Timespan

04/06/2026

Labour Justice: What We Can Achieve Together
Talk with Worker Support Centre
Sunday 21st June

Closing "Everyone Blames the Weather" we are thrilled to welcome representatives form the Worker Support Centre to continue the weekend’s conversations around food systems, land, labour and workers’ rights, with a focus on campaigning, solidarity and collective action.

The Worker Support Centre is a Scotland-based charity supporting migrant workers on visas and temporary contracts, particularly in agriculture, food production and care.Through advice, advocacy and campaigning, the organisation works alongside workers to challenge exploitation, strengthen rights and build fairer labour systems.

📅 Sunday 21st June, 11am
📍Everyone Blames the Weather, Timespan, Helmsdale
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03/06/2026

Live Music with Susannah Stark & Band
Sat 20th June, 8pm

As part of the solstice festival "Everyone Blames the Weather" on Saturday 20th June we are excited to welcome Susannah Stark and Band for a free gig in Timespan's gardens. They are an experimental ensemble from Glasgow, playing an extended folk session in mystical locations around the Govan stones, river Clyde & underground waters.

Their sound is formed out of sparse sonic gestures and vibrating intensities, weaving among multi-lingual songwriting in both Scottish Gaelic and English, drawing from pop, jazz, experimental, folk & kraut rock influences to create a tactile expression of place, faith and being that can also be experienced as a ritualistic channelling of unseen and unheard forces in everyday life.

📆Sat June 20th, 8pm
📍"Everyone Blames the Westher" Timespan, Helmsdale
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Following on from Stark’s debut solo offering of experimental pop, ‘Time Together (Hues and Intensities)’ out Belgian label Stroom in 2020, is their 2025 album ‘mion-phuingean – Minor Gestures’, a collaborative release with Stroom and Glasgow’s Night School Records.

03/06/2026

🌞Save the dates: June-July Climate Justice Reading Club/ Collection Conversations!🌞
The PMA Library Lounge events continue in the summer:

⛵️4th June Mariners’ Help: The Story of the Helmsdale Lifeboat:
The story of the Helmsdale Lifeboat and saving lives at sea.

📈11th June Statistical Accounts of Kildonan and Loth (1791-1845): The ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Statistical Accounts of Scotland offer snapshots of life and change in the Sutherland parishes of Kildonan and Loth, before and after the Highland Clearances.

📜18th June National Inventory of Living Heritage: Safeguarding Intangible Heritage: A National Inventory for Living Heritage in the UK has been established, supported by UNESCO, to list and safeguard Intangible Cultural Heritage practices. In collaboration with Museums Galleries Scotland

✊25th June The Last Witch: Who was Janet Horne?: The 16th-century Scottish Witch Act discriminated against women, leading to witch hunts and persecution. This session will feature accounts of Sutherland and Caithness.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿2nd July Fire Raising during the Highland Clearances: This session examines the brutal tactic of fire raising employed during the Sutherland Estate Clearances from 1809-1821.

🌿9th July Resiliant Peatlands: Talk about the science of peatlands and their natural capability to recover from extremes of drought, fire, and rainfall.

You can find a complete listing of all our Climate Justice Reading Group and Collection Conversations here: https://timespan.org.uk/.../library-lounge-summer-events/

03/06/2026

Join us for the next Collection Conversation tomorrow June 4th from 2-3pm "Mariners’ Help: The Story of the Helmsdale Lifeboat." We will be discussing the incredible story of the Helmsdale Lifeboat, saving lives at sea. Come along to learn and share local stories of a symbol of living heritage for our community.


Helmsdale, Land of The Helmies
Brora Village Hub
Moray Firth Coastal Partnership
Golspie Heritage Society

03/06/2026

Join us on Saturday 6th June for the new date for this Climate Justice Reading Group focused on the Napier Commission (1883). The session "Lie and Land: Napier Commission" will focus on the Crofters’ War and the Napier Commission, looking at transcript from the meeting in the Free Church, Helmsdale, October 1883.
We cannot wait to welcome you! As always this event is free and taking place from 2-3pm

Helmsdale, Land of The Helmies
What's on in Brora
Golspie Heritage Society

31/05/2026

Pizzica Dance Workshop with Viviana Checchia
Sat June20th 5:30-6:30

What on earth does a spider have to do with folk dance?
Join Viviana Checchia for a workshop exploring pizzica, a traditional folk dance from Puglia in Southern Italy. Rooted in collective movement, rhythm and improvisation, pizzica has historically been connected to rituals of healing and release associated with the myth of the tarantula bite.

