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Plant Based Photography: Saturday Studio (Ages 7+) on 28 January

Our first Saturday Studios of 2023 will take place at Cove Park on Saturday 28 January and will be led by 2022 resident Edd Carr, a visual artist based in Leeds and co-founder of The Sustainable Darkroom.

Edd creates photographic animations and chemigrams from sustainable and natural materials. Chemigrams are typically made by painting a mixture of chemicals onto light sensitive paper; however, in this workshop, Edd will share a process which uses plant-based developers instead of harsh chemicals.

Edd’s work depicts our relationship to the ecological crisis and the nonhuman world which will serve as a starting point for discussions around how we relate emotionally to climate change, the ecological crisis and our connection to the wider living world.

This free workshop is part of our NAARCA programme and is open to children aged 7 years and over. No prior experience is necessary. For more information and to book your place please visit Cove Park‘s Eventbrite page.

Image provided by Edd Carr. 

Harvest Festival at the Unexpected Gardens

Join us to celebrate our Unexpected Gardens here on the Rosneath Peninsula at a special Harvest Festival on Saturday 10 September. This event is part of Dandelion, and will take place at Centre 81 Garelochhead from 11am – 2pm, and then at Cove Sailing Club from 4pm – 8pm.

Food at the Festival is by artist, curator, and culinary designer Rudy Kanhye. Join us in Garelochhead to try seasonal tasters inspired by our local shoreline, and an open fire-cooked lunch. A Harvest Dinner, also created by Rudy, will be shared at Cove Sailing Club accompanied by local botanical infused cocktails.

The Festival is an opportunity to see, hear, and take part in new work by Unexpected Gardens artist Hannah Brackston and Musician in Residence Siôn Parkinson. Siôn will perform ‘Harvest Hymns 21C’, a new work commissioned by Cove Park and a celebration of the end of the growing season, of food, drink and the drunken revelry that often follows. Drop-in workshops suitable for all ages, along with a Plant Swap and Garden Games designed by Hannah Brackston, will take place at both venues. These are free events.

For more information and to book tickets for the event at Centre 81 Garelochhead, please click here. Information and tickets for Cove Sailing Club is here. We look forward to welcoming everyone.

Unexpected Picnic! A celebratory open day at Cove Park with music, food & family activities

Unexpected Picnic
6th August, 1pm – 5pm
Cove Park

In celebration of our Unexpected Gardens project as part of the nationwide Dandelion programme, Cove Park will host a picnic on Saturday 6th August with food, music and activities for families. There will be scheduled events, drop-in workshops and participatory installation across all art forms and across our 50-acre site which you will be free to explore.

Joining Cove Park’s commissioned Unexpected Gardens artists Siôn ParkinsonHannah Brackston and Rudy Kanhye, are artists Vicky Dale, Caitlin Dick, Jessica Kerr, and Niki Sammon who have designed art installations and activities for the event.

This event is intended to be a community picnic and sharing event – we will be sharing the work of our artists, our site, food, music and creative experiences. Food artist and culinary designer, Rudy Kanhye, will provide tasting experiences, and you are welcome to also bring your family’s favourite dish to share amongst friends.

Dandelion is a celebration of growing – if you are able, bring along any home-grown produce or favourite recipes – there will be a recipe wall showcasing our community’s favourite recipes and will be shared with all attendees after the event.

To RSVP, visit our Eventbrite.

Unexpected Picnic promo

Registration Open! Dandelion Day Camp: 25-29 July

Dandelion Day Camp
25th-29th July, 8.30am-5pm
Cove Park

 

Dandelion Day Camp is a pilot project within Cove Park’s engagement programme. We will welcome up to 20 children between 8 – 12 years of age for a week long-programme of creative activity at Cove Park during the school holidays. Taking place from Monday 25th – Friday 29th July, the activities will be devised and led by former residents – visual artist Laura Aldridge and writer Alison Irvine; participants will also take part in sculptural, food, and instrument-making activities created for the Camp by visual artist Hannah Brackston and sound and performance artist Siôn Parkinson, the commissioned artists working on the Unexpected Gardens.

Space is limited! Registration closes on Sunday 2 July and places will be confirmed by Tuesday 5 July.

To register, please visit our Eventbrite.

 

Dandelion Day Camp Infographic

 

Saturday Studios: Moving Together – an Intergenerational Dance Workshop

Join us at our next Saturday Studio for a relaxed, interactive and imaginative family dance workshop. It will be a fun and creative session where children of all ages and their grown-ups will explore and make dance together.

