Tune in first thing to find a selection of fun activities for all the family to have a go at in your garden or local park. Think old school: skipping, throwing, racing etc for all abilities.
Make sure somebody remembers to take the scores!
Submit your photos, films and scores any time between 10am and 3pm Saturday 8th August for a chance of a prize.
Post them to the fb page or email info@ballatervictoriaweek.co.uk

We are gutted not to be able to bring you Messy Play this year, it is always a highlight of BVW.
But with a few floor mats and baby wipes(!) you can recreate some of the fun in your home or garden, using any food or art activity of your choice. Just get REALLY messy and send us a snap of the results! Open to all ages.
Submit your photos and films any time between 10am and 3pm Monday 10th August for a chance of a prize.
Post them to the fb page or email info@ballatervictoriaweek.co.uk

Tour Ballater's shops looking for their Lego Counterparts and owners

We are hoping to reverse our usual trend with this event, and this time have as many pets as we do spectators... ;-)
Furry, Feathered or Exotic, what you got?
No need to wrestle them into a box or travel anywhere, just send us a photo and a few lines about what makes your pet/s so special.
Submit your photos any time between 10am and 3pm Monday 10th August for a chance of a prize. Judging at 4pm.
Post them to the fb page or email info@ballatervictoriaweek.co.uk

The Sir Patrick Geddes Memorial Trust hoped to have a VW Geddes Day with information and guided walks, so instead have sent VVW some information and short video on polymath Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) who was born in Ballater.

A pdf with 39 slides which tell a story of Geddes and the formation of the Ballater Geddes Group and how it promoted his legacy by inspiring a range of educational and cultural activities. They focus on the 150th anniversary of his birth in 2004 and physical artefacts in Ballater: his birth house plaque; Geddes sculpture gates at school and the walkway waymarkers; The Geddes bus stop; the street named after him and a round bronze portrait which is destined for the Library. The images describe connections alive now across Scotland, in France, India, and around the world.
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/10_I49Tifz_e8KykdnjaUU8hWR_lhexUf/view?usp=sharing

A short Geddes inspired YouTube video: https://youtu.be/3MrjpczwC44
This was part of the language of Rivers and Leaves project which brought a Bengal boat to Ballater in 2004. It starts in Bengal and ends at launching the boat at Loch Kinord. This project enabled school children at Ballater and Finzean to learn about ecology via the Geddes story. Their artwork was displayed with a series of marvellous panels made by Tom Potter supported by Aberdeenshire Council.

From 1998 to 2007 The Ballater Geddes Group, with great input from the Potter family, enabled this exciting international exchange between school children in India, where Geddes worked.