Event Archive

2013

September

• Fiddle Bus Outing

  21 September 2013, 09:30 - 17:30

  Hosted by the Friends of the Elphinstone Institute. Bus leaves MacRobert Building car park at 09.30am sharp £12.00 members of the Friends of the Elphinstone Institute; £15 non-members North-East Fiddle tunes plus song and other instruments.

July

• The Traditional Singing Weekend at Cullerlie

  26 - 28 July 2013

  A festival to celebrate the singing traditions of Scotland, England, and Ireland in memory of Tom and Anne Reid

June

• Second Sight and Prophecy Conference

  14 - 16 June 2013

  This interdisciplinary conference welcomes participants from a range of academic disciplines including history, folklore, anthropology, divinity and sociology whose research interests cover a wide range of topics exploring varying methods used by different cultures (both now and in the past) to look into the future and the rationale for so...

May

• The Present Time is Oors

  28 May 2013, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Toulmin Prize 2013

  12 May 2013

  Richard D. Bennett won the 2013 Toulmin Prize with his story Feebuie. The award was presented on Sunday 12 May at the May Festival at the award ceremony after the Celebrtaitng David Toulmin event. The story was read by Sheena Blackhall, and published in Leopard Magazine.

April

• Unravelling Fishermen's Ganseys

  30 April 2013, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

March

• Simple Heraldry, Cheerfully Illustrated

  26 March 2013, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Scandinavian Singing Workshop

  14 March 2013, 17:00 - 19:00

  An introduction to singing and herding calls from the north of Sweden.

February

• Translating the Bible into Doric

  26 February 2013, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

January

• Images of Aberdeen and Elsewhere: artistic licence or half truths?

  29 January 2013, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series