Scots notices
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Scots Advent and Christmas Readings
Zig-Zag: The Paths of Robert Burns
Sponsor-a-Word
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Over Advent and Christmas the Scots Language Centre will be broadcasting a series of seasonal readings from the Scots New Testament. The first of these readings, marking the First Sunday in Advent, is online now.
There will be further readings on the next three Sundays, on Christmas Eve, New Year's Day and Epiphany.
Listen to the readings by Tom Fleming on the Centre's home page.
Friday 7 November 2008 – Sunday 25 January 2009
A unique preview for National Library of Scotland visitors of the forthcoming National Burns Collection touring exhibition, which is due to visit Aberdeen, Dumfries and Glasgow in 2009 as part of Homecoming Scotland.
Bringing together some of the 36,000 objects from Scotland’s national collections about Robert Burns, this major touring exhibition celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of our national bard.
Pictures, sound and the poet’s own words combine to show how Burns consciously created his own myth, in particular through the famous autobiographical letter of 1787. In it Burns explored the course of his life until that time – its influences, joys and changes of fortune which led him to state that “…keen Sensibility and riotous Passions may still make him zig-zag in his future path of life.”
The exhibition is part of the Homecoming Scotland 2009 celebrations which mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Burns and celebrate some of Scotland’s great contributions to the world: Burns himself, whisky, golf, great Scottish innovations and our rich culture and heritage.
Exhibitions are open 10am to 8pm Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm on Saturday and 10am to 2pm on Sundays.
If you are having difficulty thinking of birthday presents, anniversary presents, thank you presents or even Christmas presents, why not give the person who has everything a Scots word. You can nominate a person as sponsor of a Scots word in the New Edition of the Concise Scots Dictionary, or you can sponsor a word yourself. For £20 the recipient will be sent a certificate of sponsorship, an information pack about your word and a year's membership of Scottish Language Dictionaries (SLD), entitling them to SLD's newsletters and special members' prices on their dictionaries. You can delight and surprise someone and support work of national importance at the same time. Visit SLD's website for details, or alternatively email Chris Robinson or call on 0131 650 4149. |