Here are some of the events taking place at Timespan in Helmsdale over the coming months:

Unsettling Provenance
An exhibition of new work by Artist in Residence Corin Sworn

Timespan invites you to join them for the preview of a new collection of works by artist Corin Sworn created during her three month residency in Sutherland.

Corin’s research has focused on historical objects both left in the natural environment and those found and now displayed in museums. Through walks and discussions with the local community she examined the preserved remains of an extinct forest, ancient and ruined architectures as well as other miscellaneous found artefacts. Corin also investigated the context displaced Highlanders would have found on their arrival in Canada 200 years ago and their relationships with the indigenous population.

Much of this research led back to interests within her own practice that focus on layers of meaning and the folding of various spaces and times into one another. Her exhibition includes a new HD video work, a collection of sculptures, drawings and photographs which overlap conceptually while being distinctly different mediums. The opening is at 7pm on Friday 7th October and the exhibition runs until 20th December 2011.

To read more about Corin’s time at Timespan, please visit her blog

Museum Without Walls Poetry Competition
Poetry Theme – A Sense of Place
Closing date – Saturday 28th January 2012
Three age categories: 8-12, 13-17, over 18s

Winning entries: The winning entries will be published in the new Clearances trail book, shown in the new Clearances exhibition in Timespan and recorded for the app trail – in 2012. There will be one winner for each age group.

Judging panel: Timespan are delighted to have eminent Scottish novelist and poet, Bess Ross and Gaelic poet and writer, Myles Campbell on the panel of judges

For more information on how to enter please go to www.timespan.org.uk/timespan-international-poetry-competition/

Talk presented by John Mackay, Rogart
Sutherland Estate Lodges
Saturday 1st October at 10.30am-11.30am in Timespan, Helmsdale

Talk about Trentham Estate
Saturday 1st October at 12pm-1pm in Timespan, Helmsdale

Highland Archaeology Fortnight
Minibus tour of the Strath of Kildonan (10.30am-1pm)
Saturday 8th October from Timespan car park
Booking required (4 places left) – 01431 821327 or archive@timespan.org.uk

Talk presented by Malcolm Bangor-Jones
The Highland Clearances (2pm-3pm)
Saturday 8th October in Timespan, Helmsdale

Enquiries – 01431 821327 or archive@timespan.org.uk
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Timespan Museum and Arts Centre
Dunrobin Street
Helmsdale, Sutherland KW8 6JA

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