The Dumfries and Galloway Arts festival ends this weekend with a spectacular outdoor performance on the tidal shores of the River Nith.
Dance troupe Oceanallover will perform Sporopollen on Sunday.
The performance explores the dark side of the Pollen project which began as part of the Environmental Arts Festival for which the troupe presented the work at Clatteringshaws Dam.
Using complex sound elements with striking physical theatre, the project explores the migration of ideas, sounds and actions and uses as its inspiration the passage of fungal spores through the atmosphere.
Devised by Alex Rigg and Guy Veale, the project travelled to Glasgow last month as part of the Buzzcut Festival and will travelled to Hungary, the Czec Republic and Slovakia before that on an exploratory mission.
Over the weekend, the Dumfries and Galloway Arts Festival teams up with Spring Fling for a new collaboration called Spring Out.
Also taking place across the region over the Spring Fling weekend is a lively programme of music, dance and drama.
On Saturday, the Primrose Piano Quartet will be at Greyfriars Church in Dumfries; Catherine Major will host her one-woman open-air stage production of Little Betty at Mill Green, Dumfries; Robin and Bina Williamson will bring world music to Kirkmahoe Parish Church; and harpist Wendy Stewart will perform the Song of the Oak and the Ivy alongside four other musicians in unique concert of harps at Castle Douglas town hall.
On Sunday the Song of the Oak and the Ivy comes to Moniaive; Orcadian siblings The Wrigley Sisters will light up Wigtown Town Hall; the Burnsong Young Writers performance takes place at A’ the Airts, Sanquhar; and celebrated poet Hugh McMillan will explore the rich history of the region with his Great Galloway Tale Hunt at Broughton House, Kirkcudbright.
Sporopollen, at 8pm on Mill Green, Dumfries, will be the magnificent finale to the 10-day festival.
For further information, visit www.dgartsfestival.org.uk
