Gaelic Week Edinburgh – Seachdain Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann – will take place at venues across the city from Monday 19 to Sunday 25 February.
Event highlights include film screenings, student drop-ins, ceilidh dancing and multilingual performances of story, song and poetry.
The events series is a collaboration between the University and City of Edinburgh Council to celebrate Gaelic language, culture and community in Edinburgh, past and present.
It is now held in conjunction with the World Gaelic Week, an international festival connecting people across the globe to promote Scottish Gaelic.
Events are open to all – from Gaelic enthusiasts, to those looking to gain more of an understanding of Gaelic language and culture.
Events programme
Gaelic enthusiasts will have various opportunities to immerse themselves in Gaelic’s unique language, art and culture.
Before the official programme opens, celebrations will kick off with a ceilidh hosted by the University’s Highland Society on Friday 16 February.
Continuing into Gaelic Week, on Tuesday 20 February, attendees can enjoy a film screening of ‘Calman nan Loch’, an award-winning documentary about a Gaelic speaking community in the Outer Hebrides.
Elsewhere in the city, the Scottish Storytelling Centre will host a multi-language cabaret of story, song and poetry to celebrate International Mother Language Day on Wednesday 21 February.
Included in the programme are a series of social events for those seeking to connect with fellow Gaelic enthusiasts, speakers and learners.
The Students’ Association will host a pop-up at Pottorrow to create a space for Gaelic-speaking students to connect and for newcomers to Gaelic to learn more about about the language and culture.
Later in the week, Gaelic speakers and learners can enjoy a ‘Gaelic Hub’ at Pop-up Ionad, with games, music, stories and films for all ages.
View the full events programme on the Edinburgh Gaelic Week website:
Edinburgh Gaelic Week programme
Council Leader Cammy Day, also Chair of the Gaelic Implementation Group at the City of Edinburgh Council, said:
We’re delighted to be supporting Edinburgh’s Gaelic Week; there is a packed programme with events for people for all ages to take part in and celebrate the language. These are exciting times for Gaelic in Edinburgh; we are working collaboratively with the Gaelic community to plan for the implementation of our third Gaelic Language Plan this year, alongside a long-term strategy for the development of Gaelic medium education in the city. The Capital Gaelic project has given us, alongside other organisations, the opportunity to raise the visibility of the language in the city.
Tha seachdain Ghàidhlig Dhùn Èideann a’ comharrachadh an deicheamh bliadhna
Bidh am prògram a bhios a ruith airson seachdain a’ taisbeanadh cànan is cultar na Gàidhlig ann am prìomh bhaile na h-Alba.
Bidh Seachdain Ghàidhlig Dhùn Èideann a’ gabhail àite ann an ionadan air feadh a’ bhaile gu Didòmhnaich 25 Gearran.
Am measg na tachartasan tha filmichean, “drop-ins” dha oileanaich, dannsa cèilidh agus cuirmean ioma-chànanach de sgeulachdan, òrain is bàrdachd.
’S e co-obrachadh a th’ anns an t-seachdain eadar an t-Oilthigh agus Comhairle Baile Dhùn Èideann gus cànan, cultar agus coimhearsnachd na Gàidhlig ann an Dùn Èideann, ’s na làithean chaidh seachad agus sa latha an-diugh, a chomharrachadh. Tha i a-nis air a cumail an co-bhonn ri World Gaelic Week, fèis eadar-nàiseanta a tha toirt daoine air feadh an t-saoghail ri cheile gus Gàidhlig na h-Alba a bhrosnachadh.
Tha tachartasan fosgailte dhan a h-uile duine – bho luchd-dealasach na Gàidhlig, chun fheadhainn a tha airson barrachd tuigse fhaighinn air cànan is cultar na Gàidhlig.
Prògram tachartasan
Bidh diofar chothroman aig luchd-dealasach na Gàidhlig iad fhèin a bhogadh ann an cànan, ealan agus cultar na Gàidhlig.
Mus fosgail am prògram oifigeil, bidh cèilidh air a chumail le Comann Gàidhealach an Oilthighe air Dihaoine 16 Gearran.
Dimàirt 20 Gearran, film de ‘Calman nan Loch’, prògram aithriseach a choisinn duaisean, mu choimhearsnachd Ghàidhlig anns na h-Eileanan Siar.
Ann an àiteachan eile sa bhaile, bidh Ionad Sgeulachdan na h-Alba a’ cumail cabaret ioma-chànanach de sgeulachdan, òrain is bàrdachd gus Latha Eadar-nàiseanta Cànan na Màthar a chomharrachadh air Diciadain 21 Gearran.
Am measg a’ phrògram tha sreath de thachartasan sòisealta dhaibhsan a tha airson ceangal a dhèanamh ri luchd-dealasach, luchd-labhairt agus luchd-ionnsachaidh eile.
Bidh Comann nan Oileanach a’ cumail pop-up ann am Pottorrow gus àite a thoirt do dh’ oileanaich aig a bheil Gàidhlig tighinn comhla agus do dhaoine a tha air ùr thighinn gu Gàidhlig, barrachd ionnsachadh mun chànan agus mun chultar.
Nas fhaide air adhart san t-seachdain, do luchd-labhairt agus luchd-ionnsachaidh na Gàidhlig bidh Pop up Ionad le geamannan, ceòl, sgeulachdan agus filmichean airson gach aois.
Prògram air làrach-lìn Seachdain Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann:
Edinburgh Gaelic Week programme
Ceannard na Comhairle Cammy Day agus Cathraiche Gaelic Implementation Group aig Comhairle Baile Dhùn Èideann
“Tha sinn air leth toilichte a bhith a’ toirt taic do Sheachdain Ghàidhlig Dhùn Èideann; tha prògram làn de thachartasan ann far am faod daoine de gach aois pàirt a ghabhail anns a’ chànan agus a comharrachadh. ’S e amannan brosnachail a tha seo dhan Ghàidhlig ann an Dùn Èideann; tha sinn ag obair còmhla ri coimhearsnachd na Gàidhlig gus planadh airson an treas Plana Gàidhlig againn a chur an gnìomh am-bliadhna, còmhla ri ro-innleachd fad-ùine airson leasachadh foghlam tro mheadhan na Gàidhlig sa bhaile. Tha am pròiseact Capital Gaelic air cothrom a thoirt dhuinn, còmhla ri buidhnean eile, faicsinneachd a’ chànain àrdachadh sa bhaile”