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Three local artists will benefit from funding for commissions awarded by Aberdeen Art Gallery and the Friends of Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums. Creative practitioners (artists, makers, musicians, dancers, designers, writers and performers) living in AB postcode areas…
Households across Aberdeen have benefited from £1 million of savings using a gift card issued by Aberdeen City Council – with £900,000 still to be claimed.
More than 14,000 city households in receipt of a Council Tax Reduction qualified for the £125 Scotland…
The organisers behind Spectra, Scotland’s festival of light, are urging local businesses to complete a survey following the end of this year’s festival.
Aberdeen City Council are gathering feedback from visitors and local businesses to evaluate the success of the event and inform…
The extraordinary life of Aberdeenshire-born painter and printmaker James McBey (1883–1959) is explored in a new exhibition which opens at Aberdeen Art Gallery tomorrow (Saturday 11 February). The exhibition is co-curated by author and journalist Alasdair Soussi and Madeline Nehring, Team Leader…
Spectra, Scotland’s festival of light, returns to bring sparkle back to Aberdeen’s city centre again this evening with a stunning display of light installations.
…Aberdeen Art Gallery is offering a more relaxed visiting experience on Mondays for visitors who may prefer it. Relaxed Mondays are primarily for – but not limited to – families with neurodivergent children, neurodivergent young people and adults, adults living with dementia, adults and children…
An events plan which is designed to ensure a year-round events calendar, new venues are activated, and increase the number and scale of events in Aberdeen was today approved at committee.
…Aberdeen City Council has approved an additional public holiday for its staff to mark the celebration of the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III.
The holiday…
Holocaust Memorial Day will be commemorated by the City of Aberdeen at Aberdeen Art Gallery on Friday 27 January.
The event is held annually across the world to remember the six million Jews and other groups murdered under Nazi persecution, and more recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda,…
A rich programme of large and small-scale exhibitions for visitors of all ages and many interests in 2023 has been revealed by Aberdeen Art Gallery. The programme includes a celebration of the work of Britain’s best-loved illustrator, Sir Quentin Blake, who celebrated his 90th…
Aberdeen Football Club’s “Gothenburg Greats” – the team that won the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1983 – are to be awarded the Freedom of the City.
A motion proposed by Aberdeen Lord Provost Dr…
The spectacular Tall Ships Race will visit Aberdeen for four days in 2025 as part of the international sailing event, organisers have announced.
Sail Training International have released details of the route, which will see the vessels set out from Le Havre in France,…