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2025
November
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Resonant Histories: Echoes of Al-Andalus in Granada (2025), Dir. by Matthew Machin-Autenrieth and Dario Ranocchiari
-Ethnographic Film Series
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Charlie Allan Tribute Concert
-Longtime friend of the Elphinstone Institute, Charlie Allan (1939–2023) of Little Ardo, Methlick, was a renowned farmer, journalist, broadcaster, bothy ballad singer and maker, and one-time World Caber-Tossing Champion. The evening pays tribute in words and music to the full life of a kenspeckle North-East figure.
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The Carrying Stream: 60 Years of Education in the North
-Aberdeen and Beyond Storytelling Festival
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Button Boxes and Moothies 2025
-A unique opportunity to learn more about a wonderful family of small free reed instruments - button boxes, concertinas, melodeons, mouth organs and Jews harps!
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On the Scottish Government's 2025 Apology to Gypsy/Travellers: Exposing Scotland's Cultural Genocide
-Since as early as the nineteenth century and up until the 1980s, various institutions across Scotland – including government offices, churches, and charities – participated in an effort to assimilate Gypsy/Traveller communities, families, and individuals into settled society, using housing and child welfare policies as a primary means of coercion....
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Oral Stories from Gaelic Tradition and Beyond
-Aberdeen and Beyond Storytelling Festival
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Neepie Lantern Competition Deadline
Get your knives and spoons ready and get howking! When you’ve carved your masterpiece send a pic of your entry to elphinstone@abdn.ac.uk including your full name and postal address. Winners will receive one of our publications and an announcement on social media.
October
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Neepie Lantern Howking Workshop
-Join Alison Sharman at this workshop showing you how to create your own traditional neepie lantern for Halloween, just in time for our Neepie Lantern Competition. Neeps, candles, and string will be provided, but please bring a strong dessert spoon and vegetable knife. Parents are responsible for their children (one...
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The Dreaming Bog (2022) dir. by Robert Aitken
-Ethnographic Film Series
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Who Cares for Death? Tales from Norway
-Aberdeen and Beyond Storytelling Festival