NEWS & OPPORTUNITIES
Unearthed Workshop (National Tour)- Collective Vision of our Local landscape, Sat May 7th, 10.30am-2.30pm. Lunch provided
Add you thoughts to the greenprint for the local landscape for future generations! An interactive, creative workshop exploring what our relationship to our local landscape and a vision of what it could be in the future.This workshop is led by Unearthed and supported...
Keepers of the Soil stitching workshop – 23rd April, 2-3.30pm
Be part of continuing the creation of the Keepers of the soil cape at this free embroidery and sewing session at the Dunbar fashion School. The session will be facilitated by experinced stitchers and artists - All abilities welcome to this workshop. The cape can be...
Creative Writing/Poetry workshop Sat 23rd April, 10.30am-12.30pm
Join us in the free creative writing and poetry workshop, led by local poet, editor and grower Colin Will. Using soil as inspiration, we will discuss the make up and importance of soils in our environment and for our health and wellbeing, touch and smell soils, then...
Art/Nature Walk – Sunday 13th March, 2-3.30pm
Join us at the John Muir Woods for an art/nature walk around the woodland accompanied by live music and poetry, including soil collection with Keepers of the Soil and new pieces of poetry written especially for the event. Meeting point at 2pm by the corner of the...
SOIL STORY #1 – For the Love of Soil Collection
Soil Story #1. BELHAVEN COMMUNITY GARDEN Naomi Barnes, The Belhaven Community Garden is a slice of land that runs along side the East coast railway line down to the Belhaven hospital. Since 2012 the task of transforming this old farmed field was taken on by Sustaining...
WE ARE HIRING! – DEADLINE: NOON, 15TH FEB 2022
DESIGNING CREATIVE MONITORING AND EVALUATION METHODS. North Light Arts is looking for someone with a background in either arts, community engagement or social research to assist with designing and implementing a creative monitoring and evaluation process to capture...
Scotsman article – Here’s to the first decade of NLA
North Light Arts marks ten years as a beacon of creativity By Roger CoxSaturday, 20th June 2020 "In a parallel universe, one in which the UK government acted swiftly and decisively in February and early March to prevent coronavirus taking hold on these shores, this...
Four star review from Giles Sutherland in The Times
Inspiring response to coastal ebb and flow Giles SutherlandMonday June 12 2017. ****Alec Finlay & Hannah Imlach, FloersDunbar Town House until June 25 "As part of a residency organised by Dunbar-based North Light Arts, poet Alec Finlay and artist Hannah Imlasch...