Weel-kent faces launch online sessions on Dundee culture
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Free online sessions celebrating Dundee’s history, culture and dialect have been launched for people who want to learn a bitty mair about the city.
Weel-kent faces from the city’s cultural scene have created Dundee’s Scots Language to raise awareness of the words used by many Dundonians, as well as their origins.
Hosted by writer and presenter Alistair Heather, the free sessions will be informal and encourage participants to produce their own stories in Dundee Scots.
IT might sound strange to say it now, but at the beginning of the year many of us hoped the Declaration of Arbroath’s 700th anniversary would be one of the most memorable events of 2020. The anniversary weekend, focused around April 6, was lining up to be a colourful and creative celebration of one of Scotland’s most important historical artefacts, with a number of cultural and political events being planned. My own preparations for 2020 began way back in the spring of 2018, when I started work on The Illustrated Declaration of Arbroath, a commemorative book designed to tell the story of the Declaration in a creative and accessible way.