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The chronicles of the life of a working class family and their young son’s childhood during the troubles of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital.
Dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world, but will this fragile balance continue and humans remain the predators on a planet they now share with history’s most fearsome creatures?
The Badenoch communities hold an annual heritage festival which builds on the very successful Kingussie festivals held previously. The Badenoch Heritage Festival in 2022 is being held from 18th-25th September.
Details of the walks, talks and online events taking place during the week can be downloaded from the website. Most of the events are bookable on Eventbrite, and you can also view all the bookable items there.
Edward Mayer of Swift Conservation will be talking about Swifts, those most spectacular and charismatic urban birds, their sad decline and what every one of us can do about it. A keen birdwatcher since he was a child, Edward has devoted the past 20 years since retiring from his job at the Tate Gallery to working for Swifts, having noticed that the Swifts in his local population in London were declining rapidly. He designed and set up a website www.swift-conservation.org providing a wealth of information and conservation guidance, and then set about giving talks with the aim of inspiring people to set up local groups to assist Swifts both here in the UK and in Europe too. The results have been surprising and very gratifying, and he will tell us about them in this richly illustrated talk, which also doubles as a training class in how to help Swifts yourself. Edward will also be answering your questions about Swifts and how to help them, and pointing out where you can see them in Grantown on Spey, where the local Swift population is still in a very good state, some of them actually nesting in the Grant Arms own roof.
Prior to working as presenter for the One Show, Mike worked as a researcher and director for the world-famous BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol. One of his gigs was to travel to Ellesmere Island in northern Canada, with wildlife cameraman Ian McCarthy, to film the trials and tribulations of a pair of gyr falcons raising a brood on the unforgiving tundra for the Natural World strand. Spending 12 weeks in the land of the midnight sun, the team had the adventure of a lifetime as they got to grips with one of the world’s most enigmatic birds of prey and all the other wildlife scraping a living in this astonishingly beautiful and yet remote region.
“Rib-achingly funny, one of the funniest men alive”. Sunday Times
Doors open 7.30pm. Ticket only. Seated event – Unallocated seats. £15 + b.f. Tickets from www.eventbrite.co.uk
Having presented the very funny and eventful MacAulay and Co on BBC Radio Scotland for almost 18 years and with a string of tv appearances since 1995, Fred’s on air witticisms and on screen reputation are the product of years of experience on the live circuit.
In December 2021 Fred was one of the team of four who won one of the highest amounts ever (£116,000) for their chosen charities on ITV’s THE CHASE.
Fred: “what I absolutely love more than anything (about my job) is standing on stage and making a room full of people hoot with laughter …… especially in Scotland”.
Expect to hear tales of:- Lockdown weddings, gags about complying with the regulations, isolating, things that bind us together …. (like finding out that your bottle bins were too small), ZOOM gigs, Carpark gigs, nuisance phone calls …… and ….. OH YES…….impending grandparenthood!
“If snow could sing, it would sound like Julie Fowlis”. Robert Macfarlane
Touring her remarkable new album – alterum
Hailing from the Outer Hebrides and now based in the Highlands, Julie Fowlis is a multi-award winning singer whose music is deeply influenced by the Hebridean islands where she grew up and by the Highland landscapes where she now resides.
With a career spanning several studio albums and numerous high profile collaborations, her ‘crystalline’ and ‘intoxicating’ vocals have enchanted audiences around the world.
She will forever be recognised for singing the theme songs to ‘Brave’, Disney Pixar’s Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA winning animated film, set in the ancient Highlands of Scotland. One of these songs was long listed for an Oscar in 2013. A winner of ‘Folk Singer of the Year’ at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Julie has graced stages around the world, from village halls in the Highlands to Carnegie Hall in New York, the Mozart Concert Hall in Vienna, The Philharmonie de Paris, Shakespeare’s Globe in London and the World Festival of Sacred Music in Fez, Morocco. She has collaborated with the BBC Concert Orchestra in the Royal Albert Hall for the Proms, sang live at the closing ceremony of the Ryder Cup in Chicago in 2012 to a TV audience of 500 million, an event that was only eclipsed by singing live at the opening ceremony of the Glasgow XX Commonwealth Games in 2014, to a TV audience of over 1 billion. Her voice has been streamed on Spotify alone over 120 million times, and has been heard in space on an official NASA astronaut playlist. She even has a lily flower named after her.
A natural collaborator, she has performed with artists such as James Taylor, KT Tunstall, Chris Thile, Graham Coxon (Blur), Nicola Benedetti and Mary Chapin Carpenter. A regular TV and radio presenter, she is also a sought after voice artist, most recently involved with the Penguin Audiobook release for “The Lost Spells”
She was Scotland’s inaugural ‘Tosgaire na Gàidhlig’ (National Gaelic Ambassador), an honour bestowed on her by the Scottish Government, and in addition to her BA and Masters degrees she holds an honorary Doctorate of Music from Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
Julie is the voice of Scottish Gaelic for the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights Project, which aims to record the declaration in every language in the world. From Abkhaz to Zulu, the declaration has been recorded in 529 languages to date.
‘icy beauty…a consummate masterclass in restrained delivery’, (Live review: Spell Songs, At the Barrier, 2021)
‘Sublime, magical’ FolkRadio 2022
Julie will be joined onstage by acclaimed musicians Éamon Doorley, Duncan Chisholm and Tony Byrne’
The evening concert will be seated and unalllocated seats. There will be an interval with refreshments and a licesned bar. This is a ticketed only event, no ticket sales on the door.
“They are probably the best traditional musicians you are ever likely to hear”. The Glasgow Herald
The way we each experience places can be vastly different – our unique emotions, knowledge, memories and company can all alter how we connect to the land. What and who we’re in company with shapes our connections to a landscape. In this workshop, we’ll be looking at our relationship with a place over time.
No previous writing experience is necessary; over 16s* and all abilities very welcome.
*under-18s must be accompanied by an adult.
These workshops are free, but places are limited. Please sign up to reserve a space.
Location: Loch Insh Outdoor Centre, Ptarmigan Building
Monday 4th July 6pm-8pm
For any questions please contact Elizabeth directly on ekr.waxwing@gmail.com
If you live locally and would like to attend but need help getting to the event please get in touch and we can arrange a lift to and from the event.
Elizabeth Reeder and Amanda Thomson (writer), together with Robbie Synge (choreographer and filmmaker) are Artists in Residence with Cairngorms Connect through the Endangered Landscapes Artists Residency programme.
Come on a tour, behind the scenes, in our collections store in Am Fasgadh. See over 10,000 objects illustrating a unique Highland way of life, brought to life by our store tour guides. Please book ahead to avoid disappointment on 01349 781650 or in person at the museum.
Where is this event being held?
The community cinema is based in the YMCA at the bottom end of the High Street. There is limited parking on the street outside or there is a small carpark at the back of the building opposite the petrol station.
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