How can communities support parents and children navigating climate emotions? Join researchers, parents & community organisations on 3rd September for a day featuring talks, creative activities, an exhibition and collaborative discussion. More here: events.humanitix.com/feelings-fam...

Feelings, Family and Future: Communities supporting parents and children managing climate emotions

This one-day workshop examines families’ climate emotions and works towards collaboratively developing support strategies and initiatives.

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📣 Interesting opportunity from the @migrationmuseum.org team! They have launched a UK-wide Community Curators programme, recruiting people to help co-create exhibitions exploring local migration stories 👏 Find out more: www.migrationmuseum.org/community-cu...

Migration Museum partners with museums and galleries to launch new UK-wide Community Curators programme

The Migration Museum is partnering with five museums and galleries across the UK to launch a new programme bringing diverse voices, lived experiences, and perspectives into the creation of a series of...

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Have you seen the Truth About Youth? 👀 @youngscot.bsky.social published their annual insight into the experiences & concerns of young people - this year’s findings highlight key issues like mental wellbeing, safety, misinformation, poverty & the cost of living. 🔗: https://bit.ly/4h2TDKn

For the past year, we've been hosting writing retreats at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social ✏️ One of our attendees has shared a fascinating piece on the value of writing alongside others – from deep focus to the conversations that spark new ideas. Read here: binks-hub.ed.ac.uk/writing-in-c...

Fascinating and thought provoking piece

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How can we challenge childism and take children seriously as cultural & political actors now? Explore three thought‑provoking articles from a collaborative project spanning research, art and children’s rights. Read more and join the conversation 👇 binks-hub.ed.ac.uk/the-children...

Join our friends for the Compassion Salon, in collaboration with @edinburghmedschool.bsky.social. Set to be a warm and reflective evening of meaningful conversation, and shared insight into the importance of compassion in our lives. Tickets and more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-compas...

The Compassion Salon: Lorna Marson and Annabel Sowemimo

Join the Compassion Salon with Professor Lorna Marson and Dr Annabel Sowemimo.

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How can we better support young people to talk about violence? Through creative, youth-led approaches, Everyone Has A Story explores new ways to share lived experience and shape prevention. Proud to support this collaborative work with partners across Scotland. binks-hub.ed.ac.uk/everyone-has...

How can we challenge childism and take children seriously as cultural & political actors now? Explore three thought‑provoking articles from a collaborative project spanning research, art and children’s rights. Read more and join the conversation 👇 binks-hub.ed.ac.uk/the-children...

Book launch: Playwriting and the Craft of Audience Participation by Dr Helen Shutt. Thu 18th June, 5–7pm, IASH Seminar Room Explore care‑centred audience participation with discussion by Helen and Jack MacGregor! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Book Launch: "Playwriting and the Craft of Audience Participation"

Join us for this book launch featuring author Dr Helen Shutt in conversation with playwright Jack MacGregor.

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Sharing for colleagues 👇 Inequalities in Arts & Cultural Engagement 22 June, 1–2:30pm – @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Talk by Dr Sergi Blancafort Alias + discussion on cultural participation & inequality. All welcome. Register: edin.ac/4x01YEn

Our friends and colleagues at Living Good Food Nation Lab have the next session of their monthly forum coming up! Wednesday 17th June | 12-1pm | Online Register and find out more here:

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Last month we opened 'Come Away In', an exhibition with the @povertytruthscot.bsky.social bringing together stories, creative work & new micro-archive. It was a space for reflection, connection & shared experience. Read our blog for reflections from the exhibition: edin.ac/49Sar2D #ComeAwayIn

We have a powerful and moving guest blog by Kirsty Roebuck of the Bethany Christian Trust on our site, looking at the effects of financial abuse on women, and how it pushes them towards homelessness. www.povertyalliance.org/guest-blog-f...

Guest blog: For Richer or Poorer - The Effects of Financial Abuse on Homelessness - The Poverty Alliance

Kirsty Roebuck, Project Worker, Bethany Christian Trust Read more about the important work of the Bethany Christian Trust "I can't go back until I've made £20. Not after last time" It's a cold night…

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Starting tomorrow - Friday 29 May 2026 People Fest is the UK Association of Social Anthropologists’ festival of public anthropology, and is on from 29-31 May. It is in Edinburgh this year to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Social Anthropology at the University. Info: edin.ac/43A468c

4 June | Airdrie Town Hall: North Lanarkshire’s REALITIES hub hosts a Creative Health Conference exploring how creativity, nature & connection support resilient communities. 🎟️ Free – register:

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Join us for an inspiring day at the NL Creative Health Conference, where creativity, wellbeing, and community come together.