The workshop is grounded in the belief that everybody is a dancer. Led not by a professional dancer but by a passionate practitioner and member of the Timespan board, the session will offer an accessible and informal introduction to pizzica, its histories and its social energies.

Together, participants will explore the legacy of the dance alongside a central idea often shared in Puglia: tradizione è innovazione — tradition is innovation. The session invites everyone to contribute to a Scottish iteration of pizzica through movement, participation and collective joy.

Let’s take some time to dance together.

Viviana Checchia is a curator and researcher working across contemporary art and socially engaged practice. She is Director of Metal Peterborough and Cambridgeshire, Co-Director of Vessel in Puglia, and previously led Void Art Centre in Derry. Her practice focuses on collective learning, public participation and experimental approaches to curating, and she currently serves as a trustee of Timespan.

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30/05/2026

Solstice Garland Making Workshop with Nadiia Yatchenko
Saturday 20th 4pm to 6pm

For Everyone Blames the Weather, join a festive, drop-in making session on Saturday 20th open to all ages and abilities exploring garland-making to celebrate together the summer solstice. Artist Nadiia Yatchenko will lead an informal workshop centred on making, gathering and shared creativity. No previous experience is needed and participants are welcome to arrive at any point during the session.

Image credits Alexander Williamson

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29/05/2026

Exhibition Tour with José Garcia Oliva
4pm to 5pm, Saturday 20th

Get a unique opportunity to experience an artist-led tour of our current exhibition "As Long As It Yields" withJosé Garcia Oliva on Saturday 20th.

José will guide visitors through the exhibition, sharing insights into the research, practice and making process behind his new commissions exploring agricultural and labour extraction. The tour will offer space for open conversations around the exhibition’s themes, materials and the questions explored connected to land exploitation and the specificity of its context in Scotland.

Tours will last 30 minutes and be capped to 15 people max each.
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29/05/2026

POSTPONED
Unfortunately, our community cinema happening tomorrow has to be postponed. We will be in touch soon with an update about the new date.
We look forward to welcoming you later in the month

POSTPONED
Unfortunately our Community Cinema screening happening Saturday May 30th has to be postponed so it will not go ahead at this time.

We will be screening Blue Heart, Britton Caillouette (2018)
Combining stunning cinematography with a fantastic breadth of individual portraits, this documentary chronicles communities fighting to save Europe's last wild rivers.

This screening is recommended for children aged 8+ and is organised in collaboration with Take One Action Film Festivals

Helmsdale, Land of The Helmies
Film Hub Scotland
Sutherland Community Partnership
Golspie Heritage Society
Golspie Village
What's on in Brora
Contemporary Art in Moray, Highlands and Islands

28/05/2026

2pm to 3.30pm
The Fight for Farmworkers’ Rights
Panel with Justice Is Not Seasonal Workers (Sat 20th, 2-3:30pm)

As part of "Everyone Blames the Weather" we are thrilled to welcome representatives from Justice is Not Seasonal to Timespan to lead a panel discussion on seasonal agricultural labour, workers’ rights and migrant justice in the UK.

Centring the experiences and perspectives of people who have worked within the Seasonal Worker UK visa scheme, the conversation will address the conditions faced by farmworkers and the structures that enable exploitation. We will get to hear more about the work done by Justice is Not Seasonal organising and unionising workers to build visibility, accountability and solidarity across rural communities, farms and food systems.

Justice is Not Seasonal (JINS) is a collective formed by seasonal migrant workers in the UK advocating for fair working conditions, protection from exploitation, and reform of the Seasonal Worker visa scheme. Led primarily by workers from Latin America, the campaign centres migrant workers’ rights, justice and collective organising across the agricultural sector.