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Sunday 12th July, 10am – 12pm & 2pm – 4pm Spott Village Hall, Dunbar Come and create “Mosslings” – small sculptural forms made from materials foraged from the local landscape. Inspired by Scottish folk traditions, you’ll transform plants, fibres, and found natural materials into tactile creations that will join a communal exhibition in July. If…
Sunday 5th July, 10am – 12pm & 2pm – 4pm Spott Village Hall, Dunbar Learn to capture the textures and patterns of the natural world using plaster and clay in this hands-on casting workshop. Explore the landscape around Spott Village Hall to forage materials, before transforming your finds into beautiful botanical casts. Discover how to…
Sunday 21st June, 10am – 12pm & 2pm – 4pm Spott Village Hall, Dunbar Discover the hidden magic where botany meets photography in this hands-on creative workshop. Explore alternative photography techniques using plants as photographic emulsions and developers. Try your hand at Lumen printing – a sun-powered photographic process from the 1830s -combined with Phytograms,…
Sunday 7th June, 2pm – 4pm Spott Village Hall, Dunbar Discover the Japanese art of creating ‘mud balls’ while exploring the rich pigments hidden in Dunbar’s unique landscape. Learn the slow, satisfying process of transforming clay and sand into beautifully polished spheres. You’ll also get an introduction to creating natural earth pigments from Dunbar’s distinctive…
Sunday 7th June, 10am – 12.00 Meet at Spott Village Hall for a walk and explore along the Spott Burn Join Henry Mathias – Thrive Outdoors Associate, to explore the glen from a new angle. The stories about plants and animals and the traditions connected with them will stimulate your curiosity and imagination. If you’re…
Normally on the Second Wed of the month 12.30-14.00 In St. Anne’s Church, Westgate, Dunbar, EH42 1JL Next café, Wednesday 10th June, 2026 An open, inclusive, café space for people to get together to talk, share concerns and ideas and plan action in the context of the climate and nature emergencies. Everyone is welcome to…
FLOW is a series of creative activities running on Sundays from 7th June through to Sunday 12th July 2026 as part of our wider Rivers Project. Based at Spott Village Hall, we will explore the Spott Burn and its surroundings through a series of walks and creative workshops with Katie Fowlie (artist/educator/forager). All activities are…
Appeal for financial pledges NHS Lothian are currently evaluating our request to purchase Belhaven Community Garden so that it is protected in the long term for the benefit of everyone living in the local area. We expect to hear their decision in July. In the meantime, we are busy preparing an application to the Scottish Land…
Saturday, 23rd May, 10am-1pm, Belhaven Community Garden A free workshop on honey bees and natural beekeeping. Spend a morning with the honey-bees. We will gather around the garden’s top-bar hives, observe life at the hive entrance, open a hive and learn more about honey-bee ecology, behaviour and low intervention, natural beekeeping. For anyone curious about…
Friday 19th June, 6.30pm-9pm, Dunbar Town House Sustaining Dunbar’s AGM will be followed by a community screening of the accalimed David Attenborough film OCEAN. This will be a FREE event but booking is recommended as space is limited.