To book places for any (or all) of the events telephone 01387 262084.

2.30-4pm Poetry Workshop – ‘At home: living in the poem.’

With Helen Mort

 What makes a landscape ‘home’? And how best to write about places we know well? Helen Mort, Poet in Residence with the Wordsworth Trust at Dove Cottage (Wordsworth’s home when he wrote much of his greatest work) will look at how to make familiar landscapes strange and how writers from Wordsworth to Philip Larkin and Ian McMillan have explored and reinvented the idea of ‘home’ in poetry.

6.30-7pm William Wordsworth: Selected Poems

Helen Mort and Andrew Forster, Poet in Residence and Literature Officer with the Wordsworth Trust, will read and talk about some of their favourite poems by Wordsworth along with new poems inspired by living and working in Wordsworth’s home.

7.15-8.15pm An illustrated artist talk by Charlie Poulsen

Charlie introduces the work in his exhibition and further afield. Find out how plants and landscapes have inspired some of his recent living installations.

dgArts is the main partner with NHS Dumfries and Galloway in the Healing Spaces project – creating arts for the new psychiatric hospital.  In addition to creating arts in the hospital environment, Healing Spaces is committed to generating arts opportunities when people return to their own homes and communities.  As part of all this,  ‘see me’ will showcase the entries to a Photography competition open to all but targeted at people with a lived experience of, or interest in, mental health issues.  The exhibition in the Midsteeple allows for the People’s Votes to be cast for the photographs on display.  Two prizewinning photographs, in Adult and Under-18 categories, have already been chosen and the winner of the Public Vote will join these two in being entered in the national competition. The winner will be announced in December.

‘see me’ will be open 10am to 4pm, admission free.

Supported by GaelForce