Events & Exhibitions Archive

This year’s Fred MacAulay Memorial Lecture is to be delivered by Dr Allan Turner at Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre.

Dr Turner will be sharing some of his research from the collections gathered from the West Highlands by Dr Robert Maclagan during the 19th century.

The poet Stephen Watts came to North Uist in 1971 and stayed in the Shepherd’s House (without water or electricity) at the back of Eubhal in North Uist for 3 years. He wrote many poems about North Uist and the people he met, people like Peter Morrison (grandfather of Padruig Morrison), and Ewen Nicolson. After […]

Huw Wahl will be presenting his film To Hell with Culture at Taigh Chearsabhagh on Saturday May 5th at 7.30pm. Huw explains on his website, ‘in his 1943 essay, To Hell with Culture, (Sir Herbert) Read laid out his ideas for a civilisation based on cooperation in which culture would no longer be a commodity, […]

                    UK / 2016  Dir. Mike Day    81 mins  / BBFC Cert. 12A Tickets on the door only. £8 inc. VAT / £6 concs. Seats limited so reservations advised. Email [email protected] Following a string of international festival awards including DOC NYC Grand Jury Prize, Hotdocs Emerging […]

This screening is postponed till May date to be confirmed soon.  

Brian O’ hEadhra + Fiona Mackenzie 4-5pm Gaelic Song Workshop Free & open to all ages. 7.30pm Concert. Acclaimed duo performing traditional and contemporary Gaelic song. £8 inc VAT/ £6 concs/under 16s. Tickets available on the door.         Saturday 7 April Margaret Bennett, Norman Kennedy & Jimmy Hutchison 12-1.30pm Spinning Yarns – Song & Storytelling. Free & […]

We are looking for a motivated person to join the TC team. Someone who will see this post as a development opportunity; someone who is customer focussed, hard-working, motivated and with a love for baking, good local food and excellent presentation. You can find more information about the post in the Cafe Manager Application Pack. […]

10.30 am (5-9yr old) & 12 noon (10+) 

We’ll be launching the new TC website, our Gaelic Plan and other exciting projects.

Gaelic Film & Visual Arts Trainee Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust Deadline: 10th May 2018 at 12:00 This role will involve working with our Arts Manager, in his role as creative director of UistFilm to take forward a number of key film projects for 2018. This is an opportunity funded by Creative Scotland and Bord Na Gaidhlig through […]

Eric R. Cregeen (1923-83) Fieldwork journals and photos of depicting the way of life in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland in days gone by.

Little terns are the second rarest seabird in the UK and Ireland and possibly the best indicator of Climate Change that there is. David Woodfall’s new exhibition documents the challenges they face and what is being done to help them.

An Cuan Sgith is a two year visual arts exchange project between young people from Bùnsgoil Shlèite, Skye and Bùnsgoil Baile a’Mhanaich, Benbecula.

A new exhibition in Taigh Chearsabhagh Cafe of small works by Uist Arts Association members.

A celebration of the 40th anniversary of Craigard Day Centre.

Exhibition of artwork by Stephen Morrison.

Collaborative exhibition by Alec Finlay and Hannah Imlach exploring energy independence, localism, and technology, from the Neolithic quernstones (hand-mills) of the islands, to the MoD rocket range on Uist and St Kilda, and the renewable energy arrays of the future.

Soul Vessels is inspired by the beautiful wooden boats built by five generations of the Stewart family on Grimsay.