STIRLING · A COMMUNITY MEMORIAL PROJECT

Remembering Together

Marking the time of the pandemic, together

A memorial project across Stirling, exploring people's experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic — and how we might meaningfully mark this time together.

THE PROJECT

Time, nature, and being together again.

Led by Saffy Setohy and delivered with a team of collaborators, with support from Artlink Central / Scene Stirling, Remembering Together set out to mark a shared time in community.

Phase 1 involved creative consultation and activities with varied community groups — working with themes of time and nature as a lens through which to have conversation, move, make art, and imagine future possibilities together.

Close-up of three pairs of hands passing a small pine cone branch at a craft table with natural materials.
Older adult facilitator leans in to support a younger participant drawing at an outdoor table surrounded by lavender plants.
Line of children raise a long printed fabric banner overhead beneath golden autumn trees in a park on a rainy day.
Children form a large circle dance on a sunny town square while a violinist in orange plays at the centre.

A short film about Phase 1 of the project.

The pandemic changed our sense of time, impermanence and sensory aliveness — bringing us in touch with cycles and seasons of life, death, beginnings and endings, and new rituals.

PHASE TWO: YEAR OF THE WHEEL

A year shaped by the seasonal calendar.

Reflecting all that the pandemic stirred, Phase 2 was shaped by the seasonal calendar and the Celtic Wheel of the Year.

This offered a framework for creativity, nature connection, and different ways of being together — marking time in community as we moved through the year-long timescale of the project.

Six adults stand around a radial log installation on grass, led by a facilitator with arms open, trees behind.

A film about Phase 2 of the project.

THE MAKING

Marks, objects and an exhibition.

Decorated stone pendant hanging from an autumn branch with dried leaves, warm golden bokeh background.
Exhibition display with cut-out animal silhouettes, a large collaborative autumn painting, branch installation, and printed fabric flags.
Connecting Together book cover featuring a circular nature illustration with trees, seasons, and birds, on a pale pink background.

‘Tracing Light in Darkness’ — a sound piece made with composer Jamie McCarthy.

THE TEAM

Made with many hands.

Led by Saffy Setohy, with a team of collaborating artists, makers and facilitators:

Jennifer Austin — musician/composer

Joanne Boyle — photographer/facilitator

Amanda Edmiston — storyteller

Sean Hall — filmmaker

Parsifal James Hurst — dance artist

Margaret Kerr — mentor

Lauren Lochrie — herbalist/facilitator

Jamie McCarthy — musician/composer

Cameron Newall — musician/composer

Maria Chen-Yu Pei — student placement

Claire Pençak — dance artist

Gillian Rutherford — face paint artist

Anne Sproul — photography documentation

Orla Stevens — designer & illustrator

Lorna Swinney — visual artist/co-facilitator

Grace Turner — dance artist

Evie Waddell — musician

EXPLORE MORE

Films, sound and further reading.

Phase 1 film — on Vimeo.

Phase 2 film — on YouTube.

Tracing Light in Darkness — a sound piece with composer Jamie McCarthy, on SoundCloud.

Remembering Together in Stirling — more detail on Phase 2 at the Scene Stirling website.

COMMISSIONED & SUPPORTED

Commissioned by Greenspace Scotland and the Scottish Government. Delivered with support from Artlink Central / Scene Stirling.

Photo credit — Anne Sproul.