6-14 September, Fife
Seaweed is full of surprises! Our packed programme has a range of activities and experiences so you can discover the wonders of seaweed for nutrition, creativity and your garden. Please book online unless otherwise stated.
1-30 Sept. Rising Tide Exhibition, Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther, Open daily, closed Tues. 10am-4.30pm. Free entry.
Paintings, pressings, jewellery, assemblages & more. Artists: Cally Yeatman (Uist), Portia Knight (Aberdeenshire), Shirley Fife (Edinburgh), Kit Martin, Julia Cowie, Gabi Paterson & Cally Nurse (Fife).
6-14 Sept. Bistro Dory, Pittenweem, Seaweed Inspired Daily Menu (closed 8 & 9 Sept). Call to book a table 01333 311222
Sat 6 Sept. 11am-2pm Family Craft & Tasting Day - Methilhill Community Children's Initiative. Free but booking essential - call to book 01592 719422. In collaboration with Heids and Hearts Scotland. Funded by the Fife Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund via Fife Voluntary Action with support from the Scottish Government - see News page for full details.
Sat 6 Sept. 10am-4pm, Surf, Yoga & Sauna Day with Blown Away, St Andrews. A day of surfing, lunch, yoga, relaxation, massage and a sauna session and return home feeling revitalised, balanced, and connected to nature. More here
Sat 6 Sept. 5pm-8pm. Seaweeds in the Kitchen with Rory MacPhee. Old School Hub, Luthrie.
Rory’s purpose is to encourage use of seaweeds in the kitchen, a core component of traditional Celtic cooking with resonances across the world. You’ll develop an understanding of two key species (tangle and dulse) with a variety of foodstuffs to sample. Come with appetite! You’ll leave with a party bag of seaweeds to try at home and course notes. Rory had the first commercial licence for seaweed in England, set up a seaweed harvesting operation in Fife and has travelled the world researching seaweed. £33.
Sat 6 Sept. 6pm-10pm FIFE SEAWEED FEST LAUNCH: Films, Q&A & Seaweed Gin Tasting, Dreel Halls, Anstruther
Into The Oceanic + Q&A with filmmakers Robert Page and Liz Ogilvie plus first UK showing of Mother of The Sea - how British scientist Kathleen Drew Baker transformed Japanese seaweed (nori) farming. Taste Seaweed Gin from Kingsbarns Distillery.
£15 Adult. Concessions £10.
Sun 7 Sept, Time TBC, Beach Yoga, Crail with Curativate. More here.
Sun 7 Sept. 9am-1pm On The Rocks, Immersive Seaweed Experience & Unforgettable Adventure with Jayson Byles at Kingsbarns Beach. A must-do for food lovers, nature enthusiasts, and anyone seeking a truly unique and enriching experience - foraging and cooking round the fire. £65 Adult. £16 - 5-17 years.
Sunday 7 Sept, 10am-1pm Seaweed Crafting, Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther. A creative and fun session with Cally where you will dry, press and create your own mini seaweed artwork. No experience necessary. £35 adults, £15 12-18 years
Mon 8 Sept. 10am-1pm Seaweed Papermaking, The Steeple Studios, High Street, Newburgh.
2pm-4pm Open Studio Drop - In Welcome to pop in for a chat about seaweed crafting.
Hands On Papermaking Workshop: Make unique and tactile handmade papers for collage, cards, small boxes and mini-books with Cally Nurse. £40 adults, £25 12-18 years. My studio will be open 2pm-4pm the afternoon for a free drop in and chat.
Tues 9 Sept.11am-2pm Eco-Printing, Food & Film, Lundin Links. Discover how to cook delicious, nutritious dishes using seasonal seaweed, create beautiful coastal-inspired botanical inks, and watch "Seaweed" by Julia Parks—a captivating short film exploring the rich ecology and history of seaweed in Northern Scotland. Adults £45.
Tues 9 Sept 3pm-4pm Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther: Artist Talk with Cally Nurse. Free.
Wed 10 Sept 10am-2pm Seaweed Sessions, Dolphin Centre, Tayport.
