Badenoch Heritage Festival 2020 – Event details

We now have details of the events that will be held between 26 to 30 October 2020.

These free events will be held at 2pm (GMT) daily on Zoom. Details of the sessions are set out below. Bookings to join the broadcasts can be made on Eventbrite, or see our Heritage Festival webpage for the links.

Monday, 26 October  – Heritage, Tourism and Place-making: Getting ready for Scotland’s Year of Stories in 2022. Speakers – Clare Cooper (Cateran Ecomuseum), Graham Fraser (Badenoch Great Place Project), Will Boyd-Wallis (Tomintoul & Glenlivet Landscape Partnership)

Tuesday, 27 October – Into the Marshes: Journeying through the history which created Insh Marshes as we see it today. Speakers – Tors Hamilton (Cairngorms Connect) and colleagues

Wednesday, 28 October – Gaels, Camans, Badenoch – the centre of the Shinty universe? Speaker – Hugh Dan MacLennan (Shinty broadcaster)

Thursday, 29 October – Dun da Lamh: A very Highland hillfort. Speaker – Matt Ritchie (Forest and Land Scotland)

Friday, 30 October – Newtonmore turns 200 – The Early Days. Speaker – Mary Mackenzie  (local history researcher)