Where We Are
Outdoor creative play sessions for parents with littles from birth to 2 years, in four locations across Fife in partnership with Fife Gingerbread and delivered by early years artists and musicians.
Where We Are is a new creative initiative by Starcatchers, Imaginate and Lyra, encompassing a travelling ensemble, creative play, and participatory performance making, all co-designed with children and young people across Edinburgh, Glasgow and Fife.
Starcatchers’ Where We Are project takes place in four locations across Fife, enjoying creative play in the great outdoors. With participants from birth to 2 years old and their parents, sessions are delivered by early years artists and musicians and explore many art forms and exciting materials for wee ones to delve into!
Where We Are responds to the needs and interests of participants, meaning a truly baby-led experience for all. From messy mud and dino play, to outdoor rhythms and messy music, each sessions is full of exciting new resources and materials for wee ones to discover.
Where We Are, Starcatchers – project partners
Starcatchers’ strand of this project will be focused in Fife and run in partnership with Fife Gingerbread, a voluntary sector organisation that provides information, advice and support to lone parents and families in need all over Fife. Starcatchers’ residencies will build on the success of Starcatchers’ previous community engagement activity in the region – Expecting Something – which provided a creative play space for young parents under 25, with babies under 2 years old, in and around Lochgelly.
Kirstin Georgia Abraham
Associate Artist – Creative Approaches to ASN, Expecting Something and Play & Explore
Kirstin Georgia Abraham is a visual artist and play practitioner born in Gibraltar and currently based in Fife, Scotland.
Callum Younger
Lead Artist – Where We Are
Callum has been a professional percussionist and folk music educator for over a decade. Callum is currently working with Starcatchers for Where We Are, playing with Pons Aelius & releasing a new album with RŪNN and part of the international Borneo Bengkel Living Archive project.
Claire Docherty
Lead Artist Starcatchers Saturdays
Claire Docherty is a performer and facilitator based in Edinburgh. Through her work as a community musician, drama facilitator and performer, she has found a love for combining her passions in order to create fun multi- art form sessions for all ages that allow space for expression.
Rosalind McAndrew
Lead Artist – Fife
Roz is an actor and facilitator based in Edinburgh. She is passionate about working with children and families who might not traditionally engage in the arts, as well as creating accessible work for early years audiences and children with additional complex needs.
Kerry Cleland
Creative Babies Coordinator
Kerry has worked as a performer for over 10 years and has much passion and drive for creating work and performing with early years audiences and children with complex needs.
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Exploration and curiosity at Where We Are
Where We Are lead artist, Callum Younger, reflects on the last 13 weeks of the project and his observations around the importance of creative play, music and early years development.
Project supporter
The Where We Are programme is supported by the Creative Scotland Youth Arts Targeted Fund, Where We Are recruited up to 17 artists, practitioners, and production staff to engage over the coming year with refugee families, young mothers and babies and groups of children through a programme of inspirational artistic activity.
In partnership with groups focused on tackling inequality, including Refuweegee, Multicultural Family Base and Fife Gingerbread, the organisations’ three distinct project strands will be informed by the wellbeing and needs of the children and young people involved.
The project partners will deliver a comprehensive training and development programme for the artistic team including anti-racism and trauma-informed practice and child protection training, with opportunities to share artistic practices and project learning. We aim to create a supportive and shared experience across the whole project.
Where We Are is all about connecting with children and young people through performance making, creative arts and play as we begin to look towards life beyond the pandemic.
Project supporters
