2019

• People's Act: Room to React

  Exploring themes of democracy, politics and media amongst the next generation of voices in Huntly

• The Weeping Willow Tree

  The planting of a Weeping Willow to mark a historic day

• Think: Brexit

  Discuss / Debate / Act / Imagine

• Lunar Odyssey

  Sounds for a future society

• The Community Crockery

  Craft for Creative Change

• No. 11 Café

  WORK, LEARN, EAT, SHARE!

• I Stand With Tifty’s Annie

  A new performance unearthing the lore embedded in the land

• Home to Home

  A secular pilgrimage into the meaning of home

• Town is the Garden

  A community food growing project

• Walking Without Walls

  Digital Dialogue on Peace, Friendship and Boundaries

• What If?

  A performance piece to imagine a different geo-political scenario.

• Room to Reinvent

  An approach to town regeneration from the bottom up

• 21 Years of the town is the venue

  A celebration of Deveron Projects' 21st Birthday

• Energised Landscape

  An examination of energy sources, sites and consequences

• How Humans Adapt

  Performance for Edinburgh Art Festival

• The White Wood

  A living monument to peace

• Caravanserai

  An exploration of hospitality, mobility and exchange

• 300 Years to Grow

  Creating a story that will still be told in 300 years

• Lure of the Lost: A Contemporary Pilgrimage

  A walk from Huntly to the Venice Biennale: 111 days/2500k

• Exploration Aids

  Creating a network of Howffs in the landscape

• Imprint / Abandon

  A suite of music inspired by abandoned human settlements in North East Aberdeenshire.

• The Hielan' Ways Symposium: Perceptions of Exploration

  An investigation into the many perceptions of exploration

• Oaks & Amity

  The White Wood

• Wandering Waste

  A fantastical exploration of aesthetic food ideals

• Urbanscape + Ruralsprawl

  A two part event exploring walking as an artistic practice in the city and beyond

• Perambulator

  An exploration of walking with a pram (or pushchair)

• Lorg-Coise: Footprints

  Mapping an ancient landscape for a contemporary audience

• The Lubare and the Boat

  An exploration into the life and work of missionary and Africa explorer Alexander MacKay

• Some Colour Trends

  An investigation into the place-names that are embedded in the Scottish landscape

• Cooking the Landscape

  Hospitality, food and welcoming spaces connecting people and all things heritage

• Aberdeenshire Ways

  A collaborative project about regional identity

• Hielan' Ways

  The rediscovery of trading routes connecting the Aberdeenshire heartland with Cairngorm Highlands

• In the Footsteps of Nan Shepherd

  A long distance round walk looking at issues, plights and pleasures of women walking in wilderness

• Symphony Way

  A symphony by fiddler Paul Anderson inspired by the Hielan' Ways circuit

• MacKay of Uganda

  An exploration into the life and work of Alexander MacKay

• Pride of Place Project

  A project recording the ordinary and extraordinary details of everyday life in Huntly

• Lines Lost

  A project tracing the routes of branch lines that were cut following the Beeching Report in 1963

• Fernweh

  Travel, hospitality and art in the public realm

• Faceloop

  Mapping real friendships in our time of virtual social networks

• With and against the Flow

  Mapping the River Deveron from two directions, with and against the flow

• Mbereko

  The delights and issues surrounding maternity, childhood and materialism

• Cultural Health Visitor and supporting artist for all occassions

  Nurturing common contexts for cultural happenings through her work as the Cultural Health Visitor

• Walking Off The Grid

  A 14 day circuit around Huntly of 30 miles

• The Town is the Menu

  An investigation of local food and eating customs to develop a signature menu for Huntly

• Nordeste/North East - Ceilidhcatu

  An exploration of the notions of North East communities and cultures across the Atlantic

• Minor Paths

  A writing and research residency investigating the relationship between art and path making

• Ceilidhamba

  A cultural exchanged investingating parading in different cultures

• Slow Marathon

  A 5,850 miles walk from Addis to Scotland and back

• Making the Invisible Visible

  Looking at textile traditions with the assistance of darners Intekhab Ahmad and Zakir Hussain

• UK Border Walk

  A walk along the Scottish/English border to highlight restrictive visa policies for overseas artists

• Real Life Gordons of Huntly

  A contemporary examination of the ancestral home of the Clan Gordon and their world wide diaspora

• A Perfect Father Day?

  What use is a father today?

• Transmissions from the River

  Übertragungen aus dem Fluss: a transmission of the flow from the River Bogie through skype

• Huntly Review

  Can ordinary life be critically reviewed like art works?

• Proposals for Huntly

  Proposals of all sorts, questioning whether the artist's job is done once the idea is formed.

• Walkingand...

  Working towards an Institute of Walking Appreciation through an online archive

• Walkachat

  Walking and talking opportunities for artists from across Scotland in remote hill locations

• Health and Safety Effects

  A wry look at Health an safety policies in our lives

• How do you live this place?

