In 2023 Findhorn Bay Arts provided marketing and communications and event management support to Remembering Together Moray.
About Remembering Together Moray
Remembering Together Moray was a project created with the Moray community involving events, music and story, providing a space for collective reflection on the Covid-19 pandemic.
The project was part of Scotland’s Covid Community Memorial Programme, delivered by greenspace scotland supported with funding provided by the Scottish Government. Lead artists Graeme Roger (wildbird) and Caroline Inckle (Studio Constella) have worked with community groups, artists and musicians to co-create a constellation of sound, words and images to support the Moray community in remembering together.
Developed through creative workshops, pop-ups and conversations with community groups and produced in collaboration with artists and musicians, Remembering Together Moray comprised digital, physical and experiential artworks, including:
● An immersive sound walk created by composer Lucie Treacher in collaboration with community groups and other musicians, which visited key locations throughout Moray in August and September 2023.
● A written commission by writer Chris Lee which will drew on the lived experiences of people in Moray taken from newspaper and social media archives, woven into a fictional narrative and printed as a book destined for Moray libraries.
● A new traditional tune for Moray composed by musicians Duncan Chisholm and Hamish Napier that was given to communities, providing a point of intergenerational connection through the acts of playing, teaching and learning.
Remembering Together was a national project involving artists working with communities across Scotland to co-create Covid memorials. Moray Council, tsiMoray, UHI Moray, Findhorn Bay Arts, M:ADE (Moray Arts Development Engagement) and Moray Lieutenancy were local project partners in Moray.
IMPACT OF EVENT MANAGEMENT, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT
- Successful event management and delivery of 11 soundwalks which engaged approximately 500 members of the public.
- Successful delivery of a marcomms campaign which achieved:
- 4 press releases
- 8 pieces of media coverage
- 9 blogs on the Remembering Together website
- 25 social media posts via RTM Facebook page (20+ shares to local groups)
