Aberdeen Mela One World Day is all set to return to the Granite City this summer. Westburn park will be ablaze with colour, celebrating the cultural diversity of the city and the North East. There’ll be food, music, dance, and loads of kids’ activities throughout the day. All of
Rise Up! is a brand new event coming to Aberdeen this month. The weekend will highlight and amplify the voices of black and POC creatives from Aberdeen and throughout Scotland. We Are Here Scotland has partnered with Aberdeen Performing Arts to curate the event. Performances, talks, workshops, and community spaces
Art
Everything you need to know about Aberdeen’s street-art festival Organisers of Aberdeen’s street art festival Nuart Aberdeen have announced the full line-up for the 2022 event. 11 international artists will descend upon the city in early June. They’ll aim to create art that will invoke connections between
Post Aberdeen Newsletter
Hiya! Welcome to MAY! In this issue of Your Aberdeen, we are introducing the POST Events Calendar. Since we launched POST, we saw a need to find a space on our website for upcoming Aberdeen events. Both so we don’t miss them, and you don’t miss them. Aberdeen
Aberdeen RNLI is on the lookout for volunteers. They need new team members to support its life-saving work off the Aberdeen coast and along the Dee and Don rivers. The RNLI relies primarily on volunteers. They account for 95% of its team in Aberdeen and throughout the UK and Ireland.
TEDxAberdeen has announced that their big ideas event is back for 2022. Speakers will gather on Saturday 12th November at Aberdeen Arts Centre. This year’s talks will be centred around the theme ‘Movement’. The goal of TEDxAberdeen is to “inspire and ignite conversation through a lineup of captivating speakers,
Art
Aberdeen’s Kekun art studio and Polka design studio have teamed up to create K:ART. They have designed this innovative mobile exhibition system to help artists easily display their work outdoors. They’ve developed a versatile design, aiming to support as many artists and art styles as possible. The
Art
Nuart Aberdeen 2022 has been confirmed for this summer and will be held on 9-12 June. Once again, the city and its walls will serve as the canvas for world-class street artists. The streetscape of Granite City has been transformed by Nuart Aberdeen over the last four years. More than
The Greyhope Bay Centre at Torry Battery opened its doors on Saturday 9th of April. This wonderful café space offers stunning views of Aberdeen city, the coast and the harbour. Because of this, it’s one of the best places to see bottlenose dolphins in the world from land. Using
Cinema
Nights is a feature-length crime drama currently being filmed in Aberdeen. It explores addiction, broken relationships, and the supernatural. This passion project has been self-funded until this point, but writer/director Omid Farkhondeh is now crowdfunding the film, with hopes to complete it later this year. Production is currently about
Post Aberdeen Newsletter
Hiya! Over the past few weeks, Aberdeen has come alive again. The SPECTRA light festival, the return of a Dons legend, an International Jazz Festival, a hugely successful Comic-Con and the days getting a wee bit longer have all had a positive effect on our collective psyche. People are in
Community
Schools across Scotland are adopting the LGBT Charter, as Hazlehead Academy pupils collaborate on mural with Outlines Collective.