Congratulations to Mary Morrison on organising two very well attended community events in North Uist this week. Mary had the imagination and foresight to record two well-known raconteurs and singers and use their stories or songs as a stimulus for the pupils of Carinish and Lochmaddy primary schools to compose their own poems.
There were many highlights to each evening, including live re-tellings of the stories by the original storytellers as well as recitals of the new poetry and sundry musical performances, either by the pupils themselves or other community members or visitors. Topped off with the best of Uist home-baking!
Island Voices has had to start off a new playlist to accommodate all these songs and stories. It’s called “Pot Luck” and Mary’s hand can be detected in each video. Perhaps there are more to come still…
Seo Gordon Wells a’ bruidhinn mu dheidhinn pròiseact rannsachaidh a chaidh a dhèanamh ann an Uibhist
The second Soillse Small Research Fund project conducted in Uist is now complete. The title is “Gaelic Digital Literacies in a Bilingual Community: a Sampling of Practices and Preferences”. The report is now freely available online either through this link or on the Soillse site. The link has also been added to the Guthan nan Eilean Research page, where the preceding report can also be found. It has been written with online “readers” in mind, and includes live links to samples of community members’ work in the footnotes. It can, of course, be printed off for reading on paper, but this will not afford the same “multimodal” opportunities for sampling video and audio work.
Tha dà thachartas sònraichte gu bhith ann air a’ mhìos seo le sgoilearan à Càirinis agus Loch nam Madadh a’ cruinneachadh air an oidhche gus sgeulachdan agus òrain a chluinntinn agus a ghabhail. Bidh ceòl agus bàrdachd ann cuideachd, le luchd-tadhail agus aoighean às a’ choimhearsnachd. Tha barrachd fiosrachaidh an seo.
Agus dìreach airson blasad a thoirt dhen spòrs agus dibhearsan a dh’fhaodadh a bhith ann, seo Dunnchadh MacFhionghain à Beàrnaraigh, le òran inntinneach. Saoil carson a chaidh a ghabhail?
Congratulations to Mary Morrison on organising two very well attended community events in North Uist this week. Mary had the imagination and foresight to record two well-known raconteurs and singers and use their stories or songs as a stimulus for the pupils of Carinish and Lochmaddy primary schools to compose their own poems.
live re-tellings of the stories by the original storytellers as well as recitals of the new poetry and sundry musical performances, either by the pupils themselves or other community members or visitors. Topped off with the best of Uist home-baking!
