In this episode we focus on recovery and how art-making and group work can aid this process. Creativity and the arts open up spaces for self expression, dialogue and collaboration, reconnecting with ones self and others. Engagement in arts programmes and art making can help to reduce isolation and build confidence, improve mental health and well being.
We met with Nic Dickson a Social Researcher, Artist Facilitator and Visual Artist and Rebecca Grant a Group Worker from SAY Women a Glasgow Charity that offers safe semi-supported accommodation and emotional support for young women aged 16 to 25 who are survivors of sexual abuse, rape or sexual assault and who are homeless, or threatened with homelessness, to chat about their recent arts project
'We Too Are Goddesses'. The project was in collaboration with The Village Storytelling Centre and was provided for the women and girls supported by SAY Women. We invited the young women to participate in the conversation but unfortunately they were unable to attend on the day of the interview.

Related Links:
https://www.say-women.co.uk/
http://www.villagestorytelling.org.uk/
http://www.recoverystories.info/judith-herman-trauma-and-recovery/
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing Report : https://www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/appg-inquiry/

Episode Nine:  'We Too Are Goddesses', Arts & Recovery, 'SAY Women', Glasgow.

‘Hidden Lives’  is a sound piece by sound artist, composer and academic Cathy Lane. Her work uses spoken word, field recordings and archive material to explore aspects of our listening relationship with each other and the multiverse. She is currently focused on how sound relates to the past, our histories, environment and our collective and individual memories from a feminist perspective. Aspects of her creative practice have developed out of these interests and include composition and installation-based work. She also writes and lectures on these and related subjects as well as collaborating with choreographers, film makers, visual artists and other musicians.
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'Hidden Lives' explores ideas of the house as the repository of memories, and of women as the curators of memory and of hidden histories. The daily repetition of domestic routine tasks is common to women, in particular, across centuries, societies and cultures. Through carrying out this invisible work women have shaped and sorted cupboards, rooms, all manner of dwelling places, and the inner lives of societies and cosmologies. At particular times they have been, at once, confined to the inside the house to carry out unrecognised and exhausting domestic servitude and at the same time able to colonise the ‘inside’ as their own, the place for daydreams and memories.
All the material for this piece is drawn from a selection of women reading from “The Book of Hints and Wrinkles” a small piece of social history from the 1930s which describes how women should manage both their houses and themselves in no uncertain terms. The daily routine timetable is enough to ensure that no woman could ever spend much time outside the house or away from this backbreaking schedule, and advice on personal appearance is delivered in such a way as to suggest that women are in fact part of the furnishing of the house to be polished, scrubbed and generally to look clean, welcoming and attractive.
‘Hidden Lives’ is one of a series of tape works which explore the compositional use of space and gesture as a metaphor for physical and emotional experiences. It attempts to use the distribution, movement and gesture of sound in space in order to emphasise and highlight possible the associative qualities of the recorded material according to personal experience.
Some of the specific ideas that inform the composition of ‘Hidden Lives’ are in the treatment of the text which moves from the whispers and breaths of memory to half articulated emergent sentences to the mantra of the repetitive routine which becomes like a wall of orders and commands.
The piece was commissioned by the Institute International de Musique Electroacoustique and realised in their studio in Bourges, France.
‘Hidden Lives’ is in celebration of all lives lived and forgotten .

For more information on Cathy Lane:
https://cathylane.co.uk/
https://www.crisap.org/people/cathy-lane/
https://soundcloud.com/playingwithwords

Episode Ten: 'Hidden Lives'  (1999)  Cathy Lane

The audio piece in this episode is a collection of recordings made over a number of weeks with women supported by Hemat Gryffe Women's Aid. The women read poems they had written, sang songs and chose music that they felt related to their experiences of having lived with Domestic Abuse and to their recovery. The women's individual poems, stories, songs are woven together with the flow of sounds from the weekly group meetings. 
Following this is a short clip from a podcast 'Our Chance Of Becoming Human'  by Lucy Cathcart Froden  which explores themes of the voice, language and translation, research ethics, and the transformative potential of collaborative songwriting.
Lucy writes and performs music under the name raukarna, a Swedish word for a series of odd-shaped geological formations on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. raukarna is a series of themed collaborative projects, the first of which was called FLIGHT and was a collaboration with the Refuweegee initiative and a number of other songwriters. The second project is called CLOSE and involves working with tenement neighbours to create a collaborative album. This project has received funding from Creative Scotland and is in the process of being written and recorded. 
 At the moment Lucy is doing a PhD based at the University of Glasgow and Vox Liminis, exploring the potential for collaborative music making in social integration, particularly among people with convictions and people who have been forcibly displaced. She makes a podcast, an audio scrapbook of the PhD journey, called Our Chance of Becoming Human. 
Lucy has also been in bands like The Social Services (Stockholm) and Tall Tales (Glasgow). She has helped develop site-specific collaborative music performances as part of Zoetrope, bringing together a collective of bands and artists for unique performances at festivals around Scotland. 
https://www.lumawords.co.uk/lucy-cathcart-froden
https://www.voxliminis.co.uk/people/lucy-cathcart-froden/

