Eden Court is delighted to announce that poet Caroline Burrows has been commissioned to create a new, original poem as part of Our Freedom: Then and Now - a UK-wide creative programme marking 80 years since the end of World War II.

This commission forms part of Eden Court’s Cinema Against Fascism, a season of powerful films, speaker introductions and community-led events.

Responding to the prompt “What does freedom mean to you?”,Caroline will engage with Highland communities to create a poem exploring how our basic freedoms are being upheld or threatened; why the question itself is becoming increasingly pivotal, and why the answering of it potentially carries the fear of being misunderstood.

The project will consider what challenges are being faced regarding the themes of resistance, justice, migration, identity and solidarity, using as its basis the 1948 Charter of Human Rights, established to protect: Freedom of Speech; Freedom of Worship; Freedom from Want; and Freedom from Fear. In what ways do our community stories and histories connect to these freedoms and themes?

The poem will premiere as a live reading at Eden Court, ahead of a specially curated film selected in collaboration with Eden Court's Programming team. 

We will be announcing the details of this exciting event soon – watch this space!