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Join us for a conversation with Professor Beth Simone Noveck, a world-leading technology expert who advised President Obama. "Civic University – Democracy, AI, and the Public Imagination" will take place on 2 June at Edinburgh Futures Institute and online. More info + tickets 👉 edin.ac/3R8mUbR

Obama advisor to speak on AI and democracy | News | The University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh Futures Institute

Edinburgh Futures Institute is excited to invite you to the first event of our Future University events programme — a conversation with Professor Beth Simone Noveck, a world-leading technology expert ...

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Join our friends from On the Margins for the launch of A new book, 'Olive Growing in Palestine: Stories of Everyday Forms of Resistance'. A thoughtful and timely event – please share and support if you can. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Book launch: Olive growing in Palestine

This event marks the launch of Simaan's book: Olive growing in Palestine - Stories of everyday forms of resistance

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Up to beautiful Stirling today to deliver a workshop as part of an afternoon in honour of Sara Hitchin. She has just retired from University of Stirling. Looking forward 2 celebrating #socialworkeducation - much to be proud of thanks to women like Sara!!! sw100.ed.ac.uk/people/alumn...

Day 3 of our exhibition. Thank you so much to everyone who has come away in so far. If you haven’t been able to join us in person, you can still see the digital quilt and full archive here: edin.ac/4fwv3AN Make yourself a cuppa, make yourself comfy and dive in. #comeawayin

We hope you enjoyed visiting the @povertytruthscot.bsky.social archive! We would like this to be a living archive of stories, relationships and collective change. If you would like to contribute, visit: ptc-archive.org #PovertyTruthCommunity #CommunityArchive #ComeAwayIn

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Come away, come away in.

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Have you explored the archive yet? Spend time with: - audio stories - collages - short stories - themes woven through the digital quilt You might even get a nice cup of tea! You can get a taste of the archive on our digital quilt: edin.ac/4nkNj2b #ComeAwayIn @povertytruthscot.bsky.social

The @povertytruthscot.bsky.social archive brings together stories, objects & artefacts that reflect people’s lived experiences of poverty. This audio features a series of extracts from the archive: edin.ac/4wmFZXK Visit the @byreshub.bsky.social this week to see all the project outputs #ComeAwayIn

The archive is now open 🎉 Explore stories, collage, objects and sound gathered through this shared digital quilt. #PovertyTruthCommunity #ComeAwayIn @povertytruthscot.bsky.social @byreshub.bsky.social edin.ac/49od8sc

TODAY IS LAUNCH DAY! At 12 noon, we launch the Poverty Truth Community archive and digital quilt, alongside the exhibition opening at Byres Community Hub in Glasgow. We’d love to welcome you. More info: edin.ac/3Fmy4nl #ComeAwayIn @povertytruthscot.bsky.social @byreshub.bsky.social

Get your cup of tea ready, we launch tomorrow! At noon, we open the digital archive and launch the exhibition. Stories stitched together. Voices held with care. A community legacy shared. We hope you’ll come away in with us. Byres Community Hub, Glasgow 12pm, 19 May - 12pm, 22 May #ComeAwayIn

How do you tell the story of a community which means so many different things to different people?Come along next week to our exhibition with @thebinkshub.bsky.social to find out how our digital quilt helped us tell a cohesive story whose sum is even greater than its beautiful patches.

📣 Only four days to go! On Tuesday we launch: - Our community archive - Our digital quilt and - An exhibition at @byreshub.bsky.social in Glasgow We’d love you to join us. Come away in. Find out more: edin.ac/3Fmy4nl #ComeAwayIn @povertytruthscot.bsky.social

It's been an honour to work with @thebinkshub.bsky.social @povertytruthscot.bsky.social on their community archive, telling the story of their relational approach to anti-poverty work in Scotland

The Binks Hub@thebinkshub.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How was this made? Through conversations, collage-making, community memories and shared creative practice, this archive has been built slowly and collectively. This blog shares more about how this collaborative project has grown: edin.ac/4iF8lFy #ComeAwayIn @povertytruthscot.bsky.social

How was this made? Through conversations, collage-making, community memories and shared creative practice, this archive has been built slowly and collectively. This blog shares more about how this collaborative project has grown: edin.ac/4iF8lFy #ComeAwayIn @povertytruthscot.bsky.social

Listen closely. The Poverty Truth Community archive is shaped not only through images, but through voices, conversation & lived experience. Here's a taster from the soundscapes and stories woven through the project: edin.ac/4fdRr1N More: edin.ac/3Fmy4nl #ComeAwayIn @povertytruthscot.bsky.social