Session 2 of 5 – Researching the Past
Witch! Restoring Elspeth & the Women They Tried to Erase is a five-part creative community journey of Research, Reflection and Restorative Remembrance. Together we’ll explore the life of Elspeth McKewan and the women accused of witchcraft in the Glenkens through archives, landscape, genealogy, oral history and creative practice.
Together we’ll ask: How should a community remember well? Working as community co-curators, we’ll explore how these stories might be creatively represented and shared with dignity, historical integrity and local ownership - considering a range of possibilities for Restorative Remembrance that reflect the people, places and communities connected to them.
Building on the questions uncovered in Session One, we’ll develop practical archival research, genealogy and oral history skills before gathering local stories and connections that deepen our understanding of Elspeth’s world.
Facilitated by: DJ McDowall – Creative Director, The Imaginarium + The Gallovidian Way // Alison Burgess - Dumfries & Galloway Heritage Service. Part of Pride of Place Dumfries & Galloway.