Posts for March, 2024

With last year’s Dell Market being such a huge success, we just can’t wait for the next one. Another chance to bring together the wonderful assortment of crafters, artists and food and drink producers from our local area. Here at The Dell we aspire to be as sustainable and environmentally friendly as possible and so we have put together a group of like minded traders to showcase their fantastic products. There will be a little bit of something for everyone. As well as bagging a beauty and being inspired by the creativity around you, you can hang out under the trees listening to live music, watch demonstrations from local green woodworkers and fill up your bellies on food and drink. Supporting local business owners has never been so important, so we hope you can join us and spread the word.

Join Curlew LIFE and RSPB Scotland for an evening of fascinating talks, nature-inspired arts and crafts, musical tunes and poetry readings to celebrate waders as they return to Strathspey and Badenoch to breed.

Local artists and musicians will focus on the inspiration and joy waders bring to our creative minds, and everybody is welcome to join in!

Strathspey and Badenoch is currently a hotspot for these ground nesting birds, but even here their future is not secured. This evening will also be the perfect opportunity to learn more about the threats these birds face in our area and what Curlew LIFE is doing to secure the future of Curlews.

6pm – 7pm:
Complementary welcome drink and appetisers with wader arts and crafts. (Boathouse restaurant)
7pm – 7.30pm:
Welcome by Curlew LIFE (Ptarmigan Dome)
7.30pm – 8.15pm:
Music and poetry readings (Ptarmigan Dome)
8.15pm – 9pm:
Arts and crafts Gallery (Boathouse Restaurant)
9pm -10pm:
Music and poetry readings (Ptarmigan Dome)

A licensed bar is available throughout the evening.

Free, but booking is essential and limited placed are available – please email thijs.claes@rspb.org.uk to secure your place.

(Guests are also welcome to order a curry buffet at £19.95 at the Boathouse Restaurant’s curry night before the event, from 4.45pm. Please contact them directly and well in advance to reserve a table.)

The Spey Art Group presents their annual exhibition and sale, featuring work from local artists.

The preview is on Sunday the 21st April from 3-5pm. All welcome.

Discover how to identify the smells & tastes, learn the language & understand what you enjoy!

Performance of Mozart’s Horn and Clarinet quintets to raise money for Feis Spè.

Over the last year, artists Elizabeth Reeder and Amanda Thomson have been working with local communities and Cairngorms Connect to create a Commonplace Book for the Cairngorms.

With over 50 submissions, including photography, drawings and writing, the final collection captures a snapshot of our lives in this landscape.

Join us at the Spey Bank Studio for an event to celebrate the project, view the submissions and get involved in weaving the Kist which will hold them, with expert guidance from willow weaver Helen Jackson.

Chainsaw Carving Competition
Grand Auction
Pipe Band
Children’s Activities
Beer Tent & Tea Tent
Onsite Caterers
Craft and Trade Stalls

The event is organised entirely by local volunteers and all profits are invested in local projects.

Meet Van Coo: the curly-haired bull missing part of his ear, just like his namesake! In 2021 he wandered into the creative imagination of local artist Joanna Wilson. Here he was joined by other creatures of the Cairngorms before finding form in the expressive mixed media for which Joanna is best known.

An award-winning artist of international acclaim, Joanna grew up among these glens before work and study took her far and wide, from the Hayward Gallery and the Albert Hall to Yale University. Coming home to set up her studio in Grantown-on-Spey reconnected her with her Highland roots. This limited edition of originals and prints represents a unique opportunity to own a lighthearted example of her work that celebrates this land and its inhabitants.

A solo exhibition of Joanna’s abstract figurative work can be found in the O P E N S P A C E gallery.

Come along and see our NEW Contemporary Art Gallery In Grantown-on-Spey.

HEARTSONG Contemporary Abstract Expressions

OPENSPACE | THE VAULT Contemporary Art Gallery + Exhibition Venue.

OPEN EVENING Fri 23rd 4-7pm
Open Mon-Sat 9-5PM

Family quiz night. Come along and test your general knowledge with Martin our resident quiz master. Suggested donation of £1 per person, raising funds for charities.