Events

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Presented for the first time, Aberdeen Art Gallery in association with Lisson Gallery.
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150 years ago, in October 1870, noted artist James Giles died in his home in Aberdeen.
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Online Event
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Online Talk by Josie Steed, Fashion and Textile Researcher at Robert Gordon University
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This online symposium celebrates Gibb’s legacy, his innovative approaches to design, collaboration and manufacture, and his relationship with the north-east of Scotland.
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Our Aberdeen dementia-friendly events share the stories behind the many different aspects of our collection. This informal session is open to anyone affected by dementia, their families, supporters…
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Talk by Dr Antonia Laurence Allen, Curator, National Trust for Scotland
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In this online session, we’ll be connecting to our collections through objects and artworks that were Made in Aberdeen, including textiles and pottery.
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Meditate on the importance of art in our lives by hearing Aberdeen Art Gallery’s first Artist in Residence Maja Zećo
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ONLINE EXHIBITION ONLY This digital exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Joan Eardley (1921-1963), one of the most important artists in 20th-century Scottish art. 
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Online Talk by Jenna Rose, Curator
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Celebrate spring by hearing Aberdeen Art Gallery’s first Artist in Residence Maja Zećo
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Online Lunchtime Talk
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We have enlisted the help of local BAS9 Ambassadors to help us make connections between groups and communities and this major exhibition of the best recent art from the UK during its first v
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Unlock the themes and stories in BAS9 in this weekly spotlight tour in the company of our Explainers, Ambassadors and Art Gallery staff.
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Art Curator, Morna Annandale takes a look at the history of the decanter through examples from our collection, some of which are on display at Aberdeen Art Gallery in Gallery 6: Feas
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Join community musician Sarah Eggleton for fun and friendly music inspired workshops. 
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Join British Art Show 9 Ambassadors Rosie Leavett and Alan Johnstone for an informal walk around BAS9.
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Join community musician Sarah Eggleton for fun and friendly music inspired workshops. 
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Join community musician Sarah Eggleton for fun and friendly music inspired workshops. 
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Join writer, editor and curator Anna Souter as she talks about the wonderful world of forests and their capacity for sharing, collaboration, and self-healing
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Composer Colin Riley introduces his M2R (Made 2 Resonate) project and presents two short films
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Dr McCall explores the Watt collection: correspondence to and from Aberdeen suffragette Caroline Philips, a selection of which are displayed in Gallery 14: Art of Empowerment.
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Online Event
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Join British Art Show 9 Ambassadors Rosie Leavett and Alan Johnstone for an informal walk around BAS9.
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Online Exhibition  
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Online Event, Pre-recorded
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Are you aged between 16 and 26? Do you have strong ideas about what beauty is?
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A programme of dementia and cognitive friendly events which bring people together to share their stories and feel part of a community. 
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Aberdeen Art Gallery + Paul Mellon Centre    Online Event
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An encounter with a Gerald Laing sculpture leads to some thoughts about metal and its place in various societies around the world today and in the past.
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A programme of dementia and cognitive friendly events which bring people together to share their stories and feel part of a community. 
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Online Talk by Jim Inglis, Curator
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A programme of dementia and cognitive friendly events which bring people together to share their stories and feel part of a community. 
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Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums is delighted to be hosting the Zandra Rhodes: 50 Years of Fabulous exhibi
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On the opening day of his new exhibition, come along and meet artist Kenny Hunter for an informal talk and tour of Sculpture Court.
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On the opening day of his new exhibition, come along and meet artist Kenny Hunter for an informal talk and tour of Sculpture Court.
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Join us for these short online events to find out more about the Micro-commissions programme and hear from some of the commissioned artists whose new works are featured in the current exhibitions i
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Talk by Dr Jennifer Clarke, Lecturer in Critical & Contextual Studies, Gray’s School of Art
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COVID-19 update: Due to the current COVID-19 situation, the advertised Evening with Dame Zandra Rhodes on 20 January will now take place on Thursday 17 February.
