24/02/2022
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
An open evening of ideas, chatting, and creativity – mixing arts, housing, and tech!
Find out more about what is happening and how you can get involved:
Help make good homes for local people
WeCanMake creates community-led homes for local people. Our first two homes are almost finished!
• Come and see the designs for the next set of WeCanMake homes designed with local families.
• Give your ideas and feedback on the designs.
• Explore if WeCanMake could help your housing situation
• Find out what you could bring to the project and how you could get involved
Explore what you could make with digital design tools
KWMC The Factory is a community-based maker space which supports local people, artists, and creatives in South Bristol to design and make with digital fabrication tools.
• Chat to The Factory team and play with some tech,
• Learn about starting a creative business
• Find out about free training and support available for people in South Bristol – MADE and Future Makers.
Book your free place HERE
Connect with artists, creatives and local people
Project Night is a meet-up space for creatives and artists working in and with communities.
Tonight between 6-7pm:
• Come and share what you are working on and get support and feedback
• Meet new people and be inspired
• Find out about opportunities to develop your creative practice
Project Night is also part of the national Social Art Network.
RSVP to martha.king@kwmc.org.uk if you would like to join the Project Night discussion or call +44 (0) 117 903 0444. Let us know if you would like to share a project and if you have any access needs.
‘Making work after lockdown‘ with Knowle West Media Centre producers
‘Self care and community wellbeing’ with dance maker Laila Diallo
‘Creative ways to use digital tools‘ with Lily Green from No Bindings
‘Staying connected with communities’ with Kim Wide from Take A Part
‘Occupying Public Space Now’ with Georgina Bolton (Bristol City Council Public Art Officer & freelance producer) Rosa Ter Kuile from Rising Arts Agency and the ‘Making Together‘ team (a collaboration between KWMC, AUAR and We Can Make). The event was live streamed from the new pavilion outside KWMC, ‘BlockWest’; designed, made and built by the Knowle West community summer 2020. For more information about ‘Block West’ click here.
