Making community connections.
Hoping to get a program of things going around mid January. Any ideas for talks film workshops let me know. If you want on the mail list Use “follow” button or City Strolls mail link. Use Strolls link for general mail to, if you don’t want to use comments.
Here are a few of the ideas an comments that are coming in. Add your own.
Or if you have a few hours to spare, something to discuss, workshop, or are just interested. If you want to speak to a human, more information can be had at the LEGUP Dinners each Tuesday at the Pearce Cafe, free or donation all welcome. Ask for Bob
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Drumchapel the frustration game
De-classed Elements (Film suggestion on blog
Is a damning indictment of local authority enterprise schemes which are contrived to look as if they are there to help the disenfranchised but in fact serve the purpose of greater social control. Glasgow, it is as relevant today as it was then.
Comment from Village blog
The video Drumchapel The Frustration Game was meant to be much more than a critique of the so-called disenfranchised and local enterprise schemes……it was meant as critique not only of a system that brutalises working class people but also of the dangers of accepting benefits over class struggle.
The initial attempts by this group to make a video was originally set in Teucharhill but had to be abandoned due to threats of violence. As a participant in the making of this video and as a Govan resident I would be pleased to speak to this video if it is chosen for a viewing.
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Comment from village blog
I could do you a talk on the Clydebank Blitz. I’m the author of Mavis’s Shoe, a novel about the blitz as seen through the eyes of a young girl who escapes with others to the hut community at Carbeth. It was published earlier this year. I see it as a reclamation of an event which was barely reported and until recently was hardly known due to censorship and (allegedly) government denial, although that is not the main thrust of the book. It’s a human story about what happens to ordinary people during war and is thus very relevant to today. Sue
Mavis’s Shoe
The first thing I did was read Untold Stories by the Clydebank Life Stories Group which is about local people’s experience of Clydebank during the war. Then I read IMM MacPhail’s book The Clydebank Blitz and thereafter everything I could get my hands on. I also read material on other more recent conflicts. I spoke to people who lived through it too and others who were evacuated, like Lenny, to Carbeth. I spoke to someone from the La Scala picture house, a fire-watcher, some retired doctors and many others. Everybody had a different story to tell. My aim was to get the real experience of living through a bombing raid. Most of the details are historically correct, with only a few details invented in the absence of data.
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Bike Station
let us know when you’re ready and the Bike Station will come and do a free bicycle mechanic workshop
thanks greg
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Document9
Sounds good I got a few ideas for screening when it goney be?
Document has a whole range of films on many topics. Film and discussion evenings will be arranged Cheers
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Govan and Craigton Integration Network
would be up for the talks and discussions. Next weekend 22 October we have talks/workshops about destitution that affects some asylum seekers, leaving them homeless and destitute. That could be a start, and all welcome.
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Glasgow Social Centre
Will try out some “one stop social centre” ideas around the village square.
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Govan Asset Lab
Will run workshops covering everything from Knitting to talks, model making, mapping, drawing, asset identifying, photography, history
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Free Line collective
Will be doing another project to go with their Common Good themed animation they made last year
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LEGUP Community Garden
Will be on hand with garden related topics, land use, renovation and community events, dinner nights film and discussion.
Start the new year with a community
connection idea. See it connect at the square.
