Climate Beacons: In case you missed it…

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Argyll

For the Argyll Climate Beacon, we’re sharing short films about the Scottish rainforest, a vital habitat and natural carbon sink. ‘Rainforest Days’ is a suite of three short films, made entirely from footage and descriptive audio taken by pupils of Hermitage Academy and Lochgilphead High School as part of the Artists in Schools programme led by artist Juliana Capes. The films premiered in May 2022, but are now available online.

Fife

The Fife Beacon helped organise ‘Levenmouth Fayre’ at Levenmouth Academy in September 2022. We’re sharing the winners of a poster competition at the fayre, which invited school pupils to share their vision for Levenmouth in the future. The prizes for the best posters were hampers of locally sourced produce.

Images of the four winning poster designs. The posters are brightly coloured and include hand-drawn pictures and designs. The content of the posters focuses on the arrival of train travel for Levenmouth, cleaning up the river Leven, and regenerating the high street.

The four winners of the poster competition. Clockwise from top left: first prize, second prize, joint third prize. Courtesy of Fife Climate Beacon.

Inverclyde

For the Inverclyde Climate Beacon, we’re sharing a backstage look at the making of This Is How It Happens, a performance at Beacon Arts Centre researched, written and performed by the Beacon Young Company. The performance took place in March 2022 at the Beacon Arts Centre.

WATCH HERE

Midlothian

For the Midlothian Climate Beacon, we’ve got not one but two films made by Queen Margaret University students during a residency at the National Mining Museum Scotland. The films premiered at an event at the museum in April 2022, but are now available online for all to see.

Have Your Piece by Sandra Karolak and Jay Brown is an encouragement to have more conversations about climate change, drawing on the tradition of ‘piece time’ when miners would take their sandwich break from work.

Re:Grow by Maria-Magdalena Arnaudova is a highly personal exploration of climate anxiety and its effect on young people, combining elements of spoken word and dance.

Outer Hebrides

For Làn Thìde, the Outer Hebrides Climate Beacon, we’re sharing Tuil is Geil, a sound piece by artist Sandra Kennedy that incorporates data from the Met Office and conversations with local people to reflect on the impact of climate change and storms on the Western Isles. The piece was created in 2022 as part of Làn Thìde’s Climate Storyline project.

Tayside

The Tayside Climate Beacon commissioned new work from three local creatives, which explored climate change in relation to local issues, culture, and geography.

Artist Kristina Aburrow’s The Smokie Migration explored the history of the Arbroath Smokie and how it related to changes in the local environment. Shaper/Caper’s dance piece The World is My…? looked at the climate crisis through the lens of intergenerational relationships and personal choice. Storyteller Alex Turner’s Storyscaper shared three stories of personal experiences of climate change from the perspective of the year 2055.

You can watch a video of Shaper/Caper’s performance below and find out more about all three commissions on the Tayside Climate Beacon website.

Find out more about the Climate Beacons project by reading our evaluation report, or by visiting the webpage.

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