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Aberdeen has won ‘Sporting Event of the Year’ for the GetAbout Aberdeen Cycling Festival at the E Awards, which celebrates excellence and innovation in Scottish events.
The GetAbout Aberdeen Cycling Festival was held on Saturday 3rd September last year on the eve of the AJ Bell…
A global energy company which started in Aberdeen has been announced as the headline sponsor for this year’s European Pipe Band Championships which are taking place in the Scottish city for the first time since 1981.
Balmoral Group, which is an independent multi-discipline design…
As the nation prepares to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III, Aberdeen residents and visitors to the city will have the opportunity to take part in local celebrations.
A free family…
A scheme which gives cultural organisations, community groups, charities, and individual artists an opportunity to apply for a share of £128,000 to deliver creative activity in Aberdeen is now open.
The Creative Funding programme,…
Aberdeen Art Gallery’s latest special exhibition goes in search of the spaces where creativity takes place – the artist studio, where ideas are born. The exhibition, which opens to the public on Saturday 1 April, brings together images by 25 photographers from the celebrated…
Tickets are now on sale for the Aberdeen Highland Games at Hazlehead Park on Sunday 18 June 2023.
Those attending can enjoy traditional Highland Games events, trade and charity stalls, and stage entertainment from professional performers as well as local community groups. …
Tickets have gone on sale today (Thursday 23rd March) for the 2023 European Pipe Band Championships, which are coming to Aberdeen this June.
The Championships, held in partnership with The Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association and Aberdeen Inspired, will be held in the city’s Duthie…
The last testament of Alexander Jaffray is the centrepiece of a new exhibition at Aberdeen Art Gallery. This rare and important document, which dates from 1673, provides a fascinating insight into Jaffray’s faith at a time of religious persecution and political…
Three local artists will benefit from funding for commissions awarded by Aberdeen Art Gallery and the Friends of Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums. Creative practitioners (artists, makers, musicians, dancers, designers, writers and performers) living in AB postcode areas…
Households across Aberdeen have benefited from £1 million of savings using a gift card issued by Aberdeen City Council – with £900,000 still to be claimed.
More than 14,000 city households in receipt of a Council Tax Reduction qualified for the £125 Scotland…
The organisers behind Spectra, Scotland’s festival of light, are urging local businesses to complete a survey following the end of this year’s festival.
Aberdeen City Council are gathering feedback from visitors and local businesses to evaluate the success of the event and inform…
The extraordinary life of Aberdeenshire-born painter and printmaker James McBey (1883–1959) is explored in a new exhibition which opens at Aberdeen Art Gallery tomorrow (Saturday 11 February). The exhibition is co-curated by author and journalist Alasdair Soussi and Madeline Nehring, Team Leader…