Events

This page is regularly updated by the Connected Communities Team and individual projects with upcoming events. These events are a great way for everyone, from researchers and community partners to members of the public, to get involved in the programme.

Telling the Bees at Fruit Festival 2015

Bellwood Park, 10 October 2015 10:00 am

Join us in Bellwood Park, a tranquil riverside setting, five minutes’ walk from Perth city centre, to celebrate the 2015 orchard harvest. Read more

Stories of Migration: The New Kids on the Block

The Linen Hall Library, 30 October 2015 1:00 pm

This event closes the “From Home to Here” exhibition at the Linen Hall which takes place between October 1st and 31st and explores ‘Belonging’, ‘Exile’ and ‘Identity’. It will be delivered by Prof. Karen Corrigan and Dr Adam Mearns of Newcastle University, who curated the exhibition, alongside Dr Carolina Amador-Moreno of the University of Extremadura. Read more

Collective Worship and Religious Observance in Schools: An Evaluation of Law and Policy in the UK

College Court, 13 November 2015 10:00 am

This conference is on collective worship and religious observance in UK schools. The aim of the conference is to present the conclusions and recommendations of a two-year Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research network project, which has examined the law and policy governing collective worship (England, Northern Ireland, Wales) and religious observance (Scotland) in schools. Read more

Ritual Reconstructed End of Project Event

JW3, 24 November 2015 3:00 pm

Join us for an event dedicated to examining Jewish life through an LGBTQI lens. Ritual Reconstructed is a collaborative, community and academic project working with film, performance, installation and storytelling to look at the ways in which Jewish people who identify as LGBTQI, engage in religious and community life.  This event is a culmination of that project. Read more

Re-Imagining Toilets

Z-Arts, 27 November 2015 2:30 pm

Re-imagining Toilets is a FREE event marking the end of the Around the Toilet project. Read more

Listening to Voices: Creative Disruptions with the Hearing Voices Network

, 12 January 2016 1:30 pm

    You are warmly invited to celebrate the launch of our project with publication of Listen (If You Dare): An Unlikely Companion to Voice-Hearing and accompanying sound piece and website. Read more

3rd AHRC Connected Communities Heritage Network Symposium

University of Lincoln, 14 January 2016

The AHRC funded Heritage Network http://www.heritagenetwork.dmu.ac.uk/  provides a forum and support for both academics and community partners working on Connected Communities and Digital Transformation Heritage Projects. Our last symposium held in Sheffield was a great success with over 60 delegates sharing the results and experiences of their AHRC and HLF funded projects. Read more

Fields of Green: Songwriter’s Circle & EP Launch

Platform, 21 January 2016 7:30 pm

A group of Scotland’s finest songwriters – Rachel Sermanni, Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow), RM Hubbert, The Pictish Trail and Jo Mango – will premiere a series of brand new songs inspired by their travels as musicians. Read more

Ritual Reconstructed: reconfiguring “places” of spirituality & identity

Buckinhamshire New University, 5 February 2016 1:00 pm

In the past year Searle Kochberg, from the Faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries, has been working on and collaborating with Liberal Judaism UK, Bucks New University,Coventry University and colleagues in CCI to create Ritual Reconstruction, a Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) research project. Read more

The Large Honey Collider

Edinburgh College of Art, 12 March 2016 10:00 am

Telling the Bees invites people from different backgrounds (beekeepers, storytellers, designers, environmental humanity scholars and many more!) to share knowledge and experience at our final Telling the Bees event. Read more

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