by Lil Brookes | Feb 25, 2021 | Arts, Community, COVID19, Cultural Heritage, Culture, Digital, Events, Lonliness, Uncategorised
In late March 2020 I watched with disbelief as my diary of project meetings, stock deliveries and workshops was wiped as the corona virus pandemic hit, leaving me wondering what next for my small business?
I’ve worked hard over the past five years to establish Gatekeeper Art with two main strands of business, as a selling artist and as a social historian delivering community heritage projects.
Following the initial clearing of my diary I salvaged some of the workshops in the projects I was working on then and adapted them to an online format and thus I was introduced to the wonderful world of “Zoom”. This is a new world for me and I have to admit to being both terrified and excited at the prospect of online delivery but willing to take on the challenge of a steep learning curve! (more…)
by Sophie Mamattah | Sep 17, 2020 | Arts, Community, COVID19, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Regeneration, Culture, Events, Lonliness, Sport, Uncategorised
In the early spring, plans for our upcoming Annual Symposium – to be hosted at the University in May, 2020 – we well underway. And then, the COVID19 pandemic arrived.
By the end of March, 2020 we – based at UWS – along with colleagues from across our networks of collaborators, stakeholders and associates were finding our feet in the ‘new normal.’ For many of us, this included working from home for the foreseeable future. (more…)
by Sophie Mamattah | Sep 10, 2020 | Arts, Community, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Regeneration, Culture, Events, Place, Publications, Research profile, Uncategorised
The passage of time has been a somewhat strange – or at least, stranger – thing to experience in 2020 than is usually the case. It is nevertheless heartening to look back over the academic year through the lens of the posts that we’ve been able to publish on the CCSE blog. (more…)
by ccseadmin | Sep 3, 2020 | Arts, Community, COVID19, Cultural Heritage, Culture, Events, Uncategorised
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by Jade Adamson | Aug 20, 2020 | Arts, Community, COVID19, Cultural Heritage, Events
Pre-covid time seems so distant and different now on reflection. Back in February, when I first met with the Renfrewshire Council Events team to discuss the role of creative producer for Sma’ Shot Day 2020, little did any of us consider that the all of the exciting plans and ideas for this year would have to be re-imagined so dramatically and suddenly. (more…)
by Lyndsey Jackson | Jul 9, 2020 | Community, COVID19, Cultural Heritage, Events, Place, Uncategorised
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe not taking place for the first time in its 73 year history was a huge professional and personal blow to the thousands of individuals and organisations who make up the festival. The Fringe Society, the charity that underpins the infrastructure of the festival, faced an existential crisis as 85% of its income is earned through the festival. (more…)