Saturday Studios: Moving Together
An Intergenerational Dance Workshop

23rd July, 10.30am – 12.00pm
Cove Park

This workshop is a collaboration with The Work Room and TanzFaktur Cologne and will be led by dance artists Alex McCabe (Scotland) and Stefanie Schwimmbeck (Germany) who will be in residence at Cove Park as part of CROWD – international dance exchange programme.

Please wear comfortable clothing
that allows you to move freely.

To register, please visit our Eventbrite page.

 

The Work Room logo, TanzFaktur Cologne logo, CROWD logo

Digital Archive: A Compendium of Climate Literacies

A Compendium of Climate Literacies

This is the digital archive of the experimental intensive/symposium ‘Turbulence / Emergence / Enchantment: A Compendium of Climate Literacies’ that took place at Cove Park between 4-7 November 2021. It brought together artists, writers, performers, academics, and activists from a wide range of backgrounds to discuss climate literacy.

In the Western tradition, language has been viewed as our most powerful tool for ordering and mastering the world around us. And yet more and more we are having to acknowledge our struggle in communicating the current environmental crisis and its unequally distributed effects.

How do language and action relate to each other in climate science, narrative and activism? How can we rethink our responses to classical and premodern legacies of environmental thinking to create new understandings for the present? How can we open ourselves to new kinds of environmental literacies that give space to the agency of the other-than-human and more-than-human worlds? How do we ensure that languages have an impact on global discourse, in a context where the privilege of climate speech is still dominated by the elite discourses of the Global North?

TURBULENCE, EMERGENCE and ENCHANTMENT, with their unsettling mix of positive and negative connotations, acted as guiding metaphors for the week.


The SoundCloud link below features: 

Introduction to Turbulence, Emergence, Enchantment by Maureen Penjueli, Coordinator of Pacific Network on Globalisation.

 


TURBULENCE

The first chapter includes discussions around the theme of ‘Turbulent are climate, geo-politics, and living beings.’ The Turbulence YouTube playlist features:

Video 1: Climate Clarity/Confusion/Change by Derya Akkaynak (Oceanographer)

Video 2: Disaster, grief, apocalypse and empire in ancient ecological thinking by Jason König (Professor of Greek, Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies, University of St Andrews)

Video 3: After Ice by Kieran Baxter (Heritage Landscape Visualiser, University of Dundee)

Video 4: ‘Restore to us the necessary blizzards’ by Christina Alt (Lecturer in English, University of St. Andrews)

 

The Turbulence SoundCloud playlist features:

Track 1: Purple Haze by Deborah Dixon (Professor of Geography, University of Glasgow)

Track 2: Turbulence by Andreas Malm (Associate Professor of Human Ecology, Lund University)

Track 3: Turbulence by Oana Aristide (Novelist)


EMERGENCE

The second chapter includes discussions around the theme of ‘Emergent is metamorphosis.’ The Emergence YouTube playlist features:

Video 1: The Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes by Radha D’Souza (Professor of International Law, Development and Conflict Studies, Westminster Law School)

Video 2: Worm: art and ecology by Angela YT Chan (Independent Researcher, Curator and Artist)

Video 3: Listening with Another Ear by Annalee Davis (Artist, Cultural Instigator, Writer)

Video 4: Oceans in Transformation by Territorial Agency (Artists)

Video 5: The Swamp – a theory, a school, a design by Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas (Artists)

The Emergence SoundCloud playlist features:

Track 1: At the far end of the cave of gold by Col Gordon  (Farmer & Podcaster) and Iain MacKinnon (Assistant Professor, Centre for Agroecology, Coventry University)

Track 2: World Making by Ashish Ghadiali (Film-maker and Activist)

Track 3: An Inland Promenade by Fernando García-Dory (Artist)

Track 4: Emergence by Karen Guthrie (Artist, Film-maker and Gardener)


ENCHANTMENT

The final chapter includes discussions around the theme of ‘Enchantment is possibility of participating in the creation of just and environmentally thriving futures.’ The Enchantment YouTube playlist features:

Video 1: Small Acts of Hope and Lament by Janice Parker (Choreographer, Dance-maker)

Video 2: Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier (Professor of Literature and the Environment, University of Edinburgh)

Video 3: The Ecological Literacies of St. Hildegard of Bingen by Michael Marder (Ikerbasque Professor of Philosophy, University of the Basque Country)

Video 4: Marginalia by Katharine Earnshaw (Lecturer in Classics, University of Exeter) & Laura Hopes (Artist, Researcher)

Video 5: Language, silence & storytelling: to survive in the marine environment by Zoé Le Voyer & Justine Daquin (curators and co-founders of collective Calypso36°21)

     

The Enchantment SoundCloud playlist features:

Track 1: Epistemology of Caring by colectivo amasijo (Artists, Researchers, Food-makers)


Symposium participants also included: Tamara Colchester & Hermione Spriggs (Artists), Aka Niviâna (Poet, Activist), and Nada Tayeb (Architect, Food-maker).

