The Argyll Beacon Climate Café
An Invitation
Cove Park and Argyll & the Isles Coast & Countryside Trust (ACT) invite you to the final Argyll Beacon Climate Café.
This event includes the premiere of Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations, a short film by Rachel McBrinn and Alison Scott, screenings of descriptive moving image responses to Scotland's rainforest by pupils of Hermitage Academy and Lochgilphead High School, as part of the Artists in Schools programme led by Juliana Capes, and the presentation of Cove Park's Year of Stories 2022 Commission, If Our Trees Could Talk,
by Katrine Turner.
Monday 30 May, 2.30-4.30pm
The Tower Arts Centre
81 Sinclair St, Helensburgh, G84 8TR
The event will be introduced by Lewis Coenen-Rowe,
culture/SHIFT Producer at Creative Carbon Scotland.
Light refreshments will be served. For more information, and to reserve your free place, please click the RSVP button below.
The Climate Café marks the culmination of a number of Argyll Beacon projects developed jointly by Cove Park and ACT. Focused upon Scotland's rainforest, the Beacon brings cultural and environmental knowledge and skills to bear on the climate change challenges our regions face. Most of this unique temperate habitat sits within Argyll and our aim is to raise awareness of the importance of biodiversity in effective and inclusive conservation and regeneration.
The Argyll Beacon is one of seven beacons created as part of the Climate Beacons for COP26 project run by Creative Carbon Scotland in partnership with Architecture & Design Scotland, Creative Scotland, Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, Museums Galleries Scotland, Scottish Library and Information Council and Sustainable Scotland Network, and funded by the Scottish Government, Creative Scotland and Museums Galleries Scotland.
Read on for more information on the projects being presented at our final Climate Café.
Images: Above, Argyll Beacon Artists in Schools visit to Taynish Natural Woodland Reserve with Juliana Capes, March 2022; below, still from 'Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations', Rachel McBrinn & Alison Scott, 2022.
The Argyll Beacon Film Commission
'Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations'
This short film responds to the Scottish rainforest, and is a poetic document of collaborative learning which expands from observational documentary footage, conversations, and a critical engagement with place. Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations was filmed across the Argyll area, taking us from the experimental mono-cultural forestry of Kilmun Arboretum, to sites of Atlantic Rainforest at Cormonachan Community Woodland, Taynish National Nature Reserve, Barnluasgan, and recent planting of native tree species at Cove Park. The film moves from blocks of planted forest to fragmented pockets of native woodland - from one management system to another. Paying close attention to the language and history of forest management and how this might develop into the future, McBrinn and Scott ask, what is allowed to grow, and what is not?
Access Note: This 25 minute film is fully captioned.
Image: Still from 'Congenial Soils and Favourable Situations', Rachel McBrinn & Alison Scott, 2022.
Year of Stories 2022
If Our Trees Could Talk
If Our Trees Could Talk is a storytelling commission offered as part of Year of Stories 2022, focussing upon Scotland’s Rainforests and those who live and work in these unique environments. The commissioned artist Katrine Turner has captured existing stories and crafted new ones in response to this rare landscape. The resulting digital audio artwork weaves together stories past, present and future of the rainforest as imagined by children from Argyll.
Image: Participants at the Making Tracks Workshop, 2021 (photography by Emma Henderson).
