Posts for January, 2023

Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll. He has burnt through eight of his nine lives. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.

An event that buzzes!
Carve Carrbridge, also known as the Scottish Open Chainsaw Carving Competition attracts over 20 chainsaw carvers from around the world to compete and create something truly special in just 4 hours. Carvings are judged on artistic merit, technical difficulty, and originality.
In 2022 the youngest ever winner was Sam Bowsher aged 24. Sam has been coming to Carve Carrbridge since he was about 6 years old, watching his Dad and multiple winner, Pete Bowsher in action. Sam made his debut at Carve Carrbridge in 2019 and also won the Discovery Channel Canada’s TV event ‘A Cut Above’ in 2022.

The competition at Carve Carrbridge is fierce and the creations by these talented folk are awe inspiring.
If you are around the Cairngorms you might come across some carvings bought in the Grand Auction and the Carving Trail around Carrbridge showcases many from past years.

The event is organised and run by over 70 local volunteers with support from a number of local businesses and the longevity of this event is testament to the the community spirit that has brought it to this milestone.

Kingussie’s annual winter festival – FOOD ON FILM – 2nd – 5th February – brings the big screen to the rural Highlands of Scotland in a unique way, to celebrate and explore the world of food with a feast of short films, documentaries and features to make you laugh, make you think and make you hungry! With filmmakers and food producers gathering to share their passions and skills, the Cairngorms Food Hall showcasing the best of Highland produce and cooking demo – it’s a recipe for a fabulous weekend! Tickets for all the films will be for sale on the door.

Sunday 5th February

Venue – Duke of Gordon Hotel @ 12 noon
Movie – “Bottle Shock” and Carvery

£15 entry

Kingussie’s annual winter festival – FOOD ON FILM – 2nd – 5th February – brings the big screen to the rural Highlands of Scotland in a unique way, to celebrate and explore the world of food with a feast of short films, documentaries and features to make you laugh, make you think and make you hungry! With filmmakers and food producers gathering to share their passions and skills, the Cairngorms Food Hall showcasing the best of Highland produce and cooking demo – it’s a recipe for a fabulous weekend! Tickets for all the films will be for sale on the door.

Talla Nan Ros, King Street, Kingussie – 7pm

Movie – VATEL
Serving Kir Royal & Chicken Chasseur (vegetarian option available)
Tickets £12

Kingussie’s annual winter festival – FOOD ON FILM – 2nd – 5th February – brings the big screen to the rural Highlands of Scotland in a unique way, to celebrate and explore the world of food with a feast of short films, documentaries and features to make you laugh, make you think and make you hungry! With filmmakers and food producers gathering to share their passions and skills, the Cairngorms Food Hall showcasing the best of Highland produce and cooking demo – it’s a recipe for a fabulous weekend! Tickets for all the films will be for sale on the door.

Saturday 4th February

Day:
Food Hall Open from 10.30am to 3.30pm @ The Badenoch Centre, Spey Street Kingussie
Tickets £2 on Entry

Held at Kincraig Village Hall this popular Event is organised by the Community and welcomes locals and visitors to join in their celebration of the National Bard Rabbie Burns.

A traditional supper of Soup, Haggis, Neeps N’ Tatties served wi’ a dram, ‘piped in and addressed’, Tea/Coffee and Shortbread leads into the Immortal memory and traditional toasts – leaving plenty of time to Ceilidh dance afterwards.

If you haven’t been to a Ceilidh dance before then don’t worry – we have a dance caller too!

This event is fully licensed with a separate bar. Gluten free and vegetarians catered for.

St Margaret’s plays host to Scotland’s Makar, our national poet, for a daytime ‘in conversation’ event just days after Burns Night.

Kathleen Jamie, poet and essayist, was born in 1962. Her work concerns nature, travel and culture, Her non-fiction includes the Findings trilogy (Findings, Sightlines and Surfacing) all regarded as important contributions to the ‘new nature writing’.

Kathleen’s prize-winning poetry collections have been gathered into a recent Selected Poems (Picador 2019).

She was raised in Currie, Midlothian and has what Robert Louis Stevenson called ‘a strong Scots accent of the mind’.

Her poems have appeared on the Underground systems of London, New York and Shanghai and, closer to home, one of her poems was chosen by the public to be carved on a huge wooden beam on the national monument at Bannockburn.

Kathleen was for many years a tutor of creative writing at the universities of St Andrew’s and Stirling, and now freelances, having made a recent foray into editing with Antlers of Water, Scottish Writing on Nature and the Environment.

Fiona Kennedy OBE DL is one of Scotland’s best known singer-songwriters and broadcasters. She has produced a variety of shows for stage and television over the years and is a tireless volunteer and ambassador for a number of charities, not least as a Trustee of St Margaret’s Braemar.

Her musical accomplishments are incredibly varied and include singing for Her late Majesty The Queen on several occasions, performing at Edinburgh Castle during the G8 Summit, shows at Celtic Connections and the BBC’s Transatlantic Sessions and touring with Runrig.

She has hosted television programmes for PBS in America, narrated Peter and the Wolf and The Snowman alongside the RSNO and acted in a number of roles including Alfie in the West End and in the 1973 cult classic film The Wicker Man.

Each year Fiona brings some of the world’s biggest names in Country and Americana to the St Margaret’s stage in a pan-celtic celebration of music called Transatlantic Connections, with performances from Beth Nielsen Chapman, Mary Gauthier and Verlon Thompson in recent years. In January 2022, she interviewed poet, writer and former Makar Jackie Kay on her life and work in literature.

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This hour-long lunchtime event will delve into Kathleen Jamie’s influences and her journey from being brought up in a non-literary, ordinary Scottish family to becoming Scotland’s Makar, penning new works for national occasions —the opening of The Scottish Parliament and most recently following the death of Her Majesty the Queen.

Following the event, a selection of Kathleen’s books and collections will be available to purchase and the author will be available to sign these.

Teas, coffees, snacks and soft-drinks will be available.

This event is delivered in partnership with The Fife Arms.

Join Cairngorms Astronomy Group and Tomintoul & Glenlivet Development Trust for a night of stargazing at Inveraven Church & Pictish Stones. What did the Celts see in the night sky? Can these enigmatic monuments shed any light on Pictish astronomy? Come along to find out more.

The Osprey Music Society (TOMS) in Boat of Garten will host The Broen Ensemble whose 8 members will perform a programme of Elgar, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky.

The Osprey Music Society (TOMS) will host Sasha Savaloni on classical guitar, in company with Lee Holland on flute, Mark O’Keefe on trumpet and soprano Alison McNeill. This the premier of a unique programme of pieces arrangewd specially for TOMS.