving, and boatbuilding traditions are used to build cultural confidence in projects around the world. To celebrate our 30th anniversary, this year’s speaker will be Institute director Thomas A. McKean, who will focus on his work in Scotland, Guatemala, and New York City to show how culture and community...
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Fighting Forgetfulness: Palestinian Folktales and Memory Development
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series