Event Archive

2019

April

• 'A Blond Wig for Maid Marion': Aberdeen and Scotland's Folk Dramas

  25 April 2019, 18:30 - 20:00
  

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• British Forum of Ethnomusicology Annual Conference.

  11 - 14 April 2019

  Annual conference of the British Forum of Ethnomusicology, held from 11-14 April 2019 and hosted by The Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen. The theme of this year's conference is 'Collaborative Ethnomusicology'

March

• Celebratin Sheena

  23 March 2019
  

  Celebratin Sheena explores the work of multi award-winning North-East poet, writer, storyteller and singer Sheena Blackhall.

• The Doric Messiah - St Margaret's, Braemar

  23 March 2019
  

  In partnership with The Elphinstone Institute

• Fitlike Records: A North-East Music Label

  21 March 2019, 18:30 - 20:00
  

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Screening: Makin and Brakin

  14 March 2019, 18:30 - 20:30
  

  Ethnographic Film Series

February

• Granite, Caul Winds, and Wildly Conspicuous Consumption: A Love Affair with Serious Reservations

  21 February 2019, 18:30 - 20:00
  

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Screening: Janeu - Bhojpuri Initiation Rites and Folk Songs / The Voice of Tradition

  14 February 2019, 18:30 - 21:00
  

  Ethnographic Film Series

January

• The Venison Haggis Makers of Glenesk

  17 January 2019, 18:30 - 20:00

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

2018

November

• The David Buchan Lecture 2018

  29 November 2018, 18:30 - 21:00
  

  Memorial Interventions: Negotiating Paths through Complicated Pasts