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Jessica Kerr

Jessica Kerr, Argyll Rainforest Community Network, 2024 (photography, Emma Henderson).

Jessica is a cellist and teacher based in Glasgow, with an ongoing commitment to confronting and engaging with the climate crisis through her work.  Recent projects include a commission for the Scottish Ecological Design Association, taking birdsong as an indicator of landscape health as the inspiration for a new musical work, and Stories of People and Trees, which celebrates connection to nature through stories and music.  Jessica teaches at Big Noise Govanhill, is cellist in Glisk and the Kentigern Quartet, and is a member of the GRIT Orchestra.  Jessica will use her time at Cove Park to develop new work in connection with the Argyll Rainforest Community Network, following time spent in Argyll’s temperate rainforests.

Cove Park and ACT: Argyll & the Isles Coast & Countryside Trust working in partnership as the Argyll Beacon have established Argyll Rainforest Community Network, a new programme that seeks to bring together isolated rural communities in our region to build a network of rainforest habitats, and to connect these communities through creativity, education, and a shared interest in preserving this important habitat. The first two Rainforest Communities in development are in Tarbert and Knapdale.