  Mapping community relationships and routines inspired by the 17th century cartographer James Gordon

• Red Herring

  Production, distribution, consumption and compostation: what we eat and how it gets to us

• SAPE: Swagger

  Society of Ambient People's Elegance across the world, urban and rural

• 21 Days in the Cairngorms

  Linking Huntly with the Cairngorms National Park through a 21 day walk

• Short Nichts and Lang Kisses

  Looking at the North East ballads through a contemporary exploration of the Greig Duncan collection

• Walking Lunches

  Using movement as inspiration

• The Value of Art

  A social study of art

• Money Crunch

  An exploration of the credit crunch during the festive season

• Palace of Puzzles

  Investigation of the legacy of James Legge, Chinese scholar and missionary through a town funeral

• Deveron Manoeuvres

  Some guided walks and conversations on art and other life matters

• Slow Down

  An exploration of what a car-free town would look like through a festival of all things slow

• Jonga: Look at Me - Museum of Women, Dolls and Memories

  An exploration of women’s self-perception, in the 50th year of the Barbie doll

• Skimmerin'

  Response to the use and felling of local woodlands with Clarsach and electronic music

• 7000 Oaks

  An event exploring Joseph Beuys' visits to Scotland

• Feed the Five

  An examination of hospitality through traditional North East cooking

• Praktika

  Workshop, creating a critical context for socially engaged art practice

• Room to Roam

  A considered brand for Huntly, looking at both our physical and more spiritual opportunities

• Center of Huntly

  A project celebrating the life and work of Huntly's composer Ronald Center

• Music for Street Fights

  Addressing the problem of Friday night street violence

• Maypole

  Encouraging movement and dance through seasonal motions and notions

• Arts Visitor

  A new model to improve cultural health in the community

• HomeMade

  A TV-style film series questioning what we eat to sustain our busy lifestyles

• How to Like Everything?

  A writing residency looking critically at Art Criticism

• George MacDonald Diary

  Looking at the life work of George MacDonald from the perspective of a fictitious grandson

• Exposure

  A project exploring commonality through the legacy of Huntly born writer George MacDonald

• potATo HOM(E)age

  A year long investigation into the cycle of the potato fruit

• MONO

  Cruising, Tubing and Fleeing aboot, young people and their custom cars

• Secret Doorways, Strange Worlds

  A celebration of the work of Huntly fantasy writer George MacDonald through new storytelling

• Knockturne

  Looking at notions of life and death through participation in a lambing season and other incidences

• Cinemagic Tour II: Scenes from an Imaginary Place

  Excavating the history of Huntly’s former picture house

• Action Paintings

  An experimentation with digital media in a sporting context

• Salon des Refusés: ARTCUP

  A project bringing two teams of artists/footballers together during the World Cup in Germany

• Scranky Black Farmer

  Exploration into the bothy ballad 'The Scranky Black Farmer'

• Bridle Suite/ Pommel Pony Collection

  An exploration into the clandestine horse cult known as 'The Horseman's Word'

• ¡La Pipeta!

  An exploration of soundscapes through a merging of the traditional pipe with Argentinian Tango music

• Artist For All Seasons

  A crafty look at seasonal traditions and changes

• Where In? Where At?

  A public monument for the fantasy writer George MacDonald depicting the raven from Lilith

• Breath Taking

  A photographic billboard project responding to the rural wind farm debate

• Huntly in Harmony

  Huntly's first town piper, developing a series of tunes inspired by local places and folks

• Town Artist

  A sustained relationship with town folks

• By Dandi

  A Comic Strip for Huntly

• Country Living

  Eva Merz: Life, Art and Work in the North East of Scotland

• Space/Retail/Magic

  Eva Merz: A critical view on supermarket development in rural locations

• Doric

  Poemes Electroniques: an exploration into Huntly's vernacular sounds and languages

• Made in Huntly

  How Scottish do you think you are?

• Strathbogie Collection

  A collection of tunes on vernacular Huntly life by Paul Anderson its 'Toon Fiddler'

• Empty Shop / Modern Monument

  Looking at the problem of declining retail in rural communities

• From Here to There

  Are rural places mostly populated by older generations?

• Halloween Hairst Festival

  A celebration of Halloween through the Samhain traditions which continues till today

• Belonging

  An exploration into the notions of home and belonging

• Café Bohemios

  Combining live performance with film making looking at the fears of young people

• Groundword

  Exploring the relationship between nature and language through looking at our physical horizons

• Structure

  Questioning community structures through analogies with plant life

• Messiah 1/Chapel Barbarossa

  Who are our prophets nowadays and what does it mean to wait?

• Threadbare

  A look at Huntly's historic and contemporary connection to textiles

• The Three Degrees

  Deveron Projects' first ever artist