Posts for May, 2025

Come and enjoy refreshments, browse the stalls and get some raffle tickets for lovely hampers. In aid of church funds.

Annual free party, celebrating the longest day.

Lots of live music and top drawer DJ talent confirmed. Details to follow soon.

Free party, food trucks, outside bar, kids and dogs welcome.

Join us at OpenSpace in Grantown on Spey to celebrate the local artists and creatives in the National Park – sparking conversation, connecting landscape and community and inspiring collective action.

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.

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.

Experience the Speyside Way Ultras: two races, two epic adventures! Choose between a 50km run from Tamdhu Distillery to Buckie or a challenging 100km route starting in Aviemore and finishing in Buckie too. Immerse yourself in the enchanting beauty of pine forests, serene riverbanks, and rolling hills while passing historic distilleries that craft the world’s finest whisky!

Don’t miss this incredible family-friendly event on Saturday August 2rd 2025. Join us and enjoy the spectacle of the kilted ‘Heavies’ and get goosebumps courtesy of the massed pipe bands echoing out across the games field. The Highland dancers will be up on stage to entertain us too, and your kids can join in with any number of track events – or maybe you fancy the Haggis eating competition!?

There’s a variety of stalls, family-friendly rides and games, our iconic Hill run up Creag Dhubh, and the annual Macpherson Rally with all of its colour and traditions. Burger-vans, ice-creams and other refreshments including the beer tent will be available as well as lots of stalls to browse.

Adding further colour and ceremony to the Games is the Clan Macpherson Annual Gathering; clansfolk from around the world join in this grand tradition,

Events start on the Eilan (free parking) from 11am onwards, and you can watch the pipe bands march through the village to the Games field from 1pm.

New for 2025, the over 40s six-aside shinty tournament, and we’re so excited that Newtonmore Camanachd club are bringing this thrilling spectator sport to the event.

See social media posts for more details as we get closer to the date.

Come along on the last Thursday of the month for 5 months and have fun creating and printing.
Join me in our Aviemore studio where each month we will experiment and play with a new printing style while meeting other creative folk.

April 24th – printing with Lego to make occasion cards

May 29th – mark making/printing with your recycling to make small drawstring bags

June 26th – screenprinting with hand cut stencils to make a wooden wall tile or coaster

July 31st- mark making/printing with found objects in nature to make wrapping paper

August 28th – Screenprinting with hand cut stencils to upcycle one of your own pieces of clothing

Thursday Print club runs from 7pm-9pm
You can book just one week = £20
Book for all five weeks = £90
Adults only
Class hosted by Timber + Stitch

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.

We are very excited to welcome back Will Hamer of Wild Kabn Kitchen for the first instalment of our 2025 supper club series. Will’s unique and wonderful open fire style of cooking allows you to explore the connection between food, fire and nature in the beautiful surroundings of the ancient pine forest here at The Dell. They will be offering up a beautifully curated 5 course meal cooked over the fire which celebrates local Scottish produce, in particular venison from right here in the Abernethy forest. The bar will be run by ourselves with a wide selection of soft drink, beers, wines and a cocktail or two for good measure. For more information and to book a place, please do get in touch