Emily Dodd has written a really nice piece about the Steep Trail Eco Lab for the Greener Leith Blog.
Walking
Reposted from the Walking Artists Network listserve Melissa Bliss will be leading a collaborative walking tour of central Hackney (London Fields, Broadway Market, Mare Street), revealing the histories of common land use and squatting over the centuries. Meet at 2pm outside the Lido on London Fields E8 3EU. Duration about 2 hours followed by a... Continue Reading →
Cultivation Field
Cultivation Field is a Postgrad exhibition and symposium at the University of Reading (thanks to RANE for circulating) deadline for abstracts 29 July - exhibition and symposium end September 2011. The premise for this Symposium and accompanying Exhibition is that cultivation is leading to new art practices deserving of critical inquiry and articulation. Whether in... Continue Reading →
Steep Trail: the Edinburgh lab
Steep Trail is a cross-disciplinary project set up by three arts organisations – Polarcap, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Fife Contemporary Art and Craft – to explore the legacy of John Muir (1838-1914) and his relevance to contemporary Scottish and Chinese culture. John Muir, a Lowland Scot, was a renowned wilderness guru, pioneering environmentalist, father of... Continue Reading →
Creative environmental remediation
ecoartscotland received the following email from Ilka Nelson in Australia, I am now writing to ... ask if you know of a project I could work on as part of my Masters research programme? I have attached a pdf which has the project requirements and a snapshot of my background/area of interest. I’m prepared to... Continue Reading →
One touch of nature…makes all kin
Opportunity posted on Creative Scotland website: "One touch of nature...makes all kin" OPEN EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY : visual and applied arts - installation - artists books a dunbar artist's initiative John Muir's Birthplace Dunbar : 2 Aug to 4 Sept 2011 Submissions by email - by midnight Mon 25July - susie.goodwin@gwd.biz Further info: Susie Goodwin 01368... Continue Reading →

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