A Living Memorial at Glasgow’s Necropolis

We were joined by 230 people in September for a special flower planting at Glasgow Necropolis as part of Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival.

Participants helped to plant thousands of bulbs which will become a living memorial to those buried in the 21,000 common or unmarked graves in the Eta Compartment.

Watch the film of what happened.

Thanks to our partners Scouse Flowerhouse, musicians Sequoia and Fiona Hunter whose performances accompanied the planting, Ruby Flowers, who produced the beautiful flower sculpture live on site, and Michael Matar and Gerrie and Susan Douglas-Scott for their poignant words. Special thanks also to Mercedes Richardson and her students at Glasgow Clyde College English as a Second Language course, who wrote a poem about their experiences as New Glaswegians, which was recited live at the event by Mohammed Ibrahim, Musab Kater and Abdulhameed Afte.

We closed the event with shared food cooked by students from the college and Ibrahim Alissi, from Kitchen Glasgow, using potatoes grown by young unaccompanied asylum seekers and refugees from Anniesland College.

The planting was the latest event as part of our 3-year creative programme, Glasgow Requiem.

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