Event Archive

2013

November

• Open Evening

  07 November 2013, 18:00 - 21:00

  Elphinstone Institute

October

• Voicing Place: The Folk Voice in Modern Scotland

  29 October 2013, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Never-Ending Tales

  27 October 2013, 19:00 - 20:45

  The Elphinstone Institute is proud to present an evening with the wonderful Aberdonian teller of tales, Tony Robertson. Descended from a long line of storytellers, Tony learned many stories traditional to travelling people from his father, Stanley Robertson, and others in his family. Tony’s remarkable storytelling style immediately draws in...

September

• Portsoy's Scottish Traditional Boat Festival

  24 September 2013, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Fiddle Bus Outing

  21 September 2013, 09:30 - 17:30

  Hosted by the Friends of the Elphinstone Institute. Bus leaves MacRobert Building car park at 09.30am sharp £12.00 members of the Friends of the Elphinstone Institute; £15 non-members North-East Fiddle tunes plus song and other instruments.

July

• The Traditional Singing Weekend at Cullerlie

  26 - 28 July 2013

  A festival to celebrate the singing traditions of Scotland, England, and Ireland in memory of Tom and Anne Reid

June

• Second Sight and Prophecy Conference

  14 - 16 June 2013

  This interdisciplinary conference welcomes participants from a range of academic disciplines including history, folklore, anthropology, divinity and sociology whose research interests cover a wide range of topics exploring varying methods used by different cultures (both now and in the past) to look into the future and the rationale for so...

May

• The Present Time is Oors

  28 May 2013, 19:30 - 23:55

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Toulmin Prize 2013

  12 May 2013

  Richard D. Bennett won the 2013 Toulmin Prize with his story Feebuie. The award was presented on Sunday 12 May at the May Festival at the award ceremony after the Celebrtaitng David Toulmin event. The story was read by Sheena Blackhall, and published in Leopard Magazine.

April

• Unravelling Fishermen's Ganseys

  30 April 2013, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series