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Talk by Christine Arnold-Solomon, Retired Lecturer, Gray’s School of Art
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Talk by Christine Arnold-Solomon, Retired Lecturer, Gray’s School of Art
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Join us for these short online events to find out more about the Micro-commissions programme and hear from some of the commissioned artists whose new works are featured in the current exhibitions i
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Grace McIntosh – the life of a Victorian criminal Phil Astley, City Archivist, Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives
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A programme of dementia and cognitive friendly events which bring people together to share their stories and feel part of a community. 
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Join us as we launch our new partnership with Gray’s School of Art: a series of free Guest @ Gray’s lectures bringing the best national and international artists, designers, writers and cura
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Talk by Dr Hans C Hönes, Lecturer in Art History, University of Aberdeen
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A programme of dementia and cognitive friendly events which bring people together to share their stories and feel part of a community. 
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James Rigler works in clay and other everyday materials to create familiar but ambiguous objects and environments.
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Talk by James Inglis, Curator (History)
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Our Aberdeen is a programme of dementia and cognitive friendly events which bring people together to&nb
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Ceramicist AJ Simpson triumphed this year as the winner of Channel 4’s hugely popular 'Great Pottery Throwdown'.
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Since 1870 Aberdeen Association of Social Service, known locally as VSA, has stood next to the people of the city, offering care, support, and vital services to vulnerable people in our communities
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Talk by Ashleigh Black, Archives Assistant and PhD Student Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen 
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Our Aberdeen is a programme of dementia and cognitive friendly events which bring people together to share their stories and feel part of a community. They are relaxed
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Talk by Griffin Coe, Curator (Art)
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Working in collaboration with Aberdeen Inspired and Aberdeen City Council, in 2022 the multi-award-winning Nuart Aberdeen will once again transform the streetscape of the
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Working in collaboration with Aberdeen Inspired and Aberdeen City Council, in 2022 the multi-award-winning Nuart Aberdeen will once again transform the streetscape of the
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Join Carla as she reflects on how therapeutic art practices can support wellbeing.
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The art of Fife-based artist Reinhard Behrens inhabits a mythical world of snow and ice, of eastern mystery, and of found objects and ideas which transcend time and place.
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Our Aberdeen is a programme of dementia and cognitive friendly events which bring people together to share their stories and feel part of a community.
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Saturdays 9 and 30 July, 6 August, 10 September and 1 October, 1pm (20mins) Members of the Book of Deer Project introduce one of Scotland’s greatest treasures.  
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Artists Lynne Strachan and Mary Bourne lead us on a journey to discover their collaborative investigation of a remote upland corner of the North-East of Scotland.
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Join Anne Simpson and Derek Jennings, Chair and Vice Chair of the Book of Deer Project, as they consider the ‘splendid little book’ and what makes it so special.
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Join Anne Simpson and Derek Jennings, Chair and Vice Chair of the Book of Deer Project, as they consider the ‘splendid little book’ and what makes it so special.
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Megan Hine, Draeger Marine & Offshore
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Join curator Morna Annandale for this talk illustrated with grave goods in our collection from the Bronze Age to the present day.
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Talk by Dr Heidi Gardner and Prof Shaun Treweek
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Saturdays 9 and 30 July, 6 August, 10 September and 1 October, 1pm (20mins) Members of the Book of Deer Project introduce one of Scotland’s greatest treasures.  
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Aberdeen has the most complete body of surviving records of any Scottish town, with a near continuous run of council registers from 1398 to the present.
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Saturdays 9 and 30 July, 6 August, 10 September and 1 October, 1pm (20mins) Members of the Book of Deer Project introduce one of Scotland’s greatest treasures.  
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Saturdays 13 August – 22 October, 2pm (30 mins) Find out what makes the Galloway Hoard the richest collection of rare and unique Viking-age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland.
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Gallery 9 – Balmoral Phenomenon, Level 1
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Dr Richard Anderson, Lecturer in History, University of Aberdeen
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We invite Aberdeen’s Gaelic speakers to come together to explore the Book of Deer and the oldest surviving example of written Scots Gaelic within its margins.  
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Dr Ali Bonner is a Lecturer in the History of the Brittonic-Speaking Peoples and the History of the Gaelic-Speaking Peoples at the University of Cambridge.
