Connected Communities Festival 2015

The Connected Communities Festival 2015 (15-29 June) will explore creative ways to widen and deepen community engagement with the exciting and innovative research being undertaken by the Connected Communities Programme and the AHRC.

• ‘Our place in Time’ exhibition (Tue 16 June, 1-2pm, Edinburgh)
• Postcards from Culter (Mon 15 – Wed 24 June, Aberdeen)
• ‘Our Place in Time’ poem reading video shoot (Thu 18 June, 11am-3pm, Edinburgh)
• Big Walk: Poetry in Motion (Wed 17 June, 1.30-3pm, Edinburgh)
• Connected with the Clyde: A Multi-Disciplinary Canoe Journey (training workshops Thu 18-Fri 19 June, event Sat 27 June, River Clyde)
• Visit of Cassiltoun Housing Association and ACCORD (Sat 20 June, Edinburgh)
• Big Walk: ‘Paint it Back’ featuring the Edinburgh Sketcher (Tue 23 June, 12-3pm, Edinburgh)
• End of Festival Film Night (Sat 27 June, 6pm onwards, Edinburgh)

Northern Ireland

• East Belfast and the Great War – WW1 Roadshow Event (Sat 6 June, Belfast)
• Weom the Falls to the Shankill – a walking tour on the history of UVF members from 1913-14 who served in the Great War (Sat 20 June, Belfast)
• National Museum Northern Ireland – First World War tour and workshop at the Ulster Museum (Tue 23 June, Belfast)
• Arts for All – Mural exploring the years 1914-1918 (Thu 25 June, Belfast)

Wales

• CAER HEDZ (15 June and Sat 4 July, 11am-2pm, Cardiff)
• Merthyr Moves: An Artistic Celebration of Life in the Welsh Valleys (Tue 16 June, 7pm for launch with various events happening between 16-29 June, Merthyr Tydfill)
• Memo… Mono… Move… A journey through memories, heard through monologues, seen through movement (Tue 16 June, 6.30pm, Pontmorlais)
• Cymerau Launch (Sat 20 June, 1-6pm, Borth)
• Working together for improved outcomes: dementia and the community – A workshop for organisations and individuals supporting people to live well with dementia (Tue 23 June, 09.15am-4pm, Ruthkin)
• Connecting Communities to Industrial Heritage in the Swansea Valley (Thu 25 June, 09.30am-4:30pm, Swansea)

North East

• Transmitting Musical Heritage (Mon 15 – Tue 16 June, 9am-3pm, Sheffield)
• Imagine North East – Connecting Communities through Research Festival (Mon 15 – Sat 27 June, various locations in the North East)
• Action research for Social Justice: Changing the Climate for Research and Teaching (Wed 17 June, 12.30-1.45pm, Durham)
• What has heritage ever done for us? (…and what would we like heritage to do for York?): Community visions for the future of York’s heritage (Sat 20 June, 2-5pm, York)
• Castle House Artists’ Vibrancy Festival (Sat 20 – Sun 21 June, Sheffield)
• Participatory Ethics through Participatory Theatre (Mon 22 June, 12.30-4pm, Durham)
• Dilemmas Café: Using Dialogue to Explore Ethical Challenges in Community based Participatory Research (Tue 23 June, 5.30-8pm, Durham)
• Imagine: Filming Connecting Communities Through Research (Various locations and times from 23 June – 27 November)
• Imagine North East – Launch of Exhibition (Sat 27 June, 10:30am-4:30pm with exhibition launch at 11am, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne)
• Dementia and Imagination: connecting communities and developing well-being through socially engaged visual arts practice (Tue 7 July, 10.30 – 4pm, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne)

