| May 18, 2012 | ||
| 1:30 pm | to | 3:00 pm |
Join the tea party to celebrate our Kittiwakes and get creative with Kittiwake activities for all ages. Afternoon tea and cakes at the Cafe in the brand new Bleachingfield Community Centre Dunbar.
The Kittiwake Trail kindly supported by local people:
ELC Arts Service; Dunbar Trades Association; Lafarge; John Watson Seed; Caledonian Horticulture; Sustaining Dunbar; Tyninghame Sawmill; Dunbar in Bloom
Kittiwake Meeting 14 May 8pm Royal Mackintosh Hotel Dunbar EH42 1JY all welcome.
This summer the Kittiwakes on Dunbar castle will be celebrated in a creative home grown flock in shop windows and gardens around the town!
Get creative and make your own Kittiwake or brood; then join us on 2June at the Sparkling Dunbar Regatta:)
We’ve had a really busy time over the last two months 
planning, fundraising and meeting lots of people.
We illustrated the aims and ambitions of this years North Light season in a PowerPoint presentation at an open meeting in February - lots of interest and support from the community who filled the room and were really enthusiastic about the potential of the project.
Many of our invited artists travelled from across Scotland and Europe to spend a day with us in Dunbar. The research day was hosted at the new and very beautiful Town House Museum, and the room was buzzing as the 21 artist discussed their work in a PP presentation, exchanging ideas with the other artists and local guests. A short walk along the John Muir Way, led by the Countryside Ranger Tara, followed part of the route which will emerge as the Kittiwake arts trail this summer.
The castle is once more alive with their kittiwake-kittiwake cries
We are currently planning the Kittiwake workshops – a number of artists will be working with primary school and community groups to make Kittiwake markers for the trail this summer
| February 8, 2012 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Come along to the Royal Mackintosh Hotel in Dunbar to meet the North Light team and to share our plans for a summer season of
Arts in Dunbar and along the John Muir Way in 2012
North Light will be a season of inter-linked cross art form happenings taking place in and around Dunbar in 2012. Each developing the idea of North Light with a sensitivity and light touch to our environment and sustainability.
North Light will build on the successes of Home Thoughts From Abroad (Homecoming Scotland) 2009, Taking a Line… with Knitting the Harbour in 2010, The Herring Road Celebration (Lost Landscapes) and One Touch of Nature…Makes all Kin at JMB in 2011; It is an ambitious initiative with a rolling programme which places Dunbar and the John Muir Way at the heart of creative engagements, to highlight the unique environment of the locality and it’s enduring capacity to inspire.
The programme will include site specific contemporary arts installations and performance, a Kittiwake Sculpture Hunt and Home Grown Celebrations, torchlight performances, music rhyme and song, workshops and art history lectures: unique happenings each developing the theme of North Light
Further info: Susie Goodwin
susie.goodwin@gwd.biz
| December 7, 2011 12:58 am | to | January 16, 2012 11:59 pm |
North Light Proposals invited for works responding to the unique nature of Dunbar and the John Muir Way, and its enduring capacity to inspire: particularly works which engage with the environment with a light touch and sensitivity to sustainability.
Proposals are sought from all practitioners across art forms: visual and applied arts, artists’ books, sound, installation, film, poetry, music, performance. There is also potential for projects with an element of social engagement and food growing initiatives.
Selected artists will be invited to visit Dunbar in order to respond through first hand research and to select apropriate installation sites.
Further info: susie.goodwin@gwd.biz
Outline proposals deadline: midnight 16 Jan 2012 by email to: Susie Goodwin
