Events
New for 2026, we have an exciting array of events happening in Grantown. OpenGround is the perfect accompaniment to your creative weekend.
DC Thomson Exhibition
DC Thomson comic art collector, Glenn Anthony Taylor, exhibits highlights from his personal collection.
DC Thomson comic art collector, Glenn Anthony Taylor, exhibits highlights from his personal collection. DC Thomson is media company based in Dundee, Scotland. It is best known for publishing the comics Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy and Commando.
Friday 01 May - 04 May, 2026
10:00am - 4:00pm
Free
Speyshed
Drop-in Event
Speyshed aims to reduce the isolation and loneliness of members by creating a positive, inclusive and creative environment to support individuals to meet, socialise, and develop and share skills in woodworking, metalworking, and other mediums, including crafts. Open to any gender, come along to learn new skills or just have a cuppa and a chat.
Friday 01 May, 2026
11:00am - 1:00pm
Free
Vojta Hybl
Rocks
Book launch and signing event.
When science and art combine. Opening with an accessible introduction to the study of geology and key concepts, including the Earth’s layers and rock cycle, Vojta’s beautifully illustrated Rocks delves into five different rock types: igneous, volcaniclastic, sedimentary, metamorphic and anthropic. Each featured rock is accompanied by key classification notes, as well as a description of how it forms – and what it can tell us about the Earth.
Friday 01 May, 2026
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Free
Hamish Napier
Solo Concert
★★★★★
“Napier has the composer’s gift of painting a picture with sound, more evocative that an artist. Superb.”
FATEA Magazine
HAMISH NAPIER is a Scottish folk multi-instrumentalist and composer from Grantown-on-Spey. His album The Woods won Album of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards. In this concert Hamish will share a few of the work-in-progress pieces from forthcoming album no.4, The Hill. Humorous, engaging and heart-warming, Hamish’s performances often incorporate poems and stories about nature, folklore and communities, and this promises to be a wonderful and intimate event.
Friday 01 May, 2026
8:00pm - 9:15pm
£13.70
Georgia Rose Murray
Arctic Research Talk
Live talk with Q&A
Georgia is a painter and Lecturer, who has visited Svalbard multiple times over the last decade. Each research expedition has been planned specifically to paint in response to the extremely different light, colours and weather, throughout each season. In 2025, Georgia returned for her second summer and the changes she witnessed were devastating.
During the talk Georgia will describe the relationship she has with the remote Svalbard archipelago. She will project photographs of the landscape, and show examples of sketchbook pages, finished paintings and short film clips.
Jana Emburey
Treading Softly
Artist Talk
Get an insight into Jana’s creative practice in the Openspace where she will hold an exhibition related to memory and nature. At this informal talk she will share her story and the process behind making the artwork on show.
For Jana materials play a great importance in the work she makes. Guided by them, she explores their properties and potential behaviours, opening up possibilities of how to represent or suggest her ideas.
Wendy Grosvenor
Dangerous Drawing
Live model workshop
A tutor led workshop with artist Wendy Grosvenor (BA Hons Fine Art). Two hours of artist led creative drawing with a live model. Easels, boards and all materials will be supplied. Just bring yourself and a spirit of adventure. We will use a variety of drawing materials and the focus will be on ‘looking’, ‘responding’ and ‘marking’. Our objective will be to relax into fresh ways of drawing, brave expression and risk taking! Suitable for beginners and advanced artists.
Hamish Napier
Open Composition Session
Musical Show & Tell
Come and join Hamish Napier for this interactive, audio-visual presentation as part of Grantown Open Studios weekend, in which he will attempt (perhaps unwisely) to compose and record a piece of new folk music in front of a live audience over the space of 90 minutes. GULP!