Timespan

28/05/2026

2pm to 3.30pm
The Fight for Farmworkers’ Rights
Panel with Justice Is Not Seasonal Workers (Sat 20th, 2-3:30pm)

As part of "Everyone Blames the Weather" we are thrilled to welcome representatives from Justice is Not Seasonal to Timespan to lead a panel discussion on seasonal agricultural labour, workers’ rights and migrant justice in the UK.

Centring the experiences and perspectives of people who have worked within the Seasonal Worker UK visa scheme, the conversation will address the conditions faced by farmworkers and the structures that enable exploitation. We will get to hear more about the work done by Justice is Not Seasonal organising and unionising workers to build visibility, accountability and solidarity across rural communities, farms and food systems.

Justice is Not Seasonal (JINS) is a collective formed by seasonal migrant workers in the UK advocating for fair working conditions, protection from exploitation, and reform of the Seasonal Worker visa scheme. Led primarily by workers from Latin America, the campaign centres migrant workers’ rights, justice and collective organising across the agricultural sector.

28/05/2026

The Fight for Farmworkers’ Rights
Panel with Justice Is Not Seasonal Workers (Saturday 20th 2-3:30pm)

As part of Everyone Blames the Weather, we are thrilled to welcome representatives from Justice is Not Seasonal to Timespan to lead a panel discussion on seasonal agricultural labour, workers’ rights and migrant justice in the UK.

Centring the experiences and perspectives of people who have worked within the Seasonal Worker UK visa scheme, the conversation will address the conditions faced by farmworkers and the structures that enable exploitation. We will get to hear more about the work done by Justice is Not Seasonal organising and unionising workers to build visibility, accountability and solidarity across rural communities, farms and food systems.

Justice Is Not Seasonal (JINS) is a collective formed by seasonal migrant workers in the UK advocating for fair working conditions, protection from exploitation, and reform of the Seasonal Worker visa scheme. Led primarily by workers from Latin America, the campaign centres migrant workers’ rights, justice and collective organising across the agricultural sector.

28/05/2026

POSTPONED
We are so sorry but today's session has to be rescheduled!
We look forward to welcoming you soon. More details about the new date will be shared

Join us for the last library lounge event of the month, on May 28th with a Climate Justice Reading Group focused on the Napier Commission (1883). The session "Lie and Land: Napier Commission" will focus on the Crofters’ War and the Napier Commission, looking at transcript from the meeting in the Free Church, Helmsdale, October 1883.

We cannot wait to welcome you! As always this event is free and taking place from 2-3pm


Helmsdale, Land of The Helmies
Golspie Village
What's on in Brora
Brora Heritage
Golspie Heritage Society

27/05/2026

Community Lunch with Cereal Bakery Saturday June 20th 12.30pm to 1.30pm

For Saturday lunch we have partnered with Cereal Bakery, a local company based on the North Coast. Working with locally grown ingredients wherever possible, Cereal Bakery champions seasonal produce, regional food networks and ethical approaches to food production. The meal will bring festival participants together around the table for an opportunity to eat, connect and continue conversations from the day’s programme.

For the festival, they will provide a two-course lunch, vegetarian or vegan, to celebrate the produce of the summer season.
Booking is essential and the meal will use a pay-what-you-can scale.

Standard Ticket £20: The standard ticket is the price we recommend, to pay fairly the work behind your meal.
Solidarity Ticket £25: Pay it forward by including a donation to the Access Tickets. Your donation will allow other people to access a nutritious meal without the barriers of cost.
Access Ticket £5: A concession price for anyone who may experience barriers to take part in this part of the festival such as low income guests, Disabled, d/Deaf participants…

Book your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/everyone-blames-the-weather-tickets-1989100781984?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1*wn4clb*_up*MQ..*_ga*MjM1MTQyNDU0LjE3Nzk0NjExNjA.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3Nzk0NjExNTkkbzEkZzAkdDE3Nzk0NjExNTkkajYwJGwwJGgw

Photo credits John Wright.

26/05/2026

CALLING ALL LOCAL MUSICIANS🎤🎻
Bring your instruments and warm up your vocal cords for a folk-centred open jam around the fire pit at Timespan’s River Garden on Saturday, 20th June. The ceilidh is open to all, with a number of paid slots available for local young musicians at £50 per 20-minute slot.

To lead a slot or ask a question, contact Timespan’s Programme Curator at [email protected]


Helmsdale, Land of The Helmies
Inverness music scene
What's on in Brora
Golspie Village
Brora Learning Zone
Lyth Arts Centre

Photo credits Gavin Macqueen Photography

26/05/2026

Lives on Hold: Seasonal Migration and Agricultural Labour in the UK
Talk with Professor Philomena de Lima
Everyone Blames the Weather Spotlight

We are excited to welcome Professor Philomena Lima for a talk exploring how rural communities are shaped by global systems of migration, labour and food production. Expanding her contribution to As Long As it Yields booklet, she will focus on the role of migrant workers in UK agriculture: what are the hidden infrastructures that sustain rural economies? How is exploitation embedded in the production of the food we consume everyday? How can we challenge the political narratives surrounding migration and precarity?

Moving between rural studies, migration theory and political economy, the talk considers how both migrant and local communities are affected by the same conditions of neoliberal capitalism, labour insecurity and social dispossession.

