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We’re looking for someone to join our team! Marketing and Communications Manager aka senior storyteller & weaver together of our work. £28-£32k Deadline 26th August We are an eclectic and passionate bunch, Come talk to us if you are interested. thestove.org/new-role-commu…

Was lucky enough to travel down to Leeds last month for Centre for Cultural Value Placemaking Seminar. Exploring the ‘radical potential of placemaking’ ‘placekeeping’ ‘placeshaping’…forms of stewardship and community-led models that draw on wider bodies of support #CreativePlacemaking

Excited about this tomorrow…things are really starting to grow within the WWDN network particularly in terms of valuable friendships and learning spaces

Getting set up A' The Airts for a day with members and the UnionArts crew! It’s gonna be a squeeze but we’re looking forward to it 😍

It was pretty special to be in a workshop today using these cards with someone else facilitating! Thank you Heads Together and Union Arts

First we heard from Sarah Pennington about her work in Hull with Hari arts, the transient role artists can play in getting things going. Adrian shared some of the beginnings of Union, school for creativity and activism and how they encourage reflective working

As always, inspiring, implementation ready work from Katharine Wheeler The Stove Network A Creative Placemaking Approach: Culture and Creativity as a Tool in Community Wealth Building and Community-Led Place Development thestove.org/wp-content/upl…

This has been quite a coming together of minds so far to create…if being active in how our places should be working for our communities is your thing then come along…let’s see what we can come up with

Adding our voice to many others standing in solidarity with freelancers for whom the closure of Creative Scotland Open Fund will have devastating impact. Let us stop playing politics, pitching one sector against the next, it’s time to work together Scottish Government thestove.org/creative-scotl…

So much synergy between community embedded creative practices and community development…that’s where the magic often happens when these two meet #CreativePlacemaking The Stove Network What We Do Now

Any recommendations for Asian restaurants in Edinburgh???

It was a brilliant and really well received start to our day…so happy to have her join us, thank you

Really great podcast from The Community Development Podcast with Katharine Wheeler about her work at The Stove Network and creative community placemaking podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Interesting article in Nation.Cymru that resonates with the current episode with Katharine Wheeler and The Stove Network nation.cymru/culture/saving… #arts #creativity #communities

Was such a pleasure to have this conversation with Russell. The space where Community Development butts up to Creative Practice is where I find most hope that we can do things differently #CreativePlacemaking What We Do Now

We have an interesting event at The Stove Network this weekend, Saturday, hosted by GalGael Trust and their work with Grassroots Global as part of a series of Deep Listening events around Scotland. A discussion on land rights, food autonomy, community and power. grassroots2global.org/summerlistening

Sparks has now gone live within the WWDN network to support creative query and exploration within community engaged work with individuals and partners

We went to Parliament surrounded by amazing people doing great things! Massive thanks to Colin Smyth MSP & Emma Harper, the brilliant Rosie Lynch o Workhouse Union Art27scotland, LIFT D&G 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦹‍♂️👨‍👩‍👧🌟🛗🙂 & all those who joined/are having conversations this work needs #CultureInCommunities

I’ve decided to leave this platform, it’s just not a place I can believe in any more…not imagining many will see this but for those that do I’m on LinkedIn more these days and will persevere with Instagram for awhile yet.