“The river is not just conceptual: it overflows all our categories in its wet, real complexity.” During a recent planning session for Connecting Threads’ 2026 creative programme, River Culture Curator Tiki Muir identified one of the many qualities that make ecologically situated arts projects so full of fluid possibility. With campaigns for the rights of rivers gaining momentum at the same time as awareness grows of the severely polluted state of rivers across the UK, projects like Connecting Threads have a vital role to play.

Connecting Threads is a five-year creative project responding to the ...

 

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