When- Friday 2nd June 10.30am-1pm

Where- Creative Stirling 44 King Street

Who? - Stirling University

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We would like to invite interested stakeholders to a workshop and lunch hosted at Creative Stirling to share insights from a recent Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) funded project (March 2021- October 2022) ‘Mapping Ecologies of Care in Creative Hubs during Covid-19’.

The RSE project explored the ways in which Creative Stirling and the Kitchen at 44 King Street transformed their activities, mobilised their networks and redeployed their assets during COVID-19. The Creative Stirling experience demonstrates the powerful role of creative and cultural activity, skills and innovation in addressing community needs and complex issues at a time of crisis. It shows that if you centre care and trust people on the ground, solutions to complex problems can be found. Worryingly, however, the current context of economic uncertainty linked to the cost-of-living and public funding crises undermines opportunities to redraw priorities with the learning from this period.

Join us to identify the characteristics of more sustainable networks of support for creative hubs, and viable strategies to develop them to protect the infrastructure, relationships and assets that have been so critical to Scotland’s communities during the pandemic.

Lunch provided.

Free event, £10 refundable deposit.