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Proximity is now open! Tuesday – Sunday, 10 – 5, free, all welcome! Join us for the celebration event next week, 14 November, 6 pm – with music and drinks! eventbrite.co.uk/e/proximity-ce…

Our next session is an update from our demonstrator projects in Belfast, Edinburgh and Liverpool 🌳

Citizen science and co-production session led by Sammy Mason, with Andrew Williams 🌳 Learning about some tools we can use - Photovoice, Our Outdoors, Mammal Web 🦔 And hearing examples of citizen science - Green Battle in Linlithgow, with Helen Morrison and Nick Drainey 🌱

We've mentioned our reports on inclusion and accessibility on the Connswater Community Greenway 🌳 and Mae Murray Foundation's Inclusive Beach programme 🌊 You can hear more about these reports at our webinar on Tues 3rd Dec, 1-2pm Register now 🔗 bit.ly/4fTBXx9

"Revisiting a location repeatedly allows Stephen McCoy to make images that convey a tangible sense of place. A new exhibition at Open Eye Gallery features images that go beyond bare facts and exist as art" – new interview with Stephen McCoy McCoy Wynne in B+W Photography!

Get your issue: blackandwhitephotographymag.co.uk/magazine/black… The show is on until 19 January, Tue – Sun, 10 – 5, free, all welcome!

🌿 Yesterday, our team joined the GroundsWell Consortium retreat in Liverpool, celebrating innovation & collaboration! ✅ Gareth & Elizabeth visited Safe Regeneration in Bootle ✅ MacKenzie explored the docks with Canal & River Trust, learning about their impact on locals & tourists.

Encouraging comments: "John Davies’s sweeping post-industrial landscapes in flux - Agecroft Power Station, Durham Ox Pub - are the show’s compositional and emotionally gripping highlights, evoking moments in history but also the mystery of time and change" ft.com/content/bf6337…

tonight!

The Greening the City Advisory Group met today at Belfast Healthy Cities to discuss priorities and hear from GroundsWell Consortium Housing Executive EastSide Partnership Belfast City Council Social Farms & Gardens NI ThePaulHogarthCo 🏙️

Approx 29k resident doctors applied for 9k training posts this year. They're not "choosing" to forgo specialist training, GMC, they're being forced out of it by the decision to artificially suppress numbers of doctor training posts, even though we're so short of consultants.

If you're shopping at Liverpool ONE this weekend, stop by Wall Street and pick up a free Norway Spruce! 🌲🎅 Available until Sunday, subject to availability treecouncil.org.uk/event/pick-up-… #NationalTreeWeek #Liverpool #TreeGiveaway

River to River by Stephen McCoy, 1985–1990. The project follows the coastline from the river Mersey in the South to the river Ribble in the North: from the docks at Seaforth through the tourist areas of Southport to the reclaimed marsh and farmland of Banks and Hesketh Bank.

Work with us! Open Eye Gallery, Impressions Gallery & Side Gallery are looking for a Network Coordinator to establish a new pilot network across the North for photographers and organisations working with photography. Apply: openeye.org.uk/opportunities/…

Housing Estates by Stephen McCoy, 1979 – 1983 Between 1970-80s large housing estates were built in Ainsdale on the seaward side of the village. Stephen McCoy started to photograph what essentially was his home environment. Part of our current exhibition, Proximity.

In Liverpool between now and mid Jan? Check out this exhibition Open Eye Gallery by a brilliant photographer and my old teacher from my art & design foundation McCoy Wynne theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

Proximity, our current exhibition, is featured on The Guardian: From windy beaches to self-built homes, the photographer has spent 45 years capturing the region’s people and places – and the changes that have transformed it. Proximity is open til 19 Jan. theguardian.com/artanddesign/g…

I’m guardedly optimistic about govt’s aspirations for the Arts. But again Lisa Nandy talks of “joys” that music, theatre etc should bring to all. The Arts ARE about joys but not only. They’re debating difficult, uncomfortable things too. Another reason why they’re important

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"I have always felt that my best work shows a deep personal connection to the subject photographed, whether of people or place." 'Proximity' explores Stephen McCoy's 45 years of living, working and photographing on Merseyside. Open Eye Gallery until 19 January: