Exciting things are happening in Stranraer! Ahead of Saturday's waterfront festival 'Raise The Sails', Anne Waggot Knott (Project Researcher & Reporter) interviewed Community Artist Maya Rose Edwards about all their work in the town. Read now! The Stove Network ow.ly/qbo450Rg7vR

A new publication and resource, 'A Creative Placemaking Approach’ has been produced by The Stove Network and Katharine Wheeler showing how creative placemaking uses art and culture as a foundation of community engagement and local decision-making..

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Our bread club with twist - Doughlicious - returns next week!

📍 The Stove Cafe, 17th April from 6:45pm - 9pm, free entry!

Share recipes and techniques in a relaxed atmosphere and get practical with some hands-on activity. Open to all!
Book now! ow.ly/cQH950Rcck4

We have a few tickets remaining for our Online Gathering next week, where we will be discussing #creativeplacemaking with Katharine Wheeler from #whatwedonow brownpapertickets.com/event/6252685

The Doongamers are back next week to play #MagicTheGathering at the Stove!

📍 April 17 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Magic is a trading card game filled with strategic battles and unique card decks. Book now: ow.ly/4MG250RccSS

There is less than a week remaining to apply to our NEW ROLE of Membership Manager - closing date: 9am, Mon 15th April.

Due to feedback and review, this position has been re-framed to align more closely with the projected needs of the WWND membership.
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🌳Everyday Changemakers: Martin O’Neill, The Stove🌳
Listen 👉: podbean.com/ew/pb-dni3y-15…

Dumfries series (Part 4/5): Kaska Hempel (Kaska Hempel) talks to Martin from The Stove Network about coming home and #CreativePlaceMaking with his community.

dgclimatehub Katharine Wheeler

The fabulous Martin J O'Neill talking about a focus on frameworks for community-led culture, less traditional forms of participation, the idea that in order to realise the ambitions of a place, the root of that needs to be in creativity - more broadly how people live in a place.

Last week of Wakeupand (2024) The Stove Network

Can we imagine
a future (2074)
when warmer temps.
enable landowners
to grow coffee
in The Highlands

Limited places remaining for our April Gathering about Creative #Placemaking with Katharine Wheeler What We Do Now The Stove Network. Join us for a conversation about using #creativearts and #participatoryarts to make a difference in the places we live brownpapertickets.com/event/6252685

Creative Placemaking in Stranraer is in action, with waterfront festival 'Raise The Sails' happening on the 20th of April! ⛵ Read a spotlight written by Anne Waggot Knott (Project Researcher & Reporter) on the work of community artist, Maya Rose Edwards: ow.ly/MlrU50R6yTy

This approach is at the very heart of WWDN, to use creative activity to support collective decision-making and positive change for people and the places they live, and to build a network of support for that in D+G #CreativePlacemaking whatwedonow.scot/blog/a-creativ…

It’s out!! 2 years work by The Stove Network and Katharine Wheeler and here it is ‘An Approach to Creative Placemaking’
Thanks South of Scotland Enterprise Creative Scotland D&G Council Empowering Communities Esmée Fairbairn and everyone who contributed for their support.

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This document has been worked up through our own work The Stove Network, drawing on learning from our What We Do Now pilot, alongside extensive research, consultation, collaboration, and influence from across the sector. I'm immensely proud to have been part of it and to share it with you

This is finally ready to go out into the world! Growing grassroots approaches to #creativeplacemaking has been at the heart of our work The Stove Network, empowering and enabling communities to take a leading role in the shaping of their place. thestove.org/how-creativity…

Join the Doongamers at The Stove Cafe tomorrow for Magic: the Gathering AND Blood on the Clocktower! 🔥

Please note that games are 18+
📍 3rd April, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm @ the Stove Cafe

Learn more: ow.ly/HuM250R4wNo

New Video Release!
Link: youtu.be/a_x5zrjzC74

A contrapuntal love poem from Bex Bidgood ✨!

In Bex's poem, there are two columns of text that can be read vertically or horizontally to create two different poems, both read aloud here.

Our monthly Creative Writing workshop - WRITE! - is back on Wednesday! ✍️

📍 April 3 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm at The Stove
The theme of the April session is engaging the senses by describing smells and scents. 👃

Book your place here: ow.ly/oVIO50R4ioo

Our current Conversing Building Exhibition 'wakeupand', created by artist Martin Hamblen, is available to view and interact with at The Stove Cafe.

Martin has written an accompanying blog to this exhibition that you can read now on the Stove website: ow.ly/6Rap50R4wsc

Reel to Real Cinema returns on Friday! 📽️

This month, with support from Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere we are holding a screening of Outgrow the System a documentary film exploring new economic ideas for a more sustainable global future.

Supported by D&G Climate Hub.
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