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Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

Elphinstone Institute

Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

The Elphinstone Institute is proud to present an evening with the wonderful Aberdonian teller of tales, Tony Robertson. Descended from a long line of storytellers, Tony learned many stories traditional to travelling people from his father, Stanley Robertson, and others in his family. Tony’s remarkable storytelling style immediately draws in...

Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

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.

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

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...

Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

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.