First World War casualty. We will all watch as the tide comes in and washes the portrait away. In addition to the large-scale sand art, the public will be asked to join in by creating silhouettes of people in the sand, remembering the millions of lives lost or changed forever by the conflict.
Pages of the Sea is a unique moment to say thank you and goodbye, together, to the millions of men and women who left their shores during the First World War, many never to return. Commissioned by 14-18 NOW and produced in Scotland by National Theatre of Scotland, Pages of the Sea has been developed by film-maker Danny Boyle and is a unique way to mark 100 years since Armistice and the end of the war. On Sunday 11 November, on 32 beaches across the UK people will gather, to say a collective goodbye. National Theatre of Scotland will be leading events at six beaches across Scotland: St Ninian’s Isle beach in Shetland, West Sands in St Andrews, Scapa beach in Orkney, Ayr beach, Roseisle beach Moray Firth and Culla Bay beach on the isle of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides. Here in St Andrews, a large sand portrait of Dr Elsie Inglis designed by sand artists Sand in Your Eyes, will be drawn by local artists and volunteers. Each of the beaches taking part in the project will commemorate a different
Carol Ann Duffy has written a poem, The Wound in Time, especially for the moment, to be read by individuals, families and communities on the day. Dr Elsie Inglis lived from 16 August 1864 to 26 November 1917. She made her name as a pioneering surgeon and as a suffragette, and did much to improve medical care for women. She also set up hospitals to treat thousands of injured men in brutal conditions on the European front line raising the equivalent of £53m to support the work through women’s suffrage organisations.
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