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Thursday 14th August
BALLATER HIGHLAND GAMES

Ballater Highland Games
Monaltrie Park, from 10am, £15/£5
You are invited to join the traditional Highland Games this year on Thursday 10th August in Monaltrie Park in the village.
Known as the Friendly Games on Royal Deeside for good reason, and you can be assured of a warm welcome. Our full programme has pipe bands; piping and highland dancing competitions; track and light field events; a hill race; heavy field events including tossing the caber; tug o’war; children’s races, including sack races; and tilt the bucket fun. To add to your interest and enjoyment, there is our fast food court, beer tent, an interesting variety of trade and craft stalls, and a funfair. Our gates open at 10am, competitions start at 11am, and the formal opening is at noon.
For further information, including pre-purchasing of admission tickets, visit.
www.ballaterhighlandgames.com
or email: info@ballaterhighlandgames.com.

Beat Retreat
Church Green, 7pm approx £D
As Ballater Highland Games celebrates 160 years, Beat Retreat is the last event of Games Day. On the Church Green at 7pm. Donations gratefully accepted on behalf of the Ballater bear, A Bear Named Buttony. Beat Retreat is under the direction of Hon. Vice President Scott Fraser and stewarded by his Convener assistants Eric Buchan and Paul Mair. Ballater and District Pipe Band are lead by Hon. Lead Drum Major Ian Esson and Pipe Major James Cooper.

Post-games CEILIDH
Victoria Hall, 7.30pm | £15/£5 u16s
Foot-stomping ceilidh, with the Dark Island Ceilidh Band for all ages from 8pm. Doors 7.30pm.
Licenced bar only, No BYOB.
Tickets available soon from www.visitballater.com/events
Be Amused.

Friday 15th August

Saturday 16th August

Sunday 17th August

SIR PATRICK GEDDES

The Sir Patrick Geddes Memorial Trust have sent BVW 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.

CLAN FARQUHARSON UK ANNUAL GATHERING AUGUST 2025

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