Helen Graham

Politics, heritage, participation in one potentially beautiful collision. Teaches museum and heritage studies,University of Leeds.
@my_futureyork @bnm_project

[YoCo Community @CommunityYoco]

We'll be at the @BarnabasYork table-top sale tomorrow morning asking "what makes home, home"? That table around which you gather with family or that bath which soaks away even the day’s worst worries? That front step where you chat with passers-by or that corner shop – let’s chat

[Emily Beswick @emilyb996]

It was great to lead a workshop on the difficulty of participation in museums, alongside my co-panellists @ViTsenova and @nualamorse , at the @ACHS2024GALWAY conference. We invited attendees to knot and tie threads as an embodied approach to thinking through a problem 🪢

[Helen Graham @HelenGraham64]

For a run down of where @CommunityYoco are right now with the co-owned neighbourhood see @PhilBixby recent blog: https://t.co/kXDmY8blUy

[Helen Graham @HelenGraham64]

As the blog says it will be a bit bric-a-brac and a bit bring-and-buy (to use the old fashioned terms) but we also want to see the sale as one of the ways we can start changing our local economy by understanding 'economy' as something we create through our everyday actions.

[YoCo Community @CommunityYoco]

Blog inspired by @JKGibsonGraham ‘our economy is the outcome of the decisions we make + the actions we take'. Let's take ‘economic matters into [our] own hands' and 'create worlds that are socially + environmentally just' - one @BarnabasYork table top sale at a time.

[Helen Graham @HelenGraham64]

That goes for the sale on Saturday and the redistributive economic design for @CommunityYoco co-owned neighbourhood on #YorkCentral too. https://t.co/BQs3PZ6bBP

[Helen Graham @HelenGraham64]

Really happy to be working with @BarnabasYork on this. Also very much looking forward to celebrating the work of our @IPUPYORK MA student Molly who has been exploring the heritage of the Foundry Buildings off Leeman Road #YorkCentral. Set the alarm and come on down.

[YoCo Community @CommunityYoco]

Next Saturday we're teaming up @BarnabasYork to run the regular Table Top Sale. Come to meet @CityofYork #HolgateWard Cllrs, peruse the stalls, explore Leeman Road heritage, join in family activities + find out more about YoCo + forever affordable homes on #YorkCentral.

[Phil Bixby @philbixby.bsky.social @PhilBixby]

#York and #Yorkshire Twitter people - it's the start of the second weekend of #yorkopenstudios which gives you the opportunity to stroll (or pedal or, at a push, drive) under blue skies between artists and makers. Enjoy! And do call in on me and @singingfoodie, obvs

[Phil Bixby @philbixby.bsky.social @PhilBixby]

An afternoon in Leeds at the @HorizonsLeeds #remakingplaces event exploring diverse and community economies, along with @HelenGraham64 @boardman_claire & colleague Penny via Zoom. A story of hope and local economic structures shared!

[Helen Graham @HelenGraham64]

@Kallum_Of_York @LNER Really appreciate all your work on this - it’s an essential route.

[YoCo Community @CommunityYoco]

Good final @FuturebuildNow session for YoCo's seminar participant - exploring the route towards the urban forest guided by Trees & Design Action Group. Shared passion for proper public engagement, not "consultation" @TreemendousYork @hobmoortrees @wildstreets_org @StNicksFields

[Helen Graham @HelenGraham64]

@Dominic___James @zkmdirektor Lots of political richness to discuss there - hope it went really well!

[Good Organisation @GoodOrgCIC]

We’re working with the Institute for Social Justice to identify how community led tourism can act as a catalyst for change within York.

Join our next Creative Community Conversation - Building Community Wealth Through Tourism is on 5th April 10.00 - 12.00
https://t.co/XGinhACvzP

[YoCo Community @CommunityYoco]

YoCo's Man With A Rucksack Of Leaflets is heading south, destination @FuturebuildNow and conversations with people at the sharp end of the construction, design and regeneration industries. There will be updates...

[Preservative Party @presparty]

We are delighted to officially launch ‘Whose Power? Energy Change in the Home’

We’ve worked hard on this fantastic project with @DrabigailHarris for the last few months. This is just the first project that will come from her AHRC fellowship collaborating with PP 🥳🥳

[YoCo Community @CommunityYoco]

Resident chef @singingfoodie wishes it to be known that the cake for Saturday's event is orange and almond cake, made with crowdfarmed Spanish oranges. Music may be the food of lurve, but cake is the food of community-led development

[YoCo Community @CommunityYoco]

It's clearly time for a YoCo playlist of inspirational music for community housing + economies for our Open Meetings (+ to generally pep us up). Any track ideas @LeedsCommHomes @Yorspace @MelissaMean @wodieskodie @CVCLT1 @CoinStreet @MaydaySaxonvale @GoodOrgCIC @ChacoLeeds?

[YoCo Community @CommunityYoco]

Things are happening on #YorkCentral from the infrastructure to the newly selected masterdevelopers. YoCo (York Central CoOwned) has also been busy. We've been developing proposals for an economic incubator and a community-led neighbourhood, with forever affordable homes.

[Joanne Crawford @JoanneCrawford]

Job alert! 📣 We’re looking for a new Associate Professor in Fine Art in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies @FAHACS @UniversityLeeds Come join our community of fabulous teachers, leaders and researchers! https://t.co/bi3avogmr9

[Michael Terwey @mcterwey]

If you are a member of the MA, please vote for me to be the next President. I will be a strong advocate for the sector and improve the MA’s work on advocacy, climate change and campaigns. You should receive a ballot by email shortly and I’d very much appreciate your support.

[Good Organisation @GoodOrgCIC]

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