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Whether it’s feedback on our previous projects or ideas for future collaborations, we're always interested to hear from our audiences and potential audiences.
The best way to contact us in the first instance is via email.
Please be aware that we all work part time, so it may take us a little while to reply. We appreciate your patience.
Meet the team
Rhiana Laws Upper Tweed
(Moffat – Innerleithen)
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Rhiana is a dance health artist with a passion for creatively exploring the benefits of moving outdoors on land and in water. Based in the Borders, Rhiana's background in dance is rooted in community engagement practices and projects for young people, adults and elders.
Rhiana has been part of the Connecting Threads team since late 2024.
rhiana@sup.org.uk
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Kerry Jones Middle Tweed
(Innerleithen – Kelso)
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Kerry is a multimedia artist, curator, project manager and educator based in Galashiels who uses experimentation, moving image and micro sculptural interventions to focus on climate breakdown, interconnections and community engagement, presenting alternative ways of processing the world around us.
Kerry has been part of the Connecting Threads team since early 2023.
kerry@sup.org.uk
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Joanna Helfer Lower Tweed
(Kelso – Berwick upon Tweed)
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Joanna is a visual artist and community organiser with a background in youthwork and artist led spaces. She cares about co-creating projects alongside people and learning together, with a particular interest in place, histories of landscapes, walking and stories.
Joanna has been part of the Connecting Threads team since early 2023.
joanna@sup.org.uk
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Tiki Muir River Culture Curator
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Before joining Connecting Threads, Tiki was Creative Community Hubs Project Lead at Whale Arts, a community-led arts charity and social enterprise in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh. Tiki’s professional areas of focus include participatory working methods, organising with collectives, and community-embedded cultural projects. Her interests also include mountain biking and outdoor swimming.
Tiki has been part of the Connecting Threads team since summer 2023.
tiki@sup.org.uk
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Tom Jeffreys River Messenger
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Tom is a freelance writer and editor. His books include Walking: Documents of Contemporary Art (Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press, 2024); To an island in a loch on an island in a loch, with Kirsty Badenoch (Mouldy Books, 2023); The White Birch: a Russian Reflection (Little, Brown, 2021); and Signal Failure: London to Birmingham, HS2 on Foot (Influx Press, 2017).
Tom has been part of the Connecting Threads team since early 2024.
tom@sup.org.uk
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