Dumfries & Galloway’s annual Wild Goose Festival is back and celebrates its fifth birthday with its biggest programme yet.
Autumn 2024 marks the fifth birthday of the Dumfries & Galloway’s local Wild Goose Festival. This year key partners from across the region have designed a packed programme of family-friendly activity that combines creativity and interactive education to showcase the unique and diverse habitat our region has to offer and shines a light on the wildlife that live in, and visit, Dumfries & Galloway.
This year’s festival will run from 18th – 27th October and will feature a host of events from interactive storytelling, nature walks, conversations to performances and creative workshops for all the family. Wild Goose festival is designed to entertain, educate and excite audiences, The full programme of activity will be launched at the end of summer.
Weaving art, culture, and nature together the ten-day festival forms part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2024 and is supported by TRACS – Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland, Dumfries & Galloway Council, Annandale & Nithsdale Community Benefit Company, administered by Foundation Scotland and Dumfries & Galloway Museums & Heritage Network.
Sal Cuddhy, Lead Producer of Wild Goose Festival comments,
“This year we’ve focused on developing our programme of activity, offering more opportunities for locals and victors to D&G to engage with those organisations involved and the activities being produced through the festival. We live in a unique region, that attracts hundreds of thousands of migratory spices each year, our festival is a celebration of this, and an opportunity to highlight wider social histories that are linked to this theme. Our 2024 programme uses creativity as a tool for learning, participation and engagement with the natural world and with each of the partners involved in this year’s festival”
This years’ key festival partners include; The Stove Network, BTO (British Trust for Ornithology), Cycling Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway Council Arts and Museums Service (East), ECO LG, Fair Scotland, Galloway & Southern Ayrshire Biosphere, LiftD&G, Loch Ken Trust, MOOL (Massive Outpouring Of Love), NatureScot (SNH), PAMIS (Promoting a More Inclusive Society), RSPB, Solway Firth Partnership, Species on the Edge, WWT Caerlaverock
Check out this years programme of activity here.