We are pleased to announce that we are funding three new projects run by Climate Beacons partnership in the first half of 2024, taking place in Argyll, Caithness and Fife. These projects continue to build on the previous work done by the Climate Beacons, which were originally established in the run-up to COP26 in Glasgow.
Argyll
In Argyll, ACT and Cove Park will be working together on developing a Rainforest Community Network that brings together landowners and local communities around the shared goal of preserving the region’s temperate rainforests of the region, with a particular focus on Kintyre and Tighnabruaich. Activities will include an artists-in-schools programme, guided nocturnal walks, family events and volunteering opportunities as well as an important ‘pledge day’ where community members will be invited to guarantee their future involvement in restoring and conserving the rainforests.
‘We are delighted to have the opportunity to work together again on this important project. Thanks to funding from Creative Carbon Scotland, we will establish the first ‘Rainforest Community Network’. A project designed to connect communities with their landscape and with each other through creative engagement and community empowerment.’ – Emma Henderson, Curator of Engagement, Cove Park
Caithness & Sutherland
In Caithness, Lyth Arts Centre (LAC) is presenting Climate Beacons Film Festival 2024, a film programme focused on climate issues in Scotland and beyond, covering themes like Scottish deer management, remote environmentalism, ancestral knowledge and indigenous practice, and global industrial impact and land use. Each screening will take place in a carefully chosen and thematic location – a Highland estate, a forest croft, a community hall next to a stone quarry. Their programme will be hosted by special guests to create spaces for conversation, engagement and a chance for everyone present to dissect the themes.
LAC is working with local groups including Wick High School, Natures Path Natural Ways, and Thurso Community Café.
‘After the success of our 2023 Climate Beacons Film Festival, we are so excited to be able to deliver a 2024 version across Caithness & Sutherland. The winters are long and dark here, it’s really important for us to be able to offer our communities ‘beacon’ events to gather, share food and get into the nitty gritty of what climate action in the North HIghlands is and could be.’ – Sinéad Hargan, Co-Director and Programme Curator, LAC
Fife
In Fife, Levenmouth Academy is working with Midgie Bite Media to create a documentary film produced by pupils at the school about what climate change means for their area. This documentary will show the story of high carbon to low carbon in an area that once had the highest level of coal exports in Scotland, and has since been neglected and suffered the consequences, but is now leading the way in a green transformation.
‘We’re excited about making a film with pupils reflecting on the green transformation of Levenmouth It’s fantastic to have this opportunity to do something so creative and ambitious. We literally have no idea what this is going to look like!’ – Duncan Zuill, Teacher, Levenmouth Academy
You can find out more about Climate Beacons on the project page.
Creative Carbon Scotland’s role in this project forms part of our culture/SHIFT programme, which promotes how the arts and culture can transform society in response to climate change.
(Top image ID: A group of people in warm outdoor clothing, some carrying umbrellas, standing in a forest setting. Courtesy of ACT in Argyll.)
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