This event signals a pivotal stage in the development of Cove Park. In its 21st year the organisation is moving beyond the boundaries of the traditional ‘time, space, freedom’ residency to include an enquiry-based model for facilitating cross-disciplinary work and collective intelligence around pressing global concerns. We are expanding the artforms and disciplines that are welcome to the residency, and enlarging its horizons towards other sectors, such as those of academic and scientific research, including the creative industries as a whole. On the occasion of COP26, Cove Park launched its first – and soon to become permanent – enquiry focussed on the environmental crisis and the radical change that our collective intelligence can affect in terms of climate action.

“Turbulence/ Emergence/ Enchantment: A Compendium of Climate Literacies” was organised in partnership with the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies and Professor Jason König at the University of St Andrews, London-based curator Lucia PietroiustiTBA21-Academy and Markus Reymann, and the School of Classics and the College of Arts and Humanities (Environmental Humanities Research Strand) of University College Dublin and Dr. Giacomo Savani. The symposium was made possible by funding from Arts & Business Scotland: Culture & Business Fund. Thanks to the Green Art Lab Alliance for their support and friendship.

 

Virtual Studio & Site Tour with Creative Entrepreneurs’ Club

On 25th May at 12pm, Cove Park will give a virtual studio tour and interview with Creative Entrepreneurs’ Club Director Medeia Cohan. The tour will take in Cove Park’s site, its buildings and facilities and will be followed by a conversation and Q&A between CEC’s membership and Cove Park’s CEO Francesca Bertolotti-Bailey and Partnerships Manager Catrin Kemp. Learn more and sign up here:

https://creativeentrepreneursclub.co.uk/event/cove-park-artists-residency-centre-visit/

About the Creative Entrepreneurs Club:
CEC is a home for like-spirited creative people looking to access powerful support, network with peers and develop new skills. Our members determine what we offer and we respond to the challenges that they tell us they’re facing by developing relevant content and training to support them.

We welcome creative entrepreneurs at all stages of their businesses, from those just starting out to those looking to exit.

Membership is free for a limited time at creativeentrepreneursclub.co.uk

March 2020 Newsletter

This month’s Newsletter highlights our current programme and reveals the first images of our newly redesigned Cubes. It also includes the call for applications to the Lighthouse and Cove Park residency, the announcement of the recipient of this year’s Birkbeck/Sophie Warne Fellowship and much more!

DEADLINE EXTENDED: How to Make Your Work Stand Out to Agents, Editors and Readers – Residential Masterclass March 2020

Building on the pilot we ran in 2018, this residential weekend at Cove Park will help you make your literary work stand out to agents, editors – and readers!

This residential masterclass is for those writing fiction and non-fiction for adults or children, who have yet to secure an agent or have their work published. It will cover the traditional routes into publication, what an agent does versus what an editor does, and examine how the process of publishing a book works.

Together with editor and writer Genevieve Herr and LBA Books literary agent Louise Lamont, you will learn about the essential first page, and what agents and editors are looking for in a submission package. There will be one-to-one time with the residency tutors, during which those selected to attend will have the opportunity to discuss their submitted work and receive tailored feedback on how to strengthen their material, as well as opportunities to write in your own time.

The residential weekend masterclass will run from

Friday 27th March 2020 (4pm) to Monday 30th March 2020 (10am).

The cost for the weekend is £350.00 and includes self-catering, en-suite accommodation for three nights, group workshops and two one-to-one tuition sessions with both tutors, as well as two catered meals.

The new deadline for applications is now Wednesday 19th February 2020 (midnight).

Find out more and apply here: How to Make Your Work Stand Out to Agents, Editors and Readers – Application Guidelines.

 

 

 

Translation Week: Public Reading

We are delighted to invite you to a public reading to mark our second Translation Week, organised in partnership with the National Centre for Writing and Publishing Scotland.

Join us on Saturday, 16th November, from 3-5pm, to hear the participating translators read from their work, and meet translators and translation professionals in an informal setting.

The participating translators 2019 include: Kari Dickson (workshop leader), Polly Barton (Japanese), Jozefina Komporaly (Hungarian and Romanian), Jozef van der Voort (Dutch and German), Zoë Perry (Portuguese), Katherine Mendelsohn (French), Ayça Türkoğlu (Turkish and German), Stephanie Fernandes (Scottish literature into Brazilian Portuguese) and Ghislain Bareau (Scottish literature into French).

Thanks to additional support from the AHRC Open World Research Initiative’s flagship project Language Acts and Worldmaking, we have invited a drama translator and an L2 translator (translating into their second language) to the programme.