Project Studio
Visible Music with Duncan Marquiss
Thursday 26 September, 4-6pm
Park Pavilion, Hermitage Park, Helensburgh
The next Project Studio takes place at the Park Pavilion in Hermitage Park, Helensburgh, on Thursday 26 September from 4-6pm. Led by artist, musician, and former resident Duncan Marquiss, this workshop will explore ways of generating imagery in response to music, using simple camera, video-editing and animation techniques.
Project Studio is a Cove Park programme for teenagers in our local area made possible with a generous award from the National Lottery Community Fund. Launched in June, Project Studio offers free monthly creative activity - including workshops, trips, and events - centred around self-expression and creating community for teenagers interested in the arts, activism, environmentalism, and wellbeing.
This programme is supportive to young people experiencing ADHD, dyslexia, and autism. Please let us know how we can support you best.
We are pleased to share some good news: an award from The Stafford Trust will allow us to extend Project Studio and offer more events, building on the work enjoyed so far.
Book your free place here. For further information please contact Cove Park's Curator of Engagement, Emma Henderson.
Image courtesy of Duncan Marquiss.
Saturday Studio
'Make a Meal of it' with Sean Wai Keung
Saturday 28 October, 10am & 2pm, Cove Park
Join poetry, performance and food artist Sean Wai Keung to create a meal of veggie soup with hand made naturally colourful pasta shapes. Using a large sheet of fresh pasta dough, participants can use food-dye pens and natural food colouring to write or paint directly onto the dough. The pasta shapes will be an ingredient in a soup featuring locally sourced vegetables. Sean will lead the conversation around our relationships with food and its histories, before coming together to eat the home made soup.
Two Saturday Studio workshops will take place on Saturday 28 October, the first in the morning and the second in the afternoon. Parents or carers are encouraged to stay and join, if they wish.
For more information, please visit Cove Park's Eventbrite page.
Image: Sean Wai Keung (photography, Brian Hartley)
'On Clogger Lane', Andrew Black
Saturday 18 November, 3pm, Cove Burgh Hall
We are excited to support LUX Scotland's presentation of former resident Andrew Black’s Margaret Tait Award commission ‘On Clogger Lane’ (2023) at Cove Burgh Hall on Saturday 18 November.
‘On Clogger Lane’ tells the story of a depopulated valley on ancient land. The film follows routes through a dammed, drowned and depopulated valley in Northern England, exploring the infrastructures of capital on land overshadowed by a monstrous satellite surveillance station, submerged beneath reservoirs, haunted by accusations of witchcraft, and populated by indecipherable prehistoric carvings and the graves of child labourers. Incorporating conversations with farmers, antiquarians, dowsers, grandmothers, Quakers, landowners and communists alongside an improvisational score,‘On Clogger Lane’ is an experimental documentary which navigates the chaotic mix of passivity and protest, public and private, past and present, all coincident in the same patch of ancient countryside.
For more information and to reserve your free ticket, please visit the LUX Scotland website.
Image: Andrew Black, 'On Clogger Lane', 2022, courtesy of the artist.
Testing Grounds Podcast Series
Episode 5: Young People’s Voices
on the Climate Crisis
In case you missed it, Cove Park's episode, Amplifying Young People's Voices on the Climate Crisis, is now available on NAARCA's podcast, 'Testing Grounds'. In this episode, Emma Henderson – Cove Park’s Curator of Engagement – introduces us to both the residency and the region, and to NAARCA’s pedagogy work. We then hear from artist Louis Brown and students Frankie O’Connor and Cameron Glendinning, both of whom recently graduated from nearby Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh. Frankie and Cameron were part of Net Zero Youth Voice, a youth-led film project initiated by Imperial College London, and facilitated by Louis, highlighting young people’s views on the climate crisis, air pollution, and Net Zero policies.
Testing Grounds is available to listen here or via your favourite podcast app. Episodes are published on the last Friday of each month.
Image: Net Zero Youth Voice project at Cove Park, April 2022.
