Sanday Wreck Workshops……From Kilmorack Gallery…. From ‘Coal Action’….
by Bernie Bell - 08:48 on 14 February 2025
Sanday Wreck Workshops….
Last December winter storms revealed what looked to be a very interesting section of a ship’s hull…..
https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/sanday-wreck
Now, the Sanday Development Trust, Orkney Archaeology Society, Historic Environment Scotland and Wessex Archaeology have joined together to present a series of workshops centred around this significant discovery.
I’ll quote from the publicity flyer…
“Sanday Wreck
Researching wrecks workshops 2025
All free to attend
Booking required
Email Ben b.saunders@wessexarch.co.uk to book. You can attend either a Thursday or a Saturday workshop. There will be optional tasks for participants in between workshops
Thurs 13th or Sat 15th March: A short introduction to wreck researching. 11.00 – 13.30. Online
Thurs 10th or Sat 12th April: Working with archive material: typewritten and handwritten. 11.00 – 13.30. Online.
Thurs 8th or Sat 10th May: The timber archive: from seed to sea. 11.00 – 13.30. Online.
Thurs 5th or Sat 7th June: The Sanday wreck database: which wrecks are where. 11.00 – 13.30. Online.
Sat 27th September: Day seminar on the wreck and associated research 10.00 – 16.00. Sanday School
All except the last one in September are online and are free to attend although booking is required. “
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From Kilmorack Gallery…
“This is our mid-February update. We've just hung tree-loving artist Tansy Lee Moir's latest works - ten exquisite life-filled charcoals on board - in an exhibition 'Witches' Broom.' We have also updated our 3d walkthrough, and why not explore our collections and artist pages?
Tansy Lee Moir's latest collection of work explores the tangles of twigs formed by witches’ broom on a single birch tree in Calder Wood not far from her studio. The wild-growing mass of twigs produced by the witches' broom gives an architecture within an architecture, and reaffirms the beauty in nature’s urge to grow. It furthers our wonder in what can be seen when we take the time to stop and look.
These ten works are in charcoal (itself from a tree,) and their titles come from the Scots language which roots the tree to a geography of people and place.
New 3d Tour
We hope that you can make it in person, but if you can't this is the next best thing - a 3d walkthrough. This is on the morning of the 10th February 2025.
Artist Pages and Collections
Kilmorack Gallery's stable of artists is one of the most impressive in the country. We aim to illustrate, through paintings and sculpture, the best of the always evolving Scottish art world. You may find a look through our artist pages and collections pages both interesting and uplifting.
Kilmorack Gallery
Inverness-shire
IV4 7AL
01463 783 230”
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From ‘Coal Action’…..
“Once Europe’s largest and most polluting coal-fired power station, Drax was a key target of Coal Action Network when the Network formed in 2008. Since then, Drax has gradually replaced coal with biomass…or rather, trees. Currently Drax imports its wood pellets from wildlife-rich forests in North America and the Baltic states which are also important carbon stores. This is clearly not the switch we want to see and Drax continues to be the number one single source of CO2 emissions in the UK.
We’re telling you this because the we learned today that the UK Government intends to hand Drax £2 billion in ‘green energy’ subsidies over the next 4 years to come to keep felling and burning forests, and polluting our skies. Ember estimates it’ll cost each of us £500 over the next 25 years. What’s worse, this aging power plant was built in 1974 with a thermal efficiency of just 38% - more modern biomass converters can reach 90% efficient.
Join thousands in telling Ed Miliband to stand up to big business greenwash by refusing to subsidise burning forests in Europe and North America
Find out more about the campaign.
Daniel, and the team at Coal Action Network “
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