New year, new 📚 I'll be talking with other authors at the online launch of Cultural Policy Is Local Performance and Cultural Industries at Leeds 30 Jan 3pm GMT - tix here ticketsource.co.uk/university-of-… 💙

Do you live or work in York? If so stop scrolling! We’re working with York St John University to identify how community led tourism solutions can act as a catalyst for change within the city and we want to hear from you. Fill in our survey here: yorksj.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8t…

If you are a member of the MA, please vote for me to be the next President. I will be a strong advocate for the sector and improve the MA’s work on advocacy, climate change and campaigns. You should receive a ballot by email shortly and I’d very much appreciate your support.

Job alert! 📣 We’re looking for a new Associate Professor in Fine Art in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies FAHACS University of Leeds Come join our community of fabulous teachers, leaders and researchers! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Things are happening on #YorkCentral from the infrastructure to the newly selected masterdevelopers. YoCo (York Central CoOwned) has also been busy. We've been developing proposals for an economic incubator and a community-led neighbourhood, with forever affordable homes.

It's clearly time for a YoCo playlist of inspirational music for community housing + economies for our Open Meetings (+ to generally pep us up). Any track ideas Leeds Community Homes YorSpace melissa mean Rhoda Meek Calder Valley CLT Coin Street maydaysaxonvale Good Organisation Chapeltown Cohousing?

Resident chef @singingfoodie wishes it to be known that the cake for Saturday's event is orange and almond cake, made with crowdfarmed Spanish oranges. Music may be the food of lurve, but cake is the food of community-led development

We are delighted to officially launch ‘Whose Power? Energy Change in the Home’ We’ve worked hard on this fantastic project with Abigail Harrison Moore for the last few months. This is just the first project that will come from her AHRC fellowship collaborating with PP 🥳🥳

YoCo's Man With A Rucksack Of Leaflets is heading south, destination Futurebuild and conversations with people at the sharp end of the construction, design and regeneration industries. There will be updates...

We’re working with the Institute for Social Justice to identify how community led tourism can act as a catalyst for change within York. Join our next Creative Community Conversation - Building Community Wealth Through Tourism is on 5th April 10.00 - 12.00 eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-com…

Good final Futurebuild session for YoCo's seminar participant - exploring the route towards the urban forest guided by Trees & Design Action Group. Shared passion for proper public engagement, not "consultation" TreemendousYork Little Hob Moor Trees @wildstreets_org St Nicks #YorksGreenHeart

An afternoon in Leeds at the @HorizonsLeeds #remakingplaces event exploring diverse and community economies, along with Helen Graham  Claire Boardman & colleague Penny via Zoom. A story of hope and local economic structures shared!

#York and #Yorkshire Twitter people - it's the start of the second weekend of #yorkopenstudios which gives you the opportunity to stroll (or pedal or, at a push, drive) under blue skies between artists and makers. Enjoy! And do call in on me and @singingfoodie, obvs

Really happy to be working with St Barnabas Church, York on this. Also very much looking forward to celebrating the work of our IPUP YORK MA student Molly who has been exploring the heritage of the Foundry Buildings off Leeman Road #YorkCentral. Set the alarm and come on down.

It was great to lead a workshop on the difficulty of participation in museums, alongside my co-panellists @ViTsenova and Dr Nuala Morse , at the ACHS2024GALWAY conference. We invited attendees to knot and tie threads as an embodied approach to thinking through a problem 🪢

We'll be at the St Barnabas Church, York table-top sale tomorrow morning asking "what makes home, home"? That table around which you gather with family or that bath which soaks away even the day’s worst worries? That front step where you chat with passers-by or that corner shop – let’s chat