Session 3 of 5 – Walking with Elspeth
Witch! Restoring Elspeth & the Women They Tried to Erase is a five-part 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.
Continuing our journey from archive to landscape, we’ll go on a roadtrip to visit places and spaces connected to Elspeth, exploring memory, culture, landscape and the traces that remain of her 17th century world.
Facilitated by: DJ McDowall – Creative Director, The Imaginarium + The Gallovidian Way // Ros Ollin – Poet, Researcher & Author of Restoring Elspeth. Part of Pride of Place Dumfries & Galloway.