Creative Recovery Inverclyde
‘Welcome to Greenock, Paradise on Earth’
(16’50”)
Creative Recovery Inverclyde is a participatory arts initiative based within Your Voice’s Lived Experience Network, in Greenock.
Our piece considers the arrival of tourist ships at Greenock’s cruise terminal. What happens when hundreds of visitors suddenly arrive in the town?
Mixing documentary and fiction, we follow tourists as they find their way around Greenock, meeting some of the people they might come across along the way, the fisherman, the Wyllieum shop girl, the buskers, the shady local and the good Samaritan.
Seen through the eyes of visitors, our piece asks what Greenock looks like when you’re seeing it for the first time… and, what happens when tourists and local life collide.
Credits: Billy, Callum, Clyde Fisherman, Dana, Dawn, German Tourist, Levi, Martita, Max, Paul, Pinja
Facilitated and shaped with the help of artist Elina Bry.