Posts for December, 2022

Telescopes can be daunting if you’re just starting out and this workshop will help you to get to grips with your equipment. We’ll be using the hall and the porch to set up and learn all about different types of telescopes.

During this workshop we will focus on:

Using your telescope

Types of telescope

Observing deep sky objects

We encourage you to bring your own equipment, as our team will be on hand to help with all your telescope needs.

In a new series of richly entertaining, and free of charge, dramatised podcasts, Fire Works, award-winning Firebrand Theatre Company will take to the Pitlochry Festival Theatre Sound Stage to guide you on an audio journey through the life and work of the multi-talented novelist, poet, teacher and nature writer Nan Shepherd.

In three 30 minute podcasts, Nan Makes History, Nan In Love and Urban Nan, Firebrand will use Nan’s ground-breaking novels, letters and poems, along with entertaining dramatised scenes, to experience the unconventional author in all her natural and, at times lesser-known, habitats, while trying to explain the mystery of why her greatest work languished forgotten in a drawer for over thirty years.

Join us for a 2km trail run around the beautiful Abernethy Forest. Bring your own Santa Hat, wear some red and get into the Festive spirit.
Registration from 10am at Nethy Bridge Games Field.
Entry £5 (all proceeds will go to Abernethy Primary School PTA)
Primary aged School Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Please indicate on Facebook if your child is intending on coming to allow us to plan the correct number of medals!

Delighted to be bringing this wonderful Family Event Back!!
Join us at 6pm at Lynstock Crescent for Hot Chocolate and Mulled Hot Drinks. Piped off by a local piper we’ll depart at 7pm and create a river of light throughout the village.
Torches available to buy from 6pm for £5. Procession leaves Lynstock Crescent at 7pm.
Help us celebrate Hogmanay and enjoy an event for all ages.
All in aid of our incredible Abernethy Primary School!!

After our enforced 2-year absence the annual Christmas Eve procession is back with Santa and his reindeer and the Badenoch and Strathspey pipe band.

The procession leaves the fire station at 6pm and we will walk down to the Cairngorm Hotel for a sing song and fire works. Everyone is welcome to take part. Our theme this year is Chrismas movies. Come and join the Wizard of Oz, Shrek and Donkey and many more!

Join us for a festive family fun stargazing session. We will be meeting at the Discovery Centre at 6pm on the Thursday and Friday evening before Christmas. Come and enjoy a hot chocolate and a walk down to the Field of Hope to take in the night sky with our red light head torches. Santa hats, reindeer horns, and festive attire encouraged!

The Geminid meteor shower is one of the last of major meteor showers of the year, and can usually be relied on to put on a good display. Join Cairngorms Astronomy Club and TGDT in the Square, Tomintoul to experience this special celestial phenomena. The meteors of the Geminid shower are very bright, moderately fast, and are unusual in being multi-coloured – mainly white, some yellow and a few green, red and blue. These colours are partly caused by the presence of traces of metals like sodium and calcium, the same effect that is used to make fireworks colourful. Everyone welcome.

If the skies aren’t clear on Tuesday the 13th of December, another chance to view them will be offered at the same time on the 14th of December.

Santa Run is back for 2022! We are excited to share that the Santa Run is back, join us in Aviemore on Saturday 10th December 2022. This event is open to everyone and anyone who is ready for some festive fun, while supporting Disability Snowsports UK.

The event is family-friendly, accessible, and offers a great way to celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season in the picturesque surrounding of Aviemore. Participants can choose between a 1mile route or a 5Km route starting at Macdonald Resort North Street Car Park, going through the famous Aviemore High Street, through resort streets and finishing back at the starting point, where you will be able to rest, enjoy festive snacks and some Christmas music!

Please note that Santa or Elf suits are not included in the ticket cost this year. If you require a Santa or Elf Suit these can be added on to your ticket, we will also have suits available on the day too. Festive dress-up is encouraged, so please get creative!

All participants are encouraged to raise a small target of £20 to allow DSUK to subsidise more lessons for disabled children and adults. You don’t want to miss becoming a Santa for a day!

The Grantown on Spey Hogmanay Street Party returns for 2022 with live music provided by Speysound Radio, Lyle Kinnaird and Maggie Adamson and Friends. There will be the traditional fireworks at midnight and there will also be a bar and hot food and drinks. Come along to see in the New Year in style and drink a dram and dance a jig to say hello to 2023.
We will be asking for donations for the Hogmanay Fund so please bring along your spare change, or better still a banknote or two.

What places are special to you where you live? What places do you avoid, and why? We all have our own maps of places, linked to memories and stories. Together we’ll go on a short Storywalk around Newtonmore, sharing local folklore and memories of places important to us, or imagining new tales. Then we’ll return to the museum to create our very own Storymap and record our stories, to share a Newtonmore as you’ve never seen or heard before! All ages are welcome. You don’t need to be a resident of Newtonmore to join in!