This week, Active Schools Coordinators Tammy Johnston and David Rose reflect on the ways in which the COVID 19 pandemic has impacted on their work and, on the experiences of the young people they work with. Active Schools is a government initative funded by sportscotland and managed by Local Authorities.
German philosopher and cultural critic Fredrich Nietzsche once said “invisible threads are the strongest ties”. As well as being reminiscent of Paisley’s very own Sma’ Shot, there is the undeniable truth that these invisible threads Nietzsche refers to are what binds our communities together.
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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.
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On a blustery Friday afternoon, hardy and rain-spotted folk from in and around Paisley gathered at the Beechwood Community Centre in Shortroods to take part in the first of the workshops planned as part of our UKRI funded place-based partnership project:Improving Community Wellbeing and Prosperity through Culture, #ArtandSoul.
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As part of the delivery of training in cultural heritage workshops that took place in Mombasa, Kenya from 12-16 November 2019, the team and participants took a trip to Fort Jesus.
Continue reading “Memorialisation, Heritage and Funding at Fort Jesus, Mombasa.”
The Future Paisley Partnership comprises 22 local and national organisations committed to driving forward Paisley’s cultural regeneration.
Continue reading “Learning from Regeneration on our Doorstep: Future Paisley field trip to Glasgow’s East End”
As principle investigator for the Anti-Slavery Knowledge Network funded project Hidden Histories: the untold stories of Slavery and James Town, I have spent a good deal of time in Ghana over the last twelve months.
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PhD Student and Research Associate at CCSE, University of the West of Scotland, Greis Cifuentes, has launched a Street Library program called Libros a la Calle in Ibagué, Colombia.
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I was lucky enough to join Renfrewshire Council in autumn 2018 as part of a new Cultural Regeneration team established to build on the legacy of Paisley’s UK City of Culture bid.
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Last week the British Council published The Art of Peace: the value of culture in post-conflict recovery. The booklet is a summary document deriving from earlier work undertaken by CCSE which was commissioned on the basis of a successful response to a British Council tender opportunity.
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The new Centre for Culture, Sport and Events was launched officially on 21st March, the event was attended by almost a 100 local, national, policy, community and practitioner stakeholders.
Continue reading “Lift Off for the Centre for Culture, Sport & Events (CCSE) 🚀”