https://clydesider.org/2021/11/24/crafting-together/ Crafting Together Words & Photos by Caroline Finn A creative calm welcomes visitors to Crafting Together CIC’s new studio in Clydebank’s Titan Centre. Young makers’ eyes smile a greeting from behind their masks as they look up from their intricate work building sparkly angel bracelets. The studio walls are covered Clydesider • Creative
membership graphic Clydesider Membership As we near our seventh anniversary, we’re also making plans for Clydesider’s future. We want to keep the magazine free for all to enjoy for years to come, to do that we need your help. As a non-profit we have no shareholders or parent companies. We’re Clydesider • Clydesider
clydesider More Than A Magazine - 5 Year Anniversay by Amanda Eleftheriades, Editor ‘If it bleeds, it leads’. This was the ethos of the media industry in 1996 when I started my first job as a local reporter in Dumbarton. Sadly, not too much had changed when I left it seven years later. Disillusioned by the industry’s growing Clydesider • Issue 17
choir socially distanced Singing In The Rain How does a choir stay connected when it can't sing together? This was the challenge Firecloud's Community Choir, affectionately named Big Happy Noise, faced at the start of last year's lockdown. With members coming from across West Dunbartonshire and further afield, the pandemic brought Clydesider • Issue 17
Owens Photo A Museum For The Clyde Words by Angela Clark Photos by Owen McGuigan As the dedicated workforce of the Clyde shipbuilding community laid down their tools for the last time, they could walk away with pride in their step, knowing they had built some of the most famous ships in the world. These included the Clydesider • Heritage