🏳️‍⚧️ SQIFF has a £1000 commission for a queer artist based in Scotland to create the artwork for this years’ festival 🌈 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Please find more information and how to pitch your ideas here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… ✨

At last a baseline to work with. 👇🏽

GSSO at the City Halls last night. What a programme and what a sound! We loved it! Well done to everyone and especially to all our Hyndland players! Hyndland Secondary Glasgow CREATE

#EducateYourself 👇🏽

Join CAGE International outside Westminster Magistrates Court to support Marieha Hussain as she attends her first hearing of the case against her, for calling Sunak and Braverman ‘coconuts’. 🗣️ We demand this case is thrown out! 📆 Wednesday 26th June from 9:30am

Countering conflict: culture, silences, and listening to the voices of leaves, thanks to Reiko Goto Collins (imaged below in the Peace Arbour Glasgow Women's Library) blogging about such things encountered in June. link in biog.

What an honour for our Joyous Choir to perform alongside Royal Scottish National Orchestra at the 'Raising Voices' event during #refugeefestscot 2024! 🎶 Here are the 3 songs we performed. Which one did you like to hear the most? ✨✨

We are DELIGHTED to be bringing Nico Ndlovu down from Scotland to run a workshop for us on: 'Surviving the Housing Crisis as a Person Seeking Asylum' | 11.07.2024 | 6 - 8pm book on our site. You can read more about how much of a legend Nico is here: bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

If you’re visiting the #Hunterian Art Gallery University of Glasgow this weekend, don’t miss our new student exhibition ‘Artist: Unknown’! It focuses on unknown artists and makers through a small selection of objects from our collections that have information missing from their records.

We are looking for someone brilliant to come & be ⁦⁦V&A Dundee⁩ ‘s next Head of Learning & Civic Partnerships, the role is at the ❤️ of what we do, is with a fantastic team & is based in a city that cares about its future & design 🌟 jobs.vandadundee.org/head-of-learni…

Two days left to submit your events, performances, exhibitions and more for inclusion in Scotland's 2024 Black History Month Programme! Closing date Friday 19th July. More info: blackhistorymonthscotland.org/submissions

Check out "Making amends for Empire - has Scotland done enough?" Wed Aug 21: 3:30 - 5pm w Irene Mosota @IreneMosota Knowledge Bridge, Stephen Mullen Zandra Yeaman University of Glasgow, #FestivalOfPolitics Edinburgh Visit the Scottish Parliament Scottish Parliament eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-amend… @Eventbrite

This is the inevitable, devastating, outcome of rising Islamophobia that's enabled to fester on social media, in mainstream media, and by our political class. Our thoughts are with the people of Southport, and British Muslims across the country. x.com/i/status/18185…

Book Launch!

.BBC insisting on reporting racist rioters as 'protestors' and 'demonstrators' is a gross misrepresentation of the violence impacting communities of colour across the UK. Language matters.

On 7th September, join Stand Up to Racism - Scotland to remind the far-right that Scotland says NO to racism, fascism, terror and violence, and REFUGEES ARE WELCOME HERE.

Introducing our Anti-racism and Decolonisation Steering Group 👥 We've recruited a group to help support and develop our anti-racism and decolonisation work, building on a track record of advocacy, campaigns and programmes. Meet the members 👉 ow.ly/O0xy50STENX

Against the backdrop of far-right extremism and racist violence in the UK, Channel 4 will once again air critically-acclaimed & award-winning series, #Defiance: Fighting the Far Right, at 10pm Mon 12 — Wed 14 August. Full press release here: channel4.com/press/news/cha… Riz Ahmed

You could have undertaken a thorough journalistic investigation a) the man ejected campaigns on behalf of Alistair McConnachie’s organisation b) McConnachie (reportedly a Holocaust denier) revealed himself at the event, arguing the British Empire was a ‘good thing’.