Event Archive

2015

May

• Ethnographic Film Series - Two Years at Sea

  05 May 2015, 19:30 - 22:00

  Using 16mm cameras, artist Ben Rivers documents the solitary existence of Jake, a man who lives in isolation in the middle of the forest in a remote part of Scotland. The film follows his unconventional life, capturing moments of profound beauty. Jake is seen in all seasons, surviving frugally, passing...

April

• A Filthy, Dirty, and Abominable Practice: A Short History of the Blackening

  28 April 2015, 19:30 - 21:00

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Ceilidh for Cullerlie

  25 April 2015, 19:30 - 23:55

  An Evening of Scots Song and Music

March

• Niel Gow's Legacy

  31 March 2015, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture (This talk replaces the previously scheduled 'Timespan- Remote Possibilities in Scotland's North: Programming a cultural organisation on the edge with Anna Vermehren, due to unforseen circumstances)

• Ethnographic Film Series - Pressure Point: Stories Confronting Inequality

  26 March 2015, 16:30 - 23:55

  Three Stories from Palestine, Columbia and India

• Collective Compositions Showcase Concert

  11 March 2015, 19:30 - 21:30

  Enjoy an evening of music from around the world performed by Aberdeen-based musicians.

• Ethnographic Film Series - Lomax the Songhunter

  03 March 2015, 19:30 - 21:30

   Alan Lomax was 'the song hunter'. He devoted his life to recording the world's folk tunes before they would disappear with the rise of the modern music industry. In Lomax the Songhunter, filmmaker Rogier Kappers seeks to tell Lomax's story by interviewing friends such as Pete Seeger, combining it with archival...

February

• Making It Our Own: Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland

  28 February 2015

  There is a worldwide movement to nurture intangible heritage, but what is it and who decides? Where is it in Scotland?

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  Curiosity Killed the Cat: Margaret Fay Shaw, Folklorist in the Southern Hebrides

  24 February 2015, 19:30 - 21:30

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Ethnographic Film Series - Searching for Sugar Man

  03 February 2015, 19:30 - 22:00

  The Academy Award-winning producer of Man on Wire unveils the incredible and moving story of Rodriguez, a ‘70s U.S. rock icon who never was. In the late ‘60s, a musician was discovered in a Detroit bar by two celebrated producers who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics....