Event Archive

2018

November

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  Where Does Music Come From?

  01 November 2018, 15:00 - 16:30

  Royal Anthropological Institute Annual Blacking Lecture

October

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  Castle of Stone and Sea: The Life, Songs, and Stories of a 19th-Century Breton Woman

  25 October 2018, 18:30 - 20:00

  Scottish International Storytelling Festival

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  Testimonies of Transition: Voices from the Scottish Diaspora

  18 October 2018, 18:30 - 20:00

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

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  Screening: Alive Inside

  11 October 2018, 18:30 - 20:30

  Ethnographic Film Series

September

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  Something Corny: A Life Working with Straw

  27 September 2018, 18:30 - 21:00

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

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  Screening: Flight of the Condor / The Snow Kirk

  13 September 2018, 18:30 - 20:00

  Ethnographic Film Series

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  Doors Open Day

  08 September 2018, 10:00 - 16:00

  Learn about the Elphinstone Institute This Doors Open Day in Aberdeen come along and learn about the Elphinstone Institute. We're a centre for the study of Ethnology, Folklore, and Ethnomusicology and we study the culture of the North-East of Scotland. We produce lots of research on an extremely wide range of topics...

July

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  The Traditional Singing Weekend at Cullerlie

  27 - 29 July 2018

  A festival to celebrate singing traditions in memory of Tom and Anne Reid.

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  North Atlantic Fiddle Convention (NAFCo)

  11 - 15 July 2018

  A celebration of fiddle and dance traditions from around the North Atlantic.

May

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  NAFCo at the Blue Lamp: Celebrating North-East Traditional Music

  25 May 2018, 21:00 - 23:55

  An informal concert featuring performances of Scottish traditional music by local groups from Aberdeen and the North-East of Scotland. Join us for a taste of what is to come in this summer’s North Atlantic Fiddle Convention.