THE WOOD AND CRAFT ZONE

At the entrance to the Big Tent you will find the amazing Wood and Craft Zone. Take time to wander through this area and enjoy the talents of craftsmen and women who are working in many mediums, including wood, felt, paper, metal, cloth, wool and stained glass to create handmade craft. Find out more about the Big Tent organisers in the Falkland Centre for Stewardship and see an exhibition of new art and craft inspired by the built and natural heritage of the Estate, Palace and House of Falkland as well as an exhibition by the Past Present and Future Craft Practice team at Duncan of Jordanstone who have been researching the craft at the House of Falkland. Here you will be able to book tours to the House of Falkland, a 'hidden gem' of a building with incredible arts and crafts interiors. Tours are at 12noon, 2.30pm and 4pm on Saturday and Sunday and will take up to an hour.

Below are some of the timetabled events taking place in the Craft and Wood Zone, in the Big Yurt and in the SEDA pavillion.

The Big Yurt

Saturday Sunday

10.30am Stories and Music

Roots and Flutes with Bob Pegg - sounds and stories of some of the world's oldest musical instruments.

10.30am Stories and Music

Roots and Flutes with Bob Pegg - sounds and stories of some of the world's oldest musical instruments.

11.30am 21st century woodlands: seeding a better future

Fi Martinoga: Messing about in the woods Bernard Planterose, North Woods Construction: Designing and inhabiting the future forest - timber building and wood energy Rick Worrell, Chair of Regional Forestry Forum, Perth & Argyll Conservancy for Forestry Commission Scotland: The Future of Forestry Syd House, Forestry Commission Scotland: Chair

11.30am Useful and beautiful? Sustaining craft in the 21st century.

Past, Present, Future Craft Practice:Georgina Follett, jeweller and professor of Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. What do we think is useful and beautiful in the 21st century: Amanda Game, freelance curator. A personal perspective: Roger Hall, letter carver in wood.

1pm Woodland Roots

Henry Fosbrooke and the Woodland Roots Band on guitar, vocals, djembe, didge, sax, bass, pipes and more.

1pm Woodland Roots

Henry Fosbrooke and the Woodland Roots Band on guitar, vocals, djembe, didge, sax, bass, pipes and more.

2.30pm Food from the Forest - a conversation (chaired by Pete Ritchie of Whitmuir Organics).

Wild harvesting - Emma Chapman, Scottish Wild Harvests Association. Orchards - a time for planting? Andrea Partridge, Carse of Gowrie Orchard Project: Revitalising historic orchards of the Carse of Gowrie. Alan Carter, Forester gardener and park manager: Permaculture. Tony Waterhouse, Scottish Agricultural College: Sheep AND trees - why not?

 

 

 

2.30pm Meet the makers.

Ten minute talks about their creative process from some of the craft workers exhibiting in the Falkland Centre for Stewardship Tent and the Crafts Pavillion.

2.30pm-3pm
Catherine Davies, Basketmaker
Di Gilpin, Knitwear designer
Linzi Knox, Feltmaker

3pm-3.30pm Fran Marquis, Potter
Roddy Mathieson, Sculptor in bronze
John Hodgson, Wood turner

 

 

 

4pm Fischy Music

Catchy songs full of hope and humour for all ages – come and sing along!

 

 

 

4pm Making places that celebrate life.

Creating celebrations with and for communities, marking rites of passage and creating secular ceremonies with John Fox and Sue Gill, co-founders of Welfare State International (site-specific theatre, carnival and lantern parades). Their new company -Dead Good Guides - explores new and aesthetic ways of celebrating and commemorating people and places.

 

5.30pm National Theatre of Scotland in co-production with Arts and Theatres Trust Fife present 99…100

99…100 is a major new community and education project involving hundreds of people from Fife. Using a combination of music, movement, drama, puppetry, photography, art and design, 99…100 explores and tells the stories of Fife. 99…100’s nine-month programme of creative work includes a series of live arts events across the region. Visit the Big Yurt for some fun games. 99…100 culminates in three weeks of thrilling theatre events in November 2010, made by - and for - the people of Fife. Come and play a game of 99...100.

Sponsored by ScottishPower, presented as part of Celebrating Fife 2010, with support from the Scottish Government and the Russell Trust.

The SEDA Pavillion- join SEDA members in their own pavillion, designed and built as a practical and inspirational demonstration of local materials and focusing on the use of local, Falkland wood.

Saturday 24th
Sunday 25th

11am to 12 noon.Eco-renovation - where to start and how to go about renovating your home in an eco-friendly way. Providing information and help to people who want to make changes to reduce their carbon footprint of their existing homes. SEDA members will be on hand to share their experiences and expertise across a wide range of different issues of issues to people who want to know about what there is and how to choose the most appropriate environmentally-friendly materials such as insulation, roofing, flooring, finishes that are best suited to their existing building type along with broader aspects of design and refurbishment and meeting building standards.

11am to 12 noon. Designing new 'green' homes - focusing on the information needed about designing an environmentally-friendly new home. SEDA members will be on hand to share their experiences and expertise with people who want to know about what to consider when designing a new house. Touching on the broader aspects of designing to suit your work/home life, making the best of your site and covering issues such as energy generation and use/reducing consumption. The main focus is on some of the options available and the use of environmentally-friendly products and services from doors, windows, bathrooms and kitchen fittings through to heating, plumbing and drainage.

3pm to 4pm Designing new 'green' homes - providing information and help to people who are interested in designing an environmentally-friendly new home. Starting with broader aspects of designing to suite your work/home life and making the best of your site the session will also touch on issues such as energy generation and use/reducing consumption/sustainable drainage/green roofs. The main focus of this session will be on the selection,c hoices and use of environmentally-friendly materials for the building itself, as well as options for insulation, roofing, flooring, finishes, paints and stains.

 

2.30pm to 3.30pm Eco-renovation - where to start and how to go about renovating your home in an eco-friendly way. This session is aimed at providing information and help to people who want to make changes to reduce the carbon footprint of their existing homes. SEDA members will be on hand to share experiences and expertise across various different issues of interest to people who want to know how to choose the most appropriate environmentally-friendly products (such as windows, doors, kitchen and bathroom fittings) as well as services (heating, plumbing and drainage) along with broader aspects of design and refurbishment and meeting building standards.