It’s possible that, for many of those gathered in Paisley Town Hall’s Jacquard Suite on Tuesday afternoon, Future Paisley has been a fixture in their lives for longer than they might care to admit.
Continue reading “CCSE’s Annual Symposium: “Cultural Regeneration, Policy, Impact & Supporting the Sector.” Future Paisley & Beyond.”
The Paisley Townscape Heritage Conservation Area Scheme 2 (Paisley TH.CARS2) is a £4.5M regeneration programme led by Renfrewshire Council, with match funding from National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) and Historic Environment Scotland (HES).
Continue reading “The Making of Paisley: Communities, Heritage Learning and Regeneration”
With its Future Paisley programme, Paisley has demonstrated a drive to improve the town’s public spaces through the medium of regeneration, whereby participation and community input has become a key tool of success.
Continue reading “Creativity in Regeneration: From a Textile Hub to a Hub of Culture and Creativity”
Another wee while has flown by since the last slightly random summary of CCSE blog activity; we have tentatively emerged from COVID restriction, endured unusual summer heat and enjoyed another season of outdoor sports.
Continue reading “The First Summary since the Last Summary: Life on the CCSE Blog”
A couple of weeks ago on a Tuesday, SGSAH hosted an event: Regenerative Practices through Embodiment, a workshop for researchers working with the notion of regeneration and its relationship to the human body.
Continue reading “Embodying Regeneration 🪴”
The Burrell Collection in Glasgow reopened to the public on 29 March 2022, after a major refurbishment that lasted nearly 6 years.The A-listed home of The Burrell Collection in Pollok Country Park is now a modern, greener museum that shows more of the Collection to visitors and gives access to over a third more of the building.
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This project is a collaboration between the University of the West of Scotland and Renfrewshire Council (Culture, Heritage and Events Fund), which aims to raise awareness of Paisley School of Arts, with the desire to establish formal arts education in the town tracing back to 1836.
Continue reading “The Paisley School of Arts”
The Grand Conversaziones series – part of the currently ongoing Paisley Exhibition – kicked off on the second Friday in February with a frank and fascinating exploration of Paisley’s Present.
Continue reading “Don’t Just Patch – Have a Revolution / Begin by Sewing on a Button 🪡 🧵”
Every week at PACE we see first-hand how positive creative and cultural experiences can transform social, educational and wellbeing outcomes for young people – particularly to those most disadvantaged.
Continue reading “A Youth-Led Cultural Revolution 🎭”
We won’t use this blog to describe what happened inside the Glen Cinema, Paisley on Hogmanay 1929 – it is well documented online, in history books, and in the memories of the people of Renfrewshire and across the world.
Continue reading “The Glen Cinema Memorial Artwork (TW)”
he delayed COP26 summit is to begin on the last day of October, amid the road closures and the rail strikes, the challenges of social distancing and – perhaps – of Scottish weather in autumn, over 30,000 attendees representing over 200 countries, businesses, NGOs and other groups will meet and attempt to advance the aims of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Continue reading “COP26 – A Paddle into Podcasts”
At the beginning of June, CCSE had the perhaps slightly unexpected pleasure of one again hosting our annual conference virtually. As CCSE Director – Prof Gayle McPherson – pointed out in her opening remarks; at the time of our first virtual outing in May last year, there were few among us who believed we’d be gearing up for a second digital event just over twelve months later.
Continue reading “Recovery, Repair, Renewal: Conference Video”
On September 1939, at the start of the start of World War II, the government ordered the closure of all theatres throughout Britain, fearing that large congregations of people would be susceptible to aerial bombardment.
Continue reading “Illuminating a Dark Theatre: Arts, Community, COVID19, Theatre, Cultural Heritage, Culture, Digital”
The Centre for Culture, Sport & Events is delighted to invite you to our virtual annual conference. The event ‘Recovery, Repair & Renewal: The role of arts and culture in the future of urban places’ will take place on Wednesday 9th June 2021.
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During the 1980’s and 90s, when social enterprise was an innovative concept in Scotland, Strathclyde Regional Council, Objective 3 Partnership and the Scottish Centre for Regeneration were surprised when Fablevision board members thanked them for turning down applications for funding on the grounds that we were ‘not sustainable’.
Continue reading “Post-Pandemic: The Cockroaches of the Cultural Sector”
At the beginning of 2020, colleagues from STAR Project, Renfrewshire Council and the University of the West of Scotland organised a workshop, Paisley Art & Soul. The workshop brought together members of Renfrewshire’s local communities and other stakeholders to discuss the ways that art and culture affects individual and community prosperity and wellbeing.
Continue reading “UKRI Place Based Partnership – Evidence Review Launch”
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.
Continue reading “CCSE, A Year in Review through the Lens of our Blog: part II”
Back in February (admittedly, a time that now feels but a distant memory), the Centre for Culture, Sport and Events, Renfrewshire Council and STAR Project came together to ask the Paisley community what culture meant to them. Despite the appaling weather, our community members attended en masse to tell us exactly what it meant to them.
Continue reading “Art & Soul of Paisley – ‘Get on yer feet, use yer voice, get the colour markers out!’”