Image credit: Felicity CrawshawCome to SSW every Thursday from 11am–1pm for our Thursday Club — a relaxed space to explore materials, share skills, and enjoy making together. These weekly sessions invite you to try out different processes, learn from one another, and connect with local knowledge about the land and the materials around us. Together, we’ll learn and make things inspired by the changing seasons. Between October and December we will develop the SSW Materials Garden and work with a range of locally […]
Image credit: SSWSaturday 1 November 20256-8pm Free Join us for a night to remember – jam packed with ghoulish games, petrifying prizes and monstrous music in the Lumsden Village Hall. Come along in your creepy costumes and show off your ghastly grooves and frightful footwork on the dance floor. Also check out the hand-made decorations and artworks made by young artists created during the SSW Kids October Holiday Club. Prizes for: best carved pumpkin or neep, costumes and more…Tasty treats, scary snacks and […]
Image credit: SSWWednesday 22 October – Friday 24 October 202510am – 1.30pm Free Booking Essential Come and have a fang-tastic time in the Community Making Space at SSW preparing for Halloween. Join us to design and make costumes, props and creepy critters. Working together, supported by artists, we will be using a range of fun and messy materials to decorate Lumsden Village Hall for the annual Halloween Party. Anyone who is aged between 7-14 is welcome to attend these free sessions. Snacks and lunch […]
We are excited to share our Spring Community Making Space programme developed in collaboration with our Community Advisory Group and other members of our local community. Check out the full programme in the menu on the right and head to the bottom of this page for more info on booking. As Winter gives way to Spring, our new programme celebrates the season of growth, renewal and new beginnings within these sessions. Emerging from our winter season, which included quilting, candlemaking […]
We are excited to share our Winter Community Making Space Programme developed in collaboration with our Community Advisory Group and other members of our local community. In many other northern places Winter is seen as a time to rest and renew – responding to the short days and long nights we experience. The season invites us to slow down and recharge, to find new routines and to spend time in the company of one another. Nature too changes its rhythm […]
Our Thursday Making Sessions take place from 11am-1pm in the Community Making Space at SSW and are followed by a cooked lunch. Sessions are free but please book by emailing communities@ssw.org.uk letting us know all of the events you plan to attend. Materials Garden Natural inks and paints with Claire RaynerThursday 24th April 11am – 1pm Join us for a session with local artist and SSW Community Advisor Claire Rayner to create your own natural inks and watercolor paints. We’ll […]
Our Kids Holiday Clubs are an integral part of our Community Making Space Programme here at SSW and provide an important pathway for young people to get into workshop spaces. They take place every school holiday and are open to 7-12 year olds and 12 – 17 year olds. This summer we were delighted to have kicked off the holiday programme with Stone Club – a chance for local teens to try their hands at stone carving. Over the summer […]
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 […]
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 […]
Photo by Tyler LewisOver the past few months SSW has been busy working with our Community Advisory Group making plans for our 24/25 community programme. This has included meeting with local partners, taking part in a range of Inspirations talks from Manoeuvre, The Portland Inn Project and MyVillages and sharing our needs and ambitions. We are now busy putting the finishing touches to the Community Programme and look forward to sharing this later in May. In the meantime Mara, our Community Arts Organiser, […]
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