10am-12noon - Seaweed Darkroom - Max 12 people - Make experimental camera-less photographs (Phytograms) using seaweed, photo papers and sunlight led by local photographic artist Kit Martin. All materials provided. No darkroom photography knowledge or camera required! Despite the name we won't be working in the dark. We will work inside and outside in the garden. £10 per person. Booking essential.
10am-2pm Craft & Compost - Drop in any time to learn about pressing seaweeds for artworks with Cally Nurse & composting with seaweed with Amanda Root. This a free sessions but please register interest and help us know numbers, just send us a message.
These sessions are kindly supported by the Tayport Settlement Trust.
Wed 10 Sept, 5.30pm-8.30pm Eco-Printing, Food & Film, Lundin Links. Discover how to cook delicious, nutritious dishes using seasonal seaweed, create beautiful coastal-inspired botanical inks, and watch "Seaweed" by Julia Parks—a captivating short film exploring the rich ecology and history of seaweed in Northern Scotland. Adults £45.
Thurs 11 Sept 10am-3pm Cyanotypes at the Seashore, St Monans, Max 4 people
This workshop can accommodate 4 people and is suitable for those new to cyanotype and more experienced. All materials are provided but if you like, bring something flat (seaweed, plant material, feather, lace, stencil, negative. I'll bring some pressed seaweed and other things to work with. We will, weather permitting, make some prints at the house and walk along to the beach in St Monans (5 minute walk) and experiment with making prints at the shore. £60 coffee/tea & snack provided. Bring packed lunch.
Thurs 11 Sept 11am-2pm Craft & Compost, The Ecology Centre, Kinghorn. Create a unique seaweed artwork and find out to make your own garden compost with Cally Nurse & Amanda Root. Drop in - £10 Adult, 12 and under £2.
Thurs 11 Sept 5.30pm-8.30pm Eco-Printing, Food & Film, Lundin Links. Discover how to cook delicious, nutritious dishes using seasonal seaweed, create beautiful coastal-inspired botanical inks, and watch "Seaweed" by Julia Parks—a captivating short film exploring the rich ecology and history of seaweed in Northern Scotland. Adults £45.
Fri 12 Sept, 11am-3pm On The Rocks, Immersive Seaweed Experience & Unforgettable Adventure with Jayson Byles at Kingsbarns Beach. A must-do for food lovers, nature enthusiasts, and anyone seeking a truly unique and enriching experience - foraging and cooking round the fire. £65 Adult. £16 - 5-17 years.
Fri 12 Sept, 3pm-4pm Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther. Artist Talk with Cally Nurse. Free.
Sat 13 Sept, 11.30-2pm Foraging & Tasting with Whitehouse Foraging, Kingsbarns Beach.
Graham and Christine (Whitehouse Foraging) have been foraging teachers for 8 years covering hedgerow, mushrooms and seashore food. They have both lived exclusively on wild food for 2 separate months as part of the Wildbiome Project.
You'll head down to explore the rocks with us as the tide edges out and identify some edible, healthy and often tasty, seaweeds and collect a little to use later in our cooking. Once we’ve explored and foraged, we’ll move back up the beach to cook up a few seaweed-inspired snacks for everyone and chat some more about how you can include more seaweed in your diet. £45 Adult. £20 8-16years.
Saturday 13 Sept. 5pm-8pm. Seaweed in the Medicine Box with Rory MacPhee. Old School Hub, Luthrie.
Rory’s purpose is to encourage use of seaweeds to underpin a healthy lifestyle. We can trace seaweed usage back 16,000 years, and for millennia seaweeds have been an essential part of herbal medicine in Scotland and Ireland. But why? What benefits do weeds from the sea offer? There is a remarkable world out there on the intertidal rocks awaiting discovery. We will look at blood pressure with individual monitoring, iodine deficiency, dietary fibre and much else with seaweed snacks to conclude and course notes provided. Rory has been working with seaweed since 2007 as an academic then as an entrepreneur. £33.
Sunday 14 Sept. 11am-3pm. SEAWEED FEST FINALE! Seaweed Past & Present - Folklore, History, Craft & Compost,
St Andrews Botanic Gardens. An entertaining session featuring folklorist, storyteller and author, Eileen Budd, seaweed pressing with artist Cally Nurse, making compost with Amanda Root, tasty seaweed snacks with Jayson Byles and a short film by Jeanette Sendler, Seaweed Women. £20 includes entry to St Andrews Botanics. (£14 Friends of the Botanics and Students)
1-30 Sept. Rising Tide Exhibition, Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther, Open daily, closed Tues. 10am-4.30pm. Free entry.
