Posts for March, 2022

A young Han Solo finds adventure when he joins forces with a gang of galactic smugglers and a 190 year old Wookie named Chewbacca. Indebted to the gangster Dryden Vos, the crew devises a daring plan to travel to the mining planet Kessel to steal a batch of valuable coaxium.

Join us at The Grantown Community Cinema based at Grantown YMCA for some family fun.

A selection of drinks and snacks can be purchased prior to the film, please don’t bring your own. This is a community funded project raising funds for the Grantown YMCA as a community centre for all. Visitors and locals welcome.

Please adhere to current Covid-19 guidelines and follow any instructions or posters within the YMCA building.

Having made a makeshift family, Peter can’t shift his mischievous reputation. He leaves the garden for a new life, but his family risks everything to come looking for him. Peter must figure out what kind of bunny he wants to be.

Join us at The Grantown Community Cinema based at Grantown YMCA for some family fun.

A selection of drinks and snacks can be purchased prior to the film, please don’t bring your own. This is a community funded project raising funds for the Grantown YMCA as a community centre for all. Visitors and locals welcome.

Please adhere to current Covid-19 guidelines and follow any instructions or posters within the YMCA building.

Interested in reading and discussing popular books? Pop along to the Grantown Library Book Group. Meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month at 10:15am.

Join us and discuss your latest favourite read.

Everyone is Welcome!

Come and enjoy our Easter Trail around the museum. £1.50per trail, chocolate prize included.

Come and spend a relaxing time making and creating with the extremely talented Aaron Sterritt, in and around our woodland tipi. Aaron is a local green woodworker and creates stunning contemporary pieces that are inspired by the natural characteristics of the wood in which he works.

With him, you will learn a wide range of traditional “Green Woodworking” techniques. Using hand tools and locally sourced hardwood you will be guided through the process of making your very own Shrinkpot.

These wooden pots are the ultimate in pure green woodworking and are an absolute joy to make! You will come away with at least two of these beautifully practical pots, which can have many different uses.

This course is for both complete beginners and more experienced woodworkers. All welcome, no previous woodworking experience is needed. Lunch, drinks and cake are also provided by our wonderful chefs here at The Dell. A wonderful way to spend a day in the trees.

A 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 music, watch demonstrations from local green woodworkers and fill up your bellies on food and drink provided by ourselves.

Supporting local business owners has never been so important, so we hope you can join us and spread the word.

In conjunction with Grantown East – the ultimate backdrop for an Open Air Art, Craft and Food market, we will be holding our first market for 2022. All exhibitors are all based in Scotland and reflect the high standard of Scottish craftsmanship and the diversity that is produced within this country.

There will be a superb range of cheese, gin, game, beer, seafood, fudge, marshmallows and a wonderfully unique collection of jewellery, art, ceramics, ironwork, tweed accessories, textiles, candles & diffusers together with fabulous worked silks & wool – all lovingly handmade in Scotland.

Street Food from Grantown East, Seasonal flavourings and Morleys Coffee will tempt all pallets, and tasters from a range of distilleries will all add to the experience.

There will be a one way system around the market, generous spacing throughout making this a safe and enjoyable experience for all.

Train rides and children’s playground will all add to the enjoyment.

In conjunction with Grantown East – the ultimate backdrop for an Open Air Art, Craft and Food market, we will be holding our first market for 2022. All exhibitors are all based in Scotland and reflect the high standard of Scottish craftsmanship and the diversity that is produced within this country.

There will be a superb range of cheese, gin, game, beer, seafood, fudge, marshmallows and a wonderfully unique collection of jewellery, art, ceramics, ironwork, tweed accessories, textiles, candles & diffusers together with fabulous worked silks & wool – all lovingly handmade in Scotland.

Street Food from Grantown East, Seasonal flavourings and Morleys Coffee will tempt all pallets, and tasters from a range of distilleries will all add to the experience.

There will be a one way system around the market, generous spacing throughout making this a safe and enjoyable experience for all.

Train rides and children’s playground will all add to the enjoyment.

Opera Bohemia, Scotland’s professional touring opera company, will perform Mozart’s comic opera, Marriage of Figaro. Oliver Platt directs this new English version of the opera, which is packed full of wonderful arias, duets and ensembles. The performance is sponsored by TOMS, The Osprey Music Society, based in Boat of Garten under the directorship of Ann Napier.

A series of writing workshops where we will explore our relationships with place. Come along to one workshop, or the whole series!

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 how we connect to a landscape.

With this as a starting point, writer, Elizabeth Reeder, will be hosting a series of writing workshops exploring the idea of companionship.

The workshops will explore what it might mean to have a companion species, or to be accompanied by a question, or to accompany someone with different knowledge of a place than you have.

And we’ll do some writing. The writing is for yourself and you’ll be under no obligation to share. (Although, we are considering collecting stories for those people who are interested in sharing them.)

No previous writing experience is necessary, and all ages* and 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.


Tuesday 12th April, 6pm-8pm, with an optional pre-workshop outdoor activity at 4.30pm.

Wednesday 13th April, 12midday. Elizabeth will be sitting at the Loch and writing. There is an open invitation to turn up and join her! (no booking necessary)

Thursday 14th April, 6pm – 8pm, with an optional pre-workshop outdoor activity at 4.30pm. A Writing workshop with Amanda Thomson and Elizabeth Reeder using Amanda’s book A Scots Dictionary of Nature as the basis for discussions and writing!


For any questions please contact Elizabeth directly on ekr.waxwing@gmail.com

Elizabeth Reeder, together with Robbie Synge (choreographer and filmmaker) and Amanda Thomson (writer) are Artists in Residence with Cairngorms Connect through the Endangered Landscapes Artists Residency programme.