Excavating Beginnings & Move Like Water explores Glasgow’s relationship to, and role within the transatlantic slave trade. Using the rebranding of ‘Merchant City’ as an anchor, Alberta and Adebusola excavate the various ways the city tells on itself—a willingness to celebrate Glasgow's mercantile past but without acknowledging  it’s enduring affect and impact on the present.


How do we interrupt cycles of remembering and forgetting? How do we create new ways through? Excavating Beginnings & Move Like Water draws parallels between navigating waterways and navigating archives to lay bear the stories and histories that lie beneath the surface

Excavating Beginnings & Move Like Water features Adebusola Ramsay and Alberta Whittle

Sound Design, Music Composition, and Sound Editing by Francis Dosoo

Excavating Beginnings & Move Like Water

Lessons Learned: Weather Warnings reflects on the major redevelopment works affecting North Glasgow in the present day and how these plans echo  previous cycles of gentrification, divestment, and community disempowerment—where austerity and poverty are reframed as ‘opportunity’.

What does it mean to define an area by what ‘used to happen there’—where ‘post-industrial’ is used as a kind of euphemism to mean ‘nothing happens here’, or maybe more accurately, ‘nothing white happens here’ or ‘nothing middle class’ happens here?  Lessons Learned: Weather Warnings charts how the architecture and infrastructure of the city underpins and produces our understandings of austerity, poverty, race, and class.

Lessons Learned: Weather Warnings features Adebusola Ramsay, Cllr Graham Campbell, and Alberta Whittle

Sound Design, Music Composition, and Sound Editing by Francis Dosoo

Lessons Learned: Weather Warnings

They Are Our Neighbours is a conversation reflecting on the work of the Maryhill Integration Network as the organisation celebrates it’s 20th Anniversary.

Together, Rema, Anastasia, Alberta, and Kirsty talk through  the role of creative expression in building and sustaining communities and solidarity, and the importance of 'joy’ as a tactic to hold space for healing, restoration, and catharticism.

They Are Our Neighbours features Anastasia Maria Tariq, Rema Zeka Sherifi, Alberta Whittle, and Kirsty Hendry

Sound Design, Music Composition, and Sound Editing by Francis Dosoo

They Are Our Neighbours

Waters of Life: Udha Vada Ska is a song written and performed by Maryhill Integration Network’s Joyous Choir and remixed and arranged by Francis Dosoo.

Developed through a series of song-writing workshops led by musician and researcher Lucy Cathcart Fröden, the song features lyrics in Albanian, Turkish, Twi, Basque, Swahili, Gujarati and reflects on the choirs’ personal experiences of journey, home, exile, and joy.

Sound Design, Music Composition, and Sound Editing by Francis Dosoo

Waters of Life

'Palimpsest of Voices - Inscriptions' is a conversation between Leontios Toumpouris, Alex Misick, and Kirsty Hendry, discussing the development narrative of Palimpsest of voices, including ideas of authorship, learning, and engagement.

'Palimpsest' of voices is a participatory project developed and led by Leontios Toumpouris for Glasgow International 2021. It explores the fragility and mutability of language by employing making as a collective learning process, beyond words or shared backgrounds.
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Leontios Toumpouris is an artist who currently lives and works between Nicosia and Glasgow. 

Alex Misick works for the Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow on CCA Annex, an online project space. Alex is the producer of Palimpsest of voices.

Kirsty Hendry is an artist and facilitator who lives in Glasgow. She is also the Learning and Engagement Manager at Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Kirsty was commissioned to respond to Palimpsest of voices with a text.

Palimpsest Of Voices - Inscriptions

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We build and strengthen relationships between our artists, our communities, and our local environment through creative workshops and projects.

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