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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 culture and community events can be easy to miss with the many national tours and big names that make their way to the city. We wanted something a little bit more indie. A calendar of the events from groups that don’t have a huge budget to promote. Events that are still not to be missed. Arts, music, comedy, cinema, small business launches and other community events which make Aberdeen an interesting place to live.

Additionally, we want to include album releases from musical artists and bands with an Aberdeen background. One more way to support local musicians along with our Aberdeen playlist, The Lounge.

We’ll be able to include events within our news articles, and of course, share them through our social media channels.

We will always be looking to add events to the calendar, but if you want to make sure we don’t miss YOUR event, you can add them yourself on our dedicated page.

Let us know what you think. We're always open to fresh ideas to make it better and more useful for you.

Enjoy the best of last month, and our usual look forward to the month ahead.

Chris & Kevin

Highlights from last month

Greyhope Bay Centre opens doors in Aberdeen — postabdn.com

We were delighted to join the team at the Greyhope Bay Centre at the start of April. This wonderful café and community space offers stunning views of Aberdeen city, the coast and the harbour. As a result, it’s one of the best places to see bottlenose dolphins from land in the world.

Nuart Aberdeen 2022 announced — postabdn.com

Nuart Aberdeen 2022 has been confirmed 9-12 June. The city and its walls will serve as the canvas for a breast new crew of world-class street artists. The streetscape of Granite City has been transformed by Nuart Aberdeen over the last four years. Over the years, more than thirty street artists, hailing from the USA, Europe, Australia, South America and the UK, painted stunning works of art.

Filmmaker crowdfunds supernatural 'Nights' — postabdn.com

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 has successfully crowdfunded the film, with hopes to complete it later this year.

TEDxAberdeen date announced — postabdn.com

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 TEDx is to “inspire and ignite conversation through a lineup of captivating speakers, spark deep conversation, and create meaningful connections through the sharing of ideas.”

K:ART | Bringing Art Outdoors — postabdn.com

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.

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Quick Links

Singularity Sauce Co Hot Sauce Lab crowdfunding project — www.crowdfunder.co.uk

Our friends at Singularity Sauce have launched a crowdfunding campaign to help fund their move into a North-East based Hot Sauce Lab. As we write this, they are VERY close to their goal.

Aberdeen declared one of the UK's most 'wildlife-friendly' cities — www.aberdeenlive.news A new study has revealed that Aberdeen is the third most wildlife-friendly urban area in the UK after Edinburgh and Greater London, with at least 10% of the city being made up of green spaces

NEW ALBUM Cold Years - Goodbye To Misery — coldyears.lnk.to

After releasing an excellent debut album in 2020, Cold Years follow up with a magnificent second album Goodbye To Misery, breaking free from their punk rock roots.

Union Terrace Gardens 'soft opening' called off at 11th hour — www.aberdeenlive.news The city centre park had been scheduled to reopen to the public today after a major revamp. But many have pointed out that there appears to be much work still to do with pictures showing the site looking far from the finished article.

Aberdeen radio station SHMU call on broadcasters to join 'exciting' initiative after applying for DAB licence — www.aberdeenlive.news

The local radio outlet has applied to Ofcom to run a Digital Audio Broadcasting Licence which would for digital multiplexes, able to carry up to twenty different services.

Women's Timber Corps founded 80 years ago amid male scepticism — www.pressandjournal.co.uk Chopping down patronising male attitudes was the real challenge for the lumberjills of the Women's Timber Corps in WW2.

Coming in the next month

Introducing the Artists — postabdn.com

29 Mar - 22 May The Suttie Arts Space

Bringing together artwork by Grampian Hospitals Art Trust staff, who are also creative practitioners in their own right.

Creative Entrepreneurship Showcase — postabdn.com

30 Apr - 28 May Look Again Project Space

A Creative Entrepreneurship Showcase from Look Again which celebrates the talent and creativity of the alumni participating in the 2020 and 2021 courses.

Granite City Photowalk — postabdn.com

1 May Tranquility Wild West Town

To celebrate one year of Granite City Photowalks, the team are saddling up and heading on out to the Wild West. This is going to be great fun with loads of unique photo opportunities.

Mountains on Stage Film Festival — postabdn.com

3 May Vue Cinema

Get ready for stunning vistas and imposing summits when The Mountains on Stage film festival comes to Aberdeen.

An Evening With Leopard Arts — postabdn.com

6 May The Blue Lamp

Leopard Arts presents a stirring line-up of writers and musicians for an intimate evening of entertainment at The Blue Lamp.

Spring Open Studios Event — postabdn.com

7 May Deemouth Artist Studios

Join the D.A.S residents as they open their studio doors to the public in their Spring Open Studios event.

Rise Up! — postabdn.com

13-14 May Various Venues

A weekend of performances, talks, workshops and community spaces celebrating Black and People of colour Creatives in Aberdeen and Scotland.

Come Together 2022 — postabdn.com

13-22 May Arkade Gallery

An international art experiment hosted at the Arcade Gallery bringing together ideas, art, people and performance.

Italian Film Festival — postabdn.com

20-29 May Belmont Filmhouse

Italian cinema's annual showcase returns with a selection of the year's best films. The Festival showcases established auteurs and emerging talent.

Grampian Pride 2022 — postabdn.com

28 May City Centre

Grampian Pride is back and in-person for its 2022 parade bringing together the Aberdeen LGBT+ communities to celebrate.