Hello KPC Members and Supporters, Welcome to our September Newsletter! This month we celebrated many of our team's birthdays. We were also very happy to take part of the Harvest Festival and plan for our upcoming Paisley Road West Fest event happening this weekend. There are lots of upcoming events, workshops and creative activities in October.
We hope to see you around. |
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Happy Birthday to our team members - Rago, Dylan, James, Veronika and Hannah.
We’ve been having many birthday highlights this month! |
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🎉 Paisley Road West Fest '22 🎉 Sunday 2nd October, 12–4pm |
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We're excited to welcome you to Kinning Park Complex as part of Paisley Road West Fest '22 this Sunday, 2nd October, from 12 - 4pm. Join us for fun family days, arts and crafts activities, workshops, poetry, dance, and more! Everyone is welcome, and the event is FREE to attend! Our Community Kitchen will serve a delicious lunch on a pay-what-you-can basis. For more information and how to sign up, visit: |
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ROAD CLOSURE Get more information about the The Great Scottish Run and the road closure on Sunday! For alternative travel we encourage cycling, taking the bus, subway or walking. |
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😊 The Start of the Paisley Road West Fest’22 😊 |
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The family fun day as part of Paisley Road West Fest held at Clyde Hall providing a disco dome, hotdogs slushies and other family related activities. Paisley Road West performers Mazz and the Phantasms, Govan Choir, Singer Songwriter Alice Hardly and the fabulous Allstar Skiffle Band. In the community garden we had artists delivering activities, including Henna and Origami. Event developed by STAGE Scotland and Because We Say So! KPC. Family Fun Day developed by Clyde Community Hall and Ibrox & Cessnock Community Council. |
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🥕 Thank you for the composter! 🥕 |
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Thank you to our friends and KPC tenant, Glasgow Community Food Network, for buying and donating a brand new hot composter for our community garden! We look forward to making our own compost from any inedible food scraps from the KPCommunity Kitchen. |
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🍅 Community Kitchen Updates 🍅 |
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This last month has been busy for our community meals! It’s been great to see so many new and old faces. We hosted 2 musical performances from Musicians in Exile and Gus, a local community member. Join us every week: Tuesdays 12 - 2:30pm Refreshments from 12 noon, food served 12:30pm. Thursdays 5 - 8pm Refreshments from 5pm, food served 6pm. |
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🙌 New Scots’ Social Group 🙌 |
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We were successful with an application to Glasgow City Council’s Area Partnerships Area Budget for a New Scots’ Social Group. This will fund childcare and travel expenses for the group. We are really excited to get the group up and running! Watch this space for more updates. |
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We want to thank everyone who joined us for the Harvest Festival on Sunday 11 September, and our funder, Dandelion, who gave us this opportunity! From getting our faces painted to tote bag decorating, delicious food from our Community Kitchen, and folk music in the rain, it was a day packed with activities and fun! Look forward to more of these types of events in the future.🤗 |
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We are currently pausing our volunteering sign ups. You can still register your interest with us for future and upcoming opportunities. |
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🎥 'A Portrait of Sheku Bayoh' 🎥 |
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After a beautifully busy community meal last night, we welcomed Not One Rogue Cop with a screening of 'A Portrait of Sheku Bayoh'. A powerful reminder that Black Lives Matter movement is just as important in Scotland as further afield, this was also a call to action as the inquiry into Sheku's death is about to resume, and his family and friends will appreciate public support as this takes place. |
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Thursday, 6th October Stories of People and Trees We will be welcoming a local artist, Jessica Kerr, to our Thursday community meal. Jessica will play some music on her cello, share stories, and talk about her project, Stories of People and Trees, which invites stories of connection to trees and will grow an online home that records these important narratives of attunement to nature for everyone to access and enjoy. |
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Glasgow Tool Library at Kinning Park Complex! We are very excited to have launched our partnership with Glasgow Tool Library! If you need to borrow equipment for any DIY projects, you'll be able to access them at Kinning Park Complex every Thursday, from 4 to 8pm. It works just like a normal library, but instead of sharing books they share tools and skills! |
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Thursday 6th October 4–6pm Stitch & Blether The final Stitch & Blether session with artist tsBeall is coming next week. Learn basic embroidery as you work alongside artist tsBeall to stitch the words and stories of careworkers onto NHS uniforms. We will be embroidering words and phrases taken from interviews of careworkers during lockdown. Transcripts of stories will be available at each session to read. Come for a stitch, a blether, or both! All welcome, but spaces limited – we can accommodate 5–7 stitchers but as many bletherers as wish to come along. Part of an ongoing artwork, the burden of care, for Woven in Govan. Please be aware that some content may be upsetting, as dealing with topics of stress, illness/COVID, isolation, death. |
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Glasgow Tool Library at Kinning Park Complex! We are very excited to have launched our partnership with Glasgow Tool Library! If you need to borrow equipment for any DIY projects, you'll be able to access them at Kinning Park Complex every Thursday, from 4 to 8pm. It works just like a normal library, but instead of sharing books they share tools and skills! |
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October Art Workshops for Kids If interested please email newnarrativesproject@gmail.com. Please note places for these workshops are allocated on a first come first serve basis. Lunch will be provided at all workshops. |
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8th October 10:00-13:00 This free workshop will be a fun and exciting way to cultivate our imaginations. Learning about mythical stories, landscape and nature we will create a collaborative scene, which will become a sanctuary (this word we will learn about!) to use for story telling, making art and playing. In this workshop we will develop our skills in painting, printmaking, sculpture and video. The workshop is aimed at 7-12 year olds. |
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15th October 10:00-13:00 An experimental watercolour and ink drawing workshop exploring themes of symbolism within imaginative landscapes. The workshop is aimed at 9-15 year olds. |
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22nd October 10:00-13:00 A free workshop for kids and adults alike ๐•ᴗ•๐ This workshop explores community-building through performing and image-making. Working together, we will be sharing our ideas and co-creating an alternative world. You will be supported to imagine a character and perform some of their actions! How does your character walk and dance? Or if you are rather proud of your drawing skills, you will also be supported to draw a little creature/character of your own and animate it. Tools are provided but come wearing something you think your character would like. Maybe a crazy pink velvet dress? *All outcomes of the workshop will be uploaded to a dedicated webpage which you can access later. The workshop is aimed at 7-15 year olds. Parents/adults are welcome too. |
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Kinning Park Complex SCIO is a registered charity SC048399 |
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