Woven Kinship CIC

Woven Kinship CIC formed in direct response to community feedback following an impactful collaboration with Connecting Threads in 2023-24.

Forged at the intersection of arts and environmentalism, Woven Kinship works to support, enhance, inspire and improve the wellbeing of the waters, lands and communities of the river Tweed. We understand ‘communities’ to encompass place, purpose, human and more than human species.

We offer water and land-based participatory arts-for-wellbeing engagement activities, projects and events along the river Tweed.

At present we rely 100% on funding from local awarding bodies. The projects and events we offer are announced using our team's network of local social media and good old posters in the community!

Keep scrolling to explore what we do & what we've been up to...

Who do we serve?

Land, Water, Communities

Woven Kinship serves the waters, lands and communities of the river Tweed. We recognise Water and Land as living beings, vital to all life. Woven Kinship strives to leave no trace and to give as well as take/benefit from the lands and waters we connect with.

Collaboration

Woven Kinship activities, projects and events seek to collaborate with, and be of benefit to:

Water
Land / Earth
Children
Young people
Adults

Participation

We have a particular focus on providing outdoor creative participatory experiences for:

People facing barriers to accessing nature and the outdoors in meaningful ways
People exploring their mental health and wellbeing

Community Projects

Participation & Engagement

We are taking one step at a time, listening to the human voices we have connection with, reaching out to those we are yet to connect with, and using our awareness of the local environment to consider the more-than-human voices and what they may be saying or asking.

Explore our projects and events to date...

Wovenkinship CIC Cuddy Litter Pick, Peebles

Wovenkinship CIC Peebles Cuddy Litter Pick

Cuddy Litter Pick - Peebles

Sunday 23 February 2025

22 kids & adults joined us for a fantastic litter pick with the added bonus of a visit from Ben McCallum from Tweed Foundation with a fish and invertebrates identification session. We had a great time learning what lives in the river and how this indicates clean waters. We learned how alive the Cuddy is!

We collected:

22 bags of rubbish

1 double mattress

1 large sheet of lino

1 traffic cone

1 large plastic picnic blanket

A third of a black bin sack filled with dog poo from a short section of the river side – yuk!

Everyone had a great time and many passers by said thank you for the work we were doing. We will be organising a summer litter pick.

A big thank you to SBCAN for funding this – it seems to have ignited a valuable spark in Peebles.

Movement & Photography

Coming soon - Summer/Autumn 2025

We are working hard behind the scenes to finalise plans for some exciting funding we have been awarded to work with adults and young people...

Celebratory details and funder to be announced soon. Watch this space!

Our
Story

Get to Know Us

Rhiana Laws, Huia Takau & Verity Harvey-Brosnan became close friends swimming year-round in the River Tweed.

We wanted to combine our gifts in dance health, photography, plants and biodynamics to conjure a way to work within our local community. Our intention is to cultivate curiosity, connection and care for the local to the global lands and waters, by providing informative and educational experiences with a creative twist. 

We appreciate the support and creative genius of Cameron Hall who creatively consults behind the scenes, offering his expertise in community immersive theatrical events.

We believe in the healing power of nature

Contact us

We are growing from the roots up!

We appreciate your patience whilst we establish socials & website

Please reach out to Rhiana Laws who will be delighted to hear from you

rhianalaws@hotmail.com