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Health of the Sublime
Creative Events
Embroidery Workshops
Braemar
12th-18th September
10-5 daily
St. Margaret's Braemar
Glenshee Rd, Braemar,
Ballater, AB35 5YQ
All Braemar events are free.
Every day from Saturday 12th-Friday the 18th September, we'll have drop-in embroidery on the ten-meter Map of the Sublime as we put the finishing touches on the map just before it becomes the centerpiece of the Health of the Sublime exhibition at The Barn opening 25th September, to which you are all invited!
Monday evening 14th September 6-8pm, try your hand at a 3-D Embroidery Workshop. Come learn or share skills in 3-D embroidery as we add three dimensional elements to the map like shells, rocks, and other raised and just-begging-to-be-touched elements. Using the techniques of traditional goldwork, as found on dress military uniforms, we will transform these skills using sustainable planet-friendly materials. Feel free to bring your own scraps of thin leather, thread, or small scraps of fabric, preferably that mean something to you, so we are embroidering a bit of Braemar and you into the map, prior to the exhibition at The Barn in Banchory.
3-D Flying Stumpwork Embroidery Workshop Wednesday evening, 6-8pm 16th September
Stumpwork is 3-D off the hoop sculptural embroidery and you will learn skills to make berries, bugs, leaves and more to embellish the map of the Sublime. We'll make custom wire frames for each piece, and you will learn how to make highly detailed dragonfly wings, succulent fruits, tiny beasts from the hills, and beauties from your garden come alive in 3-D embroidery just in time to be included in the exhibition.
Performances
Banchory
Health of the Sublime Opening Night Performance
Friday 25th September @ 7pm - 9pm
The Barn, Burn O Bennie, Banchory AB31 5QA
Join us for the opening night performance of the Health of the Sublime exhibition.
Featuring a live spoken word performance from the artist and project participants with themes originating from previous workshops: immersing ourselves deeply in nature, physically or through memory: the experience of the Sublime in the natural world: wonder, awe, heightened perception.
Focusing on the links between experiencing the Sublime in the natural world and how this emotional connection impacts our behaviour in protecting the places we love, Health of the Sublime maps our experience of wellbeing in the natural world through the lens of climate change. This body of work has been inspired by workshops delivered as part of the project, on art in nature, video and audio, nature writing and poetry, and the creative use of virtual reality.
Health of the Sublime is a multi-year creative arts project mapping lived experiences of wellbeing in the natural world through the lens of climate change. It is funded by Creative Scotland, in partnership with Mearns and Coastal Healthy Living Network, with support from The James Hutton Institute.
This is a free event but booking is required.
Writing and Imagination Workshops
Banchory
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Imagining the Future Workshop with Eve Mosher
26th September 10am-1pm
The Barn, Burn O Bennie, Banchory AB31 5QA
A creative and collaborative workshop in which we’ll use imaginative world-building exercises to confront our changing climate. Using sensory and creative tools, we’ll expand our imagination to explore dream future scenarios through writing, drawing and building. Working as part of a group, we’ll each bring to life a piece of our imagined sublime futures which we can take home to remind us of what is possible when we work together. 18+.
Eve Mosher is a socio-ecological artist working at the intersection of climate change, community, and imagination. She is the Culture for Climate Scotland Sea Change imbedded artist in Montrose. Her work develops tools of imagination to help communities tell their own stories of tomorrow.
Poetry Workshops
Family Friendly Poetry Workshop
Saturday 3 October @ 1pm - 3pm
The Barn, Burn O Bennie, Banchory AB31 5QA
Parents and their children (7+) are invited to spend time together in the Wild Garden and capture what you each notice through poetry, observation and conversation. Drawing, scribbling, and otherwise mark-making to note down our observations is also welcome for both children and adults. With welcoming and accessible prompts from nature, this workshop presents an enjoyable way to get to know your children in a different way, and for them to know you. Please bring a small notebook and two pens for each person.
Monica de la Haye is a poet living near Johnshaven. She is inspired by nature and her poems often grow out of the clever observations her young children make of the world around them. She believes passionately in the power of writing poetry to make us look and listen more carefully. Her work has been published in the Candyman’s Trumpet and she has recently put together a community poem for the Sea Change Project in Montrose, highlighting the impact of coastal erosion in the town.
Centring Voices on the Margin –
Poetry Workshop in the
Walled Garden
Thursday 8th October @ 10am-12noon
The Barn, Burn O Bennie, Banchory AB31 5QA
Led by artist Carrie Fertig, using the Walled Garden as inspiration and our workspace, we will explore how we create spaces of care for everyone, and how we plant the seeds of transition to move our communities forward. Inspired by her Health of the Sublime exhibition at the Barn, we will share our own experiences of the Sublime and express how climate change has impacted the places in nature we love. In our sharing, we’ll find common ground around themes and write from the voice of another that shares our beloved places; birds, trees, the sky, future human visitors, or what you imagine lives there in 100 years. We will make poems by melding pairs of poems, our collaborations guiding next step actions.
No poetry experience needed. Please bring a small notebook and two pens.