Paintings, pressings, jewellery, assemblages & more. Artists: Cally Yeatman (Uist), Portia Knight (Aberdeenshire), Shirley Fife (Edinburgh), Kit Martin, Julia Cowie, Gabi Paterson & Cally Nurse (Fife).
6-14 Sept. Bistro Dory, Pittenweem, Seaweed Inspired Daily Menu (closed 8 & 9 Sept). Call to book a table 01333 311222
Sat 6 Sept. 11am-2pm Family Craft & Tasting Day - Methilhill Community Children's Initiative. Free but booking essential - call to book 01592 719422. In collaboration with Heids and Hearts Scotland. Funded by the Fife Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund via Fife Voluntary Action with support from the Scottish Government - see News page for full details.
Sat 6 Sept. 10am-4pm, Surf, Yoga & Sauna Day with Blown Away, St Andrews. A day of surfing, lunch, yoga, relaxation, massage and a sauna session and return home feeling revitalised, balanced, and connected to nature. More here
Sat 6 Sept. 5pm-8pm. Seaweeds in the Kitchen with Rory MacPhee. Old School Hub, Luthrie.
Rory’s purpose is to encourage use of seaweeds in the kitchen, a core component of traditional Celtic cooking with resonances across the world. You’ll develop an understanding of two key species (tangle and dulse) with a variety of foodstuffs to sample. Come with appetite! You’ll leave with a party bag of seaweeds to try at home and course notes. Rory had the first commercial licence for seaweed in England, set up a seaweed harvesting operation in Fife and has travelled the world researching seaweed. £33.
Sat 6 Sept. 6pm-10pm FIFE SEAWEED FEST LAUNCH: Films, Q&A & Seaweed Gin Tasting, Dreel Halls, Anstruther
Into The Oceanic + Q&A with filmmakers Robert Page and Liz Ogilvie plus first UK showing of Mother of The Sea - how British scientist Kathleen Drew Baker transformed Japanese seaweed (nori) farming. Taste Seaweed Gin from Kingsbarns Distillery.
£15 Adult. Concessions £10.
Sun 7 Sept, Time TBC, Beach Yoga, Crail with Curativate. More here.
Sun 7 Sept. 9am-1pm On The Rocks, Immersive Seaweed Experience & Unforgettable Adventure with Jayson Byles at Kingsbarns Beach. A must-do for food lovers, nature enthusiasts, and anyone seeking a truly unique and enriching experience - foraging and cooking round the fire. £65 Adult. £16 - 5-17 years.
Sunday 7 Sept, 10am-1pm Seaweed Crafting, Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther. A creative and fun session with Cally where you will dry, press and create your own mini seaweed artwork. No experience necessary. £35 adults, £15 12-18 years
Mon 8 Sept. 10am-1pm Seaweed Papermaking, The Steeple Studios, High Street, Newburgh.
2pm-4pm Open Studio Drop - In Welcome to pop in for a chat about seaweed crafting.
Hands On Papermaking Workshop: Make unique and tactile handmade papers for collage, cards, small boxes and mini-books with Cally Nurse. £40 adults, £25 12-18 years. My studio will be open 2pm-4pm the afternoon for a free drop in and chat.
Tues 9 Sept.11am-2pm Eco-Printing, Food & Film, Lundin Links. Discover how to cook delicious, nutritious dishes using seasonal seaweed, create beautiful coastal-inspired botanical inks, and watch "Seaweed" by Julia Parks—a captivating short film exploring the rich ecology and history of seaweed in Northern Scotland. Adults £45.
Tues 9 Sept 3pm-4pm Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther: Artist Talk with Cally Nurse. Free.
Wed 10 Sept 10am-2pm Seaweed Sessions, Dolphin Centre, Tayport.
10am-12noon - Seaweed Darkroom - Max 12 people - Make experimental camera-less photographs (Phytograms) using seaweed, photo papers and sunlight led by local photographic artist Kit Martin. All materials provided. No darkroom photography knowledge or camera required! Despite the name we won't be working in the dark. We will work inside and outside in the garden. £10 per person. Booking essential.
