Packed programme at Helmsdale Museum's Molecular Intimacies symposium

Timespan Cultural Institution in Helmsdale is hosting a three day symposium which launches on Friday.

Called Molecular Intimacies, the conference will examine the limits of the planet and consider ‘scales and depths of time’.

Organisers say that the Highlands are fitting territories to speculate on future extinction because of a history of “land grabs, dispossession, forced migration, corporate extraction and environmental poisoning”.

A crammed programme during the three days include lectures, sounds, songs and readings as well as a pop-up restaurant serving an ‘end-of-the-world’ inspired feast and another offering Moroccan delicacies cooked by Sanna McLeod, Lairg.

Molecular Intimacies goes out into the field tomorrow with a community bus commissioned to take delegates and guests to visit peatland bogs, the site of the proposed Sutherland space port and the beach near to Dounreay nuclear plant where a seaside performance will take place as well as a lecture on soil contamination.

The symposium begins to wind up on Sunday with coffee and cakes and a discussion on nature.

For full details of the programme and to book, visit www.timespan.org.uk or email: enquiries@timespan.org.uk

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