Launched on Thanksgiving 2020, and running to Valentine’s Day 2021, Giving Thanks was a new campaign to create digital memories that united the people of Southampton in a shared celebration of community.

It aimed, during social isolation, to bring people together, through generating an understanding of difference and encouraging an attitude of gratitude. More than 250 people joined in, plus eight community groups who took part in a paid-for social media training scheme to create films to support the campaign. Contributions were pulled together in a new digital arts commission led by Shared Space & Light.