Orkney

A Lifelong Joyful Affliction

The phrase ‘My Team’ set me thinking about the teams we support, the teams we are part of and the teams that in turn support us.

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A New Session

It’s November, the nights have lengthened. I am just over halfway through my creative sessions with Age Scotland Orkney and I am hot on the heels of planning my next creative session with the group. The theme that I have been working on is ‘On Waking’. It is the title of a wonderfully reflective and […]

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Creative Lives & Creative Partnerships

Press Release: Culture Collective announces partnership with Age Scotland Orkney and creative practitioner Gabrielle Barnby Gabrielle Barnby has received funding from Culture Collective to continue her creative partnership with Age Scotland Orkney. The new project Creative Lives & Creative Partnerships seeks to further develop and expand a range of creative opportunities for individuals connected to […]

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Red

Homespun stockings itch. With the least feeling of warmth they rub my legs like a bear’s skin. Although I have not met or touched a real bear, I know they exist: white in the arctic where the whales swim, and brown in the forests where the trees prick the sky. I have homespun stockings. Today […]

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Salt on My Skin – Sarah Norquoy

Salt on My Skin chronicles Sarah Norquoy’s blossoming love of sea swimming. She invites the reader into her life with humour and enthusiasm, and rewards them with insight into a journey of personal change. Her prose flows rapidly with the warmth of good conversation with a friend. This is not a one disaster, one epiphany […]

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Gabrielle Barnby