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2016
March
February
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10,000 Letters and Counting: Working on the Hamish Henderson Archive
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Ethnographic Film Series: Say Amen, Somebody
-George T. Nierenberg, director Gospel music is the subject of this lively film, which explores the history of the faith-rooted musical style. While the documentary features a number of gospel musicians, it spends the most time looking into the considerable contributions of Thomas A. Dorsey, a pioneering songwriter and pianist, and...
January
2015
December
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A Filthy, Dirty, and Abominable Practice: A Short History of the Blackening
-This talk will show how the blackening has developed through time into the ritual we see today.
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Ethnographic Film Series: The Fiddlers of James Bay plus Scots in the Sub-Arctic
-The Fiddlers of James Bay (1980), by Bob Rogers, is a short documentary tracing the history of the fiddle's arrival in Canada 300 years ago via Scottish traders from the Orkney Islands. The Cree population of what is now Northern Québec adopted the instrument, and many contemporary Cree residents are master fiddlers....
November
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Timespan - Remote Possibilities in Scotland's North: Programming a cultural organisation on the edge
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Halloween and Bonfire Night: What do you do?
-Part of Being Human, a Festival of the Humanities
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Inaugural David Buchan Lecture
-DAVID BUCHAN LECTURERecycled Stories: Health Legends, Epidemics and the Politics of RiskProfessor Diane E. Goldstein Introduced by Principal Sir Ian DiamondThursday 19 November 2015 at 6:30pmKing's College Conference Centrefollowed by a reception featuring North-East Produce The David Buchan Lecture is the culmination of a year of special events to celebrate the twentieth...
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Button Boxes and Moothies
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A convention of free-reed music.