Annan residents enjoyed the Travelling Gallery

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Annan the History Town Group brought the Travelling Gallery to the local community. Under the annual theme of ‘the rural’, the contemporary art gallery in a bus is currently touring different geographical clusters throughout Scotland this year, inviting local partners to invest in a long-term commitment to bring exhibitions to towns and villages.

It was set up on the Tesco car park in Annan, hosted by Annan The History Town Group, with a steady flow of people hopping on board or free to view the exhibition within.

This exhibition also centres on a film co-created with the residents of Strathearn in Perthshire, as part of the Scotland-wide Remembering Together project, that aimed to bring ‘collective acts of reflection, remembrance, hope and healing to communities across Scotland’ in the years following the COVID pandemic.The 16mm film weaves hand-drawn animation and footage of beloved community spaces, with oral histories and evocative music by local school pupils and musicians, and was made though creative workshops with people of all ages, including care home residents, as people recalled things that helped them during the pandemic and beyond.The soundtrack features a special arrangement of the song Strathearn by Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne of Strathearn, a contemporary of Robert Burns.The travelling show had previously visited the Crannog in Lochside Park, Castle Douglas, through a partnership between the town's Development Forum and The Stove in Dumfries.