Sunday 3rd July

SUNDAY 3 JULY TIME: 10:00am - 10:30am VENUE: HIVE TENT PRICE: £5

Julia Duncan

CONSERVATION RANGER

Julia is a countryside Ranger at Blair Castle and Atholl Estates in Per thshire. With its wilderness and historical background, Julia encourages par ticipation in outdoor activities and helps people to build a connection with nature for now and into the future.

Julia will be joining us to tell us about her role and to inspire future guardians of Scotland’s natural environment to get involved.

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SUNDAY 3 JULY TIME: 10:00am - 10:30am VENUE: NEST TENT PRICE: £5

Emily Dodd

SCOTTISH WILDLIFE STORYTELLING

Author and screenwriter for CBeebies, Emily will be joining us to read from her hear t-warming stories of Scottish wildlife: Can’t Dance Cameron, and The Grouse and the Mouse.

Both books are beautifully illustrated, and Emily will bring them alive through music, dance and storytelling.

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SUNDAY 3 JULY TIME: 11:00am - 11:30am VENUE: NEST TENT PRICE: £5

Alice Fernbank

SCOTTISH MYTHS AND FOLKLORE

Storyteller, Alice tells stories from world myths and folktales, with many from the Celtic tradition. They include tales of tricksters and shape-shifters; ghosts and mythical creatures; historical legends and epic myths. Alice loves to tell transformational stories of women and girls and their heroic adventures. Alice comes from a theatrical background and uses her skills to enrich her storytelling, creating believable engaging characters interwoven within her telling. Igniting imaginations and connecting people.

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SUNDAY 3 JULY TIME: 11:00am - 11:30am VENUE: HIVE TENT PRICE: £5

Rowan Morrison

SCOTTISH FOLKLORE

Rowan brings people together through storytelling. She draws on traditional folktales and strange stories of her own, to bring magic into the ‘middle world of mankind’. Rowan shares stories of the natural world and the otherworld, of flora and fauna, of shapeshifting creatures and all manner of mythical beasties. Her stories will lead you into the depths of the dark forest, enable you to see the hidden folk, run with the wild deer and swim with selkies!

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SUNDAY 3 JULY TIME: 12:00pm - 12:45pm VENUE: HIVE TENT PRICE: £5

Lynn Cassells, Lynbreck Croft

REGENERATIVE FARMING AND CONSERVATION

Special Guest: Join crofter and author Lynn as she tells of the graft and immense challenges she and Sandra faced in turning Lynbreck Croft into a new rural, vibrant enterprise; farming in harmony with nature and working with natural processes to grow their own food, raise their own animals and look after their own corner of Scotland.

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SUNDAY 3 JULY TIME: 12:00pm - 12:30pm VENUE: NEST TENT PRICE: £5

Royal Highland Educational Trust

BIODIVERSITY

Discover an amazing micro-world in the soil beneath our feet.

Join busy bacteria, active actinomycetes, feisty fungi, prowling protozoa, nimble nematodes and wriggling worms to find out why looking after our soils is so very impor tant.

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SUNDAY 3 JULY TIME: 13:00pm - 13:30pm VENUE: NEST TENT PRICE: £5

Lindsay Littleson

CHILDREN’S AUTHOR - REWILDERS

The Rewilders - The wild is waiting… bored Esme staying with her granny discovers an abandoned kitten is in fact a wild lynx kit and she is growing - fast! The situation takes a terrifying turn when the children pitch their tents on a bleak Highland moor and hear wolves howling outside… Lindsay’s hope is that young people will be inspired to discover more about the rewilding movement.

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SUNDAY 3 JULY TIME: 13:15pm - 13:45pm VENUE: HIVE TENT PRICE: £5

Lindsey Gibb

SCOTTISH FOLKLORE

Lindsey loves stories of place and landscape. She recently created a new story commission as par t of a cultural and community response to climate change and COP 26 for the Cateran Ecomuseum, featured on BBC Scotland Outdoors. Co-author of Per thshire Folktales she par ticularly enjoys sharing stories from her home area.

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SUNDAY 3 JULY TIME: 14:00pm - 14:30pm VENUE: NEST TENT PRICE: £5

Katrina Candy

CONSERVATION

Captain Partridge and the Metal Monsters, Katrina’s 3rd book, will be launched at the GWCT Scottish Game Fair. Living in Per thshire, she collaborates with local ar tists to bring the stories alive.

Katrina is passionate about climate and nature conservation issues. All profits from the sale of her books are donated to the GWCT.

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SUNDAY 3 JULY TIME: 14:15pm - 14:45pm VENUE: HIVE TENT PRICE: £5

Ellen Bradley

CONSERVATION - CURLEW ACTION

Curlew Action, a charity dedicated to reversing the decline of breeding curlew runs campaigns for wider natural history education.

Ellen’s work involves raising awareness about the decline of curlews in Britain and of the wider conservation issues associated with our dwindling wildlife.

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SUNDAY 3 JULY TIME: 15:00pm - 15:30pm VENUE: NEST TENT PRICE: £5

Graeme Johncock

SCOTTISH FOLKLORE

Writer and storyteller Graeme, accompanied by the ever-present Molly the Labrador, will be telling tales from across Scotland.

As a lover of the history and folklore of Scotland today, he will bring these tales alive.

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SUNDAY 3 JULY TIME: 15:15pm - 15:45pm VENUE: HIVE TENT PRICE: £5

Gabrielle Flinn

CONSERVATION

Gabrielle Flinn has worked for Buglife, the RSPB and the IUCN on a range of projects, including helping to restore grasslands for pollinators in the Central Belt; on the award-winning Rare Inver tebrates in the Cairngorms project; and in Brussels on European pollinator projects including assessing the extinction risk of pollinator species. She has also appeared on BBC Springwatch, Landward and Out of Doors to communicate the crucial role insects play in suppor ting a healthy planet.

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