Back in May of last year (article here) there was a researcher from Scotland interviewing people here in Barga who had a connection with Scotland.
As you can hear in the short interview below, Lori Isabella McColl, an artist who is preparing for a postgraduate MA in Creative Media practice degree at the University of West of Scotland (site here) had come to Barga for the first time after hearing about the long term connections between the city and Scotland.
She had been finding out that the more she asked, the more she found that there are more and more reasons why Barga has been called in the past, the most Scottish city in Italy.
Next month all that research comes to a head when she opens an exhibition here in Barga at the Stanze della Memoria in Barga Vecchia called “Ship to Ship, Ship to Shore”. The exhibitions opens on the 1st of July and remains open until the 8th July 2015
It then travels back across Europe to the Paisley Arts centre Cafe in Scotland where it will be on show from the 17th of July until the 3rd of August