The Stove Network Podcast

Nov 27 2024 21 ep. 40 mins 51

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The Stove Network is an arts and community organisation in the heart of Dumfries High Street. We’re a cafe, a meeting place and an arts & events venue with a diverse programme stretching across music and literature, visual and public art, film and theatre, to town planning, architecture and design.We use arts and creativity to encourage, to gather, learn and bring life back to our town centre. We see the arts not as something solely for an ‘arts audience’ but rather as a vital contribution to society on all fronts.At the heart of everything we do is a love for our town and wider region. As the only arts-led development trust in Scotland, we work alongside our local authority, community organisations, local businesses and charities to create a vision for the future of Dumfries High Street. We’re aiming to create a place where culture, community and enterprise work hand-in-hand to support a new vision of the High Street. Our podcast features exclusive content, interviews, news and more. Stay updated by hitting 'follow' or 'subscribe'.

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Episode 1: Spotlight with Cameron Hunter | What We Do Now

Nov 27 2024 24 mins

In this debut episode, we chat with Cameron Hunter—audio producer, musician, and drummer for North Atlas. Cameron shares insights into his work mentoring young artists in Dumfries & Galloway and his journey in music and production.What We Do Now (WWDN) is a creative placemaking network based in Dumfries & Galloway. We bring together artists and community organizations to

Freshers Mixer Reflections with Creative Spaces ✨

Nov 12 2024 22 mins

Back in September our Creative Spaces Team; Anna, Sonah & James hosted their first event at the Stove - The Freshers Mixer. With live performances, goodie bags and a (slightly chaotic) quiz, listen to the team talking through the project and their experience of throwing a stowed-out party on Dumfries High Street 🕺Creative Spaces is a Dumfries-based collective of young creati

Off The Margin – the Future of Grassroots Media | A Panel Discussion Produced by The Stove Network & WWDN Digital

Sep 26 2024 59 mins

As part of this programme, The Stove’s Artistic Director, Martin O’Neill, sat down for an insightful discussion with a panel of speakers whose expertise ranged from history to investigative journalism, Riso printing techniques, and working in the former news and print spaces of Dumfries’ high street.While examining the current landscape in Scottish grassroots print and journa

The Radical Land: Colin Tennant & Saskia Coulson

Sep 11 2021 49 mins

In this final episode of our 3 part series, we speak with artist and filmmaker duo Colin Tennent and Saskia Coulson of CT Productions. Throughout their project entitled Stories of Radical Landownership, the duo sought to co-create visual stories with the community landowners through a mixture of multimedia works, including photographs, audio recordings, and moving images. The pair

The Radical Land: Galson Estate & Virginia Hutchison

Jul 21 2021 44 mins

Welcome to the Radical Land. he Galson Estate is a community-owned estate of 56,000 acres of coast, agricultural land and moor in the North West of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The estate comprises 22 villages running from Upper Barvas to Port of Ness with a population of nearly 2,000 people. The estate passed into community ownership on 12 January 2007 to b

The Radical Land: Abriachan Forest Trust & Richard Bracken

Jul 02 2021 48 mins

In this episode, we visit Abriachan Forest Trust near Inverness.A scattered rural community of about 130 people set high above the shores of Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. In 1998 the community purchased 540 hectares of forest and open hill ground from Forest Enterprise. Since then, as a social enterprise, the Abriachan Forest Trust has managed this land to create local em

Atlas Pandemica: Bibliographer Philip Palios

Jun 29 2021 39 mins

Project curator Matt Baker sits down with Atlas Pandemica's bibliographer, Philip Palios. Philip is a writer, researcher and educator and his role as part of Atlas Pandemica has been to work alongside the project's artists to record and document the inspirations and identities behind each of the Atlas Pandemica explorations. You can find out more about the project by visiting www.a

Atlas Pandemica: TS Beall

Jun 08 2021 55 mins

Project Curator Matt Baker sits down with TS Beall to discuss their project 'Fair/No Fair'. Fair/No Fair is a collaboration with Travelling Showpeople, in the context of the pandemic, who have both active and historic relationships to Dumfries’ traditional Fairs on the banks of the River Nith. The collaboration pivots around a series of discussions, forming a loose advisory group

Atlas Pandemica: Katie Anderson

Jun 04 2021 56 mins

Project curator Matt Baker speaks with artist Katie Anderson about her Atlas Pandemica project 'Elsewhere'. ‘The High Street is somewhere we though we knew, and now it’s different, it’s elsewhere.’When the lockdown struck, all activity at the Stove was put on hold and what started to emerge was a project titled Homegrown, gathering and sharing the conversations, creativity

Atlas Pandemica: Peter Smith

Jun 02 2021 49 mins

Atlas Pandemica project curator Matt Baker sits down with Peter Smith to discuss his project 'Beauty in the Broken'. 'We are taking a journey into how philosophies of repair, tending and rebuilding can be a mindful practice that helps both individuals and a community heal.As covid-19 has broken us, we repair in a new, beautiful way. We don’t try to hide these breaks and damage, b