2023 EVENTS
Cofaidh na Maidne aig àm na Nollaig
Christmas Coffee Morning
19th December 2023


Mòran taing gu Sgoil Shiaboist airson a bhith aig Cofaidh na Maidne an-diugh, chòrd an seinn ris a h-uile duine.
Big thanks to Sgoil Shiaboist today for coming to Coffee Morning, everyone enjoyed the singing.
Pàrtaidh Nollaig Na Cloinne
Children's Christmas Party
16th December 2023
Bha madainn air leth againn aig Pàrtaidh Nollaig na Cloinne a-rithist am-bliadhna. Mòran taing do Avril agus Lynton airson a bhith còmhla rinn, agus don a h-uile duine a thàinig ann.
We had another great morning at this year’s Children’s Christmas Party. A big thanks for Avril and Lynton for being with us again this year, and to everyone who came along.


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The Lewis & Harris Trail Christmas Fayre
Friday 8th December 2pm-7pm
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Remembering Together
Music and Storytelling Ceilidh

Join musician Alastair Caplin for an evening of music and storytelling at Grinneabhat. Drop in between 6:30 and 8:30pm, all welcome, bring an instrument, your voice or just come along to watch and listen. We’ll share music, songs and experiences from the pandemic and make recordings for an upcoming album that will form part of the Western Isles Covid Memorial.
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book FREE tickets at: https://www.tickettailor.com/.../rememberingtoget.../1065434
more info: https://www.rememberingtogether.org/
Wreath Making
Wild Wreath Making Workshop with Jenny Smith



Curry, Quiz agus Craic

Thigibh sios a Ghrinneabhat oidhche Haoine 24 Samhain, airson coiridh, quiz agus craic. £17 gach neach. Feumaidh sibh àite a ghlèidheadh ro làimh, cuiribh fios thugainn aig info@bragararnol.org airson seo a dhèanamh.
Come down to Grinneabhat on Friday 24th November for a Curry, Quiz and Craic. £17 per person, pre booking essential – info@bragararnol.org
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Food at 6pm
Quiz at 7pm
BYOB, no spirits.
Thanks to The Isle of Harris Distillery for providing the prize.
Farpais Cheist Comunn na Gàidhlig
Diciadain 22 Samhain 4.30-6f

Tha Comunn na Gàidhlig a’ cumail quiz air Diciadain 22 Samhain aig Grinneabhat airson C7 – A6. Tòisichidh e aig 4:30f agus thig e gu crìch aig 6f. Bidh biadh ri fhaighinn.
Airson clàradh, cuiribh fios gu ceitidh@cnag.org
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Comunn na Gàidhlig is hosting a quiz on Wednesday 22nd November at Grinneabhat for P7 – S6. It will begin at 4:30pm and finish at 6pm. Snacks available.
To register, please contact ceitidh@cnag.org
Curry, Quiz agus Craic

Thigibh sios a Ghrinneabhat oidhche Haoine 24 Samhain, airson coiridh, quiz agus craic. £17 gach neach. Feumaidh sibh àite a ghlèidheadh ro làimh, cuiribh fios thugainn aig info@bragararnol.org airson seo a dhèanamh.
Come down to Grinneabhat on Friday 24th November for a Curry, Quiz and Craic. £17 per person, pre booking essential – info@bragararnol.org
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Food at 6pm
Quiz at 7pm
BYOB, no spirits.
Thanks to The Isle of Harris Distillery for providing the prize.
Open Studio Hebrides Artisan Market 2023


Book launch: Sealladh agus Sgeulachdan (Sights and Stories)
By Murdo Morrison
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Frame Basket Weaving with Willow
With Dawn Susan
Saturday 16th September 2023 - 10am-4pm