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During 2021 artists Lynne Strachan and Mary Bourne developed an arts project in The Cabrach, a remote upland area in Moray, just over the border with Aberdeenshire, and close to where they both liv
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Dr Adrian Maldonado, Galloway Hoard Researcher, National Museums Scotland
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Saturdays 9 and 30 July, 6 August, 10 September and 1 October, 1pm (20mins) Members of the Book of Deer Project introduce one of Scotland’s greatest treasures.  
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Dr William Hepburn and Dr Jackson Armstrong, co-producers
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The Union Street Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS) training courses have been designed around the specific needs of traditional buildings in Aberdeen, addressing real issues and problems
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That belongs in a museum…! Or does it?
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Saturdays 9 and 30 July, 6 August, 10 September and 1 October, 1pm (20mins) Members of the Book of Deer Project introduce one of Scotland’s greatest treasures.  
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Jessica Barrie, Curator
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The Union Street Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS) training courses have been designed around the specific needs of traditional buildings in Aberdeen, addressing real issues and problems
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The Union Street Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS) training courses have been designed around the specific needs of traditional buildings in Aberdeen, addressing real issues and problems
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Morag Myerscough’s mantra is “make happy those who are near and those who are far will come.” The artist and designer is fascinated by how colour, pattern and words can change urban environments.
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Colin Helling author of The Navy and Anglo-Scottish Union, 1603–1707
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The Union Street Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS) training courses have been designed around the specific needs of traditional buildings in Aberdeen, addressing real issues and problems
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Lunchtime Talk by Neville Brown, Aberdeen Astronomical Society
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Hear from some of the best national and international artists and designers, writers and curators, in this series of free talks delivered in partnership with Gray’s School of Art.
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Lunchtime Talk by Joe McLeod, former Hall Russell Ship Draughtsman
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Curator Svetlana Panova and the commissioned artists share insights into their ideas and processes.  
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The Union Street Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS) training courses have been designed around the specific needs of traditional buildings in Aberdeen, addressing real issues and problems
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The Union Street Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS) training courses have been designed around the specific needs of traditional buildings in Aberdeen, addressing real issues and problems
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Aberdeen Treasure Hub is where we store and care for our amazing collection of artworks and objects when they are not on public display.
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Hear from some of the best national and international artists and designers, writers and curators, in this series of free talks delivered in partnership with Gray’s School of Art.
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Talk by Katherine Williams, Education Officer, St Machar’s Cathedral
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In common with museums and galleries locally, nationally and internationally, we are working to uncover and share the full history of objects and improve representation of people of colour in Aberd
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During the Holocaust, ordinary people were perpetrators, bystanders, rescuers, witnesses – and ordinary people were victims.
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Talk by Svetlana Panova, Curator
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Flood in the Highlands For blind or visually-impaired visitors, or for anyone who’d like a ‘closer look’, find out more about this visitor favourite, which is on display in Gallery 9 – Ba
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Talk by Dr Dee Hoole, Honorary Research Fellow in History at the University of Aberdeen
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Granite Noir is inspired by the incredible popularity of crime fiction in all its forms, by the fantastic contribution that Scottish writers make, by our love affair with Nordic Noir, on the page a
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Phil Astley, City Archivist and Dr. Dee Hoole, Honorary Research Fellow in History, University of Aberdeen.
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Fiona Rennie, Aberdeen Women’s Alliance
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Joyce W Cairns PRSA DEd(hc) HRA HRHA HRWA HRBA RSW MA(RCA) is an acclaimed painter and printmaker who has a long association with Aberdeen.
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Phil Astley, Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives
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Friend: noun. 1 a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection; 2 familiar or helpful thing; 3 a person who supports a particular cause or organisation.
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The Friends of Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums provide vital support for our work, helping us to acquire works by leading artists and makers as well as objects relating to Aberdeen’s heritage.
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Join Rachel Thibbotumunuwe, Learning Manager, for an informal introduction to the exhibition, the depicted artists and featured photographers.  
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Prof Shaun Treweek, University of Aberdeen
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St Mary’s Chapel, part of the Kirk of St Nicholas building across from Marks and Spencer, will be open to the public again on these dates.
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This talk is the final session of our one-day event Seeds of Translation: A Symposium on Chinese Translation.
