Kerry Jones is a creative practitioner whose work spans collaborative creatively engaged projects, project coordination, micro and macro portable works a deep interest in the power of creativity to ignite positive change with and within communities.
Current projects and roles:
River Culture Animateur/Connecting Threads
Kerry has been working with Connecting Threads since 2023. Connecting Threads is the cultural strand of the landscape-scale project Destination Tweed, connecting creative practitioners with conservationists, environmentalists, scientists, river specialists and communities of place and purpose, to celebrate the River Tweed through a programme of cultural activity.
Culture Collective Project Coordinator : Imagine Galashiels / Little Art Hub CIC
Kerry is currently project coordinator for this exciting place based project in her home town of Galashiels in the Scottish Borders supported through the Scotland wide Culture Collective project a Scottish Government initiative which supports a network of creative practitioners, organisations and communities, working together to create a positive difference locally and nationally.
Kerry is a founding member of the Little Art Hub CIC a creative hub in the heart of Galashiels town centre.
Creative Director: Moving Images Cinema Caravan CIC
Moving Images Cinema Caravan is a solar powered 9 seater cinema in a converted Caravan that came into being with support from Alchemy Film & Arts and a Creative Scotland Crowdmatch scheme in 2022 and designed and created by Kerry Jones and Frazer Watson.
Since then it has toured around Scotland screening short films for all ages at festivals including Eden, Kelburn, Fringe by the Sea, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, North Edinburgh Arts festival, Nitrhraid as well as community gardens and orchards. Projects and film programmes have been funded by Film Hub Scotland and National Lottery funding Awards for All.