Events in Moray
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Rafford Movie Night
17 May @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Rafford’s Movie Night presents two locally produced films about Rafford, its history and its people, in celebration of Rafford Village Hall’s 75 years of community spirit in 2025. The evening – a collaboration between Rafford Village Hall, Film Forres and Naturally Useful – presents the premiere of the Rafford’s Growing Roots film, produced in 2024-2025, together with the Rafford’s Hall Tales, produced in 2012-2013.
Booking is essential by contacting Anne Garrow at anne.garrow@yahoo.co.uk< or 01309 672930.
The £5 admission will include tea, home bakes, a raffle ticket, and access to a seedling, plant and seed swap (bring your own surplus seeds and seedlings to swap!) All profits from the evening will be shared between Rafford Village Hall (charity number SCO15233) and Naturally Useful (community interest corporation number SC509200).
About the two films:
The Rafford’s Growing Roots film was produced by Diana Mosterd of Connecting Images (Wester Lawrenceton) and narrated by Forres Storyteller Margot Henderson, as part of the Rafford’s Growing Roots project of 2024-2025. The film captures the community spirit ignited through the project, which was led by Lisa Wolff on behalf of Rafford Village Hall with Amy Neville of Naturally Useful, and funded by the U.K. Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund*. The project connected the community around its shared love for the land and vibrant cultural roots through more than a dozen free and low-cost events led by Rafford’s own talented residents. The events included local foraging, fermenting, botanical dying, bunting sewing, a Six Inches of Soil film screening and seed swap, a harvest lunch of local food, memory teas, and a willow dome planting in the village hall’s playfield.
The film gives a glimpse into some of these events with interviews of seven of the talented growers and caretakers of Rafford’s community, plants and soil:
- Amy Neville and Karen Collins, Naturally Useful
- Anne Garrow, Rafford Village Hall Trustee
- Howard and Susan Stollar, An-Grianan Gardens
- Gulli Skatun, Marcassie Farm
- Jen Birtles, Romach Farm
*The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK Government’s Levelling Up agenda, having provided £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aimed to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills.
Rafford’s Hall Tales was filmed in 2012-2013 by Tim Flood and was part of the Moray Hall Tales Project organised by Euan Martin of Right Lines Productionsand financed by the Scottish Government and the European Moray Leader programme.
Its aim was to enhance cross-generational involvement and community participation. The projected culminated in March 2013 by staging three different elements on one night at each for the six participating village halls – Alves, Craigellachie, Dyke, Kinlosss, Portessie and Rafford:
- An original one-man play called Watching Bluebottles about the life a village hall keeper
- A film made by children of each village who interviewed older local residents about their memories of growing up in their village
- An exhibition of photographs and memorabilia gathered from the community
