Category: Uist

With summer upon us, venues across Uist and Benbecula are now showcasing the 2005-2026 compilation video that brings together into one 7-minute clip representative highlights of the 20+ years of the Island Voices/Guthan nan Eilean project. Alongside the video itself, additional information panels provide background information with QR codes that enable readers to access the original source materials from which the compilation was selected, so opening up the 500+ online videos for immediate viewing.

Here’s the main background panel:

You don’t have to attend in person to find these links. A click on the above graphic will take you to an enlarged image with live links attached to every QR code displayed.

Here are the local Hebridean venues where the collection is currently on display:

North Uist:

Taigh Chearsabhagh, Lochmaddy
(With Uist Arts Association)

Benbecula:

Museum nan Eilean, Liniclate

South Uist:

Cnoc Soilleir, Daliburgh

We’re keen to receive reflections, suggestions and further questions about our project – not just to help evaluate what we’ve done so far, but also in the hope of stimulating new ideas for what could come next. And we welcome input from all sources, including previous active participants in the project (What did or didn’t work well? What could we have done differently? What did you learn from the experience? etc) as well as viewers and listeners who’ve sampled the materials online, or attended one or other of the various events and exhibitions over the summer of 2026 (What did or didn’t you like about the contents you tried? What would you like to see more of? Did it prompt any memories you’d like to share? Have you got other suggestions? etc).

We are very keen to receive spoken or written feedback in English or Gaelic by phone or e-mail.

You can leave a voicemail at this number: 01463 279110

You can send a written message to this e-mail address: islandvoices@uhicloud.ac.uk

Tapadh leibh!