Past Events with Inverclyde Culture Collective:
You are invited to celebrate the last two years of Inverclyde Culture Collective!
Over the past two years, Inverclyde Culture Collective has collaborated with a diverse range of individuals, artists, community groups, organisations, researchers, spaces, and places throughout Inverclyde. During this time, we have supported numerous ambitious community arts projects and experimental work, collectively exploring the potentials and possibilities of art and creative practice in the area.
To mark the success of the program and express thanks to all those who have participated, contributed, or followed us throughout the project, Inverclyde Culture Collective is thrilled to host a Summer Celebration event. Join us at The Drying Green, located at South West Library in Greenock, for a final closing get together.
This event will feature food and drinks, artist contributions, and a music set by Your Voice's Recovery Jam Band. We look forward to celebrating with you whatever your involvement with the project has been.
Inverclyde Culture Collective is a Creative Scotland funded programme.
Inverclyde Culture Collective consists of Rig Arts, CVS Inverclyde, Inverclyde Council, The Beacon Arts Centre and Kayos Youth Theatre. Alongside a broad range of other partners and individuals across Inverclyde.
Access
South West Library Garden (The Drying Green) is wheelchair accessible
Free parking available on street (please check for any stipulations)
Date/Time
Friday 28th July 2023: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Location
The Drying Green: South West Library 159 Inverkip Rd, Greenock PA16 9HG
Website: www.inverclydeculturecollective.co.uk
Instagram: inverclyde.culture.collective
What Is Creative Connect Inverclyde`?
Creative Connect Inverclyde is an informal space for those working in the Creative Industries in Inverclyde to get together, share practice and network.
The second of three events over the next several months responding to the need for relaxed in-person spaces for creative individuals working in Inverclyde to come together. Meet likeminded peers, respond and discuss themes and commonalities arising from working within the region and get an insight into our vibrant creative sector. This event will form part of The Beacon Arts Centre Creative Minds Festival and will also feature a talk from The Stove Network on their community centred and led approach across Dumfries
More information on the Stove can be found https://thestove.org/
Creative Connect Inverclyde warmly welcomes all those working in the Creative Industries such as: Artists, Community Practitioners, Designers, Traditional and Contemporary Craft Makers, Musicians, Architects, Digital Art Workers, Film Makers, Writers, Cultural Workers, Poets, Curators ,Creative Business Owners, Theatre and Performance makers.... the list goes on.
Everyone is welcome - whatever stage of creative explorations you are at!
Creative Connect Inverclyde is funded and hosted by Inverclyde Culture Collective a Creative Scotland funded programme.
Inverclyde Culture Collective consists of Rig Arts, CVS Inverclyde, Inverclyde Council, The Beacon Arts Centre and Kayos Youth Theatre. Alongside a broad range of other partners and individuals across Inverclyde.
What To Expect
Free Event
An informal space with time to socialise, network and meet a broad range of individuals working in the Creative Industries across Inverclyde
A Round Robin, where all attendees are invited to talk for 1 minute about what they are currently working on, would like to work on in the future, a statement of celebration, a local inquiry or an event they have coming up.
Short presentations, provocations and talk by The Stove Network
Refreshments, music and space to enjoy without an agenda.
Access
Speakers scheduled as part of the event will be captioned/ BSL translators can be provided if required
Beacon Arts Centre’s access information https://www.beaconartscentre.co.uk/accessibility/
Free parking available on street (please check for any stipulations)
Date/Time
Wednesday 17th May 2023 5:00pm-7:00pm
Location
Custom House Quay, Greenock PA15 1HJ
For more information about Inverclyde Culture Collective or the event please visit or contact
Website: www.inverclydeculturecollective.co.uk
Instagram: inverclyde.culture.collective
About No One Grieves Alone
No One Grieves Alone, is a space to come together to creatively explore themes of death, grief and loss happening at the Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock on Wednesday 3rd May 10:00am-2:00pm as part of a collaboration between Inverclyde Culture Collective and Compassionate Inverclyde
This event is about finding new ways to talk about and explore the complexities of grief, death and loss. Through doing so considering questions around how we may collectively grieve, how young people may encounter death differently and how creative practice may be used as a way respond to loss in a variety of forms throughout people’s lives.
No One Grieves Alone will bring together researchers, artists, creative practitioners, chaplains and health and social care professionals to allow a broad range of perspectives and positions on Death, Grief and Loss to be discussed. The event will also feature new work by artists Laura Bradshaw and Steven Anderson with a culmination of their Inverclyde Culture Collective supported residency “No One Grieves Alone” where they have been exploring ideas of inheritances, lineage and ways we respond in the present to what was left to us.
