Pollination Street

In partnership with Crown Estate Scotland, we are delighted to announce a new Cairngorms Pride Village for the National Park, designed for long and short-term residents, occasional overnighters and full-on hibernators. Our new rainbow residences and air bee-and-bees will be up and running by September, just in time for the launch episode of their very own kitchen sink Instagram drama, Pollination Street. But first, we need families - that's where YOU come in.

Cairngorms Pride Village

Queer joy + nature restoration + plenty of drama

CASTING CALL for new families for new bee and bug houses on the Glenlivet Estate in Tomintoul

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We are expecting to welcome families of SOLITARY BEES, LACEWINGS, WOODLICE AND LADYBIRDS to our new Cairngorms Pride Village, so we're auditioning for characters.

At least three of these species are also members of the queer nature family. Male lacewings like to "duet", solitary bees sometimes too, and gender fluidity and transness appears in woodlice. Ladybirds are in our ally community.

Time to get involved and tell us your ideas.

We want to give a warm welcome to our new families, but first we need your help naming them and describing what kinds of lives and likes and interests they may have - species-specific or otherwise, so use your imagination and add plenty of queer representation to our Cairngorms Pride Village.

We're partial to a spot of anthropomorphism at Cairngorms Pride, so get thinking and fill in the Family Casting Call form here.

‍Help us build the Cairngorms Pride Village

Fancy beeing a Bob the Builder for the day? Yes you can. Our friends at SPEYSHED will be helping make our grand designs, based on species-friendly and family lifestyle and "personality" preferences you send us.

Fill in your Family Casting Call Form and we'll ask you if you'd like to join the build workshops in August to make our Pride Village a rainbow reality.