Hemat Gryffe Women’s Aid was founded in 1981 as the first Asian, Black and Minority Ethnic Women’s Aid Group in Scotland. They provide support and information in a culturally sensitive manner on a wide range of issues. They strive to ensure that all women and children receive an equal service and do not discriminate on the grounds of age, disability, gender-reassignment, gender identity, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, race, religion and belief or sexual orientation.
Services are free and confidential and include:
Outreach Support for women, children and young people;
Culturally sensitive counselling/listening ear service;
Information on all forms of domestic abuse and gender based violence;
Forced Marriage
Immigration matters including the immigration rules implemented from 9th July 2012 affecting women living in the United Kingdom on Spousal Visas who have no recourse to public funds;
Help you with making an application for settlement to the UKBA under the Destitute Domestic Violence Concession.
Housing and Homelessness in Glasgow
Welfare Rights
Employment
Legal matters
Bilingual Staff are available
Support for marginalised communities
Children’s Outreach service operates from the drop in centre
Hemat Gryffe recognise that women, children and young people from the Asian, black and minority ethnic community experiencing domestic abuse may be reluctant to seek help from mainstream services such as Hemat Gryffe Women’s Aid or social services due to cultural beliefs. If you are experiencing domestic abuse or an oppressive domestic situation please contact them at:
http://www.hematgryffe.org.uk/women.html
Hemat Gryffe's 24 hour emergency service 0141 3530859
The Scottish National Helpline Number for victims of Domestic Abuse & Forced Marriage is 0800 027 1234

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Episode Twelve: Meeting with the Women's Group at Hemat Gryffe Women's Aid Part.2

In this episode we hear a reading of a poem written by one of the women we met through Hemat Gryffe Women's Aid, who chose to remain anonymous.  The poem is about her experience of having lived with coercive control and of finding freedom from the abuse. 
Following this is a recording of a conversation we had discussing her poem in a bit more detail and her experience of going through the divorce process. 
We also touch on financial control, women and the labour market and domestic abuse in the workplace.
Hemat Gryffe Women’s Aid was founded in 1981 as the first Asian, Black and Minority Ethnic Women’s Aid Group in Scotland. They provide support and information in a culturally sensitive manner on a wide range of issues. They strive to ensure that all women and children receive an equal service and do not discriminate on the grounds of age, disability, gender-reassignment, gender identity, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, race, religion and belief or sexual orientation.
Services are free and confidential and include:
Outreach Support for women, children and young people;
Culturally sensitive counselling/listening ear service;
Information on all forms of domestic abuse and gender based violence;
Forced Marriage
Immigration matters including the immigration rules implemented from 9th July 2012 affecting women living in the United Kingdom on Spousal Visas who have no recourse to public funds;
Help you with making an application for settlement to the UKBA under the Destitute Domestic Violence Concession.
Housing and Homelessness in Glasgow
Welfare Rights
Employment
Legal matters
Bilingual Staff are available
Support for marginalised communities
Children’s Outreach service operates from the drop in centre

Hemat Gryffe recognise that women, children and young people from the Asian, black and minority ethnic community experiencing domestic abuse may be reluctant to seek help from mainstream services such as Hemat Gryffe Women’s Aid or social services due to cultural beliefs. If you are experiencing domestic abuse or an oppressive domestic situation please contact Hemat Gryffe;:

http://www.hematgryffe.org.uk/women.html
Hemat Gryffe's 24 hour emergency service 0141 3530859
The Scottish National Helpline Number for victims of Domestic Abuse & Forced Marriage is 0800 027 1234
Shakti Women' Aid:  http://shaktiedinburgh.co.uk/
0131 475 2399

Links to information referenced in the podcast:
https://www.closethegap.org.uk/
https://www.engender.org.uk/
https://womensaid.scot/project/building-equality/
http://safelives.org.uk/policy-evidence/cry-health/idvas-maternity-units
https://srh.bmj.com/content/45/1/61
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-economic-and-social-costs-of-domestic-abuse

Episode Eleven: Meeting with the Women's Group at Hemat Gryffe Women's Aid Part.1

This episode includes an audio piece by the artist Shanti Suki Osman called Hidden Stories: Nakba, which was specially created for the event WE ARE ALL GAZA on May 15th 2018 curated by Jérémie Pujau. The piece centres on female* voices, including an interview, poems and songs by women* of Palestine as well as an intersectional look at the struggle.

[Although this piece is specific to the Palestinian struggle it relates in many ways to the themes of previous episodes; it’s focus on female storytelling and the importance of remembering has overlaps with the discussion of the early Women’s Aid movement and Scottish Women’s Aid Speaking Out Oral History project in Episode 5. 
Hidden Stories: Nakba opens up the conversation of equality but as you’ll hear the interviewee in Hidden Stories say, through an intersectional lens.]