North West

• One Great Workshop (Mon 15- Sun 28 June, Sheffield)
• Cutting Shapes (exhibition takes place Tue 16 June – Sun 5 July. The gallery is open to the public Tue – Sat 11am-5.30pm, Sheffield)
• Cross-Cultural Connections: Sharing Manchester’s Migration Stories (workshops on Wed 17 June 4-6pm; Sat 20 June 11am-1pm; Wed 24 June 4-6pm; Sat 27 June 11am-1pm, Sat 4 July 4pm, Manchester)
• ManModSoc – a Manchester Modernist Society Exhibition in four parts (Fri 19 – Fri 26 June, 10a,-6pm, Manchester)
• Mooch (part 2 ManModSoc) (Fri 19 June – Sat 4 July, 10am-4.30pm, Manchester)
• ManModSoc – exhibition launch (Sat 20 June, 1-4pm, Manchester)
• 200 years of Ordsall’s Social History: a theatre workshop (Sat 20 June, 10am-4pm, Salford)
• Heritage Hit Squad! The role of people power and community expertise in protecting heritage assets (Sat 20 June, 11am-5pm, Manchester)
• CONNECTING THE MUSEUM AND THE PARK – Midsummer programme in Cheetham Park and Manchester Jewish Museum (Sat 20 and Sun 21 June, 11am-3pm, Manchester and Salford)
• Hulme Walk (Tue 23 June, 6.30-8pm, Manchester)
• Dementia & Imagination: conversations around a socially engaged visual arts research project (Thu 25 June, 11am-4pm, Manchester)
• Cutting Shapes – Performance (Fri 26 June, 6-9pm, Sheffield)
• ‘Stories to Connect With’ – Story-telling Festival (Sat 27 June, 09.30am-4.30pm, Preston)
• SEVEN BRIDGES (Part 1) (Sat 27-Sun 28 June 11.30am and 2.30pm, Bradford)
• SEVEN BRIDGES (Part 2) (Sat 27-Sun 28 June – times TBC, Leeds)

• Memories and Play through the Ages: Games for All (Sun 14 June  and Tue 16 June 12-4pm. The Unity Hubb will also be open from Mon 15-Fri 19 June, Birmingham)
• Care Experienced Young People and Participation Workshop (Fri 19 June, 10am-4pm, Leicester)
• Global Cotton Connections of the Derwent Valley: creative reflections (Sat 20 June 10am, 12 noon and 2pm, Matlock)
• Digital heritage as co-production at Caistor Roman town (Sun 21 June, 10am-4pm, Norfolk)

• Making Sense of Community Engagement in and with History and Heritage Based Research (Mon 22 June, 10am-4pm, Birmingham)

• Creative Practice as Mutual Recovery: Connecting Communities for Mental Health and Well-Being at the QUAD, Derby (Mon 22 June, Derby)

• The ‘Health in the community’ Immersive Workshop (Thu 25 June, 10.30am-3.30pm, Staffordshire)

• Ceramic City Stories – DIY Heritage Action (Sat 27 June, 10am-4pm, Stoke-on-Trent)
• Waterways Heritage Day (Sat 27 June, 09.30am-4pm, Newark)
• Creative Citizen Fair (Sat 27 June, 11am-4pm, Birmingham)
• Food festival: ‘Local food, local plates, local people’ (Sun 28 June, 11am-3pm, Stoke-on-Trent)
• Balsall Heath Poetic Transect (Sat 4 July, Birmingham)

South West

• ‘Tidal Turnings’ – the further adventures of Proxi and Peri and the Bristol Tidal Supporters Club (Sun 20 June, 1-5pm, Bristol)
• Into the Mud (Sun 21 June, 10am-4pm TBC, Gloucestershire)
• Tangible Memories: Community in Care (Tue 23 June, 10am-7.30pm, Bristol)

South East​

• Evocative Objects: the Materialities of Amateur Dramatics
  Part of the AHRC-funded Amateur Dramatics: Crafting Communities in Time and Space research (Tue 16 June, Ealing, London;Sat 27 June, 11am-4pm, Worcester)

• ‘Making Suburban Faith’ Stall at Hanwell Carnival (Sat 20 June, 2-6pm, London)

• Co-designing resilience training tools for local communities, digital artists and designers, parents, young people, practitioners and policy makers (Tue 23 June, Brighton)

• The Queen Alexandra Hospital Home Heritage Launch Evening (Wed 24 June, 6.30-8.30pm, Worthing)
• ‘Sharing Memories/Community Archive  Coffee Morning (Thu 25 June, 10.30am – 12:30pm, London)
• Legacy in Progress: the development and construction of three interim spaces (Thu 25 June, 4.30-6pm for tours and 7.30pm for talk, London)
• Boundaries: the Edge Condition (Fri 26 June, 2-6pm; Sat 27-Sun28 June, 11am-5pm; Mon 29 June 10am-12pm, London)
• Wick Session (Fri 26 June, 7.30pm, London)
• Planning in the Pub (Fri 26 June, 8-10.30pm, London)
• Soundwaves:Community Voices and Heritage Activism (Sat 27-Sun 28 June, 10am-4pm, St Ives)
• DEN-City (Sat 27-Sun 28 June, 10am-6pm, London)
• Hackney WickED Open Studios (Sat 27 – Sun 28 June, 12-6pm, London)
• Creative Factories: Local Planning for a Live-Work Neighbourhood (Sat 27-Sun 28 June, 1-6pm, London)
• Hackney WickED Open Studios (Sat 27 – Sun 28 June, 12-6pm, London)