Edge School is a new peer-to-peer learning programme at Forgan Arts Centre for LGBTQIA+ creatives in Fife.
Edge School explores the garden as a metaphor for spaces of cultivation, rooting and unexpected encounters through art, craft, landwork, permaculture, writing and food.
Edge School understands queerness as an ongoing horizon: a way of collectively imagining and rehearsing more just, joyful, and liberatory futures.
Through creative practice and collective exploration, this programme creates space to experiment with what those futures might look like, and how they might be cultivated together.
This project is built upon the relationships that we have and continue to develop with local artists, ally’s, communities and organisations in North East Fife from 2024-26 during Queering the Clachan and Queer Makers Club.
Edge School takes its roots from the eighteenth-century Irish hedge schools; informal and often secret spaces of learning that emerged in response to legal and social oppression. Held in homes, barns, and outdoor spaces, hedge schools were community-led sites of knowledge-sharing and resistance.
Influenced by José Esteban Muñoz’s proposition that queerness is not yet here, Edge School understands queerness as an ongoing horizon: a way of collectively imagining and rehearsing more just, joyful, and liberatory futures.
Funded by Fife Communities Mental Health Fund.
Programme Dates
Session 1 Saturday 29 August, 2.00-4.30pm
Join us for the first session of Edge School, we will begin School with a workshop led by artist Christopher Ivor Adam.
Christopher Ivor Adam (b. 1999, Paisley; lives and works in Dundee) makes prints, paintings, drawings, films, songs and stories. Adam works instinctively to make marks across a range of media, especially oil paint and lithography, creating characters and personalities to tell stories in idioms indigenous to his native Scotland. His work is drawn between imagination and historical records, and flits between Gaelic, Scots and English. Some recent projects have tackled the link between traditional styles of singing and conspiracy theories; a violent regime seeking to restore Fife’s medieval Gaelic past; and paintings inspired by a fellow shape note singer’s carving of her own gravestone, as practice.
Then;
Saturday 26 September, 2.00-4.30pm
Saturday 28 November, 2.00-4.30pm
Saturday 27 February, 2.00-4.30pm
Saturday 24 April, 2.00-4.30pm
Saturday 22 May, 2.00-4.30pm
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Travel
We ask attendees to use low carbon methods of transport wherever possible and accessible.
Forgan Arts Centre can be reached via two bus services: Moffat & Williamson 77 and Stagecoach 99 (which requires a short walk), which can be caught at Dundee, St Andrews and Leuchars. Leuchars and Dundee are the closest train stations, both can be reached through direct trains from London, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Our local coach services include Ember (which can take bikes), Megabus and Citylink. There are road-free and quiet cycle routes from Dundee and nearby villages, and bikes can be stored securely during your stay. We have four parking spaces at Forgan Arts Centre for Blue Badge Holders. Other drivers we ask to park at Waterstone Crook Car Park (a 2 min walk from the centre), which also has electric car charging points.
We have a small budget to cover travel costs, we acknowledge the barriers that queer communities can face in remote, peripheral, and underserved areas.