Toll Film Premiere, Ceilidh celebration and screening - FREE to attend

Starts: 6:00pm      Ends: 8:00pm

Toll Film Premiere, Ceilidh celebration and screening

Join us for a special celebration event to mark the premiere screening of Toll at Wick Harbour Fish Mart.

In 2024 artists Sinéad Hargan, Cat Meighan and Hector MacInnes created a mass participation artwork involving the carrying and ringing of multiple folded-steel bells. Each bell was stamped with a statement of reflection or response to the covid-19 pandemic, collected from highland communities including NHS workers, school children and the Highland Senior Citizens Network.

Our Toll bells travelled over 1500 miles across our diverse Highland landscape, up Knockfarrel and Stac Pollaidh, on the Nigg, Corran and Armadale ferries, rowed across Loch Morlich, cycled to Wick Harbour, rung inside Castle Varrich and attended a ceilidh in Kilmuir Hall. The bells have been in rivers, harbours, bogs, seas, they’ve been carried through mist, rain and some sunshine too. They’ve met Highlanders who have experienced loss, joy, anger, peace and everything in-between. They have been rung quietly in forests and community gardens and they’ve been rung loudly on high school football pitches and primary school playgrounds.

The Toll film is a visually and sonically explorative installation that follows the journey of the Toll bells and reflects on the Highland experience of the pandemic, celebrating spaces of community gathering and resilience.

The Toll film will be accompanied by a short documentary about the making of the project and our journey across the highlands.

This screening will be accompanied by food and drinks.

Tickets are free but booking is required.

There are also free screenings on Friday 28th February at 10am and 1pm at Wick Harbour Fish Mart.

This is a working harbour warehouse and will not be heated so please dress warm and wear layers.

For access / wheelchair and mobility scooter requirements please contact [email protected].

Location: Fish Mart, Wick

Price: Free to attend

Web Link: lytharts.org.uk/event/toll-film-premiere-celebration/

E-Mail: [email protected]

Phone: 01955 601428