Cultural organisation in Helmsdale, a village in the very north east of Scotland. Local, global and planetary ambitions to weaponise culture for social change.
Helmsdale
Joined September 2009
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Opportunity | Join our 2026 conference panel 👥
We're looking for people to join the panel that will shape next year's Museums Association conference, which will take place in Birmingham on 2-5 November 2026.
Support the development of Conference 2026: ow.ly/fyeY50X0MZl
ALT People sitting on a session panel at the MA's 2024 conference
Timespan’s redevelopment project has been featured by @MuseumID !
@ggregnanin , our Director and Curator, speaks about the radical redevelopment of Timespan led by ASSEMBLE & Office Corr Higgins and our ambition of re-shaping cultural spaces collectively.
museum-id.com/redefining-the…
In Involvo (2024) @JoanneRCoates disrupts the aestheticisation of working-class women in archives. She reenacts the Herring Girls' practice of bandaging their hands to soothe the cuts caused by handling cutag knives at high speed.
📍Visit Red Herring
Open daily 10-5, free
Many local families trace their lineage to the #GuttingGirls who passed through #Helmsdale, making the #exhibition Red Herring by @JoanneRCoates both a reflection on global histories and an account of lived local experiences.
📍Red Herring open everyday 10-5
Free entry
@JoanneRCoates "Triangulation" (2025) captures these themes overlaying images referring to the imperial networks of extraction to evoke the scale of the fishing industry tied to the West Indies. Yet the bandaged hand foregrounds the physical realities of the gutting labour.
Timespan retweeted
Red Herring, a new @JoanneRCoates exhibition at @Timespan, explores overlooked histories of women’s labour through the legacy of the Herring Girls — an itinerant all-female workforce central to the fishing industry in the 18th-20th centuries caughtbytheriver.net/2025/04…
Exciting to see Red Herring featured on @BBCWomansHour
The exhibition is open everyday 10-5 as always free!
We are thrilled to announce we were awarded @CreativeScots Multi Year Funding!
We were recognised for our holistic cultural approach of tackling local issues with a global perspective!
Thank you for believing in our vision: stay tuned for exciting news ahead!✨️
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Do you know Timespan in North East Scotland?
History, art, archaeology and more as the past meets the future.
Thanks to #NationalLOttery players we're supporting a reimagining of @Timespan
Find out more ⬇️ – at Scotland, United Kingdom
Assemble & Office Corr Higgins will lead our building redevelopment project!
They will reimagine Timespan as an #accessible & #sustainable museum through an engagement-led & ecologically responsible feasibility study.
Find out more shorturl.at/z8t4E
@RIASmembership
Assemble & Office Corr Higgins will lead our building redevelopment project!
They will reimagine Timespan as an #accessible & #sustainable museum through an engagement-led & ecologically responsible feasibility study.
Find out more shorturl.at/z8t4E
@RIASmembership
Excited to announced we got awarded funds from @Aimuseums, @UkNatArchives & @GEBFoundation to improve our collection storage facilities to care for our precious objects and improve the working environments for our volunteers.
Over the past few years, it has been increasingly difficult to deal with inadequate storage, mould issues, & limited accessibility for volunteers and the public. Jeanette @HLHsocial helped us surveyed the collections & do some remedial cleaning & repacking for the renovation.
Calling all young creatives in Scotland. Apply by Oct 31st to be part of Mediterranea 20 #YoungArtists #Biennale "Borderless" curated by @Bjcem to present your work in Nova Gorica- Gorizia. Open to a variety of practitioners apply today bjcem.org/wp-content/uploads…
Massive congrats @HannaTuulikki for being nominated for an Ivor Novello Awards in Best Sound Art category for "the birds that never flew" currently exhibited at Timespan as part of "We Move As A Murmuration."
@HistEnvScot @ArtsHeritage @TheIvors @PRSforMusic @BBCRadio3
Now Matt Barnes from @MorayFirthCP has now compiled a beautiful report about Helmsdale litter survey. You can check it out here:
timespan.org.uk/wp-content/u…
It's a wrap for a wonderful weekend of activities with @MorayFirthCP! We learnt about seals & had a successful #beachclean: the first to include Helmsdale's shore in the national #litter survey, giving us important data.
Till next event!♻️
@HIClimateHub @SutherlandCPlan
Timespan Community Cinema returns Oct 19th 11AM- 1PM, with a free screening of Artifishal (2019). Supported by @takeoneaction, it explores the fight for the future of wild fish & the environment that supports them.
@HIClimateHub @SutherlandCPlan @screenscots
The Spooky Walk is back Oct 24th at 6:30 for our brave children & #youngpeople. Join us in front of Timespan to discover the spooky myths and stories of the village in a spine chilling walk! 🎃👻
@HighlandYAH
It's a wrap for a wonderful weekend of activities with @MorayFirthCP! We learnt about seals & had a successful #beachclean: the first to include Helmsdale's shore in the national #litter survey, giving us important data.
Till next event!♻️
@HIClimateHub @SutherlandCPlan
Join us and @MorayFirthCP for two days of talks & events:
🦭Fri 11th 7pm free talk about the #seals of the Moray Firth
♻️Sat 12th 10:30 #beachclean & marine litter survey
@HIClimateHub @ClimateHeritage #ClimateActionNow
#recollection
