WITCH!” Restoring the Women They Tried to Erase: Imagining Remembrance
The Smiddy, Balmaclellan, DG7 3QE
Sunday 25th October 2026
Session 4 of 5 – Imagining Remembrance
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 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.
Drawing together everything we’ve researched, explored and reflected upon during previous sessions, we’ll transform our learning and sights / sounds / experiences of Elspeth world into creative possibilities, exploring how language, landscape, heritage and storytelling (in its many forms) can inspire meaningful acts of remembrance.
Please bring your own packed lunch and refreshments for the day. There will be coffee and tea making facilities at the venue.
Facilitated by: DJ McDowall – Creative Director, The Imaginarium + The Gallovidian Way // Kirsty Harris - Artist, Maker, Experience Designer // Emily Smith – Gaelic Development Officer + Scottish Traditional Singer, Musician, Songwriter.
Part of Pride of Place Dumfries & Galloway.
Cultural Glenkens × Kirkcudbright Fringe × The Imaginarium
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 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.
Drawing together everything we’ve researched, explored and reflected upon during previous sessions, we’ll transform our learning and sights / sounds / experiences of Elspeth world into creative possibilities, exploring how language, landscape, heritage and storytelling (in its many forms) can inspire meaningful acts of remembrance.
Please bring your own packed lunch and refreshments for the day. There will be coffee and tea making facilities at the venue.
Facilitated by: DJ McDowall – Creative Director, The Imaginarium + The Gallovidian Way // Kirsty Harris - Artist, Maker, Experience Designer // Emily Smith – Gaelic Development Officer + Scottish Traditional Singer, Musician, Songwriter.
Part of Pride of Place Dumfries & Galloway.
Cultural Glenkens × Kirkcudbright Fringe × The Imaginarium
