Craft Skills take centre stage with Galgael
The GalGael Trust, describes itself as a “cultural anchor point around which local people are re-kindling skills, community and a sense of purpose”. From its Glasgow base, the trust works with communities across Scotland.
Gehan Macleod, Project Co-ordinator, of the GalGael Trust said: “GalGael is delighted to be working again with the Scottish Traditional Boat Festival to highlight the importance of boat-building in Scotland both historically and in the future. We aim to not only celebrate and share the historic craft skills employed in building traditional vessels, but through the DORNA partnership also explore how traditional boat-builders can work together to find new markets in the future.” More information on the GalGael Trust is available at www.galgael.org
DORNA is a transnational project celebrating traditional boat building on the European Atlantic coast and includes partners from the UK, Ireland, Spain and Portugal and is supported by the European Regional Development Fund through the Atlantic Area Programme – Investing in Our Common Future. More information at www.proyectodorna.eu The Festival is part sponsored by the Dorna Project through the European Regional Development Fund and the Atlantic Area Transnational Programme - Investing in our Common Future.
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The craft skills
employed in traditional boat building will be celebrated in style at this
year’s Scottish Traditional Boat Festival in Portsoy, thanks to a new
partnership between the festival and the
Their
participation at Portsoy this year is supported by DORNA Scotland, a
partnership celebrating traditional boat-building in Scotland. It is
cataloguing traditional craft and the yards that built them, celebrating
maritime heritage and traditional skills at festivals and events, and
working with partners to explore opportunities for the future of these
traditional industries.
DORNA
Scotland was launched at last year’s Scottish Traditional Boat Festival.