Saturday 20th
11am to 12.30pm
Book your free tickets! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/everyone-blames-the-weather-tickets-1989100781984?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1*wn4clb*_up*MQ..*_ga*MjM1MTQyNDU0LjE3Nzk0NjExNjA.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3Nzk0NjExNTkkbzEkZzAkdDE3Nzk0NjExNTkkajYwJGwwJGgw

About the speaker
Professor Philomena de Lima is Professor Emerita of Applied Sociology and Rural Studies and founder of the Centre for Remote and Rural Communities (2004), with over 35 years of research on migration, inequality and social justice in rural life.

Her publications include The Rural Migration Nexus: Global Problems, Rural Issues, the Rethinking Rural series, and continuous research on race, racism and migrant wellbeing in Scotland and rural communities internationally.

Photo credits Gavin Macqueen Photography

25/05/2026

Friday 19th June, 6pm Polaris Film Screening and Artist Talk
with Yunior Aguiar Perdomo
Everyone Blames the Weather spotlight

The festival starts on friday evening with artist Yunior Aguiar Perdomo for a screening and discussion of Polaris, an animation exploring the cultural rituals and routines that keep migrant communities in Perth, Scotland, connected to their cultures of origin. The film was developed through interviews with individuals, families and first-generation migrant groups. The work forms a partial record of the continuity of cultural traditions within the city, told from personal and intimate perspectives.

The work builds a parallel between these practices of cultural connection and the North Star, a traditional navigational guide for those travelling through unfamiliar routes. Research material gathered during the project appears as text alongside an astronomical representation of the North Star.

About the Artist
Yunior Aguiar Perdomo is a Cuban-born artist and educator based in Scotland whose practice explores memory, displacement, identity and material culture through moving image, drawing, printmaking and installation. Since 2004, he has also worked as part of the collective Celia-Yunior, exhibiting internationally across biennales, film festivals and exhibitions throughout the Americas and Europe.

24/05/2026

Join us for the last library lounge event of the month, on May 28th with a Climate Justice Reading Group focused on the Napier Commission (1883). The session "Lie and Land: Napier Commission" will focus on the Crofters’ War and the Napier Commission, looking at transcript from the meeting in the Free Church, Helmsdale, October 1883.

We cannot wait to welcome you! As always this event is free and taking place from 2-3pm


Helmsdale, Land of The Helmies
Golspie Village
What's on in Brora
Brora Heritage
Golspie Heritage Society

22/05/2026

We are excited to announce our next Community Cinema screening happening Saturday May 30th

We will be screening Blue Heart, Britton Caillouette (2018)
Combining stunning cinematography with a fantastic breadth of individual portraits, this documentary chronicles communities fighting to save Europe's last wild rivers.

This screening is recommended for children aged 8+ and is organised in collaboration with Take One Action Film Festivals

We cannot wait to welcome you for this free screening happening as always from 11am to 1pm at Timespan

Helmsdale, Land of The Helmies
Film Hub Scotland
Sutherland Community Partnership
Golspie Heritage Society
Golspie Village
What's on in Brora
Contemporary Art in Moray, Highlands and Islands

21/05/2026

EVERYONE BLAMES THE WEATHER
19–21 June | Timespan, Helmsdale

We’re pleased to announce the programme for Everyone Blamed the Weather: A Solstice Festival on Migrant Labour and Seasonal Work happening 19th–21st June at Timespan.

Join us for a weekend of conversations, activities, and collective gathering bringing together workers, trade unions, researchers, artists and organisers to explore the experiences and voices of migrant workers sustaining the agricultural sector in Scotland and the UK.

Across the weekend, the festival explores how seasonal labour is organised, experienced and made invisible, and how responsibility for exploitation is distributed across complex supply chains.

Taking place over the summer solstice, the festival connects questions of labour and social justice to seasonal time and the rhythms of land and place, creating space to gather, learn and reflect together.

PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS:
🎥 Polaris screening + artist talk with Yunior Aguiar Perdomo
🌾 Talk by Professor Philomena de Lima on migration, labour & rural economies
✊ Workers-led panel with Justice Is Not Seasonal on farmworkers’ rights
🖼 Exhibition tour with José García Oliva
🌿 Solstice garland-making workshop with Nadiia Yatchenko
🍽 Community lunch with Cereal Bakery
💃 Pizzica dance workshop with Viviana Checchia
🔥 River garden barbecue, fire pit ceilidh & bonfire
🎶 Live music from Susannah Stark & Band
📢 Closing discussion with Worker Support Centre on labour justice & solidarity

Watch this space to discover more about the incredible speakers, activists, and researcher that will join us at Timespan for Everyone Blames the Weather.

Part of the public programme for As Long As It Yields by José García Oliva.All festival events are free (except the community lunch).

Book your tickets here https://www.eventbrite.com/e/everyone-blames-the-weather-tickets-1989100781984?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1*n0xz4q*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTc0NzU5MDM0MS4xNzc5MzYyMzg1*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*czE3NzkzNzg2NTAkbzMkZzEkdDE3NzkzNzg4ODEkajYwJGwwJGgw

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Helmsdale, Land of The Helmies
Far North Events
What's on in Brora
Sutherland Community Partnership
Golspie Village
Thurso Community Noticeboard

19/05/2026

A jump in the past with this picture of Helmsdale Station, including the signal box and footbridge, circa 1950s.



Helmsdale, Land of The Helmies
Brora Heritage
Clyne Heritage Society (Brora)
Golspie Heritage Society