As the season turns and we usher in “the dark half of the year”, ATLAS invites you to gather over the weekend of Samhain for a constellation of performances, sound works, sensory exercises, collective research and publication making led by Camille Auer, Ashanti Harris, Katharine Macfarlane and Astrida Neimanis.
This weekend of activities emerges from the Feeling wor(l)ds project, in which Camille Auer, Ashanti Harris, Katharine Macfarlane and Astrida Neimanis exchanged words and worlds through a process of email correspondence from May to September.
Rooted in the Feeling wor(l)ds correspondence, the weekend programme feels out how we might attend to the intimacies of place through being in correspondence with others, human and more than human. Over the weekend we will be corresponding with words, birds, places, sounds and one another at the edge of lochs, around a fire, over food and on the Making Publics Press.
Friday 28 October – Sounds (Belonging to our wor(l)ds)
Join poet Katharine Macfarlane at Loch Langaig to explore the ways we relate to the worlds around and within us through language, feeling and sound.
This event has a participatory element and spaces are limited so please book in advance to avoid disappointment.
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Saturday 29 October – Air Passing Through Feathers, Drawing a Sense of Space Around Us / A collage, a choreography, a collective imagining
This event presents two works by artists, Camille Auer and Ashanti Harris.
Air Passing Through Feathers, Drawing a Sense of Space Around Us is a concrete sound composition by Camille Auer and A collage, a choreography, a collective imagining by artist Ashanti Harris is an invitation to explore and redefine our relationship to our bodies and the environments we move through.
This event has a participatory element and spaces are limited so please book in advance to avoid disappointment.
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Sunday 30 October – Feeling wor(l)ds on The Making Publics Press
To launch our third chapbook in the Making Publics Press series, we will gather at An Crùbh for a day of collective publication making. No need to book.
An evening of film selected by Third Ridge and ATLAS Arts. Part of the corresponding programme.
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Monday 31 October – Samhain Bonfire
Cancelled due to unpredictable weather.
Join us on the eve of Samhain for a bonfire to celebrate the shift in the seasons and to usher in “the dark half of the year”. We will celebrate the harvest with baked potatoes on the fire, so join us before you go guising or make it a stop and bring a story, joke, song or log for the fire. No need to book.
Join us for the launch of Caroline Dear's String / Lines exhibition with a performance by Katharine Macfarlane. Part of the corresponding programme. No need to book.
We can not offer childcare during these events but children are welcome to participate.
If there are physical, social or access barriers which may affect your ability to participate, please get in touch to discuss what support we can offer. The contact person for this programme is Yvonne Billimore (yvonne@atlasarts.org.uk).
A number of activities will take place outdoors. We recommend using Traveline Scotland for checking public transport routes. If you are driving to any of the events and have space in your car or are without transport and looking for a lift, we suggest using Liftshare. We will also be running a small minibus with seven seats to each event, contact Katharine Barrington (info@atlasarts.org.uk / 01478 611143) for routes and times.
If you are planning on travelling to Skye, we recommend booking well in advance; if you have questions regarding attending, travelling or booking accommodation please contact: info@atlasarts.org.uk
Bursaries
We have a few bursaries of £35 per event to help support your attendance (for travel, subsistence, child care). If you would like one, please contact info@atlasarts.org.uk.
Feeling wor(l)ds
June 2022 — ongoing
Feeling wor(l)ds is a project exploring how we might attend to the intimacies of place through being in correspondence with others.
