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Join us for a natter and a brew as we explore our ‘topic of the month’ with our expert rangers!
Our tea and talk sessions are small-scale talks from the RZSS team taking place in our Learning Hive at Highland Wildlife Park.
Talks begin at 11am, with entry via our main entrance.
Your ticket includes entry to the park for the rest of the day, tea, coffee and a selection of biscuits.
For further information please contact events@rzss.org.uk.
Welcome to the Deeside Nature Festival 2025, a wonderful amalgamation of local individuals, organisations and businesses drawn together to celebrate the natural heritage of Deeside in the Eastern Cairngorms, and coordinated by us, Wild Discovery.
We are thrilled that our small festival in 2024 is growing arms and legs and the overwhelming positive feedback for an event in 2025 has been very uplifting.
The Deeside Nature Festival is a celebration of nature and an opportunity to connect as many people with the natural world as possible. Those connections may present themselves in a variety of forms from direct observation of wildlife right through to the expression of nature through the arts. We have endeavoured to bring together as large a spectrum of events as possible over the long weekend and hopefully something for everyone.
Our goals are simple:
To connect people with nature
To promote the natural heritage of Deeside
To support rural livelihoods and green initiatives
Dan and Rachael of Wild Discovery with guests
The whole festival is organised in a voluntary capacity and while there may be charges to some of the events hopefully you will agree that this only reflects the value of the expertise and experience you have attended, and knowing that a fundamental aim of the festival is to promote rural livelihoods and green initiatives.
The 2025 festival is coming together nicely and we will be adding more events as they are confirmed. Keep checking back to make sure you don’t miss out!
Image credit www.wild-discovery.com
Get ready swing to the infectious rhythms of the Roaring Twenties in our Charleston Workshop!
We will guide you through the fundamentals of the Charleston, helping you build confidence, rhythm, and a whole lot of flair. You’ll learn a wee routine in this comical and fantastic dance style from the 1920’s and FAVOURITE on Strictly Come Dancing!
No partner required, but feel free to bring one along if you’d like!
This workshop was super popular last time and some of you missed out. So grab your tickets early to make sure you get your spot on the dance floor.
Date: Saturday 24th May 2025
Time: 2.00pm – 4.00pm
Venue: Inverallan Church Hall, Grantown on Spey
Tickets £20.00 per person
16 years and up
Due to Popular Demand… We’re Bringing It Back! 🔥
You asked, we listened! 🎉 Our Chicago Workshop was such a hit that we’re running another one! We are bringing the razzle-dazzle back and continuing with our jazzy number!
Date: Friday 9th May
Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Venue: Inverallan Church Hall, Grantown on Spey
Tickets £20.00 per person
16 years and up
Spaces are limited, so don’t miss your chance to be part of the show! ✨
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!
Cairngorm Community Cinema – On Falling.
On Falling tells the story of Aurora, a Portuguese warehouse picker working in a vast fulfilment centre in Scotland. Trapped between the confines of a vast distribution centre and the solitude of her own bedroom. An intimate and unwavering portrait of an isolated migrant and her relationship to the precarious labour that constrains and defines her.
The film had its World premiere at Toronto International Film Festival 2024 and its European premiere at the 72nd San Sebastián Film Festival where director Laura Carreira won the Silver Shell for Best Director. The film also won the Sutherland Award at the 68th BFI London Film Festival.
Doors at 6.30pm, film start 6.40pm.
Run length 1hr45min.
Community-owned but operated in partnership with Spey Valley Cinema and supported by the BFI and Film Hub Scotland, Cairngorm Community Cinema aims to create a space where the community can gather, discover new perspectives, and enjoy film.
At just £5 a ticket, we’re making it accessible to all.
Tickets only available on the door, so just show up!
Please come once again support our community cinema to keep it running for the rest of the year.
From the “ordinary” (penny farthing) to the extraordinary; a display of bicycles, stories and articles illustrating how cycling developed in Strathspey including the foundation of Grantown’s first cycle club in 1891.
A classroom-based course that shows you the whats, whys and wherefores of bike maintenance.
We’ll take you through the anatomy of your bike, common tools, look at how we make sure your bike is ready and safe to ride, and tackle the thorniest of all trail-side issues — the dreaded puncture! If getting hands on with your bike seems a little daunting, we want to provide a relaxed atmosphere where no question is silly and you can take away the skills to look after your bike properly (so that it can look after you).
Minimum age 10 years old.
A classroom-based course that shows you the whats, whys and wherefores of bike maintenance.
We’ll take you through the anatomy of your bike, common tools, look at how we make sure your bike is ready and safe to ride, and tackle the thorniest of all trail-side issues — the dreaded puncture! If getting hands on with your bike seems a little daunting, we want to provide a relaxed atmosphere where no question is silly and you can take away the skills to look after your bike properly (so that it can look after you).
Try out cycling and discover local routes. Join our cycle leaders on rides tailored to your needs.
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