Latha Coimhearsnachd 2024
Community Day







Àite-Cèilidh Cafe Pop-up Restaurant Classical Night
Saturday 26th August - 5.45-7.45pm
Thigibh còmhla rinn oidhche Shathairne! Join us for our pop-up 'classical' night, everyone is welcome! Pre-order is essential. To book or for more information contact us at 01851 710210 or email info@bragararnol.org
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Conversations Through a Whale - with Mhairi Killin
18th & 25th of August 2023
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2022 was a year of bringing to fruition On Sonorous Seas, a multi-disciplinary, collaborative project which began in 2018 when a whale carcass washed ashore on the Isle of Iona, where Mhairi lives. The project interrogates the power of, and reliance on, sound as a survival tool for whales and the military, and the complex relationship between the militarisation of Scotland’s seas and their existing ecosystems. On Sonorous Seas represents a development of focus within my practice around the question of extraction in the Hebrides as a consequence of the presence of the military, and whether this particular presence has resulted in a psychological disarticulation between a specific culture and its immediate environment.
On Sonorous Seas has created an enquiring energy around this question and wider topics such as our relationship to the non human worlds around us, in this Anthropocene age. Mhairi's hope is that the project will continue in further iterations, inspiring and informing itself by creating space for conversations and thinking about the issues raised by the work.
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We hope that its presence might hold a space at Grinneabhat, reflecting the ethos of the centre by welcoming people in to share conversation and stories around the whale, about the whale, of the whale. As an artist, being in residence with the whale, the centre, and its visitors, gives Mhairi a chance to extend the On Sonorous Seas project outwards, whilst reflecting inwards on further work. In this way the space becomes studio, exhibit, and salon as she open her practice up and out; drawing, thinking, reading, sharing and inviting a curiosity about what connects an artist to place, to an idea, to a feeling, to a purpose.
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Mhairi will bring the whale's story back home and hopes to recieve others. Come along to the events to learn and to share stories on whales and whaling.
On Sonorous Seas - Open Studios with Mhairi Killin
Firday 25th August 5pm-7pm



Open Studios Hebrides
27th-29th July & 3rd-5th August 2023

Cuairt le CnaG -
A Walk with CnaG
26mh den Iuchar 2023 -
26th of July 2023
Abair latha còmhla ri Comunn na Gàidhlig aig Grinneabhat! Thòisich Ceitidh, Sarah agus na sianar chloinne an latha le cuairt timcheall machair Bhràdhagair is an tràigh. B` e Gèillean na Muice-mara a’ chiad àite far an do stad iad, agus bha a’ chlann a’ smaoineachadh mu cia mheud aca a dh’fheumadh seasamh air muin a cheile gus a’ mhulach a’ ruighinn. Às dèidh beagan deasbaid, cho-dhùn iad gum feumadh iad coignear.
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What a wonderful visit from Commun na Gàidhlig here at Grinneabhat! Ceitidh, Sarah, and the six kids set out for the day with a coastal walk around the machair. Starting the trip off at the Whalebone Arch, they tried working out how many of them it would take to reach the top! It was settled on five.
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Ma tha an gèillean cho mòr ri seo, dè cho mòr `s a tha muc-mhara?
If the jaw bone is this big, can you imagine how big a whole whale would be?

Leis gun robh an latha cho math, b` e amas na cloinne dealbhan a thogail de na rudan a chunnac iad – gu sònraichte dealbhan de bheathaichean agus lusan. B’ e crùbagan an rud a bha iad bu mhotha ag iarraidh fhaicinn. Ged a bha an latha grianach, cha robh crùbagan ri lorg. Bha dìreach sligean ri fhaicinn agus crùbagan beaga bìdeach. Ach co-dhiù, bha iad toilichte leis na sligean mòra bho na crùbagan.
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With the lovely weather we had, the plan was to take pictures of what we saw on our walk - particularly any plants and animals. What the kids were most interested in finding was crabs! While it was a lovely sunny day, it seems all the crabs we could find were either too small or empty shells. However, they happily posed with the big crab claws they found!

Às dèidh bhith ruith timcheall an tràigh, thill a h-uile duine air ais gu Grinneabhat `son milkshakes a-miugh sa ghrèin! An uairsin, chaidh iad dhan rùm choimhearsnachd airson ealain a dhèanamh a’ cleachdadh dealbhan de na rudan a lorg iad air an cuairt, agus dh’ionnsaich iad na faclan Gàidhlig eadar-dhealaichte airson na rudan sin!
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After a run around on the beach, everyone headed back to Grinneabhat for some milkshakes outside in the sun. Next, everyone got together in the workshop to make some art out of what they found and learnt the different Gaelic words for them!

'String / Lines' with Caroline Dear
Unravelling the story of string: people, plants and place.
Tuesday 18th July

Bha latha inntinneach againn an seo aig Grinneabhat Dimàirt.
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Còmhla rinn fad an latha bha an tè ealain Caroline Dear. Tha Caroline stèidhte san Eilean Sgitheanach, agus `s e neach-ealain a th’ innte, a tha ag obair le nàdar, a’ dèanamh snàithleanan agus ròpannan iongantach à lusan dùthchasach. Às dèidh dhith bhith ag innse dhuinn mu a h-obair aig Cofaidh na Maidne, chaidh Caroline agus buidheann de mhuinntir an àite a-mach cuairt air machair Bhràdhagair a’ coimhead ri lusan agus a’ bruidhinn mu dheidhinn traidiseanan an Taobh Siar a thaobh dèanamh ròpa.
Bha bùth-obrach ann an uairsin aig Grinneabhat. Thuirt Elspeth Murphy a bh’ aig a’ bhùth-obrach, “`S e bùth-obrach fìor mhath a’ bh’ ann a’ dèanamh ròpa bho chuilc is lusan eile, às dèidh cuairt shocair tro fhlùraichean na machrach! Dh’ionnsaich mi tòrr fiosrachaidh ùr mu na lusan agus na cleachdaidhean. An uairsin air ais gu Grinneabhat airson cofaidh is cèic. Chòrd e rium!”
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We had a brilliant, interesting day here at Grinneabhat on Tuesday.
​With us all day was artist in residence Caroline Dear. Caroline is a Skye based artist who works with nature, making amazing threads and ropes from native plants. After introducing her work at the coffee morning, Caroline and a group of local people visited Bragar machair and explored the plants and Westside traditions of rope making.
This was followed by a workshop at Grinneabhat. Elspeth Murphy who was at the workshop said, “Really lovely workshop making rope from reeds and other plants, after a relaxing walk through the machair flowers! I learnt lots of new information about the plants and uses. Then back to Grinneabhat for coffee and cake. Loved it!”

