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2024
November
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2024 David Buchan Lecture: Global Health Crises, Heritage, and the Ghanaian Folk
-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...
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Cath Gailbheach nan Eoin (The Desperate Battle of the Birds)
-Part of the Aberdeen and Beyond Storytelling Festival
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Film Screening: Baye Falls
-Join us for an incredible journey across Senegal with Sufi spiritual teacher Ibrahima Fall in this documentary exploring Fall's work and ceremonies.
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Neepie Lantern Competition
-Competition deadline, 1 November 2024
October
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Neepie Lantern Howking Workshop
-Come along and have fun with like minded friends to create your very own neepie lantern in time for Halloween and our Neepie Lantern Competition. Bring a vegetable knife and dessert spoon to help howk your creation. Cost is £5.00 which includes neep, candle, and string, plus refreshments. Parents are responsible for...
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Stories and Songs of Ireland
-Part of the Aberdeen and Beyond Storytelling Festival, co-hosted by the Elphinstone Institute and the Grampian Association of Storytellers
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Rainbow Paths to the Granite City
-Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series
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Film Screening: King for A Day (2022)
-Ethnographic Film Series
September
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Fiddle Bus Outing
-Hosted by the Friends of the Elphinstone Institute
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Toulmin Prize Event 2024
-The prizewinning story will be announced at the WayWORD Festival, in the Main Hall, King's Pavilion, University of Aberdeen, AB24 3FX, on Friday 27 September 2024 at 3:00pm. The winner will receive a £500 prize, and the story will be read aloud by well-known North-East writer, Sheena Blackhall.