The 2025 spectacular Progress of the Salty Coo (procession) from the centre of town to the river was led by artist Alex Rigg of Oceanallover and featured contributions from communities along the path of the Nith and a performance on arrival at Mill Green.
The vibrant new programme on Mill Green included traditional boat-building demos and a windmill-powered water purifier where participants toasted the river and helped shape a River Rights manifesto. Events included a talk by Judith Hewitt from Dumfries Museum on the river’s history, a photographic journey from source to sea by a young local photographer Trinity Coombs, a film programme on rivers and ecology at the Robert Burns Centre and a discussion on using the river’s energy to power cultural events.
The popular flag design workshop was run by EcoArt and as in previous years all the colourful community made flags carrying their environmental messages were flown from the pedestrian bridge. There were family workshops, demonstrations by Wordsmith Crafts Cluaran Project, talks and exhibitions and an opportunity to open a moth trap with South West Scotland Environmental Information Centre to see which of these magical creatures visited the Nith at night. The Moving Images film caravan was also back, screening river themed films and animations.
For more information and images see:
Nithriad 2024
Images of the race and Mill green activities coming soon, you can see images of the spectacular progress of the Salty Coo here:
From 2015 – 2023 Nithraid was curated and produced by The Stove Network in collaboration with Artist Mark Zygadlo.
More info and images coming soon….
