This year, Dance North’s annual festival of contemporary dance and performance brings to Findhorn another unique programme which celebrates the connections between us. For RISE 2025 we have brought together an extraordinary line up of international artists and performers to explore how we live, dream and move in extraordinary times. Storytelling is at the heart […]
An Dannsa Dub (The Dub Dance in Gaelic) is the brainchild of dub vocalist and producer Tom Spirals and Scottish traditional musician Euan McLaughlin, formed in 2020. The project fuses the mystical energy and instruments of traditional Scottish music and Gaelic song with the heavy, meditative, driving basslines digital dub music. Music is one big […]
A session of Foraging and Distillation! Come along to the picturesque Gordon Castle Walled Garden and join Michelle Myron for a session of foraging and distilling. This exciting new gin school offers a full distillation course where you will be equipped with a traditional copper pot mini still, learn the art of distilling and make […]
The refreshingly unconventional and snappily attired boutique orchestra BCO play Romani and folk-flavoured music in their unique and surprising way. From Balkan and Russian traditional music to their artful distillations of Romantic masterworks to soaring Gaelic folk anthems, BCO is an infectious musical experience like none other. Fifteen albums to their name, Budapest Café Orchestra […]
Twenty years on from winning the Danny Kyle Open Stage Award at Celtic Connections, Breabach remain securely ranked amongst Scotland’s most skilled and imaginative contemporary folk acts and at the forefront of a burgeoning traditional music scene. The band unite deep roots in Highland and Island Gaelic tradition with progressive musical influences and have cultivated […]
A session of Foraging and Distillation! Come along to the picturesque Gordon Castle Walled Garden and join Michelle Myron for a session of foraging and distilling. This exciting new gin school offers a full distillation course where you will be equipped with a traditional copper pot mini still, learn the art of distilling and make […]
Join Zara and Mhairi in The Walled Garden to hands-on and creative morning making a beautiful bouquet to take home using seasonal flowers from the garden. The course will cover cutting and conditioning flowers and tips and techniques for arranging fabulous floral displays. Weather and time permitting we may venture out for a tour of […]
Duncan Chisholm is one of Scotland’s most recognised and accomplished fiddle players and composers. Duncan’s music contains the rarest of chemistries, a glorious combination of invention, tenderness and passion. He creates music that requires no introductions or programme notes to carry you on its journey, sumptuously layered and awash with dazzling colours, textures and rhythms. […]
Created between their homes in Glasgow and Shetland during 2020/21, Outliers came to signify an outlet which renowned songwriters Boo Hewerdine and Jenny Sturgeon would never have had the chance to explore otherwise. Meeting up online for an hour every week gave them an opportunity to write songs in a way they’d not done before. […]
Schubert Symphony No.5 RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin IBERT Flute Concerto Interval SCHUBERT Symphony No 5 Adam Hickox conductor André Cebrián flute Immerse yourself in a dazzling evening of orchestral brilliance as conductor Adam Hickox and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra present a trio of timeless masterpieces. Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin opens the programme with […]
A session of Foraging and Distillation! Come along to the picturesque Gordon Castle Walled Garden and join Michelle Myron for a session of foraging and distilling. This exciting new gin school offers a full distillation course where you will be equipped with a traditional copper pot mini still, learn the art of distilling and make […]
A week-long dynamic course full of chances to experiment, play, grow, develop and refine your skills and knowledge of painting! The week will begin with a presentation about Georgia’s landscape painting, alongside works by other contemporary painters. Supported by group discussions and daily individual tutorials we will allow the process of painting to guide us […]
The Three Inch Fools present a largely historical, totally hysterical, brand new Tudor comedie. Elizabethan theatre is flourishing. But will a brand-new Tudor musical romp, in which Good Queen Bess takes to the stage herself, be the making of this heroine or spell the beginning of her downfall? The stage is set for regicidal rivalries, […]
You will be introduced to the loose & expressive techniques & style of Joan Eardley; the semi abstract & surrealist interpretations of Graham Sutherland, and the expressive, spontaneous collages of John Piper. Bring a selection of your own landscape/seascape images/photos to work from. – Lunch included – All materials provided – £425
Multi-award nominated Immersion Theatre proudly bring their trademark style and energy with heaps of interaction, stunning costumes, toe-tapping music, and larger-than-life characters. Pack your picnics and join Ratty, Mole, Badger, and the fantastically irrepressible Toad as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime culminating in a colourful battle to save ToadHall from the mischievous […]
