Timespan

18/06/2026

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

Join us for Everyone Blames the Weather: A Solstice Festival on Migrant Labour and Seasonal Work happening 19th–21st June at Timespan.

We cannot wait to share with you 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

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

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

17/06/2026

En Fila (In Line) is a large artwork featured on Timespan’s exterior wall part of the exhibition "As Long As it Yields." Presented at the entrance of the building, the work blows up a drawing by William Subelza Velasquez, a seasonal agricultural worker who travelled from Bolivia to work in the UK. The image depicts a line of workers standing beside a conveyor belt of harvested fruit, rendered without hands.

The artwork spotlights the self-representation of seasonal agricultural worker, experience put front and centre as part of the upcoming festival "Everyone Blames the Weather" (Jun 19th-21st)

Discover this and other artworks by visiting the free exhibition "As Long As it Yields" by José García Oliva.
🗓As Long As It Yields - On view until 12th July
📍 Timespan, Helmsdale
🕙 Open daily, 10am–5pm
Photo and scan courtesy of the artist

13/06/2026

Join us for our next Collection Conversations on June 18th "What is Intangible Culture?"

This session will be discussing the National Inventory for Living Heritage in the UK supported by UNESCO, to list and safeguard Intangible Cultural Heritage practices. In collaboration with Museums Galleries Scotland

We cannot wait to welcome you from 2-3pm as always this is a free event open to everyone

Helmsdale, Land of The Helmies
Golspie Heritage Society
Heritalise Project EU
Brora Heritage

11/06/2026

Timespan Annual General Meeting
Mon 22nd June at 5:30 pm at Timespan
Please join us for our Annual General Meeting, to hear all about the past year and discuss the one ahead. A full copy of our annual report and financial statement will be available at the meeting.


Helmsdale, Land of The Helmies
Helmsdale Community Centre
Helmsdale Resilience Plan
What's on in Brora
Brora Village Hub
Golspie Village
Golspie Heritage Society
Sutherland Community Partnership

10/06/2026

Timespan Community Cinema presents MÀIRI MHÒR: Her Life and Songs, on Saturday the 13th of June, from 11-1. This drama-documentary, written by John McGrath, is based on the life and songs of Gaelic poet Mary MacPherson, from Skye, known as Màiri Mhòr nan Òran, who was passionate about land resistance and reform. The film brings her songs, poetry, and legacy to life.
Supported by Take One Action Film Festivals.

Helmsdale, Land of The Helmies
Film Hub Scotland
Cinema In The Highlands
Golspie Heritage Society
Brora Heritage

09/06/2026

Everyone Blames the Weather (2026) by José García Oliva is installed on Timespan's exterior façade as part of the exhibition "As Long As it Yields."
This work takes the form of a site-subtitle and quote extracted from the video work “An Uncomfortable Beauty” presented inside the gallery.

This artwork lends its name to the upcoming festival "Everyone Blames the Weather"coming to Timespan 19th-21st June to explore through three days of free activities seasonal and migrant work.

🗓As Long As It Yields - On view until 12th July
📍 Timespan, Helmsdale
🕙 Open daily, 10am–5pm
Photo courtesy of the artist

09/06/2026

Join us this Thursday 11th June for another phenomenal Climate Justice Reading Group from 2pm at Timespan Library Lounge.
This session is titled Statistical Accounts of Kildonan and Loth (1791-1845). The Old (1791-99) and New (1834-1845) Statistical Accounts of Scotland, which are among the best contemporary reports of life during the agricultural and industrial revolution in Europe. We will focus on the accounts compiled for Kildonan and Loth Parishes, which offer a unique, rich insight into daily life, agriculture, fishing, education, trades, religion, and social customs.

Come ready to share, learn, and discuss together in a relaxed setting.

Helmsdale, Land of The Helmies
Brora Salt Pans Research Group
Brora Heritage
Golspie Heritage Society

05/06/2026

As part of Everyone Blames the Weather, join us for an evening of food, dance, live music and gathering in Timespan’s river garden on Saturday 20th from 6:30. The evening brings together local volunteers, musicians and performers for a relaxed celebration marking the solstice weekend.

6:30pm to 8pm
Garden Barbecue with Friends of Timespan
Join the solstice festivities with the Friends of Timespan’s barbecue. Enjoy the delicious food and entertainment. We will be firing the community barbecue to prepare delicious burgers with vegetarian and vegan options. Bar by donation will be available.

£10 per person including a delicious Burger, and an ice-cream scoop.
£8 per person including a Hot Dog, and an ice-cream scoop.

We cannot wait to welcome you!


Helmsdale, Land of The Helmies
Brora Heritage
What's on in Brora
Golspie Village
Wick Community Noticeboard
Thurso Community Noticeboard

05/06/2026

Reminder this rescheduled event is happening tomorrow!

Join us on Saturday 6th June for the new date for this 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
What's on in Brora
Golspie Heritage Society

04/06/2026

Labour Justice: What We Can Achieve Together
Talk with Worker Support Centre
Sunday 21st June

Closing "Everyone Blames the Weather" we are thrilled to welcome representatives form the Worker Support Centre to continue the weekend’s conversations around food systems, land, labour and workers’ rights, with a focus on campaigning, solidarity and collective action.

The Worker Support Centre is a Scotland-based charity supporting migrant workers on visas and temporary contracts, particularly in agriculture, food production and care.Through advice, advocacy and campaigning, the organisation works alongside workers to challenge exploitation, strengthen rights and build fairer labour systems.

📅 Sunday 21st June, 11am
📍Everyone Blames the Weather, Timespan, Helmsdale
Book your free 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