The Stove Network is an arts and community organisation in the heart of Dumfries High Street. We’re a cafe, a meeting place and an arts & events venue with a diverse programme stretching across music and literature, visual and public art, film and theatre, to town planning, architecture and design.We use arts and creativity to encourage, to gather, learn and bring life back to our town centre. We see the arts not as something solely for an ‘arts audience’ but rather as a vital contribution to society on all fronts.At the heart of everything we do is a love for our town and wider region. As the only arts-led development trust in Scotland, we work alongside our local authority, community organisations, local businesses and charities to create a vision for the future of Dumfries High Street. We’re aiming to create a place where culture, community and enterprise work hand-in-hand to support a new vision of the High Street. Our podcast features exclusive content, interviews, news and more. Stay updated by hitting 'follow' or 'subscribe'.
In August 2024, Ellisland Farm came to The Stove proposing an exciting project to create a zine for their upcoming exhibition, Beyond Burns: Ellisland's People. The zine was to act as a take-home for…
In this debut episode, we chat with Cameron Hunter—audio producer, musician, and drummer for North Atlas. Cameron shares insights into his work mentoring young artists in Dumfries & Galloway and his …
Back in September our Creative Spaces Team; Anna, Sonah & James hosted their first event at the Stove - The Freshers Mixer.
With live performances, goodie bags and a (slightly chaotic) quiz, listen t…
As part of this programme, The Stove’s Artistic Director, Martin O’Neill, sat down for an insightful discussion with a panel of speakers whose expertise ranged from history to investigative journalis…
In this final episode of our 3 part series, we speak with artist and filmmaker duo Colin Tennent and Saskia Coulson of CT Productions.
Throughout their project entitled Stories of Radical Landownersh…
Welcome to the Radical Land.
he Galson Estate is a community-owned estate of 56,000 acres of coast, agricultural land and moor in the North West of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland…
In this episode, we visit Abriachan Forest Trust near Inverness.
A scattered rural community of about 130 people set high above the shores of Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. In 1998 the commun…
Project curator Matt Baker sits down with Atlas Pandemica's bibliographer, Philip Palios.
Philip is a writer, researcher and educator and his role as part of Atlas Pandemica has been to work alongsid…
Project Curator Matt Baker sits down with TS Beall to discuss their project 'Fair/No Fair'.
Fair/No Fair is a collaboration with Travelling Showpeople, in the context of the pandemic, who have both a…
Project curator Matt Baker speaks with artist Katie Anderson about her Atlas Pandemica project 'Elsewhere'.
‘The High Street is somewhere we though we knew, and now it’s different, it’s elsewhere.’
W…
Atlas Pandemica project curator Matt Baker sits down with Peter Smith to discuss his project 'Beauty in the Broken'.
'We are taking a journey into how philosophies of repair, tending and rebuilding c…
Project Curator Matt Baker speaks with writer JoAnne McKay about her project 'What Remains?'
'Dumfries has experienced pandemics before. The most notable are those from modern history: cholera in 1832…
Project Curator, Matt Baker sits down with writer Karen Campbell to discuss her Atlas Pandemica project 'Here Is Our Story'.
'Karen is the Writer in Residence within D & G Council, using a mix of wor…
Atlas Pandemica Curator Matt Baker speaks with artist duo Robbie Coleman and Jo Hodges about their project 'Distance: Proximity: Loss'.
The coronavirus pandemic is changing relationships and practice…
In this episode, Atlas Pandemica Curator Matt Baker speaks with artist and movement practitioner Emma Jayne Park about her project 'The Geography of Power'.
How do we organise information? Who gets t…
In this episode, project curator Matt Baker speaks with artist Mark Zygadlo about his project 'Landwatership'.
Landwatership proposes that the vital and fundamental elements of our environment, land …
A discussion with artist and researcher Jenna Macrory on her Atlas Pandemica project 'LGBTQ Voices'.
'My project is called LGBTQ Voices. It aims to engage the queer community by presenting the idea th…
Atlas Pandemica: Maps to a Kinder World’ is a compendium of 10 projects led by creative people, each investigating a different theme highlighted by life during the COVID pandemic. Projects worked dir…
Lowland: Epilogue
Barnside is sinking and its residents are ready to revolt. As the storm gathers and darkens, the local council have a plan to share. Only, not everything is as it seems and sooner o…
Lowland: Chapter Two
Barnside is sinking and its residents are ready to revolt. As the storm gathers and darkens, the local council have a plan to share. Only, not everything is as it seems and sooner…