Hello KPC Members and Supporters, Welcome to our November Newsletter! Lots of highlights and exciting news this month. Our Community Learning and Development and Community Wellbeing and Participation teams have started a Men’s Group. We’ve also celebrated the lovely volunteers that helped us during the summer Refugee Festival. Our team got to try delicious dinner at the best Indian street food restaurant. We’ve also started KPCreative Sessions, which will run during the festival period, and more are coming in the new year. There are lots of upcoming events until the end of the year. We will keep you in the loop for more details on our socials The KPC Team |
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We are very delighted by the number of community members who have been joining us every week since our community meals re-opened in May. As we head into the final month of 2022 we would love for you to all join as at our final meal of the year. We’ll be serving up a lovely variety of tasty vegan / halal dishes with a festive twist. Do join us from 5pm on Thursday 22nd December! |
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😊 Glasgow Community Food Network exhibition! 😊 |
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There is a Glasgow Community Food Network’s exhibition that you can find on the second floor hallway. To check more collages and highlights go to @goodfoodforglasgow on Instagram. |
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We are delighted that we’ve won Client of the Year award GIA 2022. |
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The men’s group is up and running, meeting on Tuesdays from 2.30–4pm facilitated by Frankie and Kevin from CLD and CWP teams. The group has identified health improvement and peer support as their main objectives, and they are looking to do activities related to physical fitness like walking, cycling and bike maintenance. Yesterday a health improvement practitioner and a sports development worker were in to discuss men’s health and access to gym cards. |
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😄 Galgael’s Turn of the Year Gathering 😄 |
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Frankie, Ellen and Fran joined our friends at Galgael for their Turn of the Year Gathering at the start of the month which marked the end of their 25th year, and the first year of the Govan Free State. It was a night of music, feasting and ceilidh dancing! |
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The CLD team attended the Green PB Caravan conference in Edinburgh, hosted by the Scottish Community Development Centre along with other partners. Participatory budgeting (PB) is a form of citizen participation in which people decide how to spend part of a public budget. It was a great opportunity to learn more about PB as we look to plan our own event in the new year. |
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🙌 Kinning Park Community Council 🙌 |
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This month Kinning Park Community Council was officially reinstated! Community councils are the most local tier of statutory representation in Scotland and help bridge the gap between local authorities and communities by making public bodies aware of the opinions and needs of the communities that they represent. The next meeting for the community council is on January 18th to elect the office bearers. |
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🎊 Refugee Festival Scotland Celebration 🎊 |
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We went out for a celebratory meal to thank the community members who made our Refugee Festival Scotland event happen. It was great to celebrate together after everyone made such a huge effort to create a fantastic event! |
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As part of our programme of #KPCreative Sessions at Kinning Park Complex, we're welcoming 8 early career and 8 experienced creatives to co-deliver a series of multidisciplinary workshops! 🙌 |
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Some of our upcoming activities are: 👇 - Fieldnotes: An Exploration of Place and Poetry - Songwriting
- Build a spaceship and go to space
And much more is coming soon!
Details about individual sessions can be found in Eventbrite and our social media! | | |
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❗ Building Closure over the festive period ❗ |
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Kinning Park Complex will be closed to the public from Saturday 24th December and reopen on Monday 9th January. There will be limited activity in the building until our first community meal on Thursday 12th January to give our staff team time to prep for the next few months. |
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Thursday, 1st December 8.15–9.45pm https://fb.me/e/29BXNiVpf Following our Thursday community meal, we are excited to host Glasgow Tool Library for a film screening as part of their ‘Building a Culture of Sharing and Repairing’ events programme which explores alternative ways to relate to resources, each other and the planet. The Cloud Forest explores how the people of a small town in Veracruz, Mexico, take it upon themselves to ‘be the change’ and protect a unique ecosystem from threats such as coffee plantations and cattle grazing. Building their own homes, schools, and farms, they set out to restructure their entire culture, from the food they grow to their children’s education, radically redefining their relationship with nature – and each other – along the way.
Please note: The film contains a depiction of animal slaughter towards the end of the film that some viewers might find shocking or upsetting. It is a Spanish language film with subtitles. |
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Thursday, 8th December 8–9.30pm
Following our Thursday community meal, World Spirit Theatre presents The Wheel of Fortune: a forum theatre play about the UK immigration system, integration, life and death. The journey follows the path to being a citizen; who gets to stay, who gets to be deported.
World Spirit Theatre Group produces community theatre that explores integration & the asylum process from the perspective of those experiencing it directly, and celebrates the contributions of asylum seekers and refugees to Scottish communities. Sign up here |
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Kinning Park Complex SCIO is a registered charity SC048399 |
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