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, 10am-4.30pm. Free entry.
Paintings, pressings, jewellery, assemblages & more.
Artists: Julia Barton (Ullapool), Cally Yeatman (Hebrides), Vanessa Langley (Uist), Portia Knight (Aberdeenshire), Shirley Fife (Edinburgh) and from Fife : Leonie Siri Macmillan, Liz Harvey, Kit Martin, Julia Cowie, Gabi Paterson & Cally Nurse.
Meet these Artists: Wave Cafe, Fisheries Museum, Anstruther:
Sun 7 Sept 2pm-3pm & Thus 11 Sept midday Cally Nurse
Fri 12 Sept 3pm & Sat 13 Sept 11am Shirley Fife
Sun 21 Sept 2pm-3pm Gabi Paterson
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
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. 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. 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. £10
Sat 6 Sept. Doors open 6pm-10pm FIFE SEAWEED FEST LAUNCH: Films, Q&A & Seaweed Gin Cocktail & Tasty bites from Bistro Dory, 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 delicious treats from Bistro Dory and a Seaweed Gin Cocktail from Kingsbarns Distillery. £13 Adult. Concessions £9.
Sun 7 Sept, Festival Sessions with Curativate, Crail Harbour.
9.45 - 11am Seaweed Festival Beach Yoga, Crail Harbour Beach £12. Enjoy a full and balanced practice that connects you to your internal and external environments, as you absorb nature’s healing benefits beneath an open sky, to the soothing sound of the sea.
More info here
11.15 - 12pm Chair Yoga at Crail Harbour Beach, Free. Upbeat angles on ageing, chronic illness and long term conditions. Please email [email protected]
2-3.30pm Sea Therapy Cafe Seaweed Festival Special £25. Calm, guided cold water sea therapy sessions for quiet encounters with nature. Learn techniques to keep you safe and relaxed. More info 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, 11am-2pm 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
2pm-3pm - Meet the Artist Waves Cafe, Scottish Fisheries Museum: Cally Nurse
Sunday 7 Sept, Three Unique Experiences with Curativate, Crail Harbour Beach.
9.45am-11am Seaweed Festival Beach Yoga, £12. Step into a fresh experience as you absorb nature’s healing benefits beneath an open sky, to the soothing sound of the sea. Book here
11.15am - 12pm, Chair Yoga, Free. Upbeat angles on ageing, chronic illness and long term conditions. Please email [email protected]
2pm-3.30pm Sea Therapy Cafe Seaweed Festival Special, £25. Calm, guided cold water sea therapy sessions for quiet encounters with nature. Book here.
Mon 8 Sept. 10am-1pm Seaweed Papermaking, The Steeple Studios, High Street, Newburgh
Hands On Papermaking Workshop: Make unique and tactile handmade papers for collage, cards, small boxes and mini-books with Cally Nurse. £40 adults. SOLD OUT! Message us if you'd like to be added to the waiting list.
Tues/Wed/Thurs Printing with Kate Fowlie. Our apologies but these three events are cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Wed 10 Sept 10am-2pm Seaweed Sessions, Dolphin Centre, Tayport. Kindly supported by the Tayport Settlement Trust.
10am-12noon - Seaweed Darkroom with local photographic artist Kit Martin SOLD OUT.
10am-2pm Seaweed Compost & Craft Drop-in to discover how to enrich your soil and boost your veg patch by composting with seaweed - Amanda Root. See how to make your own seaweed pressing with Cally Nurse. Please register interest and help us know numbers, just send us a message.
Wed 10 Sept 10.30am-12.30pm NEW EVENT: COAST! Thanks to funding from Fife Charities Trust we are running a free Creative Workshop in Newburgh : Paper & Fabric Printing with Seaweed led by textile artist Liz Gaffney. Tayside Institute, High Street Newburgh. Contact the Institute to save your place. Email: [email protected] or Tel: 01337 840709
Thurs 11 Sept 3pm-5pm NEW EVENT: MAKE & PLAY WITH SEAWEED. Thanks to funding from Fife Charities Trust we are running a free Creative Workshop for families in Anstruther at The East Neuk Lighthouse.
Thurs 11 Sept Cyanotypes at the Seashore, St Monans. SOLD OUT.
Thurs 11 Sept Compost & Craft, The Ecology Centre, CANCELLED. There is another session at Cambo Estate on Sat 13 Sept. See below.
Fri 12 Sept, SOLD OUT! 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 Waves Cafe Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther. Meet the Artist : Shirley Fife
Sat 13 Sept 11am-midday Waves Cafe Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther. Meet the Artist : Shirley Fife
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. 11am-1pm Compost & Craft, Cambo Estate & Gardens
Find out to make your own garden compost with Amanda Root. Create a unique seaweed artwork with Cally Nurse. Two one hour sessions : 11am & 12noon. £8 adult PLUS Entry into Garden £7.95, free under 18s
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. £10.
Sunday 14 Sept. 11am-3pm. SEAWEED FEST FINALE!
Seaweed Past & Present - Folklore, History, Know your Seaweeds, Kelp Processing Today , Crafting, Composting and Tasting.
Display of Victorian samples from the Gatty Collection from the 1840s.
Venue: The Boilerhouse, St Andrews Botanic Gardens.
£20 includes entry to St Andrews Botanics. (£19 seniors, £11 Disabled, £15 Friends of the Botanic Gardens and Students)
A packed session including tips on identifying our seaweeds from Dr Clare Scanlan, myths and tales from folklorist, storyteller and author Eileen Budd, kelp processing today with Alison Baker founder of Eco-Cascade, seaweed pressing with artist Cally Nurse, making compost with Amanda Root and tasty seaweed snacks with Jayson Byles.
