September 5 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
What We Do Now is a growing network of hubs, practitioners, and partners passionate about the power of creativity in supporting our communities in Dumfries and Galloway to shape their own futures.
Labs are national events for people, groups, and organisations to come together and discuss agendas across creative placemaking and support collaboration across what we all do.
This first network Lab will focus on Community Wealth Building (CWB), using our local economies and natural resources for long term community benefit, digging deep into what this looks like and requires at a neighbourhood scale.
- What else can wealth mean and how do we share it?
- How do we decide things and manage our places?
- How are small groups and community organisations local anchors for exploring this?
- What does success look like, what show us this us working?
Join us in this exploration for a day of workshops and discussion with speakers from across the fields of economy, geography, and creative innovation to look at examples of CWB and what that looks like within communities – further programme details to come.
For this Lab we are delighted to be hosted by Old School Thornhill (OST). OST are a development trust for their area and have just completed the renovation of a beautiful new hub for Thornhill and its wider community as co-working and venue space and HQ for their work as part of their wider community.
This is a ticketed event, free for What We Do Now members and £15 otherwise.
Location: Old School Thornhill, Station Road, Thornhill, DG3 5DF
Public Transport: Buses from Sanquhar or Dumfries, 236, 246 and 246A
Community Bus: Leaving Dumfries Whitesands at 9:00 and returning from Old School Thornhill at 16:00. You can book your place on this when you reserve your place for the event.
Website: www.oldschoolthornhill.com
