Invasive species on show in Aros Park

Invasive Species brings together artistic practice, ecological thinking and community voices.

The project reflects a shared commitment to exploring how culture can engage with environmental change in ways that are both critical and accessible.

It is at once a walk, an artwork and an evolving dialogue between people, place and the living world.

Rebecca Atkinson-Lord, Chief Executive & Artistic Director of An Tobar and Mull Theatre, said: "Invasive Species captures the idea that culture can change the way we see, hear and inhabit the world around us.

"On an island like Mull, where ecology, history and belonging are woven into daily life, this project feels both urgently contemporary and profoundly rooted in
place.

"We’re thrilled to be commissioning bold, multidisciplinary work that invites audiences into a deeper relationship with the land, with each other, and with the future we are shaping together."

Rachel Briscoe, CEO of Fast Familiar, said: "It’s so easy to think of nature as something ‘over there’ - beautiful, timeless and entirely separate to humans. 

"The reality is completely different - our surroundings, even when it’s as beautiful as the Isle of Mull, is changing constantly, in dialogue with human actions.

"Invasive Species is really about that - gently destabilising ways of thinking that keep us disconnected from the planet we share."

As the only multidisciplinary creative hub and producing theatre in the Hebrides, An Tobar and Mull Theatre continues to position culture at the centre of conversations about sustainability, community and the future of our landscapes.

Invasive Species strengthens the organisation’s ethos of connecting culture with environmental action, closely aligned with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, in particular Goal 15: Life on Land.