‘Speirin’ at the Folk’

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‘Speirin’ at the Folk’

University speakers help to launch North-east’s first oral history event

PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES: Saturday, October 28, 10am – 12noon – Lighthouse Museum, Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire

The North-east’s first ever Scottish Oral History Conference will make its debut in Fraserburgh later this month with speakers from the University of Aberdeen.

Organised by the Aberdeen & Region Oral History Association (AROHA) and the Scottish Oral History Group (SOHG), the event will be held in Scotland’s highly acclaimed Lighthouse Museum in Fraserburgh, on Saturday, October 28.

The conference is open to all, it is non-academic and aims to encourage those in the local area with involvement or interest in oral history to come and share their experiences of life in the North east of Scotland and acquire the knowledge of recording.

There will be many opportunities for the public to have discussions’ with the speakers and other AROHA and SOHG participants in the afternoon when talks and workshops are complete.

The Scottish Lighthouse Museum has kindly provided their striking venue to host this pioneering event and AROHA have secured two key note speakers for the day, the first being; Howard Mitchell of the Scottish Oral History Group, based at Edinburgh University and founded in 1978 as a co-ordinating and supportive central body through which the various groups and organisations involved in oral history can communicate. Howard’s speech that will celebrate the development of recording technologies in the field of oral history and reminiscence and Dr Thomas McKean - Deputy Director of the University of Aberdeen’s Elphinstone Institute, who will be elaborating on the Evolution of the James Madison Carpenter Song Collection, an Oral history collector in the early part of the 20th century, who toured Scotland and England from America recording unknown Songs and Ballads, in the afternoon session.

The afternoon session will also feature the following speakers who will highlight various Oral History Projects running throughout Aberdeenshire and their particular focus.

Bill Thompson - Sound Artist/Technician, University of Aberdeen – discussing a variety of projects one being The Sonic Postcards Projects with local youth groups and the Sonic Postcards Team from London.

Martha Stewart - Postgraduate Researcher, University of Aberdeen - the Oral History of Scotland's Lighthouses.

Fiona-Jane Brown - PhD student, University of Aberdeen - 'Reminiscences of an accidental fieldworker'

Other Information:

Tea & other refreshments will be provided during the conference.

The charge for the day, which includes morning coffee/tea and a buffet lunch, will be £10, with a £7.50 concession charge for students and unemployed (bring proof of status or send copy in advance). There is a downloadable booking form available on the website.

Venue: Lighthouse Museum, Kinnaird Head, Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.

Date: Saturday 28th OCTOBER 2006

Time: 10am – 4.30pm

Contact details: Fiona–Jane Brown. info@arohascotland.org / 01224 585861 www.arohascotland.org

Photo opportunities: Morning of the 28th OCTOBER, Saturday.

Photographs of all speaker’s available

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