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Journey with the Wild Geese: A Region-wide Movement Challenge
As the season begins to turn, we prepare to bid farewell to the thousands of barnacle geese that have spent the winter on the Solway. For a few short months each year, around 40,000 of these remarkable birds make the coastline of Dumfries and Galloway their home before beginning the long journey north to their…
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Wild Goose Festival 2025
As the geese prepare for winter and make their return to Dumfries and Galloway, so does this year’s Wild Goose Festival. Since its founding in 2020, the Wild Goose Festival has become a cornerstone of the regional calendar, known for uniting people through creativity, education, and environmental stewardship. Now in its sixth year, the festival…
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Reflections on the Wild Goose Festival
Words and images by Patrick Rooney As a freelance filmmaker, I’ve often had the privilege of working on some really interesting projects. Getting to visit and document activity that is taking place in different communities, seeing first hand what is going on in regions across the country, as well as learning about new subjects and…
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Wild Goose Festival: A Galloway & Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere Sustainable Event Charter Designation
The Wild Goose Festival is proud to announce that we have been awarded the Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Sustainable Event Charter for our 2025 season. This designation arrives at a pivotal moment for our festival as we enter our fifth year of operation, celebrating the creativity, place, and nature that make our region special. The…
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Nature, Creativity, and Community: Wild Goose Festival 2024
In 2024, the Wild Goose Festival (WGF) returned for its fifth year of activity celebrating nature, creativity and place across Dumfries & Galloway. Running from the 18th – 27th of October, our feathery festival had a programme of over 70 events from Stranraer across to Annan. The Stove Network produces WGF, uniting key partners from…
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Autumn Sounds Like Geese
Words by Marianne Nicholson, WWT Caerlaverock The first week of October. No doubting it is definitely autumn now. Nights are drawing in, mornings are chill and misty. Nearly time to crack out the thermals (I said nearly!). Here at WWT Caerlaverock, autumn looks like trees losing their leaves. It looks like muddy paths that never…
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Wild Goose Festival 2024 Takes Flight
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…
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Artist Commission Opportunity – Open Call
This is a partnership commission with WWT Caerlaverock, and Glengoyne WWT Caerlaverock, with the support of The Stove Network, wishes to commission an artist(s) to lead a public art project at their site in Dumfries. Funded through a partnership with Glengoyne Distillery, the aim of this commission is to bring the partnership to life through…
