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Learners of English and Gaelic gathered for a ceilidh at community-owned Grogarry Lodge in South Uist, organised by Cothrom's Language and Culture group. In a final meeting before the summer under the Guthan nan Eilean/Island Voices banner - http://guthan.wordpress.com - they worked each other hard, and also enjoyed a grand night of international food and community music!
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This video was knocked together the morning after the night before. A fine convivial meal in a local restaurant, and a leisurely stroll through the town's backstreets in balmy weather provided plenty of video material to edit. The 3-minute music track was downloaded from a Creative Commons site - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Italian_Dub_Community/, and provided a time-limited framework within which to work on the picture sequence. Possible uses?…
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A collaborative effort by participants in the recent POOLS-CX video workshop for language teachers, held in Pistoia, Italy. We aimed to teach each other something of our own languages, while learning how to make videos at the same time. Would anyone care to count the number of languages used - and identify them all? And can you identify the locations - other than Pistoia itself? Once again we are indebted to the Italian Dub Community - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Italian_Dub_Community/…
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Flora Macdonald, a North Uist resident, talks first of all about the importance of Craigard in the community, and her own interactions with Donald MacKinnon. She goes on to describe her reasons for setting up the traditional skills exhibition in Taigh Chearsabhagh, and her own thoughts on their place in the community today. This clip is a part of the bilingual "Island Voices/Guthan nan Eilean" collection of video slices of Hebridean life and work…
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Donald is a client at the Craigard Day Centre. Here he talks about his activities at Craigard. He also talks about the pictures he’s exhibiting at the Taigh Chearsabhagh art centre. He goes on to say what else he does during the week, mentioning the names (NAAFI, Lovats) of another workplace, and his musical activities at the weekend. This clip is a part of the bilingual "Island Voices/Guthan nan Eilean" collection of video slices of Hebridean life…
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