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About year of Scotland in Australia 2020

The Year of Scotland in Australia is a nationwide calendar of activity celebrating Scottish music, culture, food and drink.

Start planning your Australian Scottish experience by visiting the newly announced suite of festivals, artist and events taking part in the Year, with more to be added.

Join us in welcoming an influx of Scottish guest artists, and in discovering and celebrating the gems of Scottish culture already sparkling within Australia’s cultural landscape, in 2020.

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Memories of Scotland Exhibition

1 February @ 10:00 am - 24 May @ 3:00 pm AEST
State: Queensland

Bankfoot House Heritage Precinct is proud to partner with A Year of Scotland in Australia in a yearlong celebration of Scottish heritage and pioneer houses in Australia. A curated display featuring objects from the Bankfoot House collection celebrate the Scottish lineage of Mary and William Grigor and their families. Go on a journey of discovery through the Highlands of Scotland, profiling the Grigor’s Scottish home towns of Bankfoot, Perthshire and the Black Isle. On display Friday, Saturday and Sunday 10am-3pm.…

Scots on The Rocks – Chaotic Ceilidh

21 March @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm AEDT
State: NSW

Featuring music by ARIA Award winning Chris Duncan & Catherine Strutt, it will be a night of energetic and popular dances. Includes supper (BYO alcohol).

Heidelberg’s Busy Bee Signature Quilt, 1895-96

22 March @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm AEDT
|Recurring Event (See all)

An event every week that begins at 2:00 pm on Sunday, repeating until 26 April 2020


State: VIC

During 1895-96, a Busy Bee group in Heidelberg, Victoria, made a signature quilt to raise funds for their local Scots Church. Contributors embroidered names or other identifiers on the cotton squares. The Busy Bees pieced the squares together. The quilt testifies to their church and family connections as well as their community, business, government and social networks in Heidelberg, Prahran, Williamstown and elsewhere. This intriguing exhibition, commended in the 2019 Victorian Community History Awards, tells the story of the making…

Ringwood Highland Games

29 March
State: Victoria

The Ringwood Highland Games is a traditional highland games with pipe bands, highland dancers, heavy games, combined with interesting alternative Celtic activities such as folk singers, storytelling, clan history talks and representation of people and groups from the wider Celtic world.

Heidelberg’s Busy Bee Signature Quilt, 1895-96

29 March @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm AEDT
|Recurring Event (See all)

An event every week that begins at 2:00 pm on Sunday, repeating until 26 April 2020


State: VIC

During 1895-96, a Busy Bee group in Heidelberg, Victoria, made a signature quilt to raise funds for their local Scots Church. Contributors embroidered names or other identifiers on the cotton squares. The Busy Bees pieced the squares together. The quilt testifies to their church and family connections as well as their community, business, government and social networks in Heidelberg, Prahran, Williamstown and elsewhere. This intriguing exhibition, commended in the 2019 Victorian Community History Awards, tells the story of the making…

Bundanoon Highland Gathering

4 April
State: New South Wales

Brigadoon 2020 marks the 43rd anniversary of the highland gathering in Bundanoon. With pipe bands, highland games, the Tartan Warriors, dancers, stalls and clan representatives, this is the largest event of its kind in Australia.

Pipe Bands Australia – 2020 Australian Pipe Band Championships

4 April - 5 April
State: Victoria

Pipe Bands Australia diamond jubilee year Australian Pipe Band Championships are expected to attract bands from across the country and overseas with a full program of events which include highland dancing and Scottish stalls.

ARBROATH 2020

4 April
State: NSW

Celebrating the 700th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath on 6 April 1320. Pageant and dinner.

Heidelberg’s Busy Bee Signature Quilt, 1895-96

5 April @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm AEST
|Recurring Event (See all)

An event every week that begins at 2:00 pm on Sunday, repeating until 26 April 2020


State: VIC

During 1895-96, a Busy Bee group in Heidelberg, Victoria, made a signature quilt to raise funds for their local Scots Church. Contributors embroidered names or other identifiers on the cotton squares. The Busy Bees pieced the squares together. The quilt testifies to their church and family connections as well as their community, business, government and social networks in Heidelberg, Prahran, Williamstown and elsewhere. This intriguing exhibition, commended in the 2019 Victorian Community History Awards, tells the story of the making…

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