THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY OF LOS ANGELES | |
MONTHLY NEWS AND UPDATES: NOVEMBER 2021 | |
In this episode, we speak with Nobel Laureate Dr. Richard Henderson. Dr. Henderson discusses science, philosophy, spirituality, and his work with the electron microscope. | |
BAFTA SCOTLAND AWARDS
NOVEMBER 20th
Limbo, Focus Features’ darkly comic refugee drama that landed a Cannes 2020 badge of honor, has emerged with the most number of 2021 BAFTA Scotland award nominations!
Watch our Q&A with Limbo Director
Ben Sharrock and Actor Amir El-Masry at TartanFilmFestival.com
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SCOTTISH BALLET'S STARSTRUCK (FILM)
Gene Kelly's Love Letter to Ballet
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One of the first choreographers to bring the ‘American style’ to Europe, the legendary Gene Kelly was invited to create an original work for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1960. His jazzy, joyful Pas de Dieux was highly acclaimed at the time as ‘a breath of fresh air’ but has been rarely performed since. It has now been given a new set of wings for its UK stage debut and world premiere on screen.
In collaboration with Kelly’s widow, Patricia Ward Kelly, Scottish Ballet’s CEO/Artistic Director Christopher Hampson and designer Lez Brotherston (The Snow Queen, The Secret Theatre) have lovingly revived the original ballet and added a delightful new twist. You’ll be transported into the world where jazz meets ballet, and the stars align.
Combining live performance capture with cinematic filming techniques and additional elements not seen in the stage production, Starstruck is directed for the screen by Oscar Sansom (Dive), in partnership with Forest of Black (The Secret Theatre).
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If you missed our podcast interview with Patricia Kelly, be sure to watch it here: | |
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A murder mystery set against the stunning Scottish backdrop of the Shetland Isles.
In the US, Season 6 will premiere on November 9th, with episodes premiering weekly on BritBox!
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Shetland star, Douglas Henshall equips us with Glaswegian slang and a guide to Scotland!
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GO TELL THE BEES THAT I AM GONE
by Diana Gabaldon
Release Date: November 23rd
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon returns with the newest novel in the epic Outlander series.
The past may seem the safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. . . .
Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same.
It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible.
Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s teakettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep.
Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s—among them disease, starvation, and impending war—was indeed the safer choice for their family.
Not so far away, young William Ransom is still coming to terms with the discovery of his true father’s identity—and thus his own—and Lord John Grey has reconciliations to make, and dangers to meet . . . on his son’s behalf, and his own.
Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser’s Ridge. And with the family finally together, Jamie and Claire have more at stake than ever before.
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Charles Hay
For fifteen years, Charles Hay has represented Clan Hay as the Southern California Clan Hay Society Convener. You can find Charles at Scottish Festivals in the Clan Hay tent, sharing stories of Scotland, Clan Hay, and the Hay family seat at Slains Castle. Charles’s father was the proud son of a Scottish immigrant who married a Henderson lass. Once a year, he would join hundreds of members of his mother’s family at a clan gathering presided over by his great-grand-aunt, Minnie who was reputed to be over a hundred years old and spoke with a slight brogue after over eighty years in the States.
At 26, Charles married a McNicol man, James. Charles and James eventually went to Scotland for graduate work at the University of Edinburgh. While at Uni, Charles did several private consultancies for VisitScotland on increasing value tourism to Scotland. Those consultancies required travel from the Borders to Orkneys and from the Lowlands to the Hebrides. Charles fell deeply in love with Scotland and its peoples.
After earning his degrees, Charles returned to the States determined to do something for Scotland and luckily the Hay Society needed a Convener. Charles is now retired from a long federal career in law enforcement, specializing in frauds related to pension investments and private health insurance. His husband of 36 years died five years ago. Charles continues to live in their English cottage in Altadena with his cat, Tippi. Charles enjoys travel, all sorts of performance arts (from film, to opera, to ballet), gardening, and working out while listening to anything from Verdi to the Ramones.
You may have been fortunate enough to see Charles in the presentation of the Haggis at the St. Andrew’s Society Burns Supper. Charles cannot wait until we can meet again in person to share a dram in honor of Scotland and its people.
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START YOUR ENGINES
SAVE THE DATE: SUNDAY NOVEMBER 14
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Culloden Tales: Stories from Scotland's Most Famous Battlefield – Hugh G. Allison
Culloden marked the end of clan culture and was the harbinger of the Highland Clearances. It ensured the inevitability of the American Revolution and increased the outpouring of Scots across the globe. It is the only battle that British Army regiments are not permitted to include in their battle honors; the only battle that Bonnie Prince Charlie ever lost; and the only battle that the Duke of Cumberland ever won. Culloden is a battlefield, a graveyard, and an iconic site that draws people from all parts of the world. They bring with them their stories and their father's father's stories—stories of civil war, of love, and even of the supernatural. They are peopled by the second-sighted, by clan chiefs and by others who have kept family secrets for centuries. The battlefield is resonant with past deeds and emotive memories. These tales are offered as a unique record to the power of the place.
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2021
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St. Andrew's Day Celebration: Sunday December 5th (TBA)
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Holiday (virtual) Event: Saturday, December 18th (TBA)
2022
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Robert Burns Supper: Sunday, January 23rd, 2022 (TBA)
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SASLA AGM: Saturday, February 26th, 2022
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TARTAN Film Festival: April 6th thru April 10th, 2022
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WHISKY CORNER: LAPHROAIG
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On the far edge of the Scotch whisky map, it's supposed that the art of distillation was first brought to Islay by Irish monks. Being remote, it’s an art that flourished in the hands of the islanders, whose illegal operations tested the resolve and means of the taxman. Eventually, the law relaxed, various whisky makers set up legitimate distilleries, among them a pair of farmers, Donald and Alexander Johnston, who in 1815 founded their distillery on the island’s south coast. Laphroaig, so-called after its location, ‘broad hollow by the bay.’ It would remain in family hands for the next 139 years.
Islay is particularly famous for its peated single malt whiskies. This is partly because its peat bogs are unlike those of mainland Scotland. Having never really had expansive forests or thickets, the peat - historically the only fuel available for the drying out of their malted barley - is made up of a much higher ratio of Sphagnum (or 'peat mosse' to you and I), and it's the moss that's responsible for Islay whisky's medicinal taste.
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