1-30 Sept. Rising Tide Exhibition, Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther, Open daily, 10am-4.30pm. Free entry.
Paintings, pressings, jewellery, assemblages & more.
Artists: Julia Barton (Ullapool), Cally Yeatman (Hebrides), Vanessa Langley (Uist), Portia Knight (Aberdeenshire), Shirley Fife (Edinburgh) and from Fife : Leonie Siri Macmillan, Liz Harvey, Kit Martin, Julia Cowie, Gabi Paterson & Cally Nurse.
Meet these Artists: Wave Cafe, Fisheries Museum, Anstruther:
Sun 7 Sept 2pm-3pm & Thus 11 Sept midday Cally Nurse
Fri 12 Sept 3pm & Sat 13 Sept 11am Shirley Fife
Sun 21 Sept 2pm-3pm Gabi Paterson
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
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. 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. 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. £10
Sat 6 Sept. Doors open 6pm-10pm FIFE SEAWEED FEST LAUNCH: Films, Q&A & Seaweed Gin Cocktail & Tasty bites from Bistro Dory, 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 delicious treats from Bistro Dory and a Seaweed Gin Cocktail from Kingsbarns Distillery. £13 Adult. Concessions £9.
Sun 7 Sept, Festival Sessions with Curativate, Crail Harbour.
9.45 - 11am Seaweed Festival Beach Yoga, Crail Harbour Beach £12. Enjoy a full and balanced practice that connects you to your internal and external environments, as you absorb nature’s healing benefits beneath an open sky, to the soothing sound of the sea.
More info here
11.15 - 12pm Chair Yoga at Crail Harbour Beach, Free. Upbeat angles on ageing, chronic illness and long term conditions. Please email [email protected]
2-3.30pm Sea Therapy Cafe Seaweed Festival Special £25. Calm, guided cold water sea therapy sessions for quiet encounters with nature. Learn techniques to keep you safe and relaxed. More info 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, 11am-2pm 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
2pm-3pm - Meet the Artist Waves Cafe, Scottish Fisheries Museum: Cally Nurse
Sunday 7 Sept, Three Unique Experiences with Curativate, Crail Harbour Beach.
9.45am-11am Seaweed Festival Beach Yoga, £12. Step into a fresh experience as you absorb nature’s healing benefits beneath an open sky, to the soothing sound of the sea. Book here
11.15am - 12pm, Chair Yoga, Free. Upbeat angles on ageing, chronic illness and long term conditions. Please email [email protected]
2pm-3.30pm Sea Therapy Cafe Seaweed Festival Special, £25. Calm, guided cold water sea therapy sessions for quiet encounters with nature. Book here.
Mon 8 Sept. 10am-1pm Seaweed Papermaking, The Steeple Studios, High Street, Newburgh
Hands On Papermaking Workshop: Make unique and tactile handmade papers for collage, cards, small boxes and mini-books with Cally Nurse. £40 adults. SOLD OUT! Message us if you'd like to be added to the waiting list.
Tues/Wed/Thurs Printing with Kate Fowlie. Our apologies but these three events are cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Wed 10 Sept 10am-2pm Seaweed Sessions, Dolphin Centre, Tayport. Kindly supported by the Tayport Settlement Trust.
10am-12noon - Seaweed Darkroom with local photographic artist Kit Martin SOLD OUT.
10am-2pm Seaweed Compost & Craft Drop-in to discover how to enrich your soil and boost your veg patch by composting with seaweed - Amanda Root. See how to make your own seaweed pressing with Cally Nurse. Please register interest and help us know numbers, just send us a message.
Wed 10 Sept 10.30am-12.30pm NEW EVENT: COAST! Thanks to funding from Fife Charities Trust we are running a free Creative Workshop in Newburgh : Paper & Fabric Printing with Seaweed led by textile artist Liz Gaffney. Tayside Institute, High Street Newburgh. Contact the Institute to save your place. Email: [email protected] or Tel: 01337 840709
Thurs 11 Sept 3pm-5pm NEW EVENT: MAKE & PLAY WITH SEAWEED. Thanks to funding from Fife Charities Trust we are running a free Creative Workshop for families in Anstruther at The East Neuk Lighthouse.
Thurs 11 Sept Cyanotypes at the Seashore, St Monans. SOLD OUT.
Thurs 11 Sept Compost & Craft, The Ecology Centre, CANCELLED. There is another session at Cambo Estate on Sat 13 Sept. See below.
Fri 12 Sept, SOLD OUT! 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 Waves Cafe Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther. Meet the Artist : Shirley Fife
Sat 13 Sept 11am-midday Waves Cafe Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther. Meet the Artist : Shirley Fife
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. 11am-1pm Compost & Craft, Cambo Estate & Gardens
Find out to make your own garden compost with Amanda Root. Create a unique seaweed artwork with Cally Nurse. Two one hour sessions : 11am & 12noon. £8 adult PLUS Entry into Garden £7.95, free under 18s
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. £10.
Sunday 14 Sept. 11am-3pm. SEAWEED FEST FINALE!
Seaweed Past & Present - Folklore, History, Know your Seaweeds, Kelp Processing Today , Crafting, Composting and Tasting.
Display of Victorian samples from the Gatty Collection from the 1840s.
Venue: The Boilerhouse, St Andrews Botanic Gardens.
£20 includes entry to St Andrews Botanics. (£19 seniors, £11 Disabled, £15 Friends of the Botanic Gardens and Students)
A packed session including tips on identifying our seaweeds from Dr Clare Scanlan, myths and tales from folklorist, storyteller and author Eileen Budd, kelp processing today with Alison Baker founder of Eco-Cascade, seaweed pressing with artist Cally Nurse, making compost with Amanda Root and tasty seaweed snacks with Jayson Byles.
