Fife Climate Festival Creative Competition

Creative Competition

The Fife Climate Festival creative competition was for creatives of all kinds. We invited photographers, song writers, poets, writers and artists to share their hopeful vision of Fife’s future. The theme was: ‘What could possibly go right?

Our judging panel chose the winners. Thank you to Rowan Docherty, Vocalist and Production, YMCA Kirkcaldy, Mark Burdett – Music Project Lead, YMCA Kirkcaldy, George McDermid – Treasurer, Fife Writes and Chiara Fingland – Artist, Chiara Fingland Illustrations.

We showcased all the entries at our Big Day Oot at SIlverburn Park.

Winners

Winner – Susan Broadfoot | Song | “The Sun will shine”

2nd Place – Kathryn Holme | Poem/Song | “Ballad of a Better Life”

3rd Place – Ross Mackay – Leven Programme | Poem | “This is a Place”

This Is a Place by Ross Mackay This is a place where memories live. In the green and the hollows, and the early morning frost. This is a place of change. As seasons tumble over one another with wet summers and wide-eyed winter suns. This is a place of stillness, away from the churn of time. This is place where thoughts can be turned with a stick, twisted and spun and looked at anew. This is a place where decisions come from the gut. This is a place where leaves sit soft, sinking into mud, crumbling to dust to become tree once more. This is a place to think of ancestors. This is a place where new life takes root. This is a place where you can frolic and play and slay the day away. This is a place for imaginations, to run down rabbit holes and fly through the wind. This is a place to live outdoors in the breath of the wild. This is a place for soil in the fingernails and nature in the nostrils. This is a place where wildlife and man, sit as one. This is a place of equilibrium. This is a place where pigeons are dirty winged angels and heaven is moss on a tree stump. This is a place for footsteps and muddy puddles. This is a place for you. This is a place for us. This is a place for leven.

Other entries

Jessica Boles | Song | “Be Here With Me Now”

Listen

Julien | Song | “The Common Good”

Listen

Simone Morton | Song | “Let it Simma – Mother Earth”

Listen

Sue Proudlove | Art – Collage | “Forth Estuary”

View

Nicola Rook | Art – Lino print | “Mother Nature”

View

Gary Meldrum | Poem | “Oswald Garden”

Read

Susan Lindsay | Short Story | “A more mobile timeline”

Read


 

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