Can we Weave a New Ecological Future?

Artist Caroline Dear and writer Katharine Macfarlane will lead the session exploring the shoreline, weaving communal structures from rope and discussing language relating to gardens, enclosures and shorelines.

Soup for lunch and coffee, tea and cake will provided, if you have any specific dietary requirements, please email shona@climavore.org.

The event may involve a walk to the shore over uneaven ground, if you have any concerns regarding access please let us know.

Working between edges, Caroline Dear explores connections between plants and people, between making and thinking, between place and deep time. She has exhibited widely, most recently in Scotland and Norway.

Katharine Macfarlane is a writer based in the north end of Skye. Her work explores themes such as identity, tradition, environment, relationships and belonging.

This event is part of a series of workshops by CLIMAVORE delving into our relationship with the intertidal zone and imagining a shared shoreline garden space on Skye.

Tidal Gardens will bring together artists and scientists, foragers, researchers and activists, families and community members in workshops across the island, with the ultimate aim of imagining what an intertidal sea garden for Skye could look like, and culminating with a public exhibition.

Responding to the complex realities of land and marine ownership in Skye, regulation and extractivism, the project seeks to imagine Tidal Gardens as ‘coastal commons’, places steeped in collaboration and community, local vision and care.