This blog is part of a series supported by the Go See Share Fund, a Creative Scotland initiative that enables artists and collectives to travel, connect and share learning across borders. Through this research, I’m exploring how small, community-driven arts organisations like Flos Collective can develop financially sustainable models while staying true to values of accessibility, inclusion and care.

This blog is part of a series supported by the Go See Share Fund, a Creative Scotland initiative that enables artists and collectives to travel, connect and share learning across borders. Through this research, I’m exploring how small, community-driven arts organisations like Flos Collective can develop financially sustainable models while staying true to values of accessibility, inclusion and care.

This blog is part of a series supported by the Go See Share Fund, a Creative Scotland initiative that enables artists and collectives to travel, connect and share learning across borders. Through this research, I’m exploring how small, community-driven arts organisations like Flos Collective can develop financially sustainable models while staying true to values of accessibility, inclusion and care.

This blog is part of a series supported by the Go See Share Fund, a Creative Scotland initiative that enables artists and collectives to travel, connect and share learning across borders. Through this research, I’m exploring how small, community-driven arts organisations like Flos Collective can develop financially sustainable models while staying true to values of accessibility, inclusion and care.

This blog is part of a series supported by the Go See Share Fund, a Creative Scotland initiative that enables artists and collectives to travel, connect and share learning across borders. Through this research, I’m exploring how small, community-driven arts organisations like Flos Collective can develop financially sustainable models while staying true to values of accessibility, inclusion and care.

This blog is part of a series supported by the Go See Share Fund, a Creative Scotland initiative that enables artists and collectives to travel, connect and share learning across borders. Through this research, I’m exploring how small, community-driven arts organisations like Flos Collective can develop financially sustainable models while staying true to values of accessibility, inclusion and care.

We can’t believe it… in less than a week we’ll be opening the doors to SPLINTR Festival - our first ever festival as Flos Collective CIC.

Here’s the truth: running a grassroots collective isn’t an easy ride. There’s no big pot of money, no corporate sponsor footing the bill. It’s us - juggling jobs, scraping by and putting every bit of energy we have into keeping Flos alive.

Running a grassroots arts collective is basically one long game of dress-up. Except instead of fun costumes, it’s metaphorical hats - and we seem to collect new ones every week.

We're opening SPLINTR Festival with an Open Mic - and you're invited to take the stage.

In 1971, feminist art historian Linda Nochlin posed the rather provocative question, ‘Why Have There Been No Great Woman Artists?’. The...

We Made It: A Huge Thank You for Making Flos Festival Possible! 🎉

As summer falls and the shift of Autumn’s approach begins, our bodies grow stiffer with the decline of outside’s temperature. We hold...

Over the weekend of August 15th, 2024, I went to We Out Here Festival (WOH) . Having grown up attending festivals across the UK since I...

Next Saturday 15th September, Nora will be leading a dance and movement workshop, 'Collective Rhythms'. Nora (she/they) is an emerging...

Pippa Blundell is crowdfunding to raise money for her debut album!

I was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, a city that instilled in me a deep appreciation for culture, art, and storytelling. Currently, I am based in...