Coastal Connections workshops and activities in Dunbar
This year Sustaining Dunbar and North Light Arts are making Coastal Connections - the latest project to support our process of reconnecting with, respecting and restoring our environments.
David Attenborough introduces his latest film with the simple statement that ‘The Oceans are the most important place on Earth.’ The Oceans are in crisis but can and do recover when we make the right choices and take action.
We have developed a programme of walks, talks and workshops to stimulate connection with the marine environment, reflect on our relationship with nature and better understand our habits and social patterns.
We are collaborating with artists Katie Fowlie, Anna Davis, Lucy Robertson, marine biologists, a geologist and other local people with knowledge and expertise, to share their enthusiasms. It is an invitation to explore our coastline and your creativity.
All our activities are free including the art workshops, but we will ask permission of participants to use some elements of their work in our exhibition Shore Lines & Tide Marks at John Muir’s Birthplace in August & September.
Visit our websites or Facebook pages for more information about our work
Sustaining Dunbar
North Light Arts
SHORE LINES AND TIDE MARKS
Free art workshops to explore our coastline and your creativity.
Please make a booking for all of these sessions.
Contact Liz Wilcox - lizwilcox52@gmail.com or 07821 402466
find our more about us on northlightarts.org.uk and sustainingdunbar.org or on Facebook
Bookbinding and floating ink
Discover Suminagashi the Japanese art of marbling with 'floating ink.' Learn bookbinding techniques to craft a unique 'cascading' book, perfect for preserving your artistic creations and reflections and deepen your connection to the natural world.
Wednesday 9 July 10am-12 noon or 2-4pm. Suitable for age 14+
Dunbar Town House Museum and Gallery, High Street, Dunbar EH42 1ER
Booking essential
Make your own brushes and marks
An opportunity to craft unique brushes, tools, and pigments from natural raw materials and make marks inspired by the diversity of our shoreline. Celebrate the richness of our coastal landscape and its environments in this hands-on workshop.
Wednesday 16 July 10am to 12 noon or 2 to 4pm. Suitable for age 8+ at Lauderdale Park, Dunbar
Booking essential
Tidal Shift – alternative photography
Explore eco-friendly photographic techniques without a camera. Create images directly onto algae-based bioplastics and sea-worn fragments. Transform found objects and express your creativity in ways you never imagined possible.
Wednesday 23 July 10am-12 noon or 2-4pm at Lauderdale Park suitable age 8+
Thursday 17 July 2-4pm Underwater World - make stunning cyanotype images
Booking essential
Art on the beach party
Join us at Whitesands Beach for a party to make a super long shoreline drawing together, rockrubbing mark making. Experience the beach like never before - discover stunning geology, birds and plants galore.
Friday 18 July 1 to 4pm Whitesands Beach, Dunbar. All ages welcome
Booking essential
WALK, TALK, CONNECT, CREATE
Explore our shores with experts – Look and learn
Contact Liz Wilcox - lizwilcox52@gmail.com or 07821 402466
find our more about us on northlightarts.org.uk and sustainingdunbar.org or on Facebook
Geology walk at Whitesands
Explore this very special site and discover the stories in the stones that explain how our landscape was formed and the shifts from tropical sea to forest to icy desert. Find fossils of the creatures that inhabited these terrains and their influence on local industries.
Sunday 6 July. 4 to 6pm - meet in the car park at Whitesands beach.
Booking essential.
Dunbar Lifeboat Day and The Pearl of Dunbar Restoration Project
Dunbar Lifeboat Day is one of the high spots of the town’s year and a fantastic example of community spirit. Take this opportunity to meet the Harbour Master and hear about the project to restore this wooden sailing boat. We won’t make you climb the rigging but you can see how its made and try your hand at knotting and splicing. See how the fishermen make their lobster pots. Hear about life on the harbour, the changes and how we can keep it at the heart of our community and identity.
Saturday 12 July at McArthur’s Stores, Dunbar
Lobster pot demo 10am to12 noon, Harbour Master talk 11am to12 noon.
Drop-in no booking required
Life in the ocean and recycling fishermen’s ropes
Marine plastic pollution is a severe environmental problem. This response is not even a drop in the ocean but a moment to reflect on the part we can play in its restoration. Weave the patterns of marine bacteria - the basis of ocean life. Simple and satisfying you can take them home with you but we would be very pleased if you could make some for our exhibition.
Saturday 12 and Thursday 24 July, 2 to 4pm at McArthur’s Stores, Dunbar
Drop-in no booking required
Rock Pooling with the Rangers
Join our Countryside Ranger for a guddle in the puddles and discover the creatures that live there and what they do. Come prepared for fascinating insights and amazing facts about the intertidal world and don’t forget your waterproofs.
Wednesday 16 July, 12.30 to 2pm at the East Beach, Dunbar
Booking essential
This project is supported by Community Windpower and East Lothian Council Arts and Museums Services.