Provan Hall claims to be the oldest building in Glasgow and was initially the provand of Glasgow Cathedral. Based on the installation of permanent interpretation within the building, Provan Hall Community Management Trust initiated wider community engagement programmes which Sabrina implemented.
She worked with residents of Easterhouse and members of the Provan Hall history society to support them with researching areas of personal interest for future temporary exhibitions and website postings. Those were informed by the previous inhabitants of the property, their stories and visible evidence on site. While she guided members through the process during workshop sessions, Sabrina also provided support for individual research and interpretation writing processes of these members and collated and curated the outcomes. These were manifold and included the development of a guided tour, several blog posts on the Provan Hall website, and the development of event day contents, delivered partially in costume throughout the year for visitors and the local community of Easterhouse. Some of the work can be viewed here: https://www.provanhall.org/history-of-provan-hall.
Sabrina also provided mentoring for a community engagement intern and guided her through the planning, engaging and reporting processes.
With the Acting and Drama department of Kelvin College, Sabrina developed character studies and monologues of some of historical inhabitants of Provan Hall which were rehearsed and performed on site to prepare for event days and eventually lead to the performance of a suitably themed play with characters specific to the history of the site.
For the permanent exhibition, Sabrina created acting scripts for the characters depicted in the exhibition. These scripts were translated into Scots and then performed for audiovisual presentations located in the recreated rooms in the exhibition space. These installations of characters musing on soliloquies adds an extra layer of immersion into the history of the site.
