Welcome to the ETCH Festival
By students, for students, our team has created a diverse programme of cross-disciplinary works.
We are so excited to share them with you!
By students, for students, our team has created a diverse programme of cross-disciplinary works.
We are so excited to share them with you!
At the ETCH Festival, we believe that art has power.
Power to communicate messages and to empower others through our work. Our artists have created projects which collectively celebrate the Earth, grieve for past and future loss, and educate on what must be done next.
These involve original student works, imbuing old pieces with new messages, as well as community outreach efforts to make our platform more accessible.
We hope our festival engages you and encourages you to investigate your connections to art and to earth.
– Victor Pinchuk
This showcase was filmed at Cuningar Loop, which was once a beautiful location before it was mined of its natural resources and eventually turned into a landfill before Forestry and Land Scotland turned it into the beautiful park it is today.
The musical theatre students are sounding the alarm and calling on us to examine the way we impact the world.
Embark on a journey of mindfulness. Pick a night to go stargazing and use this audio as your guide for a meditative, introspective look at nature and how we relate to it.
A warm welcome to you all! This is the RCS Storytelling + Song Club’s contribution to the ETCH Festival 2021.
We set out to explore the stories from around our planet which show the connection between humanity and the natural world. There are folktales and songs from every corner of the globe which emphasise the interdependency of our species and the rest of the planet, and we have chosen a couple of these to share with you here.
You will also find a couple of original works created by members of the Storytelling and Song Club that explore climate change, environmentalism, and nature in their own way. We hope you enjoy!
We would like to say a huge thanks to our wonderful mentor through this project, the exceptional storyteller and performer Jan Blake. She inspired us to explore our own storytelling voices, work in detail on our storytelling technique and think about how our art can have a social impact.
This year, our extraordinary community outreach team carried out an impressive array of works. From an informative social media campaign to original classroom education tools, they’ve done a fantastic job.
