Past Events
Take Part! The School of Plural Futures
19 November 2020
What do you want to see happen on Skye, Raasay and Lochalsh beyond COVID-19? The School of Plural Futures is a new alternative school exploring social justice – with and for people aged 16-25 who live on Skye, Raasay and Lochalsh – and we are looking for people interested in…
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CLIMAVORE: Recipe Book
30 June 2020
Our CLIMAVORE apprenticeship programme – an island-wide partnership of restaurants, food and drink producers and Portree High School – continues with adaptations in response to Covid-19. Continuing as a paid opportunity for young people, this past few months, we have been working on a new CLIMAVORE recipe development project with…
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Tobar an Dualchais & ATLAS Arts: Plural Futures archive residency
15 June 2020
ATLAS Arts and Tobar an Dualchais are delighted to announce the inaugural Plural Futures Archive Residency this summer. Supported by a £1000 fee, the selected artist will be invited to undertake a period of public research in the Tobar an Dualchais digital archive. Open to visual and sound artists with…
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Plural Futures: film commission
29 May 2020
ATLAS Arts is seeking proposals from artists working with moving image, to create a new community film which speculates on the future. The artist will work with ATLAS and inhabitants of the Isle of Skye to plan and produce this film – with an open brief that brings together different…
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Art Night x ATLAS Arts Co-commission with Isabel Lewis
03 April 2020
Originally due to take place in Skye and London in June 2020, our co-commission with Art Night has been postponed until 2021. In the mean time, we are delighted to announce details of the ongoing project, with artist Isabel Lewis. Across venues in Skye and London, Isabel Lewis will stage…
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Skye Climate Action: Future Tellers subgroup
08 April 2020 –
Join us for an online meeting of the Skye Climate Action Future Tellers subgroup. ‘Plural Futures’ is a thread running through various ATLAS projects, organised by ATLAS Arts in collaboration with community groups around Skye and Lochalsh. This programme is about thinking of the many different kinds of possible futures…
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CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones Recipe Book Launch
03 November 2020
Join us this Friday 6 th November at the CLIMAVORE Oyster Table at 3.30-4.30pm, low tide, to celebrate the launch of the CLIMAVORE Recipe Book! We’ll be serving scones and dulse hot chocolate with the apprentices and partners who have supported the CLIMAVORE learning programme over the last few years. You’ll get a copy of…
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Opportunity: Assistant Producer
03 November 2020
ATLAS Arts is looking to recruit an Assistant Producer to join the team and assist with the planning, production and delivery of our programme. The ideal candidate will have a keen interest in the impact that contemporary art can make to the communities of Skye and Lochalsh and will be enthusiastic about…
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Seed Stewardship: THE PALESTINE HEIRLOOM SEED LIBRARY and Seed Stories of Skye and beyond.
20 October 2020
On Saturday 10th of October 2020 artist and activist Vivien Sansour Palestine Heirloom Seed Library guided an online participatory event. We explored the importance of preserving an area’s seed varieties not only for food, but as a form of social and political resistance, and shared stories of seeds from Palestine, Skye and around the world.
A huge thank you to Vivien, and all those who joined and shared stories. Here is a summary of the conversation and a selection of the stories and resources shared.
