Aberdeenshire Council

Unique concerts in unique settings. Internationally acclaimed musicians, Kimberly Boyle and Nils Klofver, will be presenting an evening of classical and contemporary music in the stunning setting of Braemar Castle on Friday 12 August.

The evening of flute and guitar music will feature classical masterpieces, arrangements of much-loved Scottish folk songs and the wrold premier of a newly commissioned work by Scottish composer Eddie McGuire.

Tickets are £12 and include a tour of the castle, commencing one hour before the performance and a glass of wine.

Taken over a two-year period, the photographs include a variety of scenic countryside locations, typically small parish churches and rural graveyards. We find such Scottish landscapes are commonly altered by an assortment of objects including family burial grounds, mausoleums, graveyards, grave markers, graves, mortsafes, monuments and tombs. These objects are carefully crafted and speak of a belief in a Rapture, when the body is said to rise up from the earth. The photographs show how this belief has impacted our landscape over the last few centuries.

Enjoy free tea and scones and a talk on the Royal Deeside buildings used in the recent filming of the north-east’s classic novel Sunset Song.

Director, Terence Davies, chose to film his intimate epic of hope, tragedy and love at the dawning of the Great War, not in the Mearns where Lewis Grassic Gibbon set the original, but in the protected environment of the Cairngorms National Park.

Take part in one of the Scottish Rural Parliament's Rural Manifesto 2016 events and fill in the blank pages together with all of rural Scotland!

The Manifesto will be a statement of collective ambitions and the actions that are needed to ensure these ambitions are realised for all of our rural communities.

Refreshments will be provided.

Take part in one of the Scottish Rural Parliament's Rural Manifesto 2016 events and fill in the blank pages together with all of rural Scotland!

The Manifesto will be a statement of collective ambitions and the actions that are needed to ensure these ambitions are realised for all of our rural communities.

Refreshments will be provided.

The Woodland Trust Scotland, in association with Mar Estate, RDI Associates Ltd and the Cairngorms National Park Authority invite you to an information exchange seminar and guided site visit to discuss ancient woodland restoration in practice in Scotland.

Following an allocation of £1.437 million of funding from the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) and Scottish Government, NESFLAG will hold a launch event to provide information on available funding to stakeholders.

Attendance is free, but participants are required to register via Eventbrite (link below).