As my residency with Connecting Threads comes to an end, I’ll be sharing work as part of the second edition of the Tweed River Festival, an annual creative celebration of the River Tweed.
From 30-31 October 2026, join us in Melrose in the Scottish Borders for two days of river-focused creative activities: from collective net-making to riverside listening; costume-making to screen-printing; circus performances to photography workshops; films, food, wild swimming, a parade, and more!
Conceived as a gathering of river-loving communities, the 2026 festival is the culmination of Connecting Threads’ 2026 programming theme Under, over, round and through: which borrows its title from group dance warm-ups encouraging participants to focus on their relationships to the surrounding space and to each other. We invite you to join us as we trace connections between the river, our minds, our bodies, and our communities across a multitude of scales.
We're knee-deep in the water, trying to connect with the microscopic bacteria that nourish entire worlds. We're zooming out, reckoning with the planet’s increasingly erratic climate patterns, and zooming back in again, right here to the River Tweed that flows through our entangled lives.
This year, we’re excited to be collaborating with Culture for Climate Scotland for day one of the Tweed River Festival 2026. Nurturing collaboration between the climate, environmental, and cultural sectors, Friday’s programme is the fourth SPRINGBOARD local assembly in the Scottish Borders, following earlier iterations in St Boswells (October 2023), Walkerburn (October 2024) and Peebles (November 2025).
Text from Connecting Threads website. More info and booking: https://www.tweedriverculture.org/