The Stove Network Podcast
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'.
Episodes
25 episodes
Episode 4: Spotlight with Kirsty Harris | What We Do Now
Kirsty Harris is an artist and maker whose installations and performances invite people to step inside and take part. Her work places the audience at the centre—encouraging them to weave their own stories into the spaces around them. <...
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Episode 3: Spotlight with A' the Airts | What We Do Now
Yvonne Barber, Centre Manager at A’ the Airts, speaks about her work leading one of Dumfries and Galloway’s most vibrant community arts centres. A’ the Airts has become a cultural hub for the area, offering a rich programme of arts, crafts, eve...
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Episode 2: Creative Placemaking a Discussion with Matt Baker | What We Do Now
Matt Baker, the founder and outgoing CEO of The Stove Network, discusses the origins and evolution of the Stove - from outsider to part of the cultural establishment. Along with WWDN lead and Stove Development Director, Katharine Wheeler, they ...
Beyond Burns: Ellisland's People | Creative Spaces X Ellisland Farm
In August 2024, Ellisland Farm came to The Stove proposing an exciting project to create a zine for their upcoming exhibition, Beyond Burns: Ellisland's People. The zine was to act as a take-home for visitors to encourage reflection on...
Episode 1: Spotlight with Cameron Hunter | What We Do Now
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.
Freshers Mixer Reflections with Creative Spaces ✨
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 pr...
Off The Margin – the Future of Grassroots Media | A Panel Discussion Produced by The Stove Network & WWDN Digital
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 t...
The Radical Land: Colin Tennant & Saskia Coulson
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 v...
The Radical Land: Galson Estate & Virginia Hutchison
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 villag...
The Radical Land: Abriachan Forest Trust & Richard Bracken
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 a...
Atlas Pandemica: Bibliographer Philip Palios
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 recor...
Atlas Pandemica: TS Beall
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 ...
Atlas Pandemica: Katie Anderson
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 lock...
Atlas Pandemica: Peter Smith
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 hel...
Atlas Pandemica: JoAnne McKay
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 ...
Atlas Pandemica: Karen Campbell
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 discuss...
Atlas Pandemica: Robbie Coleman & Jo Hodges
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 affecti...
Atlas Pandemica: Emma Jayne Park
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 ...
Atlas Pandemica: Mark Zygadlo
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 member...
Atlas Pandemica: Jenna Macrory
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 t...
Atlas Pandemica: Annie Wild
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 Gall...
Lowland: Epilogue
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 ...
Lowland: Chapter Two
Lowland: Chapter TwoBarnside 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…...