No One Grieves Alone Programme:
Alison Bunce: No One Grieves Alone: A whole systems approach to bereavement across Inverclyde
Alison bunce will be introducing No One Grieves Alone and Inverclyde as a compassionate community. Alison is a Senior Palliative Care Nurse who worked for nearly a decade as Director of Care at Ardgowan Hospice. Today, as a Queen’s Nurse, Alison is the founder, leader and guiding force of Compassionate Inverclyde, supported by Ardgowan Hospice and Inverclyde HSCP.
https://ardgowanhospice.org.uk/how-we-can-help/compassionate-inverclyde/
Victim Support Scotland: Hush Project/ Exhibition Reflections
Presentation on Victim Support Scotland's "Hush Project" a lived experience project that worked with families bereaved by crime in Scotland to tell their stories of grief and the criminal justice system.
https://victimsupport.scot/hush-sfbc/
Ardgowan Hospice: Communicating Grief
Janice Lee from at Ardgowan Hospice will be discussing approaches taken by the hospice to support children experiencing a bereavement as well as providing an insight in how children perceive idea's of death, grief and the afterlife through their own drawings.
https://ardgowanhospice.org.uk/
Inverclyde Royal Hospital: Implementing The Bereavement Charter
Inverclyde Royal Hospitals Chaplain Jeanette Peel will be presenting on the approach and process taken by Inverclyde Royal Hospital to implement Scotland’s Bereavement Charter across all services and settings
https://www.sad.scot.nhs.uk/bereavement-charter/
TRACING AUTONOMY
Kirsty Stanfield: Jeni Pearson:
A practical creative workshop exploring ideas of autonomy and how the principles of it can be used to support a person's autonomy in life.
https://www.tracingautonomy.net/
RIG ARTS/Greenspace Scotland
Rig Arts will share their findings from phase one of the Remembering Together Covid Memorial project, reflecting on the process and considering how creative practice can be best place to respond to the complexity of collective grief.
https://www.rememberingtogether.scot/inverclyde/meet-the-artist
Laura Bradshaw and Steven Anderson: No One Grieves Alone Residency
Artists Laura Bradshaw and Steven Anderson will be sharing fragments of work created through their time on the No One Grieves Alone Residency supported through Inverclyde Culture Collective
https://www.inverclydeculturecollective.co.uk/culturecollective
What Is Creative Connect Inverclyde?
Creative Connect Inverclyde is an informal space for those working in the Creative Industries in Inverclyde to get together, share practice and network
The first of three events over the next several months responding to the need for relaxed in-person spaces for creative individuals working in Inverclyde to come together. Meet likeminded peers, respond and discuss themes and commonalities arising from working within the region and get an insight into our vibrant creative sector.
Creative Connect Inverclyde warmly welcomes all those working in the Creative Industries such as: Artists, Community Practitioners, Designers, Traditional and Contemporary Craft Makers, Musicians, Architects, Digital Art Workers, Film Makers, Writers, Cultural Workers, Poets, Curators ,Creative Business Owners, Theatre and Performance makers.... the list goes on.
Everyone is welcome - whatever stage of creative explorations you are at!
Creative Connect Inverclyde is funded and hosted by Inverclyde Culture Collective a Creative Scotland funded programme.
Inverclyde Culture Collective consists of Rig Arts, CVS Inverclyde, Inverclyde Council, The Beacon Arts Centre and Kayos Youth Theatre. Alongside a broad range of other partners and individuals across Inverclyde.
What To Expect
Free Event
An informal space with time to socialise, network and meet a broad range of individuals working in the Creative Industries across Inverclyde
A Round Robin, where all attendees are invited to talk for 1 minute about what they are currently working on, would like to work on in the future, a statement of celebration, a local inquiry or an event they have coming up.
Short presentations, provocations or ideas from invited Local and National Artists and Cultural Thinkers
A film installation giving an insight into some of the work that has been happening as part of Inverclyde Culture Collective
Refreshments, music and space to enjoy without an agenda.
Date/Time
Tuesday 6th December 2022: 5:00pm-7:00pm
Location
RIG ARTS Unit 7, Tobacco Warehouse, 11 Clarence St, Greenock PA15 1LR
Inverclyde Culture Collective with Health Improvement Inverclyde will be hosting an information session about our recently released artist open call for our residency
“Research and Development: Inverclyde Cares: No one Grieves Alone
Within the relaxed session we will cover an overview of the opportunity, information into how to apply, what can be expected and also answering any questions you may have about it.
