Arcadia Scotland
Aberdeen Happenings: April 2015
Date
April 1, 2015Art and Culture
Gallous Quines: 4 April, Arts Centre and Theatre Aberdeen, 7:30pm
A story of women and politics in Scotland.
V&A Museum of Design Dundee: Design in Motion: 7 April, Union Square, 10am-5pm
V&A Museum of Design Dundee goes on the road with the Travelling Gallery in this major touring exhibition, bringing Scotland's design heritage and present-day design work to venues all over the country. A Design Scotland app for iOS and Android enables you to track the exhibition's progress. Featured designers include Anarkik3D, Digital Design Studio, Holly Fulton, Sophia George, Lynne MacLachlan, Geoffrey Mann and Sara Robertson & Sarah Taylor.
Burkers and Bodysnatchers: 22 April, Marischal College (University of Aberdeen), 7:30pm
Hear gruesome tales of stolen corpses and the dirty doings of surgeons, students and resurrectionists.
Fiona MacDonald: Woodlands Portrait Project: Beginning 11 April, Peacock Visual Arts
An exhibition about place, connectedness, imagination and human-nonhuman relationships, developed from the artist's engagement with a small wood in Kent.
Music, Comedy and Dance
Citymoves: Spring Show: 1 April, Arts Centre and Theatre Aberdeen, 7pm
A selection of Citymoves' performance groups perform what they've been working on this term.
Scottish Fiddle Orchestra: 4 April, Music Hall, 7:30pm
The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra is the country's foremost large ensemble for traditional music.
BBC SSO: Bruckner 4: 17 April, Music Hall, 7:30pm
Works by two great but very different Austrians; selections from Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) and Peter Coleman-Wright (baritone), plus Bruckner's Symphony No 4. Mark Wigglesworth conducts.
Hebrides Ensemble: Horn Quintets: 21 April, Music Hall, 7:30pm
The ensemble plays horn quintets by Mozart and James MacMillan.
Manran: 3 April, The Lemon Tree, 7:30pm
Original songs in Gaelic and English with a driving backbeat from Mànran.
Lectures, Sports and Local Festivals
Irvine Welsh: A Decent Ride: 18 April, Music Hall, 7:30pm
The renowned Scottish author returns with his latest novel, A Decent Ride, which follows one his most popular characters – hustler cabbie Terry Lawson (Juice).
Aberdeen Whisky Festival: 25 April, Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre
Have a dram (or at least a taste) of Scotland's national drink, with 100 of the best whiskies from around the world.
Look Again Festival: 8-12 April, Seventeen
A celebration of art and design in Aberdeen, with five days spread across three venues.