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GRETNA 100
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Out of the Blue Drill Hall based film maker Ray Bird's brilliant documentary film of Out of the Blue's Gretna 100 social history project powerfully illustrates how a participatory arts project can have a long lasting impact for participants and audience alike. • On the 22nd May 1915, at Quintinshill near Gretna, the worst train disaster in British railway history left over 200 men from the 1/7th Royal Scots dead. This ‘Leith Battalion’ trained at the Drill Hall on Dalmeny Street which later became the focus point for families looking for information after the disaster. • Working with Out of the Blue Arts and Education Trust in this same building 100 years later, a group of community actors from Active Inquiry and Strange Town Young Company researched and devised a piece of promenade theatre, Persevere, which guides the audience around the Drill Hall and enables them to catch glimpses of stories of Leithers 100 years ago saying goodbye to sons and brothers, hearing the news of the crash and coping with the aftermath. • “difficult not to be moved and shaken by the profound sense of place, time and continuity conjured up by this fine 24-strong community company” • Joyce McMillan- The Scotsman - ‘Persevere’ review 5th June 2015 • In addition, a group of community researchers worked with Citizen Curator and artist Jan-Bee Brown to research and curate an exhibition, Seven of the 7th, exploring the disaster through the story of seven soldiers who were involved. This exhibition also included The Tree of Life, produced in partnership with Pilmeny Youth Centre and artist Heather Scott, in which pupils from Leith Academy researched and helped to make a glass dog-tag for each of the 216 soldiers who died. • Rare Bird Media / @rarebirdmedia9390 • http://www.outoftheblue.org.uk/gretna... • The Gretna 100 project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund
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