Category: Past
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19/6/2026 ASAHH Network Forum 02
3:30pm-5:00pm, Friday 19 June 2026 Online, free tickets via website The Africa Scotland Art History Heritage Network is pleased to announce our next ASAHH Network Forum, taking place online via MS Teams. This is a collegial event for network members to share brief overviews of current or recent projects, or to put a call out for collaborators on…
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19/6/2026 Event: “Rhythms of Place: Talking Drums at Newbattle Abbey”
13:00-15:00, Friday 19 June 2026 Newbattle Abbey College, Dalkeith, tickets via Eventbrite ‘Rhythms of Place‘ is a free, family friendly outdoor event that brings Nigerian drumming and talking drum performance into the historic grounds of Newbattle Abbey College. Led by Nigerian performers OHMO WORLD and female talking drummer Kira Africa, the event explores how rhythm,…
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18/6/2026 Event: “CinemARC at Refugee Festival Scotland”
17:30-20:00, Thursday 18 June 2026 Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, free tickets via Eventbrite Based on Refugee Festival Scotland 2026 themes of celebration, collaboration and building a shared future, this CinemARC programme of short films has been jointly curated by teams at the ARC, the UNESCO Chair on Refugee Integration through Language and the…
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12/6/2026 Event: “Rooted Here: African & Caribbean Refugee Voices in Scotland”
14:00-17:30, Friday 12 June 2026 Next Step Initiative, 54 – 58 ST Vincent Terrace, Glasgow, free event ‘Rooted Here’ is a community storytelling and cultural celebration event highlighting the journeys, resilience, and contributions of African and Caribbean refugees living in Scotland. Through personal stories, spoken word, cultural expression, and open conversation, the event will create…
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16/6/2026 Workshop: “Learn Mbira with Dr Tawona Sitholé”
12:00-13:30, Tuesday 16 June 2026 Peace Garden, University Gardens, University of Glasgow, free tickets via Humanitix Join for a mbira workshop with Dr Tawona Sitholé. The art of crafting and playing the mbira is inscribed on the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The practice was banned for years as part of a cultural repression programme…
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19/6/2026 Workshop: “Mapping Memory: Somali Presence in the Archives”
11:00-12:30, Friday 19 June 2026 Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, free tickets via Eventbrite Join on a journey through archival research to uncover Somali history in the UK, prior to 1988. This creative workshop brings together historical records and personal memory, mapping the legacy of Somali presence in Sheffield and Glasgow. Asking us to…
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8/6/2026 Event: “Prof Antawan Byrd: Being Seen Listening”
12:00-15:00, Monday 8 June 2026 [Lunch 12:00-13:30 / Lecture & Q&A 13:30-15:00] Hebdomadar’s Room, St Salvator’s Quad, St Andrews, Fife, tickets via MS forms The St Andrews Centre for Contemporary Arts is thrilled to be welcoming art historian and curator Prof. Antawan Byrd (Northwestern University), who is about to open Project a Black Planet: The Art and…
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16/6/2026 Event: “Notes from the Underground: Film Screening”
18:00-20:30 Tuesday 16 June 2026 Glasgow Zine Library, 32-34 Albert Road, Glasgow, tickets via website Notes From The Underground traces the inter-generational Hip Hop movement of Cape Town, spanning four decades from the 1980s to the present day. At the heart of the movement is Knowledge of Self. In Cape Town, this becomes a means…
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10/6/2026 Workshop: “Introduction to Amazigh Art”
18:30-20:00, Wednesday 10 June 2026 Glasgow Zine Library, 32-34 Albert Road, Glasgow, tickets via website Join Rana for a workshop exploring Amazigh art, specifically tattoo art. The Amazigh/Imazighen (plural) are indigenous people in much of North Africa and the Canary Islands, with a documented history going back at least 10,000 years. This workshop will primarily…