Beginnings
This July Cape Farewell embarks on its biggest project yet, in partnership with Cove Park: a month-long expedition by boat across the Scottish islands from Oban across the Western Isles of Scotland to Lewis.
After eight journeys to the High Arctic and one to the Peruvian Amazon, we are bringing the notion and experience of expedition home to the UK, with an exploration of island ecologies and cultures, and of the strategies for sustainable and resilient futures being implemented across the Scottish Western Isles.
Our crew is made up of island artists, storytellers, film makers, playwrights, architects, designers, musicians, community leaders, social scientists, ecologists, marine biologists, oceanographers, poets, acclaimed Gaelic singers and a chef.
Our exploration began in December 2010 at the Scottish Islands Project Forum, with a meeting of 40 artists, scientists, funders, storytellers and cultural leaders at Cove Park on the Rosneath Peninsula north of Glasgow. We met our project partners and discussed the values and aspirations of the expedition and the nature of our engagement with local communities, arts venues and sustainability and heritage organisations. We also started to shape the expedition itinerary, aiming to sailing, weather permitting, to Mull, Eigg, Skye, South and North Uist, St Kilda, Lewis, Orkney, Unst (the most northerly of the Shetland/ British Isles), Shetland and the Faroe Islands.
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