Silver, Salt and Songs: Images, Memories and Songs of the Scots Herring Women

Schedule

Sat Nov 08 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

43-45 High Street, EH1 1SR Edinburgh, United Kingdom | Edinburgh, SC

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Silver, Salt and Songs: Images, Memories and Songs of the Scots Herring Women
with Jill de Fresnes & Christine Kydd
Join Jill de Fresnes and Christine Kydd with guests, to celebrate the launch of the Silver, Salt and Stories exhibition running at the Scottish Storytelling Centre during November. Jill and Christine will perform an hour of song and music, interspersed with film clips of memories and stories from interviews collected from women who worked as herring gutters between 1920 and 1960.
The exhibition is centred around filmed interviews with 12 Scottish women who worked as herring gutters from the 1920s through to the 1960s. Amongst other images both photographic and artistic, it will include portraits of the women with the opportunity to explore some of their memories and stories through written story, materials and objects.
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Jill de Fresnes is a creative photographer and filmmaker, researcher and educationalist with over 25 years'experience in heritage and community engagement, particularly in Scotland’s coastal fishing communities. Her work blends oral history and multimedia storytelling to turn lived experiences into lasting cultural legacies, with the voices from these communities front and foremost in telling their stories to a wider audience.
A veteran of the folk world, Christine Kydd grew up musically in the vibrant Edinburgh scene. Her career has offered her great variety, where she has not only worked solo, with the finest of players (musicians who now feature in top groups including Jock Tamson’s Bairns, Blazin’ Fiddles, Shooglenifty) but also in highly-acclaimed groundbreaking projects, such as her extensive touring and recording work with Janet Russell; in Chantan with Elspeth Cowie and Corinna Hewat and in Calluna with Charlotte Peterson, Rebecca Knorr and Anna Wendy Stevenson.
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43-45 High Street, EH1 1SR Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 43 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR, United Kingdom

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