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How a tiny festival could save Scotland's coastal culture

A festival created on a tiny island and now touring the coastline of Scotland shows how the small and local can punch well above their weight in cultural influence

By Simon Ings

15 August 2018

Film-maker Ed Webb-Ingall investigates the Arran shoreline

Film-maker Ed Webb-Ingall investigates the Arran shoreline

Eoin Carey

: How we see the sea, a touring festival to April 2019

NOBODY catches much fish around the island of Arran now: overfishing and pollution have hit wild populations hard. There are still plenty of fish, mind: not free-swimming, but cooped up in huge salmon farms that leach detritus, pesticides, antibiotics and plastic waste into the Firth of Clyde.

And yet it is to Arran that Scotland’s coastal communities have turned to see a working vision of a cleaner, healthier, more productive ocean.

Arran’s Lamlash Bay became a

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