"Preserving the history of the parish of Sleat on the Isle of Skye"
Tarskavaig
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Winter programme
Summer activities
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Meetings are now held on different days of the week so check the programme and also the right-hand column on the Home Page for details. The start time is usually 7.30pm, unless otherwise stated in the programme. Our meetings this year (2023/24) will be held either at An Crubh or at Sabhal Mor Ostaig. From time to time we may use other venues – if so, these will be specified in the programme.. Monthly meetings are free to members, while the entry for non-members is usually £3.
The dates of our meetings this session are listed below.
Monday 24 September
Open Night. Your chance to tell a story, show a photo or talk about an interesting object you might have or just come along and listen
Venue Talla Mhòr, Sabhal Mor Ostaig
Friday 18th October
Rueben George, member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, British Columbia, Canada, about his new book It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People - a lecture organised by Sabhal Mòr, not the Comunn Eachdraidh
Venue Talla Mhòr
Monday 11th November
AGM followed by Mapping duns and place names in Sleat a presentation by Charles Culbertson
Venue An Crubh
Monday 2nd December
40th anniversary. A social evening to mark 40 years of the Comunn Eachdraidh, with a display of material from our archives PLUS librarian Greg Thomson will tell us about material in the College library that relates to Sleat and its history and about a new project to collect more
Venue Sabhal Mor Ostaig, ACC
Monday 20 January
The British Newspaper Archive - an introduction to this online resource by Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiubhart,
Venue - to be confirmed
Monday 24 February
Tarskavaig township chat - an informal session on the history and people of this township
Venue Tarskavaig Hall
March (Date to be confirmed)
Sgàthach, the warrior princess a talk by Abigail Burnyeat of the Sabhal Mòr
Venue - to be confirmed
Monday 28 April
Coinneach MacLean will give talk The history and culture of Skye, as told by the tour guides based on his new book
Venue: An Crubh
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