Healing Arts is a global campaign by the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization
23 August 2024 10AM-12:30PM Dalfaber Industrial Estate, Aviemore, Highland, PH22 1ST
Join an outdoor storytelling walk with wild foraged tea, 'restorying' the land and restoring ourselves through connection to places and each other. The stories may be folktales, lore of plants, trees and nature, as well as highlighting injustice within the landscape to help healing in its broadest sense. Suitable for all ages.
Join an outdoor storytelling walk to put stories back where they belong in the landscape, 'restorying' the land and restoring ourselves through connection to places and each other.
Through beautiful woodland and across moor in the Cairngorms National Park near Aviemore, we will purposely slow down to share local folktales, lore of plants, trees and nature, explore ruins, and do some foraging, together with a cup of wild seasonal foraged tea.
The walk also creates space for forgotten or silenced voices and histories which are a part of the land –
for example women’s role in shaping the landscape, or how this rural Highland strath is inextricably linked with empire and colonialism. In highlighting injustice within the landscape, stories are a way to help healing in its broadest sense. The walk is suitable for all ages and is approximately 3.5km (2.2 miles) long. The route is fairly flat and includes small, rough footpaths as well as wider trails. It is not suitable for prams or wheelchairs; however the route can be adapted to make it fully accessible, please contact in advance to arrange.
