Kathryn Welch
Culture Counts: Interim Director
I'm delighted to have been appointed as Interim Director of Culture Counts , a network of Scotland’s arts, heritage and creative...
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Kathryn Welch
Jul 314 min
"How to embrace being competitive" - I'm in Stylist magazine!
One of my motivations for freelancing was to have less of a binary division between work and pleasure. I wanted to be able to integrate...
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Kathryn Welch
Jun 273 min
Spinning plates: Principles for project management
Project coordination is one of my very favourite things to do. I'm super-organised, find getting things done incredibly satisfying, and...
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Kathryn Welch
Jun 102 min
Culture Collective wins The Stage's Community Project of the Year award, 2024
Earlier this year, we heard lovely news that Culture Collective had won The Stage's award for Community Project of the Year. After 2.5...
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Kathryn Welch
Mar 212 min
World Humanist Day: Celebrating activism
In June 2024, I made and gave away 50 mini bouquets of flowers to celebrate and remember campaigners who've made our world a better...
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Kathryn Welch
Feb 233 min
Floral creations: For celebration & connection
I'm fascinated by flowers. They have such a rich cultural tradition of connecting people and marking our key life events. We buy and give...
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Kathryn Welch
Feb 61 min
Creativity, activism, protest and social change: PechaKucha at Creative Dundee
In November 2023 I was delighted to be invited to present at the 15th anniversary of Creative Dundee's PechaKucha Night. Featuring a...
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Kathryn Welch
Jan 192 min
Whose history? A participatory project to explore and remember women's history
At the beginning of last year, I took part in a fascinating women’s history tour of Edinburgh, led by the brilliant Ruth Boreham. We...
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Kathryn Welch
Oct 18, 20233 min
How do you build a network? 5 questions we've been exploring
As we come to the end of 2.5 years of delivering the Culture Collective programme, I've been reflecting on the process of bringing...
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Kathryn Welch
Sep 18, 20233 min
Looking ahead: Where next?
The end of October 2023 sees this round of Culture Collective funding come to an end. The opportunity to work as Programme Lead for the...
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Kathryn Welch
Sep 5, 20233 min
Trail building in Þórsmörk, Iceland
Thanks for bearing with me, I've been off having the adventure of a lifetime. I'm home this week, after spending August living and...
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Kathryn Welch
Sep 5, 20233 min
Telling Good Stories: Researching kindness at the University of Edinburgh
As a Creative Producer with a particular interest in community activism, I jumped at the opportunity to volunteer with the Telling Good...
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Kathryn Welch
May 15, 20233 min
100 Days Project Scotland: Making 100 pro-choice badges
This is an ongoing activism campaign (due to complete in Autumn 2023). I'm participating in the 100 Days Project Scotland; challenging...
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Kathryn Welch
May 4, 20232 min
Scottish Parliament: Culture in Communities enquiry
In May 2023 I had the opportunity to share evidence with a Scottish Parliament enquiry into Culture and Communities. Along with my...
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Kathryn Welch
Oct 9, 20224 min
Culture Collective: The first 18 months
This blog was first published via the Culture Collective website in my role as Programme Lead, to mark the first 18 months of Culture...
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Kathryn Welch
Jun 13, 20222 min
A plunge (back) into university life
In September 2022 I'll be returning to (part-time) university studies, after a gap of - wow - sixteen years. During lockdown I explored...
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Kathryn Welch
Jun 13, 20221 min
The Walkbook: Recipes for walking & wellbeing
I was delighted that my submission for 'a walk to make others smile' was selected for inclusion in The Walkbook: Recipes for walking &...
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Kathryn Welch
Jul 20, 20213 min
The Creative Hustle: How artists make it pay
The Creative Hustle is an ongoing research project, designed to collate and share frank information on the realities of how creative...
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Kathryn Welch
Jun 18, 20213 min
Culture Collective: Programme Lead
I'm really delighted to have been appointed as Programme Lead for Creative Scotland's Culture Collective - working with an awesome team...
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Kathryn Welch
Jun 17, 20212 min
Linlithgow's Arts and Charity meet-up
There's a kind of magic in people coming together. As we chat, make connections, find areas of mutual interest and drink coffee together,...
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