Thursday 9 May 2024

What is the potential for democracy to flourish when its citizens are deeply skilled in the acts of creativity and collaboration?

For this conversation we were joined by Jon Alexander, author of CITIZENS, and Councillor Mike Davey, to understand how people power can be exercised well beyond the polling station.

Thursday 14 December 2023

Many of our holiday traditions take their origins in solstice traditions that came from the Norse People and made their way from modern day Scandinavia to the British Isles when the Vikings settled in places like East Anglia.

From slow burning logs, to decorated trees, to magic people who fly through the air and leave presents, to stars, to feasting, to gingerbread…and more. We closed the event by getting our craft on and weaving a traditional Danish holiday treat.

Thursday 30 November 2023

Joined by Louise Sheridan, a clarity coach, we considered: What is the power of an attitude of gratitude? We finished the session with a thank you circle.

Friday 24 November 2023

We welcomed Sam Bilton, author, food historian and presenter of the Comfortably Hungry podcast, to explore why people feast, the story that our traditional Christmas plate tells , how that story is changing, and we’ll brainstorm how we can establish new rituals that honour prosperity for people and planet in these transformative times.

Monday 13 November 2023

Does any piece of fruit hold more cultural meaning than the apple? From witches to Newton to the forbidden fruit, apples hold meaning and mystery that we celebrate in rituals both culinary and otherwise at this time of year.

While exploring the folklore of apples, we did a full sensory tasting of delicious varietals and made a preserve in the form of an apple shrub.

Wednesday 8 November 2023

We were joined by Dr Sean Lang, Senior Lecturer in History at ARU, a regular broadcaster on radio and television, to explore the traditions and history of Bonfire Night, how stories shape what matters to us in our lives and how our rituals reinforce our values.

Tuesday 31 October 2023

BOO! On Halloween Night, the doors to Together Culture opened to the entire neighbourhood for trick or treating, bobbing for apples, to explore our Haunted House and add to our Day of the Dead Shrine.

Friday 27 October 2023

We were joined by professors Malcom Gaskill, historian, professor and author of The Ruin of All Witches, and Professor Ulinka Rublack of St John’s College, author of The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler´s Fight for His Mother.

We explored what lead to what was perceived as witchcraft to be a crime, and how what happened in East Anglia mirrored the waves of witch trials across Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Tuesday 24 October 2023

We we joined by artist and filmmaker Rosanna Greaves, and Kirk Woolford, Research Director at Cambridge School of Creative Industries, for a viewing of Rosanna’s mesmerisingly atmospheric film about our relationship with our landscape and the people impacted by the draining of the Fens, ‘The Flaming Rage of the Sea’.

Together, we explored how past and future collide, looking ahead to the scheduled re-flooding of the fens due to climate change induced sea level rise.