Posts for August, 2022

This is the last exhibitionof the season. The etchings were found in the possessions of the late Dave Fallows and they have been framed for sale. Mrmbers art will also be on display. Sandra Robertson and Katie Jackson will each be Artists in Residence for half of the exhibition

Artist and historian , Dr Charles Fletcher talks on his exploration of the history of abandoned crofts that lie on the high grounds between Grantown and Forres that inspired him.
discover a rather dark past intertwined with stories from lives spent on a beautiful but unforgiving moor…

Part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary retelling of ‘ The Key above the Door’ which was set on the Dava,
for Scotland’s Year of Stories.

The Piatti String Quartet will perform Vaughan Williams, Smetana and Beethoven

Company of Wolves presents a solo work by Anna Porubcansky.
Unbecoming is a performance about loss and rage, told by a woman and a mother.
Rage, at all we become when we don’t feel like we have a choice. Loss, of all we haven’t become.
And how we unbecome.
Using traditional song, soundscape, myth, and movement, Unbecoming is a dreamworld: a rich and sublime space where image, memory, desire and fear all reside. Watch a woman unravel, layer upon layer stripped away, to reveal a human, unmasked.
How much of what we are is what we’ve chosen to be?
“genuinely powerful … a captivating portrait of a woman caught in the dissonance of contradictory desires”
-The List
“Anna Porubcansky’s… looping and overlaying of recorded layers and real-time vocalisings echoed the complex
layers of a woman caught in a swithering vortex of choices and desires” – The Herald

Join us for a fabulous Family Fun Day, where we will end the afternoon with an amazing performance from Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer ‘Jazz in the Village’

From a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe 2021 show, this duo based in Edinburgh, Ian (saxophones) and Dominic (piano) have been performing together for a number of years playing melodic improvisations on jazz standards and original compositions.

Entry by donation.

Exhibition illuminating the life and work of Grantown photographer Alex Ledingham, who built a business in the town that lasted over 70 years. The exhibition features examples from his vast postcard series and surviving glass plate negatives from the first half of the 20th Century, which have been recreated and interpreted for a modern audience.
Come see beautiful depictions of Badenoch and Strathspey from early last century.

Exhibition illuminating the life and work of Grantown photographer Alex Ledingham, who built a business in the town that lasted over 70 years. The exhibition features examples from his vast postcard series and surviving glass plate negatives from the first half of the 20th Century, which have been recreated and interpreted for a modern audience.
Come see beautiful depictions of Badenoch and Strathspey from early last century.

Get your hands dirty as you learn how to make ceramics with slabs of clay at the new Spey Bank Studio in Grantown-on-Spey.

No prior experience is needed for this fun class, which will teach you how to use slabs and coils to make a beautiful mug.

What you will learn

– The basics of slab building
– How to make a mug
– Pulling handles
– Simple glazing techniques

Dates
This course runs over two sessions:
– Saturday September 10, 10am-1pm
– Saturday September 17, 10am-12pm

Join Glenlivet & Inveravon Heritage Ranger Lydia for a talk on Pictish art and symbol stones. We will be looking at four Pictish Stones discovered in the churchyard of Inveraven, which has been a site of spiritual practice and pilgrimage for centuries. This tour will provide an overview to Pictish art and culture and will show how the Picts contributed to the shaping of modern Scotland.

Access to Inveraven Church is off the A95 about half a mile north the entrance to Ballindalloch Castle, and can be found by following the brown tourist sign directing visitors down the single track road to the Inveraven Pictish Stones.

Parking is available at the bottom of the drive before you arrive at the church or in front of the church building.

As we will be outside, please dress appropriately for changeable weather.

Children are very welcome to attend.

Well behaved dogs may attend but must be leashed.

Funded by Foundation Scotland from the Dorenell Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund.

Please note that toilet facilities are not available on site.

Scalan was originally the site of a secret Roman Catholic seminary where priests, known as ‘heather priests’ were trained during the 1700s when Catholicism was prohibited.

Following the departure of the priests in 1799, Scalan reverted to a farm. Two steading buildings were built housing corn threshing mills which served the Glenlivet farming community. The threshing machines and water wheels are still in place along with a wealth of historical graffiti telling the story of farming life in the 19th and 20th centuries. A major project to conserve the mill buildings took place in 2019, restoring the waterwheel and lade in North Mill and improving visitor access to the site. This was funded through the Tomintoul & Glenlivet Landscape Partnership with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Join Glenlivet & Inveravon Heritage Ranger Lydia on a guided tour of the site and the mill buildings. You will learn about the history of the site and the mill buildings and we’ll touch on the history of illicit whisky distilling and smuggling too. In addition to being of historical interest, this area abounds with oystercatchers, curlews, and lapwings in the spring and summer months – be sure to bring your binoculars if you have them.

We will be meeting in the Carrachs car park at 1:00pm before proceeding by foot along a farm track, 1km from the car park at the end of the public road. Please wear appropriate footwear and clothing for changeable weather.

Children are very welcome to attend.

Toilet facilities are available during the summer months.

Well behaved dogs are welcome in the mill buildings, but are not permitted in the seminary. Please note that sheep and other livestock live on site.

How to get to the Carrachs car park:
Turn east off the B9008 at Auchnarrow (signposted for Scalan) and follow this road right to the end ensuring to follow sign for Chapeltown of Glenlivet. If you are using a navigation system, the postcode AB37 9JS will take you most of the way to Chapeltown of Glenlivet. Drive past Braeval Distillery and at the road end follow the 90-degree right hand turn which leads to the car park. This track is quite potholed and uneven in places so please proceed slowly and carefully.

Funded by Foundation Scotland from the Dorenell Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund.