Language of Rivers and Leaves
27 September - 2 October, 2004

Day 5:: Ballater School, Braemar School and the RTPI Evening Event

"Entanglements" by Pulak Ghosh

Geddes Home :: Language of Rivers and Leaves :: A Taste of Indian Art :: "Geddes Today" Exhibition

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Ballater School

The "Product" is collected together

Finished placards	Laura does some last minute outlining	Colourful placards for tomorrow's Ballater Parade	The best thing about school?
Animal shaped percussion instruments	Boats	Cut out Bengali words, more placards and percussion instruments
	Mindy and Pulak wait patiently
Meanwhile back at Chez Potter Tandra in her Sari shovels in some lunch prior to the Finzean School parade

Finzean School Parade

Finzean School show their work	Foreground - Pulak (center), Bashabi (Centre) and Tandra
		Accompanied by a Piper

Braemar School

They wanted a new mural and got a beautiful one

Finished!	An Indo-Scottish collaboration. Head Teacher Jane Parfitt in the distance	Tigers, elephants, boats and more	Deer, Grouse, Capercaillie and many more
Inscriptions in three languages -	Bengali (Left, Sheila Potter, Convener, BGP 2004, admires the work)	Gaelic	English

RTPI Evening Event

The Royal Town Planning Institute in Scotland marks the 150th anniversary of Patrick Geddes's birth in Ballater by video conferencing
a lecture on PG and his place in modern planning by Sir Jonathon Porritt (Chair, UK Sustainable Development Commission) given at
the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, to an audience at the Craigendarroch Hotel, Ballater.

Mary Mulligan MSP provides a profile of Patrick Geddes and introduces Sir Jonathon Porritt.	The audience includes Graham King (Ballater end Guest Speaker - all the way from Swansea, Wales nearest, red tie) who gave an overview of PG and interviewed Tom Potter, Geddes relation on the video link to Edinburgh.	Local filming and cameras to Edinburgh.	Sir Jonathon Porritt delivers his lecture.
His speech is both serious and witty.	Organisers: Front, Allan Garvie, Chair of the RTPI Ballater end of the event, Head of Planning, Aberdeenshire Council. Far left: Organiser - Hilary McBean, Planner, Aberdeenshire Council. Beyond guests - art by FInzean School and first Ballater Geddes Project Exhibition (2000) Panels can be seen.