PAISLEY/NEILSTON (DUNTERLIE)

 

Fieldworker
Daniel Serridge, with Helen Mill

Partners and Contact Organisations
Corra Foundation, Dunterlie Community Centre, The Village Storytelling Centre, Folks Music Project

Aims

  • To creatively connect communities to their local culture: intangible cultural heritage, history, literature

  • To stimulate participation and bring together local activists and organisations

  • To record aspects of local culture - songs, stories, dances, traditions

  • To affirm the work of local practitioners

In 2022, fieldworker Daniel Serridge, along with Helen Mill, led the People’s Parish in Dunterlie, Barrhead, nestled on the boundary of Paisley and Neilston parishes. 

Working with the Corra Foundation, Dunterlie Communty Centre, The Village Storytelling Centre, and the Folks Music project, community members carried out action research in two key areas:

  • Mapping activities, such as walking the area, understanding the industrial history and present challenges that the community face, informal conversations

  • Friday Foodshare, which included story gathering sessions; Daffodil Teas; harp and storytelling group (Harp and Carp); folk jams; creative waiting room (prior to the weekly food share a space where people could have a cup of tea while waiting and be engaged in creative activity and story gathering)

The project culminated in a Harp and Carp performance and Village Storytelling Festival developed from Friday Foodshare, as well as a community ceilidh.