Details
Where: Microsoft Teams:
When: Wednesday 26th October 2022
Time: 5:30-6:15 PM
Inverclyde Culture Collective with Health Improvement Inverclyde will be hosting an information session about our recently released artist open call for our residency
“Exploring Health, Illness, Disability and Long Term Conditions In Inverclyde”
Within the relaxed session we will cover an overview of the opportunity, information into how to apply, what can be expected and also answering any questions you may have about it.
Details
Where: Microsoft Teams:
When: Thursday 13th October 2022
Time: 5:30-6:15 PM
Inverclyde Culture Collective with Your Voice Recovery
Elina Bry: Walking Not As A Way To Commute But A Way To Connect.
(Event, Film Screening, Performance Sharing)
DETAILS
Date: 30th September 2022
Time: Time : 11am-1pm (Performance 11:00am / Screening 11:30-12:00)
Location: The Beacon Arts Centre: STUDIO (Custom House Quay, Greenock PA15 1HJ)
ABOUT
The event will bring together strands of a three month residency, which saw artist Elina Bry working with Your Voice Recovery as part of Inverclyde Culture Collectives Creative Practice in Health and Social Care pilot residencies. The residencies set out to invite artists to consider the position, role, function and purpose of creative practice within various contexts and settings which were formed from an initial arts based research period with Health and Social care partners across Inverclyde. Your Voice Recovery’s initial inquiry was centred around the connection between recovery, the natural environment, walking practices and art.
Elina Bry: Walking not as a way to commute but a way to connect.
“We are applying the theory on walking not as a way to commute but as a way to connect
While engaging in the walking practice, we count walking as a performance, we are creating memory maps, using our muscle memory to guide us to the paths which we once took, the stories told in the paths, the memories. During nature walks, hill walks, we are filming the process, what do our feet see? If I tape my phone on my shoe can I see something different? Can my body be a tripod? What does my back see when I'm not looking? Using a fishing rod, we started fishing for sound and talking to the Clyde Fishing hobbyists
These different perspectives are bringing us closer, closer to ourselves and closer to the truth which are within us, making it easier to understand that there's more than one side to the story.”
Inverclyde Culture Collective with Port Glasgow Locality Planning and Development
Greer Pester: PEEK-A-BOO PLAYPARK
(Event, Film Screening, Performance Sharing)
DETAILS
Date:15th October 2022
Time : 1pm-3pm
Location: Coronation Park, Port Glasgow 5 Queen St, Port Glasgow PA14 5EF
ABOUT
Greer Pesters final sharing event as part of her Peek-a-boo playpark project will be on Saturday the 15th of October between 1-3pm @Coronation Park in Port Glasgow.
She will be sharing the inflatable sculptures made inspired by discussions, creative play and storytelling sessions directly from the children in Inverclyde who play in Coronation Park.
As well as this there will also be a collective sawdust carpet making workshop happening ,to give children an opportunity to get tactile and make some shapes with their hands and colourful sawdust.
Join us for another Writers’ Saturday in Greenock on 30/04/22
You can pop along to any of the events below or why not make a day of it and join us at them all!
10:00 – 12:00 The Writer's Well Walk: Walk by the Waterfront
Join us on a walk along the waterfront as we consider the impact of a changing climate on our local environment. Our route will follow the current path of the river Clyde along Greenock’s waterfront where we’ll be focussing on the sights and sounds of the river. We’ll return along a route marking the upper edge of predicted water levels by 2050 listening to the sounds of the town. On arrival back at the library we’ll reflect on the different sights and sounds and how climate change will affect our local environment crafting a creative response over tea & coffee. Meet Greenock Central Library 10am. Please dress for the weather with shoes suitable for walking.
12:15 – 13:30 Radical Solidarity
Pop into Greenock Central Library from 12:15 where you can create your own ‘Poetry Placard’ by writing a line of poetry on one of our wonderful new blackboard placards created by Inverclyde Shed. We’ll then walk to Bank St Memorial to share some new writing on the theme of Radical Solidarity in a staged ‘Poets’ Protest’ to commemorate the Greenock Riot of 1820 and to celebrate community solidarity.
16:00 – 17:30 WORD @ The Warehouse Open Mic
Join us at RIG Arts at The Tobacco Warehouse for a monthly sharing session of spoken word and song. All welcome, whether you're a writer looking to share some work in progress or simply keen to hear some of Inverclyde's fresh new talent, come share some WORDs in RIG Arts creative space at The Tobacco Warehouse. Open Mic.