Bha sinn fortannach gun robh Iona Davidson còmhla rinn às dèidh bhith a’ seinn aig Heb Celt. Sheinn i òrain àlainn thradiseanta dhuinn. `S ann à Barabhas a tha Iona ach tha ceanglaichean làidir aice ri Bràdhagair.
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We were very fortunate to have Iona Davidson with us, fresh from her debut at Heb Celt, singing beautiful traditional Gaelic song for us. Iona is from Barvas but has strong links to Bragar. Click here for a video clip of Iona singing.
Bu mhath le Grinneabhat taing a thoirt do Jon MacLeòid a chur an tachartas inntinneach seo air dòigh agus a thug cuireadh do Charoline a Ghrinneabhat airson a’ choimhearsnachd a choinneachadh.
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Gheibh sibh barrachd fiosrachaidh mu Caroline is a h-obair an seo: https://www.carolinedear.co.uk/info
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Grinneabhat would like to thank Jon Macleod who co-ordinated this interesting event and introduced Caroline to Grinneabhat and the community.
Please see Caroline’s website for more information on her work: https://www.carolinedear.co.uk/info
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Amazing Whales Creative Workshops
Friday 7th July 11.30am - 3pm
As part of the Outer Hebrides Wildlife Festival, children age 8-12 can explore the ocean depths and learn about whales through music, movement and making with An Lanntair's arts workers. Bring a packed lunch.
To book and for more information please visit: https://lanntair.com/events/event/amazing-whales-creative-workshops/

Island Paintings Exhibition Opening
By Jonathan Smith
Saturday 24th June 5-7pm
An exhibition of recent paintings by artist Jonathan Smith, reflecting the weather, light and particular nature of the Lewis landscape.


Calum Alex Macmillan with Ross Martin
Friday 23rd of June 7.30pm

Gaelic singer and piper Calum Alex Macmillan is joined by Ross Martin (Dàimh) for an evening of traditional gaelic song and music.
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Tickets are £10 and £7 for members. To book tickets, please phone us at 01851 710210 or visit us here at Grinneabhat. BYOB.
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For more information about Calum Alex Macmillan, visit his website at www.calumalexmacmillan.co.uk
Là Bogaidh Gàidhlig - Gaelic Immersion Day
Disathairne 10 Ògmhios - Saturday 10th June

Là Bogaidh airson daoine a tha air tòiseachadh Gàidhlig ionnsachadh. Tha seo freagarrach dhuibh ma tha sibh air a bhith ag ionnsachadh na Gàidhlig airson bliadhna, no air crioch a chur air Speak Gàidhlig A1. Gheibh sibh cothrom an canan a dh'ionsaich sibh a chleachdadh tro ghnìomhan m.e. geamanan bùird, cuairt san sgìre, òrain agus sgeulachdan.
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Bidh sinn a' cleachdadh canain mu ar beatha làitheil agus a ' cleachdadh tòrr ghnìomhairean agus Riochdairean Roimhearach. Gabhaidh sinn bracaist agus lòn còmhla mar phàirt dhan an là.
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Our immersion day will be suitable for students who have been studying Gaelic for a year and/or have completed Speak Gaelic A1.You will have the opportunity to use the language you have learnt through various activities e.g. board games, a walk, songs and stories.
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We will be using language about everyday matters and using lots of verbs and prepositional pronouns. A chance for you to speak Gaelic to one another. Breakfast and lunch will also be provided on the day.
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Cosgais: £40
Uair: 8.30-3f
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Ma tha sibh airson pàirt a ghabhail no ma tha sibh ag iarriadh barrachd fiosreachaidh, nach cuir thugainn fios agus bidh sinn toilichte ur cuideachadh.
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fòn: 01851 710210
post-d: info@bragararnol.org
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Twitter: @BragarArnol
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