We're going to be adding to it weekly and will put up the times/dates/places for all the work as soon as we have them. You can leave your contact details and we'll let you know as soon as info goes up.
www.thedarkoutside.com
Sunday 19 August 2012
New Website
We've just made our new website live. This will feature all the work we're doing to co-incide with the Wigtown Book festival - Drive in Movie, Shrines and Radio Transmissions.
We're going to be adding to it weekly and will put up the times/dates/places for all the work as soon as we have them. You can leave your contact details and we'll let you know as soon as info goes up.
www.thedarkoutside.com
We're going to be adding to it weekly and will put up the times/dates/places for all the work as soon as we have them. You can leave your contact details and we'll let you know as soon as info goes up.
www.thedarkoutside.com
Tuesday 14 August 2012
Drive In Movie
We've been working with Wigtown Book Festival and The Forestry Commission to put on the City Dark as a Drive in Movie ( see earlier post about the movie)
The Drive in will take place on 3rd Oct at 7.30pm at Kirroughtree Visitor Centre DG8 7BE £8 per car
This is a rare chance to experience a drive-in movie under the stars in the Galloway Forest Park. A hit on the film festival circuit, The City Dark is a documentary about the loss of night. When film-maker Ian Cheney moved from rural Maine to New York City, he asked a simple question: do we need the stars? This visually stunning film follows him around the world as he talks to astronomers, cancer researchers and ecologists to find out what is lost under the glare of the city lights. (Film running time: 84 minutes.)
The Drive in will take place on 3rd Oct at 7.30pm at Kirroughtree Visitor Centre DG8 7BE £8 per car
This is a rare chance to experience a drive-in movie under the stars in the Galloway Forest Park. A hit on the film festival circuit, The City Dark is a documentary about the loss of night. When film-maker Ian Cheney moved from rural Maine to New York City, he asked a simple question: do we need the stars? This visually stunning film follows him around the world as he talks to astronomers, cancer researchers and ecologists to find out what is lost under the glare of the city lights. (Film running time: 84 minutes.)
Online booking at www.wigtownbookfestival.com
Made possible by the Forestry Commission, Creative Scotland and Wide Open
Collaboration with Jean Atkin
Last week we had a very productive meeting with poet Jean Atkin, who has researched and written some beautiful poems about the loss of farms within the area of the Dark Skies Park. The skies are so dark in the Park because of the very low population and many once working farms have been abandoned.
A book of her poetry called 'The Dark Farms' is being published shortly and she will be reading some of them at the Wigtown Book festival 28 Sept - 7th Oct.
See http://www.wigtownbookfestival.com
"Jean Atkin’s new collection of poems focuses on the Galloway Forest Park, its depopulated glens, shrinking agriculture and extraordinarily dark skies. This is poetry about the ghosts of sheep, countless stars and generations of paths obliterated by pine forests. Jean Atkin is a previous winner of the Ravenglass Poetry Prize. She worked on The Dark Farms for eight months during 2011, walking the forest, talking to residents and reading old books and maps"
We are hoping to collaborate with Jean and incorporate some of her writing into new work we are making to be highlighted as part of the Dark Skies programme at the Wigtown Book Festival
A book of her poetry called 'The Dark Farms' is being published shortly and she will be reading some of them at the Wigtown Book festival 28 Sept - 7th Oct.
See http://www.wigtownbookfestival.com
"Jean Atkin’s new collection of poems focuses on the Galloway Forest Park, its depopulated glens, shrinking agriculture and extraordinarily dark skies. This is poetry about the ghosts of sheep, countless stars and generations of paths obliterated by pine forests. Jean Atkin is a previous winner of the Ravenglass Poetry Prize. She worked on The Dark Farms for eight months during 2011, walking the forest, talking to residents and reading old books and maps"
We are hoping to collaborate with Jean and incorporate some of her writing into new work we are making to be highlighted as part of the Dark Skies programme at the Wigtown Book Festival
Friday 3 August 2012
We watched 'In the Shadow of the the Moon" last night. It was fantastic - the interviews with the astronauts included them talking about how the amazing experience of going to the moon and back had affected them.
The official blurb goes as follows:
In the shadow of the moon is an intimate epic, which vividly communicates the daring and the danger, the pride and the passion, of this extraordinary era in American history. Between 1968 and 1972, the world watched in awe each time an American spacecraft voyaged to the moon.Only 12 American men walked upon its surface and they remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. Now for the first, and very possibly the last, time, In the shadow of the moon combines archival material from the original NASA film footage, much of it never before seen, with interviews with the surviving astronauts. The astronauts emerge as eloquent, witty, emotional and very human.
The official blurb goes as follows:
In the shadow of the moon is an intimate epic, which vividly communicates the daring and the danger, the pride and the passion, of this extraordinary era in American history. Between 1968 and 1972, the world watched in awe each time an American spacecraft voyaged to the moon.Only 12 American men walked upon its surface and they remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. Now for the first, and very possibly the last, time, In the shadow of the moon combines archival material from the original NASA film footage, much of it never before seen, with interviews with the surviving astronauts. The astronauts emerge as eloquent, witty, emotional and very human.
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