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Community Making Space Winter Programme

Free events from Sunday 26 November We are excited to share our Winter Community Programme developed in collaboration with our Community Advisory Group. Working together it was clear that setting up ways of coming together and celebrating the light during these dark months was important. So this programme focuses on making Lumsden luminous and offers workshops and celebrations that focus on bringing light, warmth, and creativity to the long nights ahead. From mug making and paper kiln firing to lantern […]

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Community Making Space 4:23 pm , November 15, 2023 Comments Off on Community Making Space Winter Programme

Selected artists for Residencies in Clay

Image credit: 33 Seeds, Mina Heydari-Waite Our inaugural Residencies in Clay programme is taking place throughout November and we look forward to supporting Mina Heydari-Waite, Josie KO and Nic Green through this residency programme. During their time at SSW Josie, Nic and Mina will be taking time to grow their practices and material knowledge by testing processes, sharing skills and pushing the possibilities of clay. Nic Green says, I am really delighted to be headed to SSW. For a while […]

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News / Residencies / Residency 5:13 pm , October 25, 2023 Comments Off on Selected artists for Residencies in Clay
Image credit: Keng Keng Tang

Selected artists for the SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency 2023-24

Following our call out over the summer SSW and Counterflows Festival are delighted to be supporting Keng Keng Tang and Bobbi Cameron to undertake this year’s caregivers residency. Keng Keng will use the residency time to develop her own personal experimental sound-quilt which will focus on themes of remembering times of comfort, belonging, and rest. Keng Keng says, I am really delighted to have been selected for the SSW X Counterflows Caregivers Residency. This is such a precious and rare […]

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News / Residencies 5:02 pm , October 25, 2023 Comments Off on Selected artists for the SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency 2023-24

Halloween Party and Community Potluck

Thursday 26 October6pm – 8.30pm, Lumsden Village Hall Get Spooky at the resurrected 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 your flavour to our potluck buffet. […]

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Community Making Space 4:12 pm , September 28, 2023 Comments Off on Halloween Party and Community Potluck

Halloween Kids Holiday Club

The Kids Club is now fully booked. However, please join us along to the Halloween Party on 26 October.Tuesday 24 – Thursday 26 October10am- 1.30pm (30-minute lunch break, lunch provided), Community Making Space Join the Halloween Kids Holiday Club with Community Arts Organiser Mara Marxt Lewis and sound artist Tyler Lewis. Embark on a three-day adventure crafting imaginative Halloween costumes from up-cycled clothing and fabrics, making spooky decorations for the Village Hall’s Halloween party, and exploring the art of creating […]

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Community Making Space 4:08 pm , September 28, 2023 Comments Off on Halloween Kids Holiday Club

Sonic Valley: Sound workshop for teenagers

Sonic Valley (funded by YMI Aberdeenshire and Live Life Aberdeenshire)Wednesday 18 – Friday 20 October10 am – 5 pm (1-hour lunch break, lunch provided), Community Making SpaceOpen to anyone aged 15-18, regardless of experience. Playwright Neil Cargill and sound artist Tyler Lewis will deliver this three-day workshop for 15-18 year olds, as part of the Youth Music Initiative programme for Aberdeenshire. Together, they’ll create an online radio programme by fusing original music, words, sounds and imagination. This collaborative project will […]

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Community Making Space 4:04 pm , September 28, 2023 Comments Off on Sonic Valley: Sound workshop for teenagers

October Community Making Space Programme 2023

It is autumn in Lumsden and we are happy to announce our October Programme for 2023, taking place in the Community Making Space at SSW. We’ve got some exciting things happening throughout the month, and we’d love to have you join us! More events to be announced for the rest of the year, details coming soon. First up we have a radio recording project Sonic Valley for young people ages 15+. In this three-day workshop we’ll get together, learn new […]

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Community Making Space 3:58 pm , September 28, 2023 Comments Off on October Community Making Space Programme 2023
Image of a busy Ceramics Workshop at the end of the SSW x Counterflows Caregivers residency 2023. Photo by Sam Trotman

Open call to take part: Building the Clay Commons with Eva Masterman

The deadline for applications has now passed. Building the Clay Commons w/c 27 November 2023Schedule to be announced in October SSW and Eva Masterman are calling out to people interested in or working with clay to join our weeklong immersive workshop set up to collectively build the Clay Commons. This weeklong workshop is open to people either from or based within the North East of Scotland or those who have strong connections to this area. Together, through practical workshops and […]

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News 2:31 pm , September 28, 2023 Comments Off on Open call to take part: Building the Clay Commons with Eva Masterman

SSW x RSOE Summer Camp in pictures

From 11 – 15 July 2023, Myvillages and SSW held the Rural School of Economics Summer Camp. Taking place outside in the landscape, in the studio and in the Lumsden Village Hall, it was a week of discovery, exploration and coming together around the energy and understanding it’s impact on our work. We were made up of a cohort of artists from North East Scotland and further afield, facilitators, farmers, crofters, people from Lumsden and surrounding areas. A diverse mix […]

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BEPART / News 6:26 pm , August 1, 2023 Comments Off on SSW x RSOE Summer Camp in pictures
Rural School of Economics Summer School. Photo by Felicity Crawshaw

Join our board of trustees

Extended deadline: 1 September 2023, midday Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW) is seeking people to join our Board of Trustees from September 2023, to work collaboratively with our existing Board Members and staff team, in support of SSW in our mission to connect people through making. 2023 is an exciting year for SSW. We are looking for new board members who will feed into developing our strategic plan for 2025 – 2028, working on policies and initiatives that support access within […]

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News / Opportunities / Recruitment 5:03 pm , July 21, 2023 Comments Off on Join our board of trustees