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You Drop, You Sow, You Gather
Rumpus Rooms semi-regular workshop is a project celebrating and sharing South Asian intuition working with young people (16-25) of South Asian heritage and their peers to explore heritage as social action led by studio member Ragini Chawla.
Art and Acitivism
KengKeng has been immersed in producing activist inspired by and for justice movements from Extinction Rebellion to BLM and migrant justice events for the past eight years in East London and Glasgow. She will be discussing how she creatively responds to community based racial and social justice movements.
The Fabric House - South Asian Women and Resistance
Zamard Zahid, writer and advocate for racial justice and equality within education, will be reading from her recent writings on East Asian women
Burrell in the Caribbean
Join the Burrell Collection for a discussion on their founder’s relationship to Jamaica and the wider Caribbean in the context of the legacies of slavery and empire.
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.
GACO Open Session: Score-Based Improvisation
GACO (Glasgow Autonomous Community Orchestra) are hosting their second session this Sunday. It will explore score-based approaches to improvisation and use visual/graphic aids so participants don’t need to know how to read traditional sheet music. Any ability and any instrument welcomed.
BHASHA Glasgow Language Festival 2022
We are so thrilled to be partnering once again with Thriving Places Govanhill and others for the BHASHA Glasgow Language Festival. The festival is a week-long celebration of the city’s many languages and the people who speak them.
Online Talk: Mapping Glasgow’s Queer History with Jeff Meek
This talk will focus on Jeff’s work in creating his LGBT maps of Scotland’s ‘queer’ spaces 1885 to 1995, with particular focus upon the city of Glasgow.
BHASHA Glasgow Language Festival
Bhasha, the Glasgow Language Festival, is a celebration of the city’s many languages and the people who speak them. February 21st marks the International Mother Language Day. Join us for language sessions, multilingual performances, talks, and more.
Beyond the Senses: A Creative Food Writing Workshop
See how we use food as a literary gateway to express our identities, and through writing exercises explore how it connects us.
Mystery Herbal Tea Tasting
A chance to sink into the plant world and explore what we can learn when we pay attention while drinking a mystery herbal tea.
Introduction To Spoken Word with Cat Hepburn
Award-winning poet, writer & educator Cat Hepburn (BBC 6 Music) will give you some top tips on writing and creating engaging performances.
Gravis Project: Exploring Death Through Art
Gravis Project is an open dialogue workshop designed to explore what death and dying means to each individual.
Listening with the Body - Walking Workshop with Ashanti Harris
This is an invitation to explore and redefine our relationship to the environments we move through. The workshop will take the form of an instructional audio recording which participants will follow whilst walking in a place of their choosing.
Simple massage techniques for self and friends
This workshop will offer some practical skills for nourishing ourselves and each other with massage. These tools can be used on ourselves or on friends.
Free Photography Workshop
Queen’s Park Camera Club will be running LIVE Zoom workshops to share their tips on how to improve your photography. Whether you use a phone, a compact camera or a DSLR, you are sure to learn something.
Free Photography Workshop
Queen’s Park Camera Club will be running LIVE Zoom workshops to share their tips on how to improve your photography. Whether you use a phone, a compact camera or a DSLR, you are sure to learn something.
Adapt & Act Online Workshops: Becoming a Food Citizen
Join Rumpus Room Young Activists, Camilla Crosta (Küche) and Jess Routley (daikon*) for a series of online workshops exploring food as a civic tool, for ages 14-25
Natural Dyeing with Food Waste and Flowers
Join Eco Dye and Glasgow Zine Library for a beginner course in natural dyeing with food waste and flowers.