Event Archive

2025

February

• Beskidian Songs: Żywiec Polish Highlander Singing Workshops

  15 - 16 February 2025
  

  All are welcome to these free singing workshops.

• Film Screening: In the Moment: Poetry Duets and Improvisations (2022)

  06 February 2025, 18:30 - 20:30
  

  Ethnographic Film Series

January

• Wild and Free? Stories of Land and Soul

  28 January 2025, 18:30 - 20:00
  

  Aberdeen and Beyond Storytelling Festival

• Elphinstone Institute 30th Anniversary Celebration

  22 January 2025, 18:30 - 20:00
  

  Aberdeen City Council Civic Reception

• Venezuelan Gaita Music and the Granite City

  16 January 2025, 18:30 - 20:00
  

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Film Screening: Ballaké Sissoko, Kora Tales (2023)

  09 January 2025, 18:30 - 20:30
  

  Ethnographic Film Series

2024

December

• Evening of Carols in Polish, Scots, and English

  06 December 2024, 18:00 - 19:00
  

  Polish-Scottish Song Group

November

• CANCELLED - Friends of the Elphinstone Institute Lunch

  30 November 2024, 12:00 - 15:00
  

  Guest speaker Isla St Clair

• MLitt Ethnology and Folklore Information Evening (Online)

  26 November 2024, 18:30 - 19:30
  

  Information Session

• 2024 David Buchan Lecture: Global Health Crises, Heritage, and the Ghanaian Folk

  21 November 2024, 18:30 - 21:00
  

  Professor Kwesi Yankah Thursday, 21 November 2024 6.30pm, Sir Duncan Rice Library, 7th Floor, Craig Suite followed by a reception featuring North-East produce Book your place at elphinstone@abdn.ac.uk Abstract: Two diseases have ravaged Africa in the past fifty years: HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. These have triggered folk responses in Ghana framed within cultural attitudes to calamity...