Remembering Together Covid Community Memorial project: Aberdeen City

Culture Aberdeen, shmu and greenspace scotland are seeking to commission creative practitioners to work with local communities to generate ideas to inform the development of a Covid Community Memorial.

Station House Media Unit, Culture Aberdeen and Aberdeen City Council in partnership with greenspace scotland are seeking to commission an artist/creative practitioner or collective to work with local groups and communities to generate ideas to inform the development of Covid Community Memorials as part of the collective memorial project Remembering Together for Aberdeen City.

Remembering Together is a national programme of remembrance managed by greenspace scotland and supported by Scottish Government, bringing together communities and artists/creative practitioners in collective acts of reflection, remembrance, hope and healing. Co-creation lies at the heart of it. In phase 1, artists will be given a £15k grant, inclusive of fee and material costs, to work within a community to explore, through co-creation, what their local memorial will be, this phase should be completed in 5 months. The projects are then created in phase 2. This brief is for phase 1 only.

Drop-in sessions will be held on Zoom to provide further information and talk through the commissioning process.

Proposals are actively encouraged from artists with intersectional lived experiences of illness, isolation, income inequality or social exclusion of any kind and particularly welcome proposals from disabled artists, artists of the Global Ethnic Majority, older artists, LGBTQ+ artists and migrant artists.

Artists with a strong background in co-creative, participatory practice are invited to submit expressions of interest. Download the full brief here.

More information on the project can be found on the Remembering Together website.

The deadline to submit an expression of interest is 9am on Monday 7th March.