A striking ceramic pot by renowned artist Grayson Perry has gone on display for the first time at Aberdeen Art Gallery. The purchase has been supported by grants from Art Fund, Aberdeen Art Gallery Trusts and the National Fund for Acquisitions.
Flamboyant, forthright and funny, Sir Grayson…
A city-wide plan that aims to see Aberdeen be ‘a place where all people can prosper’ regardless of background or circumstances by 2026 has a renewed focus following stakeholder and public engagement.
The ‘refreshed’ Local Outcome Improvement Plan 2016-2026 along with Locality Plans for the…
Aberdeen City Council’s ground-breaking AB-1 chatbot just got a whole lot smarter – offering residents even greater access to information.
The popular digital assistant has been “trained” using artificial intelligence (AI) to better understand queries and search the Council’s website…
Her Excellency Madame Hélène Duchêne, the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom, is just one of the many visitors Aberdeen Art Gallery has welcomed to the current special exhibition which celebrates the work of influential French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. Aberdeen Art Gallery is the…
Aberdeen’s innovative Bairns’ Hoose project has secured a further £500,000 in Scottish Government funding. .
The funding, in addition to the £300,000 already received, for the Bairns’ Hoose collective of partners and approaches providing protection, justice and health support and services…
Pupils across Aberdeen are becoming responsible global citizens thanks to their participation in a wide range of educational initiatives on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Net Zero throughout 2023 and 2024.
A report on those activities and the progress…
The feeling of health and wellbeing has improved amongst school-age children and young people in Aberdeen according to the pupils themselves.
A report on two Health & Wellbeing surveys undertaken by Aberdeen City Council schools in September-November 2023, was presented to members of…
Serving military personnel, veteran associations, reservists, cadet and youth organisations, accompanied by local pipe bands, will march along a new route in Aberdeen’s Armed Forces Day parade on Saturday 29 June 2024.
The parade will start at Albyn Place at 11am and go along Union Street…
New amenity blocks for Travellers at Clinterty which include a kitchen, bathroom, and storage facilities have been completed.
The facilities, which were funded by Aberdeen City Council with £3.1million of support from the Scottish Government Gypsy/Traveller Accommodation Fund, include 21…
City leaders today hailed the start of works upgrading a section of Aberdeen’s main thoroughfare of Union Street as a major milestone to revitalising the Granite Mile – the biggest change to the street since it was built more than 200 years ago.
The works…
An exhibition of works created within the last year by a number of award-winning artists with a strong North East connection opens to the public tomorrow (Saturday) at Aberdeen Art Gallery. All of the works on display in Gordon Contemporaries are by artists who have previously been winners of…
A further twelve grassroots organisations have received funding totalling £117,218 from the ABZWorks Development Fund to develop their employability projects, Aberdeen City Council announced today (25 April 2024).
ABZWorks has utilised No One Left…