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30 April — 3 May 2026 / Hawick

Embrace
the Strange

Schedule

Screening

Shorts

A Zoo Must Never Be A Metaphor

Friday 1 May

10:00 - 11:30 / 68' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

From the ancient to the incidental, eight films explore the rhythms, durations and architectures of impermanence.

Screening

Shorts

A Place That Can Never Be Reached

Friday 1 May

12:00 – 13:30 / 64' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

Through mapping and metaphysics, sketches and surveillance, seven films ruminate on perception and interpretation.

Event

Play It Forward

Friday 1 May

12:30 – 14:30

Heritage Hub

A drop-in, hands-on 16mm workshop with Lydia Beilby editing and splicing a new restoration of the 1966 Hawick Pictorial.

Screening

Shorts

Time Folds In

Friday 1 May

14:30 – 16:00 / 65' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

From racial segregation to wartime displacement, four films consider the complexities of returning.

Screening

Focus

Focus: Nada El-Omari

Friday 1 May

16:30 – 18:00 / 65' + Q&A

Heart of Hawick

In Nada El-Omari's work, diasporic identity is explored with an unwavering attention to archival text, image, sound.

Event

Festival Ceilidh

Friday 1 May

20:30 – 00:00

Town Hall

Another festival edition, another night of camaraderie, connection, and joy in comradeship. Kilts encouraged, all welcome!

Exhibition

Contretemps + No Title

Ghassan Salhab

Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May
10:00 – 17:00

Borders Textile Towerhouse

Two frontline dispatches from Lebanon chart the precarities of protest and the devastation of Israeli violence.

Exhibition

How to Cook a Wasp

Jade Wong

Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May
10:00 – 17:00

Heritage Hub

A diasporic Asian food worker community is observed through the lens of wasp hunting and seaweed foraging.

Exhibition

Milk Report

Conway and Young

Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May
10:00 – 17:00

Heritage Hub

A playful treatise and performance piece on the thrills, trials and travails of reproductive labour.

Exhibition

Oor Ain Film Archive

Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May
10:00 – 17:00

Heritage Hub

The launch of a new permanent mediatheque preserving social histories of the Scottish Borders through film.

Exhibition

Out Of Office

Kialy Tihngang

Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May
10:00 – 17:00

Borders Textile Towerhouse

A critique of capitalism and its abundant shape-shifting capacity plays out as a darkly funny corporate satire.

Exhibition

Stomach, Thighs, and Ass

Matthew Lancit

Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May
10:00 – 17:00

Room 205, Heart of Hawick

Survival as performance art, one insulin injection at a time, as the artist documents an epic of the everyday.