Shanti Suki Osman is a Berlin-based artist and educator working with song, sound and radio, exploring the topics of identities, privilege, anti-racism and feminism. Residencies and performances 2017 - 2019 include: DISTRICT BERLIN Studio Grant; Sonic Cyberfeminisms, (Wysing Arts Centre); The Hearing Test (English Theater Berlin); SenseUs (London College of Communication, CRiSAP), Future Sounds (Akademie der Autodidakten, Ballhaus Naunynstr) Chipping Away (I AM NOT A FORTUNE COOKIE, ACUD), which was featured in Radiophrenia 2019. She is a research associate and lecturer for Musicology and Media Studies at Humboldt University with a focus on resistance and survival of women* of colour in sound making. In Late Nights In Squat Bars she writes and sings feminist electro-pop with Dafne Della Dafne, and curates festivals and group shows - most recently the sound art exhibition and event series Hearing Now (Berlin June 2018). In Coyer Koya she creates trip hop and electro pop tracks with long term collaborator John MacKenzie (Godzilla Black; Hawk Eyes). Her radio show Hidden Stories (colaboradio, 88,4), seeks to present stories, music and political arts from outside of dominant cultures. She is co director of Die Remise, a critical race and historical school project in Berlin founded by Carmen Mörsch. Die Remise´s most recent exhibition (Feb 2019) was part of the 11th Berlin Biennale (2019-20)
https://www.mixcloud.com/hiddenstories
https://latenightsinsquatbars.org/
https://soundcloud.com/shanti-suki-osman
https://www.dieremise.org

Links to other references in podcast:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/judith-butler-wants-us-to-reshape-our-rage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTsd4Otj3R8
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/opinion/judith-butler-gender.html
http://www.jeremiepujau.com/art/we-are-all-gaza

Episode Thirteen: 'Hidden Stories: Nakba'  Shanti Suki Osman, Judith Butler and 'Radical Equality'

In this episode you'll hear from members of the Rosey Project Community(RPC). The Rosey Project is a support and prevention programme for young people at Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis, they offer support and education to young people aged 13-25, and the Rosey Project Community is a participatory element of this programme.
We met up with two of the RPC members and their support workers Jen and Emma back in February of this year to talk about a series of zines they created that are a resource for other young survivors of sexual violence.
Having attended the launch of the Zines during 2019's 16 Days of Action we were keen to talk more about the project and about how the members felt RPC had benefited them. 
The launch night was really powerful and insightful, they had guest speaker Roza Salih (Activist and Co-founder of Glasgow Girls),  poetry readings by RPC members and a Q&A panel discussion with members of the Rosey Project Community and Christina McKelvie, the Scottish Government Minister for Older People & Equalities.  
You'll hear some of poems read by the Jen and the members we met, interspersed through the recorded conversation. 
We have published this episode to coincide with International Zine month, if you go to our blog page at https://www.waslerarts.co.uk/blog  you'll find more information about zines, zine and book making.  There's content from the Rosey Resources zines, videos and articles looking at the political and activist zines from the Riot Grrrl Movement, contemporary zine making and links to local zine distributors.
You'll also find a film documenting the artist Suzanne Lacy's radical work Three Weeks in May: Speaking Out On Rape, A Political Art Piece, which was an extended work of performance art and activism. The piece took place in Los Angeles, California from May 8 to May 24, 1977. 
Three Weeks in May prompted the police and the city government to address violence against women openly and to publicize rape hotlines. 

​Thanks so much to the members at RPC and to Jenny, Paula and Emma. If you want to get copies of the zines you can get in touch with Paula the team leader at the Rosey Project by emailing paula@rapecrisiscentre-glasgow.co.uk, or by phoning the office on 0141 552 3201.  You can also get PDF copies of the zines by emailing: harrietatwaslerarts@gmail.com
There also lots of great resources and information available through the Rosey Project Facebook page @roseyproject
If you are a young person looking for support you can call the Rosey Project freephone helpline on 08088 00 00 14.
You can also call The National Rape Crisis Helpline on freephone 08088 01 03 02
You can also access support on the Rosey Project text & WhatsApp every Friday from 2pm-4pm: 07706092545
Find the Rosey Project on Twitter @Rosey_Project  
Instagram @theroseyprojectcommunity
visit the Rosey Project at www.roseyproject.co.uk

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Rosey Resources for Survivors by Survivors, Meeting with the Rosey Project Community

Welcome to the WASLER ARTS MAKE WAVES PODCAST which we are launching in conjunction with the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign and the 16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence.
Our aims are to raise awareness of Domestic Abuse and Gender-Based Violence,
to break the silence around these issues and to provide a platform for the audio pieces created by the women participating in our recent sound workshops.

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