Special Launch Event for Passages with writer Alan Bisset and musician Ciorstaidh Chaimbeul

For the Architecture Fringe Festival 2025 join Move For Good for a guided bike-ride and come to hear from writer Alan Bisset and musician Ciorstaidh Chaimbeul to explore the intersection of place, culture, movement and infrastructure.

This is a special, free launch event of Passages a new audio culture trail that connects artists’ responses to place along National Cycle Network route 754 on the Union and Forth & Clyde canals.

On Sunday 8 June at our launch event you can hear from two of the artists and join us to explore the route by bike. The day will include:

• Part 1 - an open, all abilities guided bike-ride to explore the route
• Part 2 - a reading and in-conversation with writer Alan Bisset
• Part 3 - a musical performance from Ciorstaidh Chaimbeul

Please join us for one of all of the parts to the day. Booking details below, all parts of the day are free.

Schedule - 8 June 2025

• 11.30am - Meet at Uphall railway station
• 12pm - Part 1 - Guided ride leaves Uphall railway station
• 2pm - Guided ride arrives in Linlithgow (estimated time)
• 2.30pm - Part 2 - Alan Bisset reading and in-conversation
• 3.30pm - Break with refreshments
• 4pm - Part 3 - Music performance from Ciorstaidh Chaimbeul
  

About Passages

Initiated by artist and producer Emmie McLuskey, who in-turn invited artists to make new creative responses to places along the route to draw out the many interweaved histories and stories that run along and intertwine beside the canal.

Each artist has contributed new audio responses that you can listen to as you explore the route using our online or printed maps.

Contributors to this first iteration of the project come from: Alan Bissett (writer), Ciorstaidh Chaimbeul (musician), Cal Flyn (writer), Janice Parker (artist and choreographer) and Amanda Thomson (artist and writer).

Audio mixed and mastered by Richy Carey (artist composer).

Locations

Uphall railway station, Livingston, EH54 5QG - Google Maps

Linlithgow Community Development Trust, 7 The Vennel, EH49 7EX - Google Maps

Further information and booking

To book your free place or if you have any questions please email: moveforgood@trust-linlithgow.org

Alan Bisset is a novelist, playwright and performer from Scotland. He lives in Renfrewshire and was born in Falkirk in 1975. Alan has won numerous accolades for his writing and has performed and published his work worldwide. He is well known for writing in Scots in a dialectic specific to his hometown of Falkirk.

Ciorstaidh Chaimbeul is a musician from Lochalsh in the Scottish Highlands currently based in Copenhagen. Ciorstaidh’s music is largely influenced by her Gaelic roots as well as her classical training. She is a graduate in Accordion from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is currently completing her Masters Degree at the Royal Danish Academy of Music.

Emmie McLuskey is an artist and producer who lives in Glasgow. For over fifteen years Emmie has worked collaboratively to create artworks that challenge what is undervalued by capitalism. Emmie works across mediums, disciplines and communities to create work with others that make connections between language, belonging, context, collectivity and the human condition. Alongside choreographer Janice Parker, she is currently working towards a new children’s book titled The A - Z of Movement that depicts a vocabulary for movement that every ‘body’ can do.

Move For Good is the new name for Linlithgow Community Development Trust's active travel project.

Passages is supported by funding from a Sustrans Art Roots grant.