Thinking and Ideas

Thoughts and ideas from all around our practice; by artists, team members, collaborators and people who live here.

Writing as part of the Thinking Out Loud programme, together we're reflecting as we go, on our learning, the challenges of our practice and the role of art in our everyday lives.

The Cave

I envisaged people playing, learning and making with this versatile material ‘clay’ and at the same time reflecting upon Allah's beauty and how and why we were created and where we inevitably end, back into the earth.

Nazia Sultana

Climate Encounters at the Talkaoke Table

What informs peoples feelings and views on the climate crisis? What are some of the barriers to climate engagement encountered in Pendle?

The People Speak

Climate Encounters at the Talkaoke Table

Walking into a Landscape of Hope

Tom Deacon is an activist and climate educator working with In-Situ. Here he shares his journey from climate despair into hope.

Tom Deacon

The Nelson Tea Party

Zehra Aziz (Art of Small Talk, Islamabad) reflects on a month in Nelson and a tea party with 'the Mums'

Zehra Aziz

Thoughts and ideas from all around our practice; by artists, team members, collaborators and people who live here. Writing as part of the Thinking Out Loud programme, together we're reflecting as we go, on our learning, the challenges of our practice and the role of art in our everyday lives.

The Cave

Climate Encounters at the Talkaoke Table

Walking into a Landscape of Hope

The Nelson Tea Party

Thoughts and ideas from all around our practice; by artists, team members, collaborators and people who live here.

Writing as part of the Thinking Out Loud programme, together we're reflecting as we go, on our learning, the challenges of our practice and the role of art in our everyday lives.