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Everything We Built in 2025 ✨
As we head into a new year, we want to take a minute to look back on everything we achieved in 2025.

flos collective
Jan 63 min read


Go See Share Fund Research Project: Learning from Others: Building Sustainable and Inclusive Models for the Future of Flos Collective
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.

Esme Stewart
Oct 30, 20256 min read


Go See Share Fund Research Project: Opal Festival (Normandy) – Trust, Participation, and Non-Hierarchical Organising
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.

Esme Stewart
Oct 26, 20255 min read


Go See Share Fund Research Project: Catalyst Arts (Belfast) – Community Ownership as Sustainability
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.

Esme Stewart
Oct 24, 20255 min read


Go See Share Fund Research Project: Fierce Festival (Birmingham) – Thinking Big but Staying Grounded
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.

Esme Stewart
Oct 18, 20255 min read


Go See Share Fund: Household (Belfast) – Researching Flexibility and Care as a Financial Model
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.

Esme Stewart
Oct 17, 20255 min read


Go See Share Fund: SPILL Festival & Think Tank (Ipswich) – Structure, Research, and Resilience
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.

Esme Stewart
Oct 16, 20254 min read


6 Days to Go: SPLINTR Festival is Almost Here ✨
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.

flos collective
Oct 1, 20252 min read


Why We Prioritise Paying Artists (Even When We Can’t Pay Ourselves)
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.

flos collective
Sep 29, 20252 min read


The Many Hats of a Grassroots Organiser 🎩
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.

flos collective
Sep 25, 20253 min read


Come and perform at our SPLINTR Festival Open Mic!
We're opening SPLINTR Festival with an Open Mic - and you're invited to take the stage.

flos collective
Sep 24, 20251 min read


No Great Woman Artists? On Myths of Meritocracy and the Makings of Genius
In 1971, feminist art historian Linda Nochlin posed the rather provocative question, ‘Why Have There Been No Great Woman Artists?’. The...
Cicely Kirby-Smith
Sep 9, 20253 min read


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

flos collective
Jul 1, 20252 min read


Collective Rhythms - ridding the self from conscious
As summer falls and the shift of Autumn’s approach begins, our bodies grow stiffer with the decline of outside’s temperature. We hold...

flos collective
Sep 27, 20244 min read


We Out Here / Future Foundations by Cath
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...

flos collective
Sep 8, 20243 min read


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

flos collective
Sep 4, 20242 min read


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

flos collective
Aug 26, 20241 min read


✨Artist Spotlight✨ Olga Niekrasova
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...

flos collective
Aug 5, 20243 min read
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