Festival Events 2016

It Takes a Village

There is an old African proverb –‘It takes a village to raise a child – meaning, children need the input and support of their whole community to grow into well-rounded adults. But doesn’t it also ‘take a village’ to support someone who is dying?

The Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care (SPPC) worked with award-winning Glasgow based photographer, Colin Gray, to produce this powerful and challenging series of portraits and personal stories. It Takes a Village explores the idea that as people’s health deteriorates, care and support comes in many guises......

This special To Absent Friends display of the exhibition will also give people the opportunity to share their own memories of dead loved ones on memory trees.

1 November 2016

John Gray Centre, Haddington