Fun Lovin Liminals began with a simple question:
What happens when creative people are brought together in one, private, safe, supportive space, without the usual boundaries between art forms?
When Tosca Lahiri moved to Greenock, Inverclyde in 2022, she began looking for local groups where she might meet new creative people.
What she found was something genuinely wonderful.
Across Inverclyde there are brilliant groups supporting the arts — spaces for writers, poets, musicians, artists, makers and performers. The creative spirit here is real.
But something stood out.
So many of these spaces were naturally defined and limited by discipline: writing in one place, music in another, visual art somewhere else, craft somewhere else again.
Tosca kept returning to the same thought:
what if all the creatives were in the same room?
What might happen in that in-between space?
That was the beginning of Fun Lovin Liminals.
The word liminal is not accidental.
During her Fine Art degree, Tosca explored liminal zones — those in-between places where edges soften and something new begins to emerge.
A doorway.
A shoreline.
A threshold.
A pause between one version of ourselves and the next.
Fun Lovin Liminals was born from that same idea.
A creative in-between space where art forms meet, voices grow, and new identities can be assumed in safety.
Our name was born from an afternoon cuppa at Tosca's on the idea of the liminal with poet Laurie Donaldson, who brought his poetic edge to the moment and helped give language to the space we were creating.
In truth, the seed had been planted even earlier.
Before moving to Scotland, while still searching for a new home, Tosca already had a spreadsheet of possible places - not just anywhere to live, but somewhere that could become a private, invite-only creative space.
This part is important.
From the beginning, the vision was never for a public venue or open drop-in space.
The idea was to create a small, safe space, out of the public eye, where a carefully held group of people could come together to explore all forms of creativity without pressure, judgement or performance expectations.
A place to experiment.
A place to fail safely.
A place to try something for the first time.
A place to find your voice.
Nobody quite knew what would come from it.
That uncertainty was by design.
The liminal space.
The in-between.
The place where something new begins.
At the time of writing, we are now 12 events in.
Since those first gatherings, this small creative collective has grown into something deeply special.
Together we have launched an arts and culture magazine.
Together we have created a new band, Let the Record Show.
Together we continue to bring writers, artists, musicians, performers and makers into one room to support one another across genres.
Poetry beside percussion.
Stories beside song.
Visual art beside voice.
All in one place.
None of this would happen without the collective support of the people who make up Fun Lovin Liminals.
It is about a community of creatives helping one another to practise, experiment, grow in confidence and discover what might emerge next.
And honestly?
We still don’t know exactly what happens next.
That’s part of the joy of it.
We’re here for the voices on the edge.
For the work still forming.
For the brave first attempts.
For the strange new collaborations.
For the people still finding their way back to creativity.