Artist Carrie Fertig has partnered with Mearns and Coastal Healthy Living Network (MCHLN) to bring a programme of arts activity to their clients, volunteers, and staff. MCHLN supports wellbeing of people age 50+ in Kincardineshire and the Mearns.

Health of the Sublime in the Mearns is a 2 year project focusing on the lived experience of wellbeing and the sublime in the natural world and the direct threat to that lived experience posed by climate change. Year one is supported by Creative Scotland.

The project hopes to foster skills to heighten awareness of wellbeing so participants can access those feelings more often, in the natural world and outwith it; to bring new means of connection between clients, staff, and volunteers of MCHLN and the wider community focusing on individual and shared experiences of the world and our interdependence with each other and the planet; to empower each participant with respect for, to have confidence in, and value their distinct voice and experience by helping participants develop multiple expressive skills, and sharing that voice and experience with other participants and more widely.

Fee: £1892.50 (based on Scottish Artist Union rates 5 years + experience). There will be three cohorts of seven weeks each. In each week, one two-hour session will be delivered. The fee also covers one day admin.

The three seven -week cohorts are:
June 27th - August 12th, 2022
August 29th - October 14th, 2022.

We recognise the unique skills of writers/poets working in communities and actively encourage proposals from writers/poets with intersectional lived experiences of isolation, rurality, income inequality or social exclusion of any kind. We particularly welcome proposals from disabled artists, artists of the Global Ethnic Majority, older artists, LGBTQ+ artists and/or refugee/migrant artists.

For further information, please click here or email carrie@carriefertig.com

Deadline: Thursday 26 May 2022 at 17:00