Connecting Threads

Connecting Threads: Tweed River Culture is a creative placemaking project focusing on the River Tweed as a source of inspiration, culture and connectedness.

Connecting Threads brings together creative practitioners with conservationists, environmentalists, scientists, river specialists and communities of place and purpose, to celebrate the River Tweed through a five-year programme of cultural activity.

Connecting Threads is led by the Southern Uplands Partnership.

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Connecting Threads
Connecting Threads incubation period explores the river and its ecologies, supporting creative practitioners to use the River Tweed as a source of inspiration for their work. Credit: Connecting Threads.
Salmon procession workshop with Jo Helfer in Horncliffe. Credit: Jo Helfer.

Managed by Southern Uplands Partnership, Connecting Threads is a catchment project that celebrates ‘river culture’ – the relationship we have with the river through the routines, rituals, traditions, beliefs, stories, music, industries and land management practices which connect us to it. While focusing activities on the Tweed, Connecting Threads also draws people in from beyond the river corridor and connects people up, down and across the river.

Working collaboratively with local groups, conservation and environmental organisations and the wider creative community, Connecting Threads programmes activities across a range of sizes, scales, durations, artistic contents and ambitions. These activities include hands-on creative workshops, river celebrations, artist residencies, concerts, conferences, exhibitions and more. Through this multi-faceted, response and inclusive approach to programming, Connecting Threads invite communities and visitors to make deeper connections to the river environment and to each other.

Down By the River I... (2023) Credit: Huia Takau.

Connecting Threads recently launched a new website to enable people to engage with their programming in different ways. The website includes critical essays exploring creative themes in more detail, artist profiles, creative conversations and a growing project archive.

Check out a snapshot of their latest events below and follow the link for more information on recent work.

 

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