Short clip of our first Go-and-See as part of #Flourish . We toured North Shields Cultural Quarter, visited Helix Arts then back to Enigma Tap to put everything we'd learnt onto our Creative & Cultural Ecosystems Map.

Thank you again to everyone who shared their time with us.

I was beyond excited to host the first Stakeholder Meeting for #FlourishGateshead yesterday. Flourish based on a co-research model so our Stakeholders will be working with us to design the approach and focus of the research from the outset.

From Whitburn to North Shields to Dunston Staiths then back.

AM: Mentoring thanks to Helix Arts #ArtistsAgency with Rachel Adam

PM: A bit of prep work for the #TyneDerwentWay #RiversideRoutes schools and community projects

Later: eEmails and further pondering.

Now 💤 💤 😴

All set up The Central Bar for tonight’s launch event. Creative practitioner who lives/works in #Gateshead and fancy a free pint? Pop on down!

Loved delivering my module Innovation and Creativity in #Amsterdam to NBS at Northumbria University Masters students. Even managed to fit in a ‘Regeneration Ramble’ looking at creative spaces in Bijlmer.

Very happy to share my new paper in #LocalEconomy written with the excellent Jon Swords.

If you are a policy/place researcher, policy maker or creative practitioner this paper is for you. Best of all it's open access so free to read and download!

Link: doi.org/10.1177/026909…

Survived my first round with #Covid_19 after successfully avoiding it for 2 1/2 years. Even after four vaccinations that wasn’t a pleasant experience.

Join our team! We're looking for a Community Engagement Coordinator to help us reach more people buff.ly/3OHHn05 #charity #cycling #outreach

If the future doesn’t look like this, then I’m not interested

Did you go? Gateshead Garden Festival 1990, lasted 157 days and received over 3 million visitors. @StMarysHeritage is hosting an exhibition 👀 back at this landmark event and the transformation of a 200-acre site that was once derelict land, through photographs and memorabilia

A huge thank you to everyone who came in person to The Lubber Fiend and everyone who voted online. We've verified the votes (counted them) and announced the reps here morethanmeanwhile.wordpress.com/2022/06/08/vot…

Last thank you tweet! But thanks to The Lubber Fiend Rebecca Prescott Hannah Marsden The NewBridge Project COMPANY OF OTHERS North East Cultural Freelancers NewcastleCityCouncil and the rest of the team for putting the event together, helping today, and making it all possible

Scan, comment and share widely please. Understanding why places are important to people is critical to their sustainability. Help us make the right decisions Helen Moir GibsideNT Carwyn J. Thomas martin hulse Save the Staiths Andie Harris

Pop down to Dunston Staiths on Saturday and see how many butterflies you can find!

We need your help. Please share this post & call us if you spot this wood carving anywhere in the local area. It's gone missing from the farm & the Placements who've been working on it are gutted. Months of work disappeared overnight.

Call 0191 232 3698 to report a sighting.

Thank you to everyone who came to The Comfrey Project 🧡 for the launch of our two year #NationalLottery #PlatinumJubilee project Bees of Bensham. Keep an eye on our social media and website for ways to get involved. The National Lottery Community Fund 🐝 🌻🏊‍♀️🐕🐕 🪁Barbara Keating Beewilded Best of Bensham @NEE_Naturalist Climate Action North

A lovely morning spent The Comfrey Project 🧡 for Dingy Butterflies Bees of Bensham launch supported by The National Lottery Community Fund #PlatinumJubilee . Leant so much and even managed to get a quick pic of one of the VIP guests.

Gateshead played a big part of the first industrial Revolution which reshaped the world. Now is the time that it does it again but we need your help!

Get involved on the below survey📊 & tell us what you would like the Gateshead Riverside Park to be.

cvent.com/surveys/Welcom…

The National Trust team are down at the Staiths until 4pm today, with a particular focus on the birdlife and a survey of those seen around the structure/river basin. They also have further information on the Gateshead Riverside and the Derwent Tyne Way. Come and say hello!

This will be of interest to lots of NE folks and we're looking for paid artist/freelancer reps so please read if that sounds up your street. Basically Newcastle may be getting a cultural zone on Clayton St and we're hoping it'll be a bottom-up rather than top-down situation..