What is Moving Stories?

Moving Stories is a region-wide creative campaign celebrating the everyday journeys that connect communities across Dumfries and Galloway.

Every journey is part of something bigger. From the first step to the final stop, connecting us to place, to people, and to possibility. Walking to school, wheeling to see a pal, taking the bus to work — these are the everyday movements that shape how we live and where we connect.

Moving Stories applies The Stove Network’s Creative Placemaking approach at a regional scale, using creativity to bring people together around active and sustainable travel — focusing on how people move, the routes, services and transport networks they already use and why, while exploring new opportunities as they emerge — through lived experience, local identity and shared stories.

Through films, print, and a region-wide programme of creative interventions, Moving Stories will highlight positive, real-life stories from people who use the existing transport network in their day-to-day lives — a bus journey to work, a bike ride to college, wheeling to see a pal or walking along familiar routes. By sharing these lived experiences, the campaign builds awareness and understanding of how the active and sustainable travel infrastructure available across our region supports everyday life, helping us all get where we need to go.

Every Journey Tells a Tale.

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