Posts for April, 2025

I am super excited to bring you this unique, one-off workshop with guest teacher, the utterly fabulous… Yasmin Kabir!!! 🩷✨

She believes wholeheartedly, that dance is a tool to empower people, and empower people she does! Yasmin has an incredibly warm, encouraging and uplifting spirit, and taking part in one of her classes is just joy for the soul. We are so fortunate that she has agreed to fly up and teach for us here in Grantown-on-Spey. As a teacher with experience in multiple styles, Yasmin incorporates influences from different genres and is very excited to share her “Vogue inspired” routine.

Yasmin and I share a similar ethos – that dance is for everybody – all levels, all abilities, EVERYONE! That is really clear in her classes, which I have been lucky enough to attend, where total beginners, people of all ages and different backgrounds all come together and enjoy the music. This is why I am so excited to have her with us, her positive vibe is infectious and I can’t wait for you to experience it for yourselves.

This is going to be a striking, expressive experience, filled with sharp poses, fluid arm movements, and fierce attitude. This workshop is all about confidence, self-expression, and channeling your diva energy!

Our resident tutor Angus Grant will teach you a simple clay technique to make a finely finished and functional piece of pottery.

You will also decorate your handmade quaich with textures and patterns.

Pieces will be glazed and fired by Angus after the class. Items can be collected in person from the studio or posted to you (postage must be paid on the day of the workshop.)

Our resident tutor Angus Grant will teach you a simple clay technique to make a finely finished and functional piece of pottery.

You will also decorate your handmade quaich with textures and patterns.

Pieces will be glazed and fired by Angus after the class. Items can be collected in person from the studio or posted to you (postage must be paid on the day of the workshop.)

Get involved in a free family-friendly crafting project to build a large tabletop model of a remote landscape in the Cairngorms during the Easter holidays!

We’re bringing the landscape to us! Join us in creating a collaborative 3D cardboard contour model of Loch A’an, a remote and difficult to access place deep in the Cairngorms Connect landscape. Through cutting, glueing and layering cardboard, an accurate topographical replica becomes something we can touch, imagine and learn about.

Drop-in anytime to one of five sessions we’re running during the Easter holidays. Get involved, create cardboard creatures and invent your own little landscapes too! All materials are provided.

Accessibility: Accessible for all abilities, knowledges and experiences of crafting and the Cairngorms. Toilets, car-parking and wheelchair access available at all venues. Please contact Cairngorms Connect with any questions: [email protected]

Get involved in a free family-friendly crafting project to build a large tabletop model of a remote landscape in the Cairngorms during the Easter holidays!

We’re bringing the landscape to us! Join us in creating a collaborative 3D cardboard contour model of Loch A’an, a remote and difficult to access place deep in the Cairngorms Connect landscape. Through cutting, glueing and layering cardboard, an accurate topographical replica becomes something we can touch, imagine and learn about.

Drop-in anytime to one of five sessions we’re running during the Easter holidays. Get involved, create cardboard creatures and invent your own little landscapes too! All materials are provided.

Accessibility: Accessible for all abilities, knowledges and experiences of crafting and the Cairngorms. Toilets, car-parking and wheelchair access available at all venues. Please contact Cairngorms Connect with any questions: [email protected]

Get involved in a free family-friendly crafting project to build a large tabletop model of a remote landscape in the Cairngorms during the Easter holidays!

We’re bringing the landscape to us! Join us in creating a collaborative 3D cardboard contour model of Loch A’an, a remote and difficult to access place deep in the Cairngorms Connect landscape. Through cutting, gluing and layering cardboard, an accurate topographical replica becomes something we can touch, imagine and learn about.

Drop-in anytime to one of five sessions we’re running during the Easter holidays. Get involved, create cardboard creatures and invent your own little landscapes too! All materials are provided.

Come along and enjoy a fun one hour class where kids will use existing pre cut stencils or cut their own (with help of accompanying adult) and screen print a T-shirt.

This is a fun way for kids to try screen printing and take home a ‘me made’ product. Bring along your own T-shirt, 100% Cotton light coloured tees work great or multi coloured or dark colours also an option just less ink choices will work on these.

Suitable for children age 6+

Hosted by The Grantown Society.


Illustration in event listing from: Trout and Salmon Fishing by John E Hutton (first published 1950, Peter Davies).

Grantown’s artists and makers are opening the doors of their studios in May, allowing you to peek behind the scenes and learn more about their craft.

From painters to ceramicists, from photographers to fabric artists. There is a myriad of beautiful artwork in our town, just waiting to be discovered.

Follow the trail through Grantown to meet Rona Kant, Joanna Wilson, Angus Grant and more, before heading to the outskirts to see stained glass artist Louise Ogilvy and designers Yellow Broom. Then, travel to Dulnain Bridge to see wildlife painter Justin Prigmore and felt artist Linda Brooks.

This event is kindly funded by Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Grantown Business Association.

Please check listings for individual artists before travelling as times may vary.

Reach into the living landscape of the Northern Cairngorms in this immersive and creative workshop, accompanied by Ed’s creative input and professional eye as he guides you with expansive knowledge of his local wilderness.

Photograph light and movement as it glows through ancient forests and follow the flowing burns as they tumble down from the granite monoliths looming above. As you capture the essence of what it means to be amongst this living and ever-changing landscape, you will advance your photography skills and deep dive into creating a powerful narrative with your pictures.

From an all-inclusive accommodation base in Kingussie you will be guided through inspiring and evocative locations in the Northern Cairngorms, taking in the fresh light and colour of spring. Alongside Ed’s accomplished and specialist insight, two of the course days include the addition of a mountain leader to support access to more remote locations.