October 2019 ⋆ Enough!

Artist in Residence: Verbena Blue Collective

Verbena Blue CollectiveFor the Enough! residency we would like to introduce ourselves as Verbena Blue Collective; a collective of theatre/arts related professionals whom after working on dictated and closed projects, have decided to create an original, experimental and more open path, which will allow us to create works aligned more closely to our beliefs,...

Artist in Residence: Nalini Paul

NALINI PAULNalini Paul’s poetry is inspired by natural landscapes, walks and memory. Born in India, she grew up in Vancouver, Canada, and has been living in Scotland for most of her adult life. She is widely published and has collaborated across various art forms, including stage and film.She was George Mackay Brown Writing...

Artist in Residence: Jamie Temple

JAMIE TEMPLEJamie is an artist-printmaker and educator whose practice is rooted in printmaking and woodworking from which he creates architectural and landscape inspired works on paper and site specific installations.His work draws from a fascination with the built and natural environments we inhabit and transform, taking inspiration from architecