Scottish Centre for Geopoetics Highland Stravaig

Date/Time
Date(s) - Sat 26th May, 2018
10:00am - 10:00pm

Location
Abriachan Forest Trust, Abriachan, , IV3 8LB

This year’s Highland Stravaig will take place in Abriachan in collaboration with Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre and the Abriachan Forest Trust (AFT). Abriachan is a rural community set high in the hills above the western shores of Loch Ness, half way between Inverness and Drumnadrochit. We will explore Abriachan both as a rich cultural and literary landscape as part of the diverse Loch Ness bio-region, reflecting on different creative, poetic and aesthetic ways of being in this landscape.
A live theme at last year’s ‘Expressing the Earth’ conference on Seil Island in Argyll was the contribution of geopoetics to modern land consciousness. There is a social and poetic link here: 2018 sees the 20th anniversary of Abriachan Forest Trust’s community land buy-out in 1998 – following the Isle of Eigg in 1997. This year’s Stravaig is, in part, a celebration of this milestone in Abriachan’s history. Local writer Katharine Stewart (1914 – 2013), a former member of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, played an important role in this story. Stewart’s writing – including A Croft in the Hills (1979) and Abriachan: The Story of an Upland Community (2000) – is celebrated this year by Moniack Mhor with a bursary for aspiring nature writers and writers of historical fiction. There will also be  Jessie Kesson guided walk.

Ticket price includes lunch and evening meal.

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Full details about the day can be downloaded HERE.

If you need more information, you can email Mairi McFadyen at geopoeticshighland@gmail.com 

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