Event Archive

2012

May

• The Moray Firth Gansey Project

  29 May 2012, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

• Little Collection of Polish Folk Art and Craft

  13 May 2012

  Anna Sznajder presented a small exhibition about hand-crafted items from southern Poland.

• Toulmin Prize 2012

  02 May 2012

  Moira Taylor, a keen storyteller from Peterhead, scooped the £500 cash prize for her short story Lizzie's Dother. Sheena Blackhall gave a reading of the winning story and it will be published in Leopard Magazine. The award was made at ‘a wee word’ Writers Festival at the University of Aberdeen,...

April

• Scots in the Sub-Arctic: Musical Exchanges with the James Bay Cree in Canada

  24 April 2012, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

March

• Not Just for Babies: The Power of the Lullaby

  27 March 2012, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture

• Polish Storytelling

  03 March 2012

  Michal Malinowski recounts tales of all kinds from around Poland.

February

• Scottish Pantomime

  28 February 2012, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

January

• Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scotland: Preservation, Exploitation and Development

  24 January 2012, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Public Lecture Series

2011

November

• Print for the People in Urban and Rural Scotland 1750 to 1900

  29 November 2011, 19:30 - 23:59

  Elphinstone Institute Pubic Lecture Series

• Button Boxes and Moothies: A Free Reed Convention

  11 - 13 November 2011

  A unique celebration of small 'free-reed' instruments, including mouth organs, concertinas, melodeons, diatonic button accordions, and Jews harps.