On the Road: Buckie and Keith

On the Road: Buckie and Keith

As part of our trip to the North East, Project Ability’s ‘On the Road’ artists visited Burnie Day Centre in the historic fishing town of Buckie and the Keith Community Hub, located in the centre of Keith, a country town famous for its Country show, traditional music and its important position on the ‘Scottish Malt Whisky Trail’.

Keith and Buckie, though very close in proximity, are both very different towns in look and feel; one coastal and the other rural. We received the friendliest of welcomes in both venues and were amazed at the enthusiastic and focused response, by both groups, to our sessions.

On day one we were treated to a tour of all Burnie’s marvellous, purpose-built facilities, such as its brilliant soft play room, snoezelen multi-sensory environment, activities rooms and even a trampoline room. Laid out in the shape of a horseshoe, Burnie encloses a beautiful sensory garden, which was buzzing with bees.

In Keith we were given a preview of the group’s beautiful collaborative collaged wall mural which now brightens up one of their main meeting rooms and can be enjoyed by many of the groups who share facilities at the centre.

We’d travelled north to Elgin on Sunday with a car stuffed full of clay, plaster, drawing inks and an array of objects to inspire participants, such as ceramic skulls, Indian block prints and plastic toys. For both workshops we devised sessions which could offer our participants a series of tactile and multi-sensory activities, resulting in beautiful pressed clay plaster reliefs. These reliefs explore a number of processes rolled into one to ensure that everyone can connect and engage on many levels. The sessions involved lots of rolling, pressing, printing, pealing, measuring, mixing and tapping.
-Sharon Quigley, On the Road tutor

Burnie Day Centre,
28 Highfield Road
Buckie
Moray

Keith Community Hub
26 Mid Street
Keith
Banffshire
AB55 5AH

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