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UHI Sgoil Fhoghair
Dàmhair / Samhain 2024
Bha seachdain thrang, inntinneach againn le oileanaich na Gàidhlig, a bh’ air cùrsa goirid Sgoil Fhoghair UHI. Bha dusan oileanach còmhla rinn fad na seachdain ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig, le feadhainn a’ fuireach ann an ostail Ghrinneabhat. Bha clasaichean cànain aca a h-uile latha le Christine NicLeòid, agus bha iad cuideachd thall sa bhos a’ coinneachadh diofar dhaoine sa choimhearsnachd agus a’ cur eòlais oirnn is air a’ chultar ionadail againn. Bha iad air cuairt agus chuala iad tòrr sgeulachdan, chunnaic iad breabadair ag obair air a’ bheairt, bha iad a-miugh le Comunn Eachdraidh an Taobh Siar agus aig Taigh Dubh Àrnoil. Chuala iad cuideachd bho eòlaichean mu ainmean-àite, gnàthasan-cainnte, sgeulachdan is òrain, a bhith a’ cur a-mach an loidhne agus rinn iad rud beag dannsa-ceum cuideachd.
​We were pleased to host UHI’s Autumn Gaelic Learners week at Grinneabhat. This involved daily Gaelic classes with Christine Macleod and various outings in the afternoon learning about local life and culture. Evening events included the Grinneabhat choir, a talk by Catriona Murray UHI lecturer on Halloween customs and a Community Cèilidh. Thanks to all involved in making the week possible and for those that participated.
Thar na h-oidhcheannan, chaidh iad còmhla ri coisir Ghrinneabhat airson rud beag seinn. Thàinig Catriona Murray, òraidiche bho UHI a-null a dhèanamh òraid air feadhainn de na cleachdaidhean agus deas-ghnàthan a bh’ aig daoine uaireigin co-cheangailte ri Oidhche Shamhna, agus a bhith gan dion fhèin bho dhroch spioradan agus cumhachd an dorchadais. Air an oidhche mu dheireadh bha cèilidh ann le Coisir Sgìre a’ Bhac, Ceum Sunndach, Iain Alex Macdonald, Emma 'Scalpaigh' NicLeòid, Dena Anne NicLeòid agus seinneadar ionadail eile, òg is aosta. Taing dhuibh uile son a thighinn a sheinn sa chluich dhuinn. Taing dha Avril Allen cuideachd airson an oidhche a chur air dòigh.
Òraid Oidhche Shamhna
Halloween Talk
31 Dàmhair/October
FAODAIL | FOUND
Outer Hebrides Film Archive
Tuesday 9th July, all day.
Passing Places
Tuesday 9th July, 7.30pm
For more information visit https://www.taigh-chearsabhagh.org/film/found/
Bumblebee ID and Bee Walk 4th July 7.30pm - 9pm
Latha sa Mhòine
11 Cèitean 2024
11 May 2024
Sgioba anns a' mhòine a' togail rùdhanan. Making rùdhanan, miniature peat stacks, to dry this years peat with our great gang of volunteers.
Seaweed Foraging workshop
Saturday 30th March 1-4pm
Join Jemima Hall on a Seaweed Foraging walk to learn about and discuss the ethnobotanical uses of seaweeds, exploring their colours, strengths, medicines and flavours.
Meeting at and returning to the exhibition room at Grinneabhat, setting off at 1pm towards the coastline.
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For more information visit our Exhibitions page.
February's seaweed foraging walk
Jemima Hall
Artist in conversation
Fasgadh Feamad/
Seaweed Shelter
Saturday 10th February 3pm
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/
Book launch: Sealladh agus Sgeulachdan (Sights and Stories)
By Murdo Morrison
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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.
'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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