Covid-19 Remembrance project aims to reflect on pandemic in Moray

It's hoped a more modern memorial project in Moray will help those wanting to reflect on the Covid-19 pandemic.

Part of a nationwide scheme, Remembering Together Moray are holding immersive 'soundwalk' events at various locations to bring people together who may still be struggling from the impact of the pandemic.

At each location a sound collage of voices, sounds and music lasting approximately 20 minutes will be played through headphones to help create moments of reflection and remembrance in the listener.

Over the past year, Moray-based lead artists Graeme Roger (Wildbird) and Caroline Inckle (Studio Constella) have worked with many community groups, artists and musicians to co-create materials for the event.

In a joint statement they said: "Working on the Remembering Together project as lead artists has been a privilege and a great responsibility, and we are very fortunate to be working with a group of artists who have the talent and experience to respond to this type of sensitive brief.

"The ethos of collaboration and co-creation, running through the project, has been really special to work with and has felt like an appropriate approach to working with such a unique collective experience.

"Our aim is to create a space of collective reflection encompassing the individual and the shared experience, and this has come out of working with and responding to the lived experiences of people in Moray during a time when we have all been slowly coming to terms with the unfolding impacts of the pandemic.

"The project doesn’t try to reflect everyone's Covid experience, but we hope that the work produced will provide a space of reflection which we can all relate to in some way."

Programme Manager Co Lead of Remembering Together, Carla Almeida said: "It has been wonderful to see how artists and creative producers have worked so sensitively, and with such care and empathy, in every part of Scotland to co-create memorial projects with communities.

"In Moray, the blending of north-east traditions with contemporary soundscapes, images and new writing is exceptionally moving, a fitting response to the lived experience of individuals, families and communities during the Covid pandemic."

To find out more about the Remembering Together Moray project head to their Facebook page, or reserve free tickets for their walks here.