Events List
St Ternans Heritage Fair
St Ternans
Heritage Fair - 12th and 13th June 2010
St Ternan's Fair is held every year on the second weekend in June. St Ternan's celebrates our local culture and features a range of exciting events for both local folk and visitors.
Programme Sponsored by SENERGY
First Aid Sponsored by Michies The Chemist
Saturday 3rd - 19th June
The Banchory Shop Window Competition
Sponsored by Inchmarlo Retirement Community
Entry forms from Banchory Library and Banchory Museum
Friday 11th June
Banchory Heritage Society Special St Ternans Meeting
Burnet Arms Hotel at 7pm - Family and Friends all Welcome
Saturday 12th June
The Culture of the Picts and other Celtic Tribes
The Museum will be converted into a Pictish Settlement where the Museum Club will be doing face painting with Pictish and Celtic tattoo type designs, brass rubbing, pictish puzzles, quizzes and crafts. Visitors will be able to travel up the hill to an Iron Age Hill Fort in the Library where there will be activity sheets, storytelling, and a competition to make a model Hill Fort. Both the Museum and the Library will have displays on the Picts and the Celts.
Featuring Storytellers from Abereen University Storytelling Group and Archaeolink Pre-history Park - Don't miss these ancient pictish stories and legends!
Banchory Lions St Ternans Fair Bookstall
in Scott Skinner Square from 10 am to 12 noon
Open Day at St Ternan Freemason's Lodge, Mount Street, 10am to 4pm
Free entry - teas served
St Ternan's Fair Weekend Walk 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Contact: the South Marr Ranger c/o the Bennachie Centre 01467 681470
Discover the natural and cultural heritage of Banchory while exploring some of the local path network. Everyone is welcome to come along but children should be accompanied. Please book in advance. For guidance only – this walk is easy – mainly on paths and tracks. Event organised in partnership with Banchory Paths Association. Meet at Tennis Court Car Park, Burnett Park, Banchory,
Anna Massie and Mairearad Green in concert at Woodend Barn
Multi-instrumentalists Mairearad Green and Anna Massie combine energetic performance with warmth and friendly humour. Individually, they perform with a number of artists such as The Poozies, Blazin’ Fiddles, Karen Matheson, Box Club, Eddi Reader and Karine Polwart, and together in The Unusual Suspects. Mairearad and Anna share an innate understanding of Scottish culture and music with an intuitive approach to each other’s musical ideas and interpretations. Onstage at 8pm, doors at 7.30pm. Tickets priced £11 full, £9 conc and £5 under 16 available from 01330 825431 or www.woodendbarn.co.uk.
Sunday 13th June - Bellfield Park
Ferrets Ferrets Ferrets! - From 11am!
The North East of Scotland Ferret Show
The North East of Scotland Ferret Racing Championships
The Banchory Birl - From 11am!
An opportunity to try playing a musical instrument or some traditional singing, dance and poetry. Workshops will be free and designed to encourage people of all ages to ‘have a go’ in an informal environment
Street Drumming Workshops with the Guarana Street Drumming Band - Whistle Workshops with Kenny Hadden - Scottish and Irish Traditional Music
'Have a Go' at Sport! -from 11am!
Fly Casting with the Raemoir Fishery - Volleyball - Street Sports and Other Activities
SSPCA Companion Dog Show - Sponsored by Lumphanan Pet Hotel
Entries from 12.30. Judging begins at 1.30. Click here, here and here for more information
Continental Market - Experience Tastes of the Continent in one Market - from 9am
Traditional and new stalls including: Italian olives - French and Swiss cheese -French Bakery ( croissants, fresh bread, patisserie) - Corsican saucissons - Britanny biscuits - Spanish paella - Irish chocolate - Parisian hand bags + marseille soaps+ lavender - German sausage BBQ - Pyreneen Jam - Polish amber Jewellery - Italian pachminas -Italian cashmire jumpers -Middle eastern dried fruits & nuts - Dutch wooden flowers -Swiss caramelised peanuts + sweets - Garlic prawns and potatoes - German charcuterie - Transylvanian glass - Bavarian arts & crafts - peruvian and ecuadorian craft and clothes - indonesian wooden carvings - Morrocan and Gabonese crafts - Thai wooden carvings. For more information click here.
Local Business Showcase - from 11am
If you would like to promote your business at St Ternans Fair please contact info@banchory.org.
Charity Stalls - from 11am
Food in the Park by Banchory Christian Aid - from 10.30
10.30 - 1600 - home baking, scones, cakes, traybakes, etc for morning and afternoon tea with filled rolls and soup for the lunchtime period.
World Record Attempt for the Number of People Taking Part in a Chain Dance - 2.30pm
The Chain Dance or Circle Dance as it is sometimes known was one of the earliest dances to become well-known throughout Medieval Europe and was especially popular here in Scotland. It is thought that our traditional way of performing Auld Lang Syne, with the joining of hands and progressing into the centre of the circle and back again, is a remnant of the Chain Dance.
In Bonnie Banchory everyone will be performing the dance to suitable Scottish songs (the Elphinstone Institute is helping with this). If you can sing, dance, play an instrument or even just count to three - then come down to the Bellfield Park on the 13th and get your instructions from the Information Tent. The record setting will take place at 2.30pm and will take less than half an hour. It is something that the whole family can do together, from toddler to great-grandparent.
And to conclude: Open Air Songs of Praise with the Bon Accord Silver Band - 4pm
St Ternans Fair is supported by:
Kincardine and Deeside Arts Forum
Banchory Community Council
Aberdeenshire Council
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SSPCA Companion Dog Show Sponsored by Lumphanan Pet Hotel
