Join multi-disciplinary artist Carrie Fertig for a participatory beach procession at Montrose Beach, celebrating awe, wellbeing and the Sublime in the natural world.

Together, we will carry The Map of the Sublime along the beach — a textile map embroidered in Montrose and beyond — and share stories, memories and poems about our experiences of wellbeing, wonder and connection with place.

You might reflect on Montrose as it was in the past, as it is now, or as you imagine it in the future. You are also welcome to bring stories from further afield, if you wish.

Everyone is welcome. This is a gentle, participatory event for anyone who would like to celebrate and share experiences of wellbeing, nature and community in Montrose.

The event will be filmed, and the resulting film will become part of the Health of the Sublime exhibition at The Barn, Banchory, running from 26 September–24 October. Participants are also warmly invited to the exhibition opening on 25 September, 7–9pm.

Health of the Sublime is a multi-year creative arts project mapping lived experiences of wellbeing in the natural world through the lens of climate change. It is funded by Creative Scotland, in partnership with Mearns and Coastal Healthy Living Network, with support from The James Hutton Institute.

Free event, all welcome.

About Carrie Fertig

I am a socially-engaged interdisciplinary artist working with materials, the human heart, my body, nature, and the voices of many, human and otherwise. I make safe spaces, environments, and situations for transformation, where folk can examine their deepest selves with creative outcomes. I make flameworked glass: repeatedly repurposed in performance, film, sound works, and vessels for stories. Since 2022 I’ve run Health of the Sublime, mapping the lived experience of wellbeing in the natural world through the lens of climate change, planting skill seeds to heighten participant connection to nature and handmaiden the power and agency of their creative voice.