CREATIVE PROJECTS

TOGETHER WE DANCE

Throughout 2021 we created a short dance film set in West Dunbartonshire. We worked with 8 community participants and their families from Alexandria, Clydebank, Dumbarton and Bowling to create individual and group pieces of movement, spoken word and soundtrack. The film is available also with captions and BSL interpretation.

BSL version here: https://vimeo.com/674836894

Choreographer: Lottie Barker, Lesley Howard & Participants

Filmmaker: Joseph Dalton

Words by: Oli Higham

WHICH WAY TO THE DANCEFLOOR?

In 2023 we recieved funding to create a short dance film with our Intergenerational Dance Company. We wanted to showcase their individuality whilst also telling a story of how dance brings people together.

Choreography: Lottie Barker & Lesley Howard

Filmmaker: Joseph Dalton

THE WEE BIRLIN’ BANNOCK’S ADVENTURES IN WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE

In 2022 we collaborated with Oral Storyteller, Anne Pitcher, and filmmaker Joseph Dalton to create a film that brought Anne’s animated storytelling and research into the history of Dumbarton West to the screen. Along with community participants we captured something that was part oral storytelling and part narrative film.

Written by: Anne Pitcher

Direction: Lottie Barker

Filmmaking: Joseph Dalton

HOLDING AND BEING HELD

In 2021 Lottie was a part of National Theatre of Scotland’s Thinking Space Lab. This gave time and space to think about how to be facilitator, producer and artist and how to both hold a space for others whilst staying true to your our own artistic ideas. This short film was the start of exploring these themes.

Direction & Performance: Lottie Barker

Filmmaking: Joseph Dalton

WALLS

In 2025, Lottie was invited to create a piece of interactive performance as part of ‘Roman Fest’ by Hydra Arts. Working with over 280 young people at the Old Kilpatrick primary school, she created a wall of cardboard boxes to represent The Antonine Wall. Visitors to the festival were then invited to deconstruct the wall and rebuild something new, reflecting on what parts of our society we would like to change and what would we like to build anew if we could.

Filmmaking: Jessica Sweeney

ASSEMBLE!

Throughout 2023 and 2024, Lottie collaborated with local arts company Hydra Arts and Artist, Nic Green as part of the ‘Remembering Together’ project, creating Covid memorials in local authorities across Scotland.

ASSEMBLE! created pop-up spaces for people in the community to come along and share their experience of the Covid lockdowns in whatever way they wanted. There was spoken word, movement, music and painting. The events were recorded and along with a book, will be accessioned into a permanent collection of covid memorials across Scotland.

For more information click HERE

FIlmmaking: Joseph Dalton