A BEACH clean event with a twist is set to take place in Dumbarton and Bowling later this month.

Driving home the message of clearing our oceans and shorelines of single use plastics and waste to protect the planet, two members of West Dunbartonshire’s arts community will combine a tidy up of the area’s shores with a unique art project.

Recently engaged couple Lottie Barker and Joseph Dalton, who moved to Dumbarton last year, are the minds behind Disruption Dunbartonshire: A Clean Up for the Future.

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Lottie works as a community arts facilitator and producer, with a strong interest in propelling social change through accessible arts. 

She currently works in the Fair Access department at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and with Scottish Dance Theatre. 

Her fiancé Joe is a landscape painter with a background in set design and with a passion for the outdoors.

The artist is keen to use his work to promote the importance of the environment and our responsibility to keep it clean.

Running across two weekends, their project is funded by philanthropic organisation The Hunter Foundation’s 100 Disruptors Fund, and will kick off next weekend with a litter picking session at Bowling Harbour and the Dumbarton shoreline at the end of Clydeshore Road.

The family event will then invite participants to a follow-up arts workshop on September 29 to help create a piece of collaborative art work using, and inspired by, the collected rubbish from the previous week.

Working with print making, sculpture, film elements, movement, paint and drawing, the project aims to raise awareness about waste in West Dunbartonshire and showcase creative solutions.

The Bowling Harbour team will join Lottie and Joe at Arch 7 at 10.45am on Saturday September 22 to get litter picking, while Friends at Dumbarton Foreshore will co-host the event, leading a Dumbarton team at Clydeshore Road the same day at 11am - with both clean ups finishing at 1pm.

All participants are invited to the creative arts workshops the following week at Bowling Harbour.

The arts workshop takes place on Saturday, September 29, at Bowling Harbour, Arch 7.  

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All ages, and dogs, are welcome. To join in the beach cleans, the arts workshop or both, email lottie@lottiebarkerproductions.co.uk for more information and to be added to the team email list. 

Litter picking equipment will be provided to all participants.