EAFS - The Gatherings

EAFS Gathering #1: Debated Land 7.30pm 30/08/2013 Stormont Hall, Gretna Green DG16 5EA Ticket Price: £8 Performance of a New Composition inspired by James Clerk Maxwell by Wendy Stewart & James Wyness Talks and Discussions around Debated Land, Enlightenment and Imagining our Future with Professor Ted Cowan, Scottish history and literature, Former director of the Crichton Campus of the University of Glasgow. Professor Pete Smith, soils and global change, University of Aberdeen and Director of Scotland's ClimateXChange. with provocations fromProfessor Mike Bonaventura, Cheif Executive of Crichton Carbon Centre Ceilidh with Traditional MusicPerformed by Wendy Stewart Locally sourced food is included in the ticket, please bring your own bottle (glasses provided) Book Your Ticket EAFS Gathering #3: The Land and Us 5/6pm til late 01/09/2013 Cairnsmore of Fleet, Dromore Farm, Gatehouse of Fleet DG7 2BP Ticket Price: £8 Dark Skies Poetry Reading byJean Atkin (starting at 5pm) Presentation on topics around landscape and place, urban and rural, the local and the global by Dr. David Borthwick and Dr Angie McClanahan Discussions around our relationship with our land led by Dalziel + Scullion, Scottish Ecological artists with Ueno Masao, Land Art Mongolia Director Marc Schmitz, Karin van der Molen & Pat van Boeckel Experience different types of food with Open Jar Collective at their Pop-up Milk Bar Locally sourced and some foraged food, provided by Jools Cox, is included in the ticket, please bring your own bottle (Glass provided)  Book Your Tickets EAFS Gathering #2: Sound. Nature. Dark Skies. 6pm 31/08/2013 Grey Mare’s Tail, follow signs from Car Park off A712 FREE Performance presentation ofThe Rise and Fall of the Grey Mare’s Tail by James Winnett The Dark Outside FM @ Dark Star Lounge Sound Artist Frenchbloke curates 24 hours of previously unheard music donated exclusively for this project by the electronic music scenes most innovative artists, musicians and producers from all over the world.  Tune in and hang out in The Dark Star Lounge. Professor John C. Brown, Astronomer Royal for Scotland will also be at the Dark Star Lounge to answer all your questions about the universe. You are welcome to bring your own bottle along with your picnic. Food is available for purchase (provided by the renowed Green Tea House in Moniaive) EAFS Gathering #4: Landscape as a Resource – Why Environmental Art? 7pm 02/09/2013 Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Mill Road Dumfries DG2 7BE Ticket Price: £2 Talks and discussions around the theme 'Landscape as Resource' Chaired by Chris Fremantle, co-director of Public Art Research + Resource Scotland Speakers include: Professor Mike Bonaventura, Cheif Executive of Crichton Carbon Centre David Harding, founder of Department of Environmental Art at Glasgow School of Art Joan McAlpine, Journalist & MSP Leeming + Paterson, Landscape photographers Donald Urquhart, Lecturer, Edinburgh College of Art The discussion will evolve to the question at the heart of the whole festival 'Why Environmental Art?' and conclude the festival. Refreshments provided. Book Your Ticket