Produced by Vivid Roots Collective and in partnership with Eden Court Theatre, Lyth Arts Centre, and Macphail Centre.
For the first time, Vivid Roots Collective are delivering residency projects across the Highlands in 2026. The project will support an artist in each of our partner venue’s localities to develop their practice or a creative idea, and share this with their audiences.They will also be supported to deliver a sharing of their practice or idea at one of the Vivid Roots Collective’s scratch nights.
Each residency will be for 5 days in one of our partner venues, and will be supported by an industry mentor, who will be selected based on the nature of the resident artist’s practice.
Sharing of Performance in Development
Maggie Barker, Vivid Roots Collective resident artist at Lyth Arts Centre, will be sharing her performance in development. There will be space at the end to give feedback to her.
When? 6th November, 3-4pm
Where? Lyth Arts Centre
Lyth Arts Centre, Wick
Maggie Barker’s practice addresses sense of place in modern Scottish communities by exploring tradition, culture and relationship with the other-than-human environment. She explores these themes through writing and performance art, sound based installation and traditional folklore and song.
Her current performance work uses Selkie tales to interrogate modern perspectives on ecological collaboration with the marine.
Macphail Centre, Ullapool
Angela Stone is a freelance Director/Producer. After 20 years in arts management and cultural leadership in Yorkshire, she has relocated to the Scottish Highlands and wishes to establish her practice here.
Angela is working on a new verbatim performance about the Klondykers in Ullapool in the 80’s. During her residency, she collected stories and collated a short audio clip which painted a picture of what it was like at the time.
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
Elliot Scott is a playwright based in the Highlands. His work considers the importance of home in shaping each of our lives. In January his short play Stop, Look, Listen was performed at A Play, A Pie and a Pint, as part of Scottish Youth Theatre’s Trajectories New Writers programme.
Elliot developed a first draft of his new play, Wandering Days, during the Eden Court Residency. He presented a reading of the play at the residency sharing and the June Scratch Night.
This project is funded by the National Lottery via Creative Scotland.
