MANY RIVERS TO CROSS
REMEMBERING TOGETHER - SCOTLAND'S COVID COMMUNITY MEMORIAL PROJECT
Greenspace Scotland are working with communities across Scotland on Remembering Together - a project to co-create memorials that will honour the people we have lost, mark what has been lost and changed in our lives and preserve the best of what we have learned and created together during the Covid pandemic.
DONNA RUTHERFORD HAS BEEN PHASE 1 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE IN EAST RENFREWSHIRE
Not all in the same boat… Rutherford explains the idea behind her sharing the event 'Many Rivers to Cross' in Thornliebank, Busby and Barrhead during November 2022:
"I decided to put together this short performance as a focal point for further community discussion around the issues held dear and look forward to next year’s construction of East Renfrewshire‘s specific memorial. This is the way I usually work – layering audio interviews, observations, song, and visuals - leading into chat about issues raised in the theatre piece. We heard from 12 - 90-year-olds and a true variety of pandemic experience and opinion - illustrating my original criticism of the phrase “we are all in the same boat”.
Remembering Together Evaluation associate Dr Fiona Dean commented: "The words worked so well located the way you did, in the context of the landscape and how it shaped community. Really helped you think how the stories could connect across the different geographies of people and place. Then the lady who spoke of ‘forgiveness’ that was very powerful - forgiveness for lost time… it made me think of my own mum – at 91 those 2 years of lost time must mean even more and harder to make time up – I was thinking of the woman who said that - it must feel the same.’
MORE COMMUNITY BASED WORK
MANY RIVERS TO CROSS
REMEMBERING TOGETHER - SCOTLAND'S COVID COMMUNITY MEMORIAL PROJECT
Greenspace Scotland are working with communities across Scotland on Remembering Together - a project to co-create memorials that will honour the people we have lost, mark what has been lost and changed in our lives and preserve the best of what we have learned and created together during the Covid pandemic.
DONNA RUTHERFORD HAS BEEN PHASE 1 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE IN EAST RENFREWSHIRE
Not all in the same boat… Rutherford explains the idea behind her sharing the event 'Many Rivers to Cross' in Thornliebank, Busby and Barrhead during November 2022:
"I decided to put together this short performance as a focal point for further community discussion around the issues held dear and look forward to next year’s construction of East Renfrewshire‘s specific memorial. This is the way I usually work – layering audio interviews, observations, song, and visuals - leading into chat about issues raised in the theatre piece. We heard from 12 - 90-year-olds and a true variety of pandemic experience and opinion - illustrating my original criticism of the phrase “we are all in the same boat”.
Remembering Together Evaluation associate Dr Fiona Dean commented: "The words worked so well located the way you did, in the context of the landscape and how it shaped community. Really helped you think how the stories could connect across the different geographies of people and place. Then the lady who spoke of ‘forgiveness’ that was very powerful - forgiveness for lost time… it made me think of my own mum – at 91 those 2 years of lost time must mean even more and harder to make time up – I was thinking of the woman who said that - it must feel the same.’
MORE COMMUNITY BASED WORK
