6.30 pm. Join us for a Gaelic learners conversation group before the film screening.
7.00pm ‘A Boy in Harris’
7.30pm ‘Gruth is Uachdar’ (Crowdie & Cream)
8.30pm Q&A Session
This event celebrates the work of Finlay J. Macdonald, a writer, journalist and broadcaster closely associated with the cultural life of the Outer Hebrides.
The programme brings together two films connected by Macdonald’s distinctive storytelling voice.
‘A Boy in Harris’ is a documentary portrait of a young boy growing up in Harris in the 1960s, offering a rare and evocative insight into island childhood at a time of social and economic change. Through everyday routines, community life and landscape, the film captures a period when traditional ways of living were beginning to shift.
The second screening is Episode 1 of ‘Gruth is Uachdar’ (Crowdie & Cream), the television serialisation of Macdonald’s celebrated memoir, which reflects on island life with humour, warmth and sharp observation.
The screenings will be followed by a Q&A session.
6.30f Thigibh còmhla rinn don bhuidheann luchd-ionnsachaidh airson cearcall còmhraidh ro na filmichean.
7.00f ‘A Boy in Harris’
7.30f. ‘Gruth is Uachdar’
8.30f Seisean Q&A
Tha an tachartas a’ comharrachadh na h-obrach aig Fionnlagh J. Dòmhnallach, sgrìobhadair, neach-naidheachd agus craoladair aig an robh dlùth dhàimh le beatha chultarach Innse Gall.
Tha am prògram a’ taisbeanadh dà fhilm a tha air an toirt còmhla tro ghuth sònraichte aithriseach MhicDhòmhnaill.
Is e dealbh aithriseach a th’ ann ‘A Boy in Harris’ de bhalach òg a’ fàs suas sna Hearadh anns na 1960an, a tha a’ tabhann in-shealladh tearc agus faireachdainneil air beatha òigridh sna h-eileanan aig àm san robh atharrachadh sòisealta agus eaconamach a’ gabhail àite. Tro ghnàth-ghnìomhan àbhaisteach làitheil, beatha coimhearsnachd agus cruth-tìre, tha am film a’ glacadh àm nuair a bha dòighean beatha is bith-beò traidiseanta a’ tòiseachadh ri gluasad.
Tha an dàrna sgrionadh a’ gabhail a-steach Eadar-sgeul 1 de ‘Gruth is Uachdar’ (Crowdie & Cream), an t-sreath telebhisein de chuimhneachan-beatha chliùiteach MhicDhòmhnaill, a tha a’ meòrachadh air beatha sna h-eileanan le àbhachdas, blàths agus geur-amhairc.
Bidh seisean Q&A a’ leantainn nan sgrionaidhean.
