Friday Selection Box: 6th September 2024

Artists’ fund gets reprieve but Creative Scotland under review

Good to see that Creative Scotland has reopened its funding stream for artists and creative practitioners.

The Book of Delights: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Wilful Gladness

The Book of Delights — is Ross Gay’s ‘yearlong experiment in learning to notice, amid a world that so readily gives us reasons to despair, the daily wellsprings of delight, or what Wendell Berry, in his gorgeous case for delight as a countercultural force of resistance, called the elemental pleasures…’

A Place You Love Is Calling You Back!

Thoughts on Radical Joy.

Through the RadJoy Practice, you bring beauty to wounded places and rediscover your enduring connection with the places you love.

Craft picks: 9 craft exhibitions to see in the UK in September

Lots of great makers to see this month.

Immortal Apples, Eternal Eggs: Hastings Contemporary

Definitely one that Dawn will be catching!

Professor Matt Houlbrook partners with artist Stuart Whipps for an outdoor exhibition in Bournville (Bournville Green 4-27 September)

Fascinating academic and artistic collaboration.

Unlimited Festival

There is still time to catch Unlimited, it’s on until Sunday.

Unlimited 2024 is a multi-artform festival showcasing outstanding dance, performance, comedy, music, poetry and visual art by disabled artists.