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Ross MacLennan, History Curator
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Thursday 8 June   Nuart Plus Kick-Off 19:00-20:30, free entry
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St Mary’s Chapel, part of the Kirk of St Nicholas building across from Marks and Spencer, will be open to the public again on these dates.
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We continue our events exploring how artefacts end up in museums, who puts them there and why – and what it all means once they’re part of a collection.
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For blind or visually-impaired visitors, or for anyone who’d like a ‘closer look’, find out more about this visitor favourite, painted by John William Waterhouse in 1912, through detailed descripti
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Aberdeen Treasure Hub is where we store and care for our amazing collection of artworks and objects when they are not on public display.&nbs
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From heavy woollen Victorian bathing costumes to the tiny bikinis of the 1970s, join curator Morna Annandale to explore changes in seaside fashions over the past 100 years.  
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St Mary’s Chapel, part of the Kirk of St Nicholas building across from Marks and Spencer, will be open to the public again on these dates.
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Lunchtime talk by Jon Reid, Artist and Editor at Creative Aberdeen
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St Mary’s Chapel, part of the Kirk of St Nicholas building across from Marks and Spencer, will be open to the public again on these dates.
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Talk by Dr David A Rennie, biographer
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If you’re a British Sign Language user, please come along to our informal BSL café.
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Doors open 6.00pm.
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Talk by Ashleigh Black, Archives Assistant
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For blind or visually-impaired visitors or for anyone who’d like a ‘closer look’, find out more about this visitor favourite through detailed description and historical insights.  
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St Mary’s Chapel, part of the Kirk of St Nicholas building across from Marks and Spencer, will be open to the public again on these dates.
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Talk by Jenny Pape-Carlisle and Ross MacLennan, Curators
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Talk by Jakub Ivanecky, PATH Project Worker, 4 Pillars
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Talk by Margaret MacDonald, author
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Talk by Anne Park, Aberdeen & North East Scotland Family History Society
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Welcome to artists Lennox Dunbar and Arthur Watson as our Guest @ Gray’s speakers, who with Ian Howard are featured in our current exhibition, Constructed Narratives.
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Aberdeen Treasure Hub is where we store and care for our amazing collection of artworks and objects when they are not on public display.
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Join Scottish journalist and author Alasdair Soussi for an evening of swashbuckling adventure as he talks about his "magical and mesmerising" biography, Shadows and Light: The Extraordinary Life of
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As part of Book Week Scotland, Douglas Skelton joins us at Central Library to discuss his latest book ‘The Thief’s Justice’, book 2 in the Jonas Flynt, a Company of Rogues series.
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These relaxed dementia-friendly sessions bring people together to share stories and be part of a community.
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Talk by artists, Lennox Dunbar and Arthur Watson
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For blind or visually-impaired visitors or for anyone who’d like a ‘closer look’.
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These relaxed dementia-friendly sessions bring people together to share stories and be part of a community.
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Talk by David Leslie, Chairman of the Aberdeen & District RSPB Members Group
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A talk by Dr Ashleigh Black, Archive Assistant, Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives
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These relaxed dementia-friendly sessions bring people together to share stories and be part of a community.
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Talk by Douglas Campbell, Aberdeen City Heritage Trust
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Hear from some of the best-known national and international artists and designers, writers and curators, in this series of free talks delivered in partnership with Gray’s School of Art.
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Talk by Professor Miri Rubin in conversation with Dr Joanne Anderson
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Talk by Bill Deans MBE, Deputy Launch Authority, Aberdeen Lifeboat Station
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Talk by Dr Michael Shaw, University of Stirling
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Hear from some of the best-known national and international artists and designers, writers and curators, in this series of free talks delivered in partnership with Gray’s School of Art.
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Talk by Dr Meredith Greiling, Principal Curator of Technology, National Museums Scotland
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For blind or visually impaired visitors or for anyone who would like a ‘closer look’.
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Talk by Dr Martin Pucci
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Talk by Griffin Coe, Curator, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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British-Indian Photographer Arpita Shah will be in conversation with Catriona McAra, Art Historian at the University of Aberdeen about her series ‘Nalini’.
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Talk by Martin Hall, Archivist, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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Talk by Shona Elliott, Lead Curator, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
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Talk by Steve Harris, Chair, Friends of SOAP