Beste The Stove Network podcaster (2024)

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Freshers Mixer Reflections with Creative Spaces ✨ 22:45

5d ago22:45

22:45

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-base…

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Off The Margin – the Future of Grassroots Media | A Panel Discussion Produced by The Stove Network & WWDN Digital 59:26

2M ago59:26

59:26

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 Scottis…

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The Radical Land: Colin Tennant & Saskia Coulson 49:14

3y ago49:14

49:14

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 record…

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The Radical Land: Galson Estate & Virginia Hutchison 44:15

3+ y ago44:15

44:15

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…

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The Radical Land: Abriachan Forest Trust & Richard Bracken 48:40

3+ y ago48:40

48:40

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 m…

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Atlas Pandemica: Bibliographer Philip Palios 39:46

3+ y ago39:46

39:46

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 a…

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Atlas Pandemica: TS Beall 55:21

3+ y ago55:21

55:21

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…

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Atlas Pandemica: Katie Anderson 56:45

3+ y ago56:45

56:45

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…

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Atlas Pandemica: Peter Smith 49:25

3+ y ago49:25

49:25

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 t…

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Atlas Pandemica: JoAnne McKay 47:51

3+ y ago47:51

47:51

Project Curator Matt Baker speaks with writer JoAnne McKay about her project 'What Remains?' 'Dumfries has experienced pandemics before. The most notable are those from modern history: cholera in 1832 and 1848, and influenza in 1918 and 1919. Why? Because of what remains – written words and built environment; newspaper records and memorials. Yet ev…

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Atlas Pandemica: Karen Campbell 45:05

3+ y ago45:05

45:05

Project Curator, Matt Baker sits down with writer Karen Campbell to discuss her Atlas Pandemica project 'Here Is Our Story'. 'Karen is the Writer in Residence within D & G Council, using a mix of workshops and one-to-one discussions to write ‘Here Is Our Story’ – a collection of short stories and monologues, which will all be fictional, but founded…

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Atlas Pandemica: Robbie Coleman & Jo Hodges 44:22

3+ y ago44:22

44:22

Atlas Pandemica Curator Matt Baker speaks with artist duo Robbie Coleman and Jo Hodges about their project 'Distance: Proximity: Loss'. The coronavirus pandemic is changing relationships and practices at the end of our lives affecting every aspect of the process of dying; how we support some ones passing, how we mark someone’s life, how we bury the…

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Atlas Pandemica: Emma Jayne Park 46:33

3+ y ago46:33

46:33

In this episode, Atlas Pandemica Curator Matt Baker speaks with artist and movement practitioner Emma Jayne Park about her project 'The Geography of Power'. How do we organise information? Who gets to organise information? How does this impact decision-making? Who holds the knowledge? Do they hold the power? How do they share it? How do they relinq…

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Atlas Pandemica: Mark Zygadlo 54:24

3+ y ago54:24

54:24

In this episode, project curator Matt Baker speaks with artist Mark Zygadlo about his project 'Landwatership'. Landwatership proposes that the vital and fundamental elements of our environment, land and water, are active members of our localised communities. It presupposes that no part of our environment is unaffected by human presence and no part …

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Atlas Pandemica: Jenna Macrory 45:52

3+ y ago45:52

45:52

A discussion with artist and researcher Jenna Macrory on her Atlas Pandemica project 'LGBTQ Voices'. 'My project is called LGBTQ Voices. It aims to engage the queer community by presenting the idea that hate speech can be viewed as the start of a dysfunctional conversation. Members of the LGBTQ community are often engaged in unsolicited conversatio…

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Atlas Pandemica: Annie Wild 39:44

3+ y ago39:44

39:44

Atlas Pandemica: Maps to a Kinder World’ is a compendium of 10 projects led by creative people, each investigating a different theme highlighted by life during the COVID pandemic. Projects worked directly with people in Dumfries and Galloway, focussing on the impacts and the learning from the community’s experience of the evolving pandemic. Atlas P…

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Lowland: Epilogue 6:43

4y ago6:43

6:43

Lowland: Epilogue Barnside is sinking and its residents are ready to revolt. As the storm gathers and darkens, the local council have a plan to share. Only, not everything is as it seems and sooner or later, something’s going to give… An audio play in two acts, inspired by over 500 postcards reflecting on life in Dumfries written by Doonhamers. Low…

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Lowland: Chapter Two 29:29

4y ago29:29

29:29

Lowland: Chapter Two Barnside is sinking and its residents are ready to revolt. As the storm gathers and darkens, the local council have a plan to share. Only, not everything is as it seems and sooner or later, something’s going to give… An audio play in two acts, inspired by over 500 postcards reflecting on life in Dumfries written by Doonhamers. …

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Lowland: Chapter One 38:25

4y ago38:25

38:25

Lowland: Chapter One Barnside is sinking and its residents are ready to revolt. As the storm gathers and darkens, the local council have a plan to share. Only, not everything is as it seems and sooner or later, something’s going to give… An audio play in two acts, inspired by over 500 postcards reflecting on life in Dumfries written by Doonhamers. …