News and Events
Annual General Meeting
Wednesday, 12th June 2013
Venue: Shetland Amenity Trust, Garthspool
Times: 7 p.m.
Onybody wi an interest ida dialect is encouraged ta come alang tae wir annual general meetin.
Introducin Dratsi
15th May 2013
New cartoon character and mascot is launched
Mary onstage at Celtic Connections
1st March 2013
Fiddlers' Bid feature Shetland poetry
Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand
19th January 2013
Lewis Carroll's classic now in Shetland dialect
Lowrie on CD!
4th December 2012
'Lowrie' now an audio book
Icelandic translations
3rd December 2012
Shetland poetry translated into Icelandic
Words and music of the sea
24th September 2012
Aert-fast - new play from Jacqueline Clark
21st August 2012
Dialect Art Display
4th June 2012
SFW concert was a sell-out
30th May 2012
Northmavine poetry night success
2nd May 2012
First ever 'fjaana' for primary bairns
Skeld Primary win prize for dialect song
2nd April 2012
Whassigo was fun
16th February 2012
Inter-County Whassigo at the Library
Extract from Haldane Burgess novel
2nd February 2012
New on this website, an extract from Haldane Burgess's novel 'Tang' from 1898
New artwork for new resource
11th January 2012
Who do we think we are?
4th December 2011
New doctoral thesis on Shetland identity and language issues
How to tell a njuggle story
14th November 2011
The making of 'Kirsty an da Snarravoe Njuggle'
Shetland-Orkney Library exchange
13th November 2011
Using dialects in the work of island libraries
A Shetland welcome at UHI ceremony
30th August 2011
Billy Tait's Villon translations
14th August 2011
Hansel Press publishes book of Billy Tait's translations of the French poet Villon.
Njuggle to tour Shetland
23rd July 2011
New production for upper primary
Music festival dialect prize
28th March 2011
Unst group win 2011 Music Festival prize for dialect song
How many people speak Shetland dialect?
4th March 2011
Census offers a chance to put a figure on the number of Shetland dialect speakers
Shetland recordings online
10th December 2010
Shetland recordings from the archive of the School of Scottish Studies
Craigsaet CD reprint
8th December 2010
'Craigsaet': rhymes , sangs an stories for peerie bairns.
Study of Shetland sounds
9th September 2010
Swedish researchers investigate the sound of Shetland
Radio 4 programme
31st August 2010
'Norn but not forgotten: sounds of Shetland' on Radio 4
'Shetlanders speak - Orcadians sing': article new on website
15th August 2010
The differences between Orkney and Shetland pronunciation are explored in this 2003 article by Klaske van Leyden.
'Treeds' poems reprinted
3rd August 2010
Laureen Johnson's poetry pamphlet 'Treeds' reprinted by Hansel Cooperative Press
Lecture papers new on website
1st August 2010
Michael Barnes on 'The Study of Norn'; Brian Smith on attitudes to Shetland dialect
New drama on website
20th July 2010
New drama 'Tangle Bells' on website
New collection from Christine De Luca
13th July 2010
Christine De Luca's new collection 'North End of Eden' launched in Edinburgh by Luath Press
Third Rhoda Bulter CD
28th June 2010
'Caald Clods an Tinder', the third Rhoda Bulter CD, is now on sale.
Drap alang Shetland ForWirds
9th June 2010
Drap alang SFW at Hamefarin Club in Islesburgh
Read da book - see da show!
4th June 2010
'Bobby an da Burland Pearls' is Valerie Watt's new book. It is also an exciting new musical for bairns, adapted by Izzy Swanson, with music by Philip Taylor.
'Arc o Möns' joint winner of national award
13th May 2010
Christie Williamson's translations, 'Arc o Möns', joint winner of the Callum MacDonald Memorial Award 2010
'White Below' launched on 7th May
29th April 2010
'White Below', latest publication from Hansel Cooperative Press, is a collection of poems and stories inspired by Shetland's fishing industry.
Bruce is new Dialect Co-ordinator
19th April 2010
The 3 year post of Dialect Co-ordinator has been created as a result of a funding partnership between LEADER funding, SIC Schools Service, Shetland Amenity Trust, Shetland ForWirds and Shetland Arts.
Website Launch
27th March 2010
George P S Peterson snips da ribbon ta launch wir new website.
Prize for dialect singing
12th March 2010
3 Cunningsburgh Primary School lasses scoop the first ever prize for an entry of dialect song at this year's Schools Music Festival.
