Saturday 2 November6pm – 8.30pm, Lumsden Village Hall We excited to be getting ready to get spooky at the Lumsden Halloween Party! Join us for a night of games, and DJing in the Lumsden Village Hall. We’re rolling out a potluck buffet filled with culinary delights from our community, and don’t miss the showcase of artworks, costumes, and sounds created during the Holiday Club. But here’s the twist – bring your own dish to share with the entire community, adding […]
Stone Club with Lewis Morrison, photo by Mara LewisOctober Holiday Art Club – STONE CLUB (12 – 17 year olds) with Lewis MorrisonMonday 14 – Friday 18 October10.30am – 1 pmStone Club is back! Come along to SSW and the Community Making Space and spend the morning learning about stone carving and design. You will work together with SSW artists and technicians to learn about the properties of different stones, the tools needed to shape and carve and take time drawing and working on your own blocks to […]
Iisa Lepistö on her Ecologies in the Making residency. Photo by Felicity CrawshawOur stone carving facilities are available in our yard and can be open air or under one of our covered areas. Our bankers (individual stone carving benches) are all wheelchair accessible and can be adjusted to suit people of different heights or different sized stone. We can provide maltese and portland limestone to buy, and we use stone with lower silica content to reduce the impact on our team and users. Equipment includes: 4x sets of fire sharp chisels and […]
We’re launching our October programme in the Community Making Space, continuing the summer season with the next Clay Social and our Kids Holiday Clubs, including the very popular Stone Club for teenagers, with local carver Lewis Morrison. Finishing up with the Lumsden Halloween Party taking place at the Lumsden Village Hall! How to take part Check out the full programme with the menu on the right and sign up for your free sessions online by emailing communities@ssw.org.uk with the following […]
Building the Clay Commons, photo by Felicity CrawshawMore tickets for terms 2 and 3 will be released on Wednesday 31st October. Check out the booking details below. We are excited to launch Building The Clay Commons Night Class (online) – a new co-learning, online space set up for people interested in exploring ways to develop different, more emancipatory systems of working within and with the clay studio. The night classes are facilitated by artist and researcher Eva Masterman and features artists, organisers and academics Joon-Lynn Goh, the […]
From 2020-2024 SSW commissioned and worked with MyVillages through their Rural School of Economics (RSoE) programme to develop our Community Making Space programme alongside the wider SSW team and local community. Below is a blog post by Kathrin Böhm of Myvillages sharing her experiences, insights and process on developing this important new area of SSW. Words by Kathrin Böhm.Photos by Felicity Crawshaw and Myvillages. The Community Making Space in the making – via lumbung.A Rural School of Economics and Scottish Sculpture […]
Holiday Art Club, photo by Sam TrotmanThe deadline for applications has now passed, we aim to notify all applications by Friday 20 September to let them know if they will be asked to attend an interview. Job Title: Community Arts OrganiserHours: 0.6 (3 days per week – 22.5 hrs per week) this may include working weekends and evenings as required to meet the needs of the programme.Salary: £28,000 (pro rata) + 5% employers pension contributionContract: Fixed Term – October 2024 – March 2025 (with the possibility […]
This July our Summer Holiday Art Club was led by artist Dunya Kalantery, who over 5 days worked with young people to explore clay making processes and themes of destruction, creation and transformation. They did this through: The sessions also explored personal transformation through finding their spirit animals, eating communal lunches, playing games and inventing performance rituals. Take a look at some of the images of our week below. Thanks to Dunya Kalantery for devising and facilitating this transformational week and to all the young artists who took part, to our amazing […]
SSW welcomes visitors and residents with families and child dependents and can move furniture around to suit your sleeping arrangements. The Community Making Space on site at SSW, when not in use for workshops and community events, can be used as a family hang-out room/playroom and we can provide some soft mats and toys. You can choose which accommodation would suit your family best, between on-site accommodation and the off-site house accommodation. There is a park with a playground just […]
There is off-site accommodation (called No.17) in a house down the road from the main SSW site in Lumsden. It is around a 3 minute journey at a leisurely pace or around 1 minute in a car. There is a pavement for the entire journey and drop curb silent crossings. The pavement is uneven in places including directly outside the front door of the house. There is no step-free entrance into the house. There is a small 15cm step at […]
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