Restoration Forth is a partnership project involving community hubs and local people across the Firth of Forth to restore seagrass meadows and native oysters. Oysters and Seagrass are important for biodiversity and improving water quality, find out more about the project here.

We would like to invite you to join an informal sharing session about a proposed mural at Heart of Newhaven celebrating oyster reintroduction and the cultural connections to oysters and their role in helping to restore the ecology of the Firth of Forth.

Restoration Forth is working with mural artist Natasha Russell. To develop designs for the mural, we are looking to connect to, involve and gather input from a range of community members who have knowledge of Newhaven area, oyster history, or are just generally passionate about how we can tell the story of oyster's past and future in the Forth!

We would love to hear about your knowledge of the area, of oysters, and more generally of any hopes or ideas for how you would like the mural to look and about what imagery it could incorporate.

If you have any information, photographs, songs, objects or more that you would like to bring to share we would love that. We will also share some information on the Restoration Forth project and the mural process. Following these sharing sessions we will be running creative and practical community sessions to work with and develop some of your input into creative mural designs.

Sessions will take from one to one and a half hours, with refreshments provided. It will take place in the Anchor building of Heart of Newhaven, we will send you more information before the date.

(photos are of the Oyster Celebration at Heart of Newhaven, photo credit: Espen Helland)

Restoration Forth Oyster Mural- initial ideas sharing session