Tweed River Festival – Day Three

  • Start Date: 2nd November 2025
  • End Date: 2nd November 2025
  • Time: 10 - 4:30pm.
  • Venue: Peebles Burgh Hall High Street Peebles EH45 8AG
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Tweed River Festival – Day Three

Join Connecting Threads in Peebles for the third day of the inaugural Tweed River Festival!

The festival is the culmination of Connecting Threads’ 2025 programming theme, Watery Commons.

Tickets and times

The Tweed River Festival programme has been conceived to facilitate ideas, experiences and conversation across the day. Accordingly, each ticket covers your participation for a full day. We encourage visitors to try to attend for the full day they book for, if possible.

Each day’s programme involves simultaneous workshops across several sites. We will send out a form closer to the festival so that visitors who wish to do so can book into specific activities in advance. You can also just book your day ticket and go with the flow on the day.

All tickets for Tweed River Festival are on a pay-what-you-can basis. We believe that everyone should be able to attend our programme. Paying for your ticket(s) will help support our continued activities.

Access
Please see the access info page on our website for details on Peebles Burgh Hall, Peebles Gallery and individual workshops.

DAY 3: DOWNSTREAM (TOGETHER)

Emphasising planetary connections, on day three of Tweed River Festival we hold the understanding that we are all interconnected through watery arteries. We explore issues of climate, pollution, and access to rivers, land, and clean water from across the world and back to the Tweed.

PROGRAMME

10.00am: venue open for refreshments

10.30am: welcome

11.30am – 1pm: morning workshops

Choose from:

  • River Song / The Flow: family-friendly song-learning workshop with Katie Forbes and Gaia Guardians.
  • Watery Commons publication launch: reading and conversation inspired by our new book – featuring texts by Emma Balkind, Milo Clenshaw, Daisy Hildyard, Justin Hopper, Mai-Anh Vu Peterson, Sarah Shin, Marianna Tsionki and Andrew Wang.

1pm – 2pm: lunch
Connecting Threads are providing lunch. Please let us know any allergies or dietary requirements when you book.

2pm – 3.30pm: afternoon

Choose from:

  • Bedtime at the River: family-friendly outdoor craft workshop and soundbath with artist Kate Cohen
  • Participatory sound-making workshop: experimental choir with artist and sound researcher Bint Mbareh, whose work focuses on water in Palestine

3.30pm – 4.30pm: closing
The festival concludes with an opportunity for everyone to come together and share stories, learnings and ideas from the day.

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