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2015
May
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Aberdeenshire Straw Work
-May Festival Event
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Woodturning with Alan Steele
-May Festival Event
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Portsoy Salmon Coble Project
-May Festival Event
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New Pitsligo Lacemaking
-May Festival Event
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Toulmin Prize 2015
The winner of the Toulmin Prize 2015 is Aemilia Balkham Ross from Inverness, with her story, titled Siren City. Aemilia received her award at the May Festival, at a special event on Sunday 31 May, where her entry was read aloud to the assembled audience by writer and story-teller Sheena Blackhall....
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Scottish Stepdance Taster
-May Festival Event
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Totem Pole Carving
-May Festival Event
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The Fiddle at Sea: Exploring the Musical Traditions of Northern Sailors
-May Festival Event
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Banishing the Beastie: Pioneering Haggis for Modern Times
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Scots in the Subarctic: Musical Exchanges with the James Bay Cree
-Saltire Society Lecture
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Ethnographic Film Series - Two Years at Sea
-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
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A Filthy, Dirty, and Abominable Practice: A Short History of the Blackening
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Ceilidh for Cullerlie
-An Evening of Scots Song and Music
March
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Niel Gow's Legacy
-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)
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Ethnographic Film Series - Pressure Point: Stories Confronting Inequality
-Three Stories from Palestine, Columbia and India
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Collective Compositions Showcase Concert
-Enjoy an evening of music from around the world performed by Aberdeen-based musicians.
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Ethnographic Film Series - Lomax the Songhunter
-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
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Making It Our Own: Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland
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
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Ethnographic Film Series - Searching for Sugar Man
-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....
January
2014
November
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Caring for Bennachie and Its Landscape
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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The Evolution of the Blackening
When Sheila started to research the origins of the blackening she discovered it had largely been ignored by academics and was generally, poorly understood. Sheila set out to trace its history, document the form of the contemporary blackening and in so doing, discover what it tells us about men and women...
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Open Evening
-Elphinstone Institute
October
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Stories and their Stories
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Halloween and Bonfire Night - What do YOU do?
-Show the world how your community celebrates Halloween and Bonfire Night. Learn to record traditions, send in your footage, then join us for a public screening at the Belmont Filmhouse on 23 November 2014.
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Gaelic in Nova Scotia Today: Puirt and Policy
-Hosted by the Elphinstone Institute, and Gaelic Studies. Join us for a fascinating insight into the life of the Gaelic language in Nova Scotia, Canada
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Convergent Paths
-School of Education Annual Postgraduate Conference 2014
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The Eternal Ascent: A History of the Route Names of Lochnagar
Since the first route went up in 1893 Lochnagar has attracted generations of mountaineers to its magnificent cliffs. Today there are over 260 routes up the faces of Lochnagar, but how are routes named, and by whom? Sheila will describe the naming protocol and tell some of the stories of the...
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Ethnographic Film Series - Ustad Rahim: Herat's Rubab Maestro
-Ustad Rahim: Herat's Rubab Maestro
September
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Scots Language
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Ballad Bus Outing
-Hosted by The Friends of the Elphinstone Institute
August
July
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The Traditional Singing Weekend at Cullerlie
-A festival to celebrate the singing traditions of Scotland, England, and Ireland in memory of Tom and Anne Reid
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'Steppin Steens o Knowledge': Folklore, Ethnology, and Ethnomusicology Conference, Aberdeen (FEECA)
-FEECA is an academic forum for postgraduate research students and early-career researchers.
June
May
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Special Event, The Turra Coo Centenary
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Toulmin Prize 2014
The winner of the 2014 Toulmin Prize is A Quine Like You. The award was made on 11 May at the May Festival, and read by Sheena Blackhall and published in Leopard Magazine. Eleanor is a previous winner of Toulmin having won in 2009.
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Scandinavian Singing and Circle Dancing
-A Scandinavian singing and dancing session for all abilities.
April
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"What is an Urban Legend?"
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Musica Scotica Ninth Annual Conference
-The weekend will feature an informative programme of papers on many aspects of music and Scotland, in addition to a wine reception, a concert of Gaelic music, and a conference dinner.
March
February
January
2013
November
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Scandinavian Singing Workshop
An introduction to singing and herding calls from the north of Sweden.
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The Power of the Fiddle
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Open Evening
-Elphinstone Institute
October
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Voicing Place: The Folk Voice in Modern Scotland
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Never-Ending Tales
-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...
September
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Portsoy's Scottish Traditional Boat Festival
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Fiddle Bus Outing
-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
June
May
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The Present Time is Oors
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Toulmin Prize 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
March
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Simple Heraldry, Cheerfully Illustrated
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Scandinavian Singing Workshop
-An introduction to singing and herding calls from the north of Sweden.
February
January
2012
December
November
October
July
June
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Polish-Scottish Mini Festival
A festival of food and music bringing together Polish and Scottish culture.
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Polish Poetry with Andrzej Grabowski
Enjoy an afternoon of songs and poetry at the Polish-Scottish Group.
May
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The Moray Firth Gansey Project
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Little Collection of Polish Folk Art and Craft
Anna Sznajder presented a small exhibition about hand-crafted items from southern Poland.
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Toulmin Prize 2012
Moira Taylor, a keen storyteller from Peterhead, scooped the £500 cash prize for her short story Lizzie's Dother. Sheena Blackhall gave a reading of the winning story and it will be published in Leopard Magazine. The award was made at ‘a wee word’ Writers Festival at the University of Aberdeen,...
April
March
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Not Just for Babies: The Power of the Lullaby
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture
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Polish Storytelling
Michal Malinowski recounts tales of all kinds from around Poland.
February
January
2011
November
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Print for the People in Urban and Rural Scotland 1750 to 1900
-Elphinstone Institute Pubic Lecture Series
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Button Boxes and Moothies: A Free Reed Convention
-A unique celebration of small 'free-reed' instruments, including mouth organs, concertinas, melodeons, diatonic button accordions, and Jews harps.
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Open Evening
Elphinstone Institute
October
September
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What's the War Got To Do With Us? - Using history in a schools' educational context
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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European Seminar in Ethnomusicology XXVII
-The twenty-seventh European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM)
July
June
May
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Traditional Medicine and Healthcare in the North-East: The Transition from Simples to Scientific Medicine
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Toulmin Prize 2011
Linda Smith won the 2011 Toulmin Prize with her story The Last Een. The award was made at the WORD Festival at the Univesity on Sunday 15 May. Sheena Blackhall read the story aloud and it was published in the Leopard Magazine.
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Taking Malta out of the Box: Island Cultures, Economies, and Identities
-An academic conference on island studies.
April
March
February
January
2010
December
October
September
July
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The Traditional Singing Weekend at Cullerlie
-A festival to celebrate the singing traditions of Scotland, England, and Ireland in memory of Tom and Anne Reid.
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North Atlantic Fiddle Convention (NAFCo) 2010
-Concerts, ceilidhs, workshops, sessions, busking trails, and an international conference.
May
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Ways of Mind-Walking: Reading, Writing, Painting
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Toulmin Prize 2010
Kenneth Paul Stephen, winner of the Toulmin Prize (2010) with My Life Through Colin. The story will be published in Leopard Magazine June/July issue (2010).