Event Archive

NAFCo 25th: Mary Frances Leahy, Astro Bloc, Darach and the NAFCo House Band.

Ethnographic Film Series

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.

Aberdeen and Beyond Storytelling Festival

A unique opportunity to learn more about a wonderful family of small free reed instruments - button boxes, concertinas, melodeons, mouth organs and Jews harps!

Since as early as the nineteenth century and up until the 1980s, various institutions across Scotland – including government offices, churches, and charities – participated in an effort to assimilate Gypsy/Traveller communities, families, and individuals into settled society, using housing and child welfare policies as a primary means of coercion....

Aberdeen and Beyond Storytelling Festival

Get your knives and spoons ready and get howking! When you’ve carved your masterpiece send a pic of your entry to elphinstone@abdn.ac.uk including your full name and postal address. Winners will receive one of our publications and an announcement on social media.

Join Alison Sharman at this workshop showing you how to create your own traditional neepie lantern for Halloween, just in time for our Neepie Lantern Competition. Neeps, candles, and string will be provided, but please bring a strong dessert spoon and vegetable knife. Parents are responsible for their children (one...

Ethnographic Film Series