NORTH LIGHT ARTS are a small organisation based in Scotland in the East Coast town of Dunbar. We work as a catalyst for environmental change, creating opportunity for participatory artists in the John Muir Fellowships and the John Muir Open exhibition. Our Pavilion overlooks our Rainbow Garden in the Backlands Community garden.
CURRENT & RECENT PROJECTS, EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS
LATEST NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS
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...
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...
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...