Abhainn/Avon Workshop

Join Mrs Meg Avon, Elvey Anna Stedman and Grace Morton for an afternoon of puppet making in praise of the River Kelvin/Abhainn Cheilbhinn.

The House Arts Collective C.I.C.

Join Meg, Elvey and Grace for an afternoon of puppet making and gentle river discussion. We will also learn some of the Gaelic names for our favourite rivers in Scotland. 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.Meg coordinates ‘River Guardians’, their guardianship groups and their seasonal events for the charity We Are Avon. The data the guardians collect raises awareness about water pollution and the power of community action as part of the Rights of Nature movement.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. Elvey Anna Stedman, (b.1998) is a visual artist based in Glasgow. She graduated in 2021 with a Fine Art degree from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. 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. With a combined use of sculpture, performance, printmaking and stop motion animation, she reflects a personal, folkloric visual language that has guided her since childhood. Grace Morton is a songwriter, freelance workshop facilitator and native Gaelic speaker based in Glasgow. Her songwriting practice is rooted in her childhood growing up on the North West Coast of Skye where music, creating and playing instruments were at the heart of community life. Grace knows the river to be an endless source of life force and inspiration - it's presence flows steadily through her music.

Our {communityGuidelinesLink} describe the sort of content we prohibit on Eventbrite. If you suspect an event may be in violation, you can report it to us so we can investigate.

To report other categories of prohibited or illegal content, submit {link}

Abhainn/Avon Workshop

More events from this organizer

Follow organizers to get events picked for you

Still looking for the right event?

Explore all events in Glasgow and filter by date, category, and more to find the perfect fit.

Abhainn/Avon Workshop

More events from this organizer

Follow organizers to get events picked for you

You might also like...

Browse more events with different dates, prices, and formats to find your next great experience.

Still looking for the right event?

Explore all events in Glasgow and filter by date, category, and more to find the perfect fit.