Inverclyde Culture Collective
Disability Equality Training
Inverclyde Culture Collective are proud to host Disability Equality Training delivered by Birds of Paradise Theatre Company as part of Inverclyde Culture Collective’s events programme. Organizations, artists and individuals associated with Inverclyde’s cultural sector are invited to take part in a training event, which will be spread across two sessions on Tuesday the 12th and Wednesday the 13th April 2022 and will be taking place between 2:00pm and 4:30pm.
ABOUT
The training will be taking place over zoom and any required material or tools for accessing the sessions will be outlined in advance. This training has been identified out of a process of consultation with members of Inverclyde Culture Collective and is responding to several areas of organizational activity which is believed could be improved on, both for the organizations themselves and for creating more accessible conditions for service users and participants involved in activity. The sessions have been funded by Inverclyde Culture Collective’s access budget, which is also available to be utilized by partners, associated venues, artists, and participants to explore ways to remove any barriers to access.
Information about the training provider Birds of Paradise can be found here https://www.boptheatre.co.uk/
Information about their broader training programmes can be found here https://www.boptheatre.co.uk/what-we-do/training/
TRAINING CONTENT
The training Is delivered over two sessions and will be delivered across two days to promote healthier digital use and provide space and time for the content of the training to be digested and reflected upon. If taking part in the training it is essential that both sessions are attended. The outline of the sessions is as followed
· 1st Session:
Tuesday 12th April: 2:00pm- 4:30pm
Disability Equality Training including: Statistics; Legislation; Language; Legal Framework; Who is disabled; Barriers vs Impairments
· 2nd Session:
Wednesday 13th April 2:00pm- 4:30pm
Tools and Procedures for Accessibility: A talk through some of those tools and procedures that BOP uses to ensure an accessible working environment
KATHARINE MACFARLANE: WORD
Thursdays from 20.01.22 19:00—20:00 Join our weekly, digital drop-in sessions via Zoom where we’ll be discussing some of the issues impacting Inverclyde today, sharing prompts to encourage writing in response and making new friends along the way.Once a month we’ll meet up in person at the WORD @ The Warehouse Sessions where we’ll share works in progress and develop stage skills. See overleaf for further info.
This is your chance to speak out on issues from climate change to inequality. Have your voice heard whether that’s through prose, poetry or song. WORD gives you the platform to have
your say, your way.
These informal, fun sessions are open to anyone age 16+ who lives in, works in or is otherwise connected with Inverclyde.
KATHARINE MACFARLANE: THE WRITERS WELL
Tuesdays from 18th January 2022
Join our weekly, digital drop-in sessions via Zoom, where we’ll be drawing inspiration from our favourite pieces of writing, sharing prompts to encourage new writing and making friends along the way.
Once a month we’ll meet up in person on our Writer’s Well Walks where we’ll share our writing and seek inspiration from around the world around us. These short, gentle strolls will incorporate plenty of rest and reflection breaks and time for tea/coffee and writing.
Open to anyone who lives in, works or is otherwise connected with Inverclyde
GREER PESTER | BASHFUL RADICALS KITE FLYING SPECTACLE
Tuesday 2nd November 3:30pm-5pm, Wellpark, Greenock
Bashful Radicals- Inspired by the Guatemalan kite making practice
of ‘Barriletes’ where during the Day of the Dead Festival in Sumpango the community comes together to build giant colourful kites to remember the dead. Through the Galoshans residency Greer will be exploring text and creative forms of activism
and will work with the local community to build a large gentle protest kite and to encourage movement towards practices that make us feel like more connected and reflective humans as part of the natural world. Let’s celebrate together as we fly the kite over Inverclyde
PLAYMOBILE & KRISTYNA ILEK: THE MUSEUM OF MISSING MYTHS
Thursday 11th November, 6.30, 7.30 and 8.30pm
The Museum of Missing Myths
Walking Night Tour. Suitable for all ages.
Thursday 11th November, 6.30, 7.30 and 8.30pm
KATHARINE MACFARLANE: BOOK WEEK SCOTLAND: LETS CELEBRATE INVERCLYDE’S WRITERS
Sat, 20 November 2021, 10:00 – 12:00PM
From poetry to prose Inverclyde has produced some of Scotland’s most engaging writing so please join Inverclyde Culture Collective Writer in Residence poet Katharine Macfarlane and members of the Greenock Writers' Club for a gentle walk along the Clyde as we celebrate the work of Inverclyde writers past and present. Over tea, coffee, and celebratory cakes we’ll discuss the future of writing in Inverclyde and share some exciting new opportunities for Inverclyde’s writers!
Meet Greenock Central Library 10am. Please dress for the weather and wear shoes suitable for walking.