Our Dunbar festival has gone through a few transformations over the years since its inception in 2016 under the guise of the John Muir Stone stacking challenge. John Muir who was originally born and raised in Dunbar was of course a remarkable naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the USA. Who better to herald the birth of a festival that has the care of the environment at its core.
It was local Dunbar artist James Craig Page along with his friend Steven Hill who organised and ran that first festival which proved a great success spurring them on to evolve it into what became the European Stone Stacking Championships. These annual three day festivals ran from 2017 – 2021 albeit for a wee break due to covid restrictions in 2020.
Then in 2022 the festival evolved again when the stone stacking competition came under the umbrella of the European Land Art Festival (elaf), and is now running for a full week each July. With so much to organise James has been joined by a number of other creative folk who each contribute towards the event we know now.
Have a go 'stone' stacking at your desk with our Stone Stacking Eraser Set
