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Birdwatching Breakfast with WWT
Enjoy breakfast at the Boathouse in Glencaple and learn about the geese of the Solway Firth with experts from WWT Caerlaverock and RSPB Mersehead. Watch as the geese use the river to navigate to their feeding grounds whilst you start the day. Event InformationWhilst the event is free, you will have to pay for your…
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From Greenland to Galloways: Writing Wild Geese into the Climate Crisis with Climate Kitchen
Join Climate Kitchen for a special Wild Goose Festival edition featuring Stephen Rutt and David Borthwick. Together, they’ll lead a workshop exploring the Greenland white-fronted geese that winter in Dumfries & Galloway, the extreme weather events that threaten them, and their deep connections to climate. The session combines engaging talks with creative writing exercises. Event…
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Things with Strings with Fibi Cowley
Join artist-educator Fibi Cowley for a hands-on day inspired by the work of Wael Shawky. Together, we’ll create experimental ‘things on string’! By using colourful materials and found objects, we will explore light, transparency, textures, materials and playful shapes. This workshop encourages children to build their own characters and bring them to life through storytelling.…
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Dispute with a Butterfly with Fibi Cowley
Step into a soft, sensory storytelling experience, following the incredible journey of the Painted Lady Butterfly. Every year, the Painted Lady Butterfly travels 9000 miles, a journey which takes her all over the world, and ensures the survival of the entire species. But no one individual could complete this alone, it happens across five generations.…
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Weirdy Geese & Halloween Trail with RSPB
Strange sounds and creepy features, explore the trail for spooky creatures! Follow our Halloween activity trail to create your own spell, discover some mystery and magic about nature, while creating your own potion! Who knows what weird and wonderful things you will experience? With some activities on mysterious facts about our special Barnacle Geese too.…
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Wild Goose Chase with Crichton Parkrun
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Reel to Real: Why Not Scotland? with The Stove
We are delighted to be hosting a screening Scotland:The Big Picture’s brand new feature-length documentary, Why Not Scotland?, which explores the Scottish landscape through the eyes of Flo, a young Scot from Glasgow. Seeing the depleted state of nature across her own country, Flo feels dispirited and, like many of her generation, increasingly fearful about an…
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Insights & Impacts from Waterbird Monitoring with Scottish Ornithologists Club
Volunteers of the Scottish Ornithologist Club have been counting geese, ducks, waders and other waterbirds for decades; but has it helped us learn anything about them? Dr Teresa Frost, BTO’s Head of Waterbird Monitoring, explains how the Wetland Bird Survey, the Goose and Swan Monitoring Programme and other surveys organised by BTO underpin waterbird research…
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Insights & Impacts from Waterbird Monitoring with Scottish Ornithologist Club
Volunteers of the Scottish Ornithologist Club have been counting geese, ducks, waders and other waterbirds for decades; but has it helped us learn anything about them? Dr Teresa Frost, BTO’s Head of Waterbird Monitoring, explains how the Wetland Bird Survey, the Goose and Swan Monitoring Programme and other surveys organised by BTO underpin waterbird research…
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The Swan Woman Exhibition with Scottish International Storytelling Festival
Come step into the mythic with Storyteller and artist Claire Hewitt who has created a series of images and felt pieces re-imagining a powerful traditional Finnish Story ‘The Swan Woman’ Event InformationExhibition open daily 9am – 3pm, closed Sunday Accessibility InformationFully accessible for wheelchair users including toilets, disabled parking spaces available, hearing loop in place.