News from 2009

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2009 Gathering Information

A special 2009 Gathering Event will be held in Edinburgh next year over the weekend  of the 24, 25, 26 of July as part of the Homecoming Celebrations. The main events being Highland Games held in Holyrood Park over the Saturday and Sunday, where there will also be Clan tents (Clan Hannay has already booked theirs). The AGM will be on the Friday evening in St Georges West Church Hall, Shandwick Place, Edinburgh. 6.00pm for the AGM and dinner at 7.30pm (GBP18.00 for dinner, no cost if just coming to the AGM).

On the Saturday there will be a parade of Clans from Holyrood to the Castle where a pageant will take place. Numbers allowed in the parade are limited and to take part in this and attend the pageant it is necessary to buy a "passport". All the gold passports have been sold out. It was agreed that The Chief would make an advance booking for Silver Passports (GBP95.00) for all wishing to go, Bronze Passports may still be available from Homecoming. It was also decided not to have the usual May Gathering but to have some kind of event at that time (there will be a Clan Working weekend at the Tower with a Saturday evening barbecue and music).

Click here for the registration form for the Clan Hannay Gathering 2009 in Edinburgh. (requires Adobe Acrobat).

Annual General Meeting of
the Council of Scottish Clans & Associations at Grandfather Mountain Games - Linville, NC - July 11, 2009

Constable David recently received the following message from the president of COSCA:

Hi everyone,

[Click here for] the latest COSCA newsletter, The Claymore.

Please make a note that the annual general meeting of COSCA will be on Saturday, July 11 at 2:00 pm in the Clan Chieftains' tent at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games. We hope to see your clan society represented there.

We also look forward to seeing many of you at The Gathering 2009 in Edinburgh July 25 & 26. What an exciting year we are having!

You might want to also check the COSCA website; new and exciting things are happening there on a regular basis. Just go to www.cosca.net.

Please let us know if you have friends and fellow clan members who want to be added to this mailing list, or if you don't want to be on this email list. Thanks.

Christie Harrison, President Council of Scottish Clans & Associations (COSCA) PO Box 427, Pinehurst, NC 28370 p: 970 708 1302 ~ f: 970 497 4377 president@cosca.net ~ www.cosca.net

Largest Multi-Clan
Gathering in History:
Edinburgh 2009

Tickets are going fast for The Gathering 2009, part of Homecoming Scotland, a Scottish government initiative to welcome home those with Scottish roots.  Details can be found here.