Writing workshops and support sessions to create a Commonplace Book.

This ongoing project is part of the Endangered Landscapes Artists Residency, with Cairngorms Connect. Over this year, a series of writing workshops were held with young rangers and locals and, (online), for people further afield, to create a Commonplace Book.

"A collaboration between Endangered Landscape Artists in Residence, Elizabeth Reeder and Amanda Thomson, Cairngorms Connect and people who live or work in or visit the Cairngorms.
A commonplace book is a collection of writings, images and documents gathered by people to show a place at a particular time. They could be considered scrapbooks or like a Scottish Kist – where things that are valued are communicated to and kept for future generations.
We plan to create the first Cairngorms Connect Commonplace Book, including submissions from anyone who wants to write down or photograph or draw something of this place that they’d like to share with others."

Book and event planning underway for event in Spring 2024.