10am-2pm Craft & Compost - Drop in any time to learn about pressing seaweeds for artworks with Cally Nurse & composting with seaweed with Amanda Root. This a free sessions but please register interest and help us know numbers, just send us a message.
These sessions are kindly supported by the Tayport Settlement Trust.
Wed 10 Sept, 5.30pm-8.30pm Eco-Printing, Food & Film, Lundin Links. Discover how to cook delicious, nutritious dishes using seasonal seaweed, create beautiful coastal-inspired botanical inks, and watch "Seaweed" by Julia Parks—a captivating short film exploring the rich ecology and history of seaweed in Northern Scotland. Adults £45.
Thurs 11 Sept 10am-3pm Cyanotypes at the Seashore, St Monans, Max 4 people
This workshop can accommodate 4 people and is suitable for those new to cyanotype and more experienced. All materials are provided but if you like, bring something flat (seaweed, plant material, feather, lace, stencil, negative. I'll bring some pressed seaweed and other things to work with. We will, weather permitting, make some prints at the house and walk along to the beach in St Monans (5 minute walk) and experiment with making prints at the shore. £60 coffee/tea & snack provided. Bring packed lunch.
Thurs 11 Sept 11am-2pm Craft & Compost, The Ecology Centre, Kinghorn. Create a unique seaweed artwork and find out to make your own garden compost with Cally Nurse & Amanda Root. Drop in - £10 Adult, 12 and under £2.
Thurs 11 Sept 5.30pm-8.30pm Eco-Printing, Food & Film, Lundin Links. Discover how to cook delicious, nutritious dishes using seasonal seaweed, create beautiful coastal-inspired botanical inks, and watch "Seaweed" by Julia Parks—a captivating short film exploring the rich ecology and history of seaweed in Northern Scotland. Adults £45.
Fri 12 Sept, 11am-3pm On The Rocks, Immersive Seaweed Experience & Unforgettable Adventure with Jayson Byles at Kingsbarns Beach. A must-do for food lovers, nature enthusiasts, and anyone seeking a truly unique and enriching experience - foraging and cooking round the fire. £65 Adult. £16 - 5-17 years.
Fri 12 Sept, 3pm-4pm Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther. Artist Talk with Cally Nurse. Free.
Sat 13 Sept, 11.30-2pm Foraging & Tasting with Whitehouse Foraging, Kingsbarns Beach.
Graham and Christine (Whitehouse Foraging) have been foraging teachers for 8 years covering hedgerow, mushrooms and seashore food. They have both lived exclusively on wild food for 2 separate months as part of the Wildbiome Project.
You'll head down to explore the rocks with us as the tide edges out and identify some edible, healthy and often tasty, seaweeds and collect a little to use later in our cooking. Once we’ve explored and foraged, we’ll move back up the beach to cook up a few seaweed-inspired snacks for everyone and chat some more about how you can include more seaweed in your diet. £45 Adult. £20 8-16years.
Saturday 13 Sept. 5pm-8pm. Seaweed in the Medicine Box with Rory MacPhee. Old School Hub, Luthrie.
Rory’s purpose is to encourage use of seaweeds to underpin a healthy lifestyle. We can trace seaweed usage back 16,000 years, and for millennia seaweeds have been an essential part of herbal medicine in Scotland and Ireland. But why? What benefits do weeds from the sea offer? There is a remarkable world out there on the intertidal rocks awaiting discovery. We will look at blood pressure with individual monitoring, iodine deficiency, dietary fibre and much else with seaweed snacks to conclude and course notes provided. Rory has been working with seaweed since 2007 as an academic then as an entrepreneur. £33.
Sunday 14 Sept. 11am-3pm. SEAWEED FEST FINALE! Seaweed Past & Present - Folklore, History, Craft & Compost,
St Andrews Botanic Gardens. An entertaining session featuring folklorist, storyteller and author, Eileen Budd, seaweed pressing with artist Cally Nurse, making compost with Amanda Root, tasty seaweed snacks with Jayson Byles and a short film by Jeanette Sendler, Seaweed Women. £20 includes entry to St Andrews Botanics. (£14 Friends of the Botanics and Students)
