Event Archive

2015

May

• Scottish Stepdance Taster

  30 May 2015, 16:00 - 17:00

  May Festival Event

• Totem Pole Carving

  30 - 31 May 2015

  May Festival Event

• The Fiddle at Sea: Exploring the Musical Traditions of Northern Sailors

  29 May 2015, 16:30 - 17:30

  May Festival Event

• Banishing the Beastie: Pioneering Haggis for Modern Times

  26 May 2015, 19:30 - 21:00

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Scots in the Subarctic: Musical Exchanges with the James Bay Cree

  19 May 2015, 19:00 - 21:00

  Saltire Society Lecture

• Ethnographic Film Series - Two Years at Sea

  05 May 2015, 19:30 - 22:00

  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

• A Filthy, Dirty, and Abominable Practice: A Short History of the Blackening

  28 April 2015, 19:30 - 21:00

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Ceilidh for Cullerlie

  25 April 2015, 19:30 - 23:55

  An Evening of Scots Song and Music

March

• Niel Gow's Legacy

  31 March 2015, 19:30 - 23:55

  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)

• Ethnographic Film Series - Pressure Point: Stories Confronting Inequality

  26 March 2015, 16:30 - 23:55

  Three Stories from Palestine, Columbia and India