Posts for August, 2022

Following the Society talk on the 16th September, this walk will take in some of the sites of Grantown’s industries and provide some of the stories about the industrial past of what was founded as a manufacturing town. Booking is not necessary but anyone with mobility difficulties who could not normally manage the route can contact the organisers, well in advance, and it may be possible to provide appropriate assistance in the form of an all-terrain buggy.

Meetings are held at 10:15am on the first Thursday of each month where we discuss our latest favourite reads with tea, coffee & biscuits

A special community event in Dufftown, presented by leading Scottish folk performers, Hamish Napier (Grantown on Spey folk musician and composer) and musician/storyteller David Francis (Associate Director, TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland). This event launches a year long arts project in Dufftown in partnership with the Peoples’ Parish.

Music from local performers, storytelling from David Francis, followed by a concert from the Hamish Napier Trio (with Patsy Reid and Innes Watson) who will perform music from Hamish’s award-winning album The Woods. The night will close with a Ceilidh Dance fuelled with stovies and the all important raffle!

Ashley Fripp is now an annual fixture at TOMS. He will play a programme of Mozart, Liszt and Chopin

Join artist and historian, Dr Charles Fletcher and Curator, Dan Cottam on a walk up into the past of the abandoned crofts on Dava Moor. A walk on the beautiful and terrible moor that set the scene for Maurice Walsh’s novel ‘A Key above the Door’ celebrating the novel’s 100 anniversary for Scotland’s Year of stories. The stories of the people who
lived on the moor and the landscape itself are told as we journey to find the scene of the crime where Walsh begins his tale.

Exhibition of members photographs

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