shona thomson

An award-winning organiser currently studying community development, with extensive experience of using cinema and heritage to help people share their stories and reclaim local spaces. About.

Since formally starting in 2015, around 10,000 people from Shetland to Hanoi have participated in A Kind of Seeing projects.

In over twenty years of presenting and organising events in community spaces of all shapes and sizes, the importance of place and belonging has been at the heart of the stories I help people to shape and share for themselves.

Now, building on this work, I am training to be a Community Learning and Development worker.

From facilitating live blethers* with local communities to using the past to talk about our future, I believe in working to bring folk together to reduce social isolation and play an active part in strengthening communities.

Take a look at the Projects I’ve worked on. Find out more about Partners I’ve worked with. And visit the Pinboard to find out why I called my work A Kind of Seeing.

*blethers = relaxed chats usually with a cuppa and cake (we like a good blether here in Scotland)

 IMAGE CREDITS
Sean Dooley (Top, Following the Fleet: DRIFTERS in The Dreel Halls, Anstruther)
Shona Thomson (Bottom, Coalfields Regeneration Trust Films of Action in Danderhall Miners Club)