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BBC Alba filmed the exhibition and paper boat fundraiser today.

Watch on-line if you live in the UK.



It will be broadcast on Wednesday 9th September.

You can watch live and then only 24 after first being broadcast.



Here's what to do!



Go to this website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/alba/ then go to the box headed Naidheachdan (its on the lefthand side )and click on the link for An La (It's on the righthand side). There are two programme options available, one… Continue

Our exhibition 'The Westland' opened in Caithness Horizons last night.

Artists - Joanne B Kaar - Scotland

Lynn Taylor - New Zealand





Lots of our artist books on… Continue

Find your sea legs and visit my paper boat blog!

www.joannebkaarpaperboats.blogspot.com

Next year will mark 130 years since the Westland set sail on it's maiden voyage from Scotland to New Zealand. To mark this occasion, I will be working on a collaborative log book with New Zealand artist, Lynn Taylor. We have been e-mailing and posting stuff by snail mail for the past month, discussing ideas. The image is a sample layout of our visual log (the journey will be that of an artist!). The voyage lasted 80 days. Our log will cover the same… Continue

If your out and about over the next few months, here's a few places I'll be exhibiting:





An Talla Solais - Ullapool, Ross-shire - 23rd August - 21st September



Northlands Creative Glass studio gallery - Lybster, Caithness - 4th Sept - 10th Oct 10am - 4pm monday to friday.…



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COMMUNITIES AND THE ARTS



CROSSING THE BOUNDARIES ACROSS GENERATIONS







This 5 month project aimed to improve communication and understanding between generations within a given locality.

The focus was on establishing and improving links between young and old people in key community facilities, local schools and older sheltered housing.

The aim was to reduce the social isolation of many older people and… Continue