	Bliadhna Agus Là A year and a day in a community of Scottish Gaelic Learners A documentary-film about Scottish Gaelic Learners in the Pacific Northwest Directors: Michelle LaFrance and Harry Miller View the trailer on YouTube.com:
	*In the Fall of 2007, Slighe nan Gaidheal* (the West Coast’s premiere Scottish Gaelic organization) celebrated its 10 year anniversary.** This documentary follows active members and supporters of the group in the tenth year of the organization’s annual cycle of events. Mixing footage from these events, personal interviews, home video, performance clips, and other pertinent footage, the film asks what it means for a community of language learners to be active in efforts to preserve, and even attempt to resuscitate, an endangered language in the U.S. The film explores the many ways people view and approach learning Scottish Gaidhlig and belonging to a community of fellow learners, musicians, and artisans in the US. Ideas and ideals of heritage, community, identity, learning, history, globalism, passion, romanticism, fancy and longing emerge in a rich terrain that redefines what it means to be in a close-knit, all-volunteer community in today’s increasingly busy, alienating, and forward looking world. More info on Slighe nan Gaidheal can be found at: slighe.com
	The Film Makers: More about Harry Miller: HarryMillerMedia.com Assistant Director and Archivist: Dale DeGraff: With: Christian Hoffman Geoff Sammons Christine Traxler Kent Jewell With many, many thanks, for all the support of Slighe nan Gaidheal and its members. Guest Lecture on Scottish Gàidhlig--01.19.2009 Seattle Pacific University Home

Bliadhna Agus Là

A year and a day in a community of Scottish Gaelic Learners
A documentary-film about Scottish Gaelic Learners in the Pacific Northwest

Directors: Michelle LaFrance and Harry Miller

View the trailer on YouTube.com:

In the Fall of 2007, Slighe nan Gaidheal (the West Coast’s premiere Scottish Gaelic organization) celebrated its 10 year anniversary. This documentary follows active members and supporters of the group in the tenth year of the organization’s annual cycle of events. Mixing footage from these events, personal interviews, home video, performance clips, and other pertinent footage, the film asks what it means for a community of language learners to be active in efforts to preserve, and even attempt to resuscitate, an endangered language in the U.S. The film explores the many ways people view and approach learning Scottish Gaidhlig and belonging to a community of fellow learners, musicians, and artisans in the US. Ideas and ideals of heritage, community, identity, learning, history, globalism, passion, romanticism, fancy and longing emerge in a rich terrain that redefines what it means to be in a close-knit, all-volunteer community in today’s increasingly busy, alienating, and forward looking world.

More info on Slighe nan Gaidheal can be found at: slighe.com

The Film Makers:

More about Harry Miller:
HarryMillerMedia.com

Assistant Director and Archivist:
Dale DeGraff:

With:
Christian Hoffman
Geoff Sammons
Christine Traxler
Kent Jewell

With many, many thanks, for all the support
of Slighe nan Gaidheal and its members.

Guest Lecture on Scottish Gàidhlig--01.19.2009 Seattle Pacific University

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