4.5
Sown, Grown and Shared.
‘Dandelion’ is a Scotland-wide free festival which features events with a with a slant on ecology and a ‘sow grow, share’ theme over a year. Ideas around the arts, sciences and humanities were sown, grown and shared at various venues; the Inverness festival had three days of diverse performances, installations and talks.
I enjoyed King Creosote, Natty Dreddd, Del Amitri, Tank and the Bangas and last but not least, the incredible kora player Sona Jobarteh; I couldn’t believe that these performances were all free! There were also lots more artists I didn’t see. I also attended a really interesting talk called ‘Fabulous Fungi’ which explored the wood-wide web and what it could teach us amongst other things! Free plants were gifted and plenty of advice on sustainability was available throughout the festival too.
A slight criticism would be that this festival wasn’t very well publicised in Inverness; I only found out about it hours before from a random source and I know lots more people who told me that they would have attended had they realised it was on. The organisers probably shouldn’t have relied on social media as much to spread the word but having said that, I still loved it and look forward to next year’s programme.
‘Dandelion’ is a Scotland-wide free festival which features events with a with a slant on ecology and a ‘sow grow, share’ theme over a year. Ideas around the arts, sciences and humanities were sown, grown and shared at various venues; the Inverness festival had three days of diverse performances, installations and talks.
I enjoyed King Creosote, Natty Dreddd, Del Amitri, Tank and the Bangas and last but not least, the incredible kora player Sona Jobarteh; I couldn’t believe that these performances were all free! There were also lots more artists I didn’t see. I also attended a really interesting talk called ‘Fabulous Fungi’ which explored the wood-wide web and what it could teach us amongst other things! Free plants were gifted and plenty of advice on sustainability was available throughout the festival too.
A slight criticism would be that this festival wasn’t very well publicised in Inverness; I only found out about it hours before from a random source and I know lots more people who told me that they would have attended had they realised it was on. The organisers probably shouldn’t have relied on social media as much to spread the word but having said that, I still loved it and look forward to next year’s programme.
