Rise & Shine festival at the Scottish Crannog Centre
The Rise and Shine festival is an event with hands on activity and open-air performances, hosted by The Scottish Crannog Centre and the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Language and the Arts (UNESCO RILA). Meet craftspeople, artists and musicians from across Scotland and Internationally, to celebrate sustainable craft and lifestyles and reflect on how to build sustainable and resilient communities. The festival will focus on climate justice, the refugee crisis, and sustainable traditions, whilst bringing people together on the banks of the beautiful Loch Tay, to reconnect, reflect and respond, in a quiet space of craft and music.
Social Sciences Hub
Date: Saturday 19 August 2023 - Sunday 20 August 2023
Time: 10:00 - 18:00
Venue: Scottish Crannog Centre
Category: Concerts and music, Conferences, Exhibitions, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events, Open days and visits
Speaker: Prof Alison Phipps, Dr Hyab Yohannes, Corinne Ottroh, Pinar Aksu, Martha Orbach, Hope Wang, Lupin Lin, I.D. Campbell, Esa Aldegheri, Tawona Sitholé an
This second edition of the Rise and Shine festival is a collaboration between the Scottish Crannog Centre and the UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Language and the Arts (UNESCO RILA).
Together they have brought together a wealth of craftspeople, storytellers, musicians, theatre makers, visual artist and academics from across Scotland and internationally. Originally grown out of the tragedy of the crannog burning down in June 2021, the festival is a celebration of the resilience of the Crannog team, as well as an opportunity to reflect together on what it means to be a community, on questions around sustainability both in the social and ecological sense, on climate justice and on pre-colonial modes of interacting with one another.
We invite you to the beautiful shore of Loch Tay in Perthshire, which recently became part of the UNESCO UK Creative Cities network as City of Craft and Folk Art, a designation that has been extended to the whole county and includes the Scottish Crannog Centre. In this quiet space of craft and music, we will, together, reconnect, reflect, share and learn.
The day will run from 10am-6pm, with tours starting every 45 minutes until 4pm. You will receive a guided introduction to the fascinating history of the museum, the archaeological collection and the plans for the future, after which you will be "set free" to explore the wider programme of arts and crafts in the centre's replica iron age village.
Expect storytelling, weaving, foraging, creative writing, poetry, portrait drawing, woodwork, international tea & coffee ceremonies and more!
Free car parking available. Dogs, little ones and picnics welcome!