Cluaran Heritage Project
(Nov. the 30th)
Final preparations are underway!
We will be setting up in the Loreburn Centre on Saturday. Come and drop in to say hi and make something!
More info here
https://www.cluaranhaven.org.uk/making-christmas-2024/
It’s all go for “Making Christmas“!
That is the site visit complete and access routes are scouted out. After the next blacksmithing session in Whithorn it will be all go getting ready. We are excited.
Our programme will be:
With a chance to make things every week and special themed activities each week.
Visit the main page on the Cluaran website to get involved.
You could think of it as training to become an elf, if that helps. Whether that is an elf from Greenwood the great, Valinor, Alfheim, Svartheim, Finland, Faerie, or somewhere like the Sword Coast can be discussed.
Or simply drop in and say hi and to have a go !
There may be stories …
The Isle of Man is in the centre of a Viking era highway. This pdf book give insights into some of the stories told, crosses carved and ways in which the people living there remembered their dead.
Wordsmith Crafts is moving into the Loreburn centre in Dumfries. We will occupy a space to help you make space for making. The costs of this have been covered so you won’t need cash. Craft cool gifts using recycled and donated materials, help make materials available for others to use.
Like a floating monastery we have collected relics from the history of these islands. Come and sit in the storytelling tent and hear stories that are older than Scotland. Escape the present for a moment and let your imagination take you on an adventure.
We will be open on Saturdays 10 – 4
Sign up to help on the Making Christmas 2024 page
In Dumfries and Galloway there are two weeks of school holidays in October. Traditionally this was to free up young people to help howk the tatties from the fields. For Cluaran it meant that we could run a story and crafts session for kids on hokiday at Annan museum. It also meant that we could be joined by Kate for a school visit in Oban, taking time off from being a teacher to volunteer at a school! Perhaps it continues the time of from work to work of the Holidays.
Then it was off even further north to tell stories of St Columba on the shores of Loch Ness with History Matters. Cathbad joined a collection of historical characters in the orchard of castle Urqhuart. We helped visitors catch a glimpse of the past in a stunning setting.
Perhaps one year we will bring the boat! But until then we will continue to give people the opportunity to find a fragment of the past and hear the story that goes with it.
Hopefully this will act as an appetiser, and they will seek to find a place at the table where the feast is in full swing.
