About this Event
Following our April 24th screening of documentary Rave On for the Avon , we're delighted to be joined by river bride Meg Avon and artists Grace Morton and Elvey Anna Stedman for a workshop, procession, and swim celebrating the River Tweed!
The Abhabin/Avon workshop begins with a screening of short film AVONA, followed by making flying fish-flag puppets. Once our fish are flying high, we will process with them to the Dookits, Haylodge Park in celebration of the Tweed. Meg will lead a river ceremony, culminating in an optional community wild swim with local swim guide Tweed Valley Wilding.
If you wish to take part in the optional wild swim, please bring appropriate swimwear, towel, and warm layers. The water temperature is cold in May, so please come prepared!
This event is suitable for families with children aged 8+.
About the Artists:
Meg Avon is a performance poet, campaigner and river rights researcher with the University of the West of England for the Bristol Urban Avon. She is the author of poetry collection My Avon and also featured in the documentary film Rave On For the Avon in 2025. She is also the woman who famously married her river in 2023 as a symbolic act of love and protest. She hopes that one day her marriage to her river can be both legally binding as well as symbolic.
Grace Morton is a singer-songwriter based in Glasgow. Her music sits within a contemporary folk landscape that is shaped by both her island upbringing on Skye, where music was a core aspect of community life, and her instinct for intimate, reflective songwriting. She writes songs in both English and Scottish Gaelic with a focus on honesty, storytelling, place and emotional connection.
Elvey Anna Stedman is a visual artist based in Glasgow. She was nominated for the Young Scottish Filmmaker Prize and has been awarded the Alastair Smart Memorial Prize, the RSA John Kinross Scholarship and the RSA Patrons Prize. Stedman uses her creative practise as a means to explore her fixations with fragility and the threat of destruction to systems of beauty. She primarily examines the various ways in which humans connect to and reject their relationship with the natural world.
Access:
Eastgate Theatre has wheelchair access and accessible toilet facilities.
The procession with fish-flag puppets will follow a walking route of approximately 25-mins, including paved and unpaved paths and steps. If you require transport from the Eastgate Theatre to Haylodge Park, please let us know at the point of booking and we can arrange this.
Accessible paths through Haylodge Park are available for wheelchair and/or mobility aid users.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Eastgate Theatre, Eastgate, Peebles, United Kingdom
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