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Project X Dance
Project X Dance presents a series of scratch performances developed by the recipients of their Artist Voice Residency 2022.
FUTUREPROOF 2022
FUTUREPROOF is an annual showcase of new talent in photographic image making, selected from across Scotland’s photography and fine art degree courses.
Maud Sulter
Pollok House will host an exhibition of the work of the Black Scottish artist Maud Sulter. The show will bring together a wide range of Sulter’s work, including photography, portraiture, and poetry in addition to archival material loaned by the Maud Sulter Estate.
FONDS: Objects Speak Louder Than Words
Greater Govanhill asked locals to present their most special objects. Morwenna Keasley photographed them using an experimental technique. The result is a collection of diverse personal stories and striking pictures exhibited all over Govanhill.
'Essuf: Choreographing a Ritual of Shared Ownership in the Sahel' – Tramway
Anne-Lise Agossa's movie is about an imagined future where settled and nomadic customs are weaving in Western and Central Sahel. The 11-minutes short film is screened for free, on a drop in basis at Tramway during opening hours.
Street Level Culture Collective – Govanhill exhibition
This exhibition is a showcase of the work done by Govanhill-based artists Morwenna Kearsley and Alex Popa over an entire year, as part of the Culture Collective programme, initiated by Street Level Photoworks. The collaboration between the artists and locals have resulted in fascinating photographs and movies, reflecting the community in Govanhill.
The Govanhill International Festival and Carnival
The Govanhill International Festival and Carnival (GIFC) is back once again and bigger and bolder than ever before. Govanhill Baths and partners bring you a programme of more than fifty events fusing together art, heritage and community activism.
'Human Threads' exhibition - Tramway
The multi-sensory exhibition curated by Artlink is still on display at Tramway. Conceived as an accessible, creative experience informed by individuals with profound and multiple learning disabilities, the exhibition takes the form of an interactive landscape which invites audiences on a journey of light, sound, touch and smell.
Human Threads - Ruta Vitkauskaite/Emily Doolittle: Deep Listening
Tramway’s Human Threads exhibition can be experienced through all the senses. Here, they invite you to listen to it.
ROMA - Photography Exhibition
An exhibition of staged photographic portraiture which aims to celebrate inspirational Roma people from history alongside self-portraits made in and around Govanhill.
My Mother, My Country - photography exhibition at MILK Cafe
My Mother, My Country is an exhibition of new portraits and street photography at MILK Cafe by Sareh Abasi, Syeda Sadaf Anwar, Najat El Bouhali, Lydia Gitamvu, Morwenna Kearsley and Farzana Kousar.
Dance Internation Glasgow
Dance International Glasgow (DIG) last Thursday announced its new Spring Season in what promises to be a snapshot of some of the most exciting dance artists creating work in Scotland today alongside artists from across the UK and the wider world.
FLAW: An exhibition by Kate Davis
FLAW, an exhibition by Kate Davis presented is being presented by A-M-G5. Kate Davis is an artist based in Glasgow. Davis works with a variety of media including moving image, drawing, printmaking and photography to rethink the ways in which our understanding of an artistic language is constructed. T
Martine Syms - SHE MAD S1:E4
Martine Syms explores pervasive archetypes and depictions of black experience in American television and media, combining conceptualism, humour and social commentary to explore the sign of blackness in the public imagination.