Spring Fling at the ARC
When: 3rd April 2023 – 14th April 2023
Location: ARC
Spring Fling at the ARC is back! This special programme of events speaks to the new season, considering sustainability, climate health and nature in engaging ways. Coming to Glasgow’s ARC from 3rd – 14th April 2023.
From sports to song, film to foraging, and games to gardening. This special programme of events speaks to the new season, considering sustainability, climate health and nature in engaging ways.
There’s something for all ages. So get stuck into the programme and join us for these free events at the ARC as we welcome in the Spring throughout the Easter holidays.
What’s On?
ARC Discovery Trail
3 – 14 April
Atrium and St Mungo’s Square
Self-led activity for families
Monday to Friday: 0900 – 1730
Saturday: 1100 – 1430
Please Note: the ARC will be closed on Sunday 9 April and Monday 10 April.
Come explore the ARC’s public spaces with the help a specially designed Discovery Trail, beautifully illustrated by Emma Melchor.
What’s the story behind the stone arches in the ARC Atrium? What inspired the patterns on our glass walls? And what exactly is it that we do in this beautiful building?
Learn all this and more on a specially designed, self-led Discovery Trail. Just pick up your leaflet at Reception and go! Make sure to get stuck into our special arts and crafts stations. As well as collecting a selection of facts about Spring along the way – all selected by our fantastic researchers!
Treeline
Ruth Maclennan
3 – 14 April
Atrium
Monday to Friday: 0900 – 1730
Saturday: 1100 – 1430
Please Note: exhibition will be closed on Sunday 9th and Monday 10th April.
Treeline is a collectively made film compiled from hundreds of hours of footage of forests submitted by people across the world. From a patchwork of disparate individual contributions. Sent in by scientists, ecologists, artists and members of the public alike. Maclennan traces a sinuous green line that stretches from the wild woods of North America to the rainforests of the Amazon to the copses of middle England and the scrublands of Africa, as well as myriad places in-between. Resembling a continuous horizontal travelling shot. Maclennan’s infinite panorama of trees is a vivid reminder of the swathes of green that continue to encircle and nourish the planet. A powerful emblem of the shared resources and shared futures that bind people together.
A paean to the beauty and majesty of trees. Treeline also echoes something of their form. Putting out exploratory feelers, and drawing material from multiple sources to create an enveloping, overarching structure that is considerably more than the sum of its parts.
Co-commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and Forestry England. Supported by John Hansard Gallery and Hunterian, University of Glasgow. 
Learn more about the Treeline project here: https://www.fvu.co.uk/projects/treeline
Gondwana VR
Ben J Andrews and Emma Roberts
3 – 14 April
1100 – 1400
Atrium
Please Note: exhibition will be closed on Sunday 9th and Monday 10th April.
This forest is changing. Do you see it?
Immerse yourself in the world of the ever-changing Daintree Rainforest through this one-of-a-kind Virtual Reality experience. Gondwana invites you to a multiplayer durational event, gently unfurling online over 24 hours.
Through VR, come inside the world’s oldest tropical rainforest, an explorable, free-roaming representation of the Daintree Rainforest in Far North Queensland, Australia. Like the rainforest itself, Gondwana is a system of possibilites. Weather, seasons, and biodiversity shift and change as you navigate a vast map of ancient trees, rugged mountains and idyllic beaches. But a broader narrative stirs below: over the course of each 24 hour showing, the rainforest degrades, artistically rendering climate data projections up to the year 2090. The only salve to this seemingly inevitable decline is people – the more time an audience spends in Gondwana, the more resilient the forest becomes.
Each showing of this online-native event is unrepeatable and speculative: a quiet meditation on time, change and loss in an irreplaceable ecosystem.
Visit the Spring Fling at the ARC website for more information.
