The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Discovering Hartwood
In Story, Song and Film.
Open from 12.00 noon - 9.00 pm
An Exhibiiton and Live Performance Event
Tickets for the performances in the theatre are £7, Children age 8 -16 are Free but need a ticket.(Not suitable for under age 8.)
The other areas of the exhibition are free to enjoy.
In the Hartwood
(performed in the Henderson Theatre)2.30 pm (Matinee)
and
7.00 pm (Evening)
Join Jane Mather and Heather Yule for a modern fairytale about a paupers’ cemetery in the ruins of Hartwood psychiatric hospital, and the folk who care for the graves today. Storytelling and harp music will guide you into the faerie realm where dreams are powerful and spirits abound.
Followed by-
Celebrated Scottish soprano Monica McGhee
sings three lost songs by Scottish composer Robert McHardy, accompanied by Geoffrey Tanti on the piano.
sings three lost songs by Scottish composer Robert McHardy, accompanied by Geoffrey Tanti on the piano.
In the Hartwood - tickets
-- Buy tickets online for the Matinee performance
(2.30 - 4.30 pm - includes an interval) here
(2.30 - 4.30 pm - includes an interval) here
Henrietta Felicia Kierblewska Kennedy known as ‘Lady Felice’ or "Baroness Wielobycka” was a Polish aristocrat who died in 1922, shortly after being widowed. By then she was impoverished and became a patient in Hartwood Hospital.
She would eventually be buried in the Paupers Cemetery there, however her eventful life had seen her flee Europe to Edinburgh after the death of her father; a marriage to convicted fraudster and homeopath Polish Count Dionysius Wielobycki and a final relationship with Scottish Musician and Composer Dr Robert MacHardy L.L.D .
This very special performance celebrates that last relationship as Scottish soprano Monica McGhee and Geoffrey Tanti on Piano, bring three lost compositions of Robert MacHardy back to life, which, to our knowledge, have not been played in public for at least a hundred years.
--The Soldier - was composed in 1879
-- Song of the Sea - originally commissioned in 1879 by Thérèse Tietjens a leading opera and oratorio soprano during the 1860s and 1870s.
- - What is there in that Beaming Eye - 1876
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FREE EXHIBITION
includes
Robert' Nisbet's Story
Robert's descendant Mary has uncovered his medical records showing his transfer from Gartnavel to Hartwood in 1985, as one of Hartwood's first patients.
We can follow the story of Robert and his family, brought to life using AI photo and video software.
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Hartwood Paupers' Cemetery
There will be exhibits featuring the Hartwood Paupers' Cemetery and the Friends who care for it
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Remembering Hartwood
Displays of historical photographs, hospital records . and
recorded recollections of people who worked there.
recorded recollections of people who worked there.
(if you know someone who worked there and who would like to be interviewed so their stories are not lost forever, please get in touch - email info@spotlightshotts.org
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Drama Workshops
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Film
A compilation of old and new films about Hartwood will show the many ways Hartwood has been regarded in the past and the present.
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In the Hartwood - tickets
-- Buy tickets online for the Matinee performance
(2.30 - 4.30 pm - includes an interval)
(2.30 - 4.30 pm - includes an interval)
-- Buy tickets online for the Evening performance
(7.00 - 8.30 pm) no interval
(7.00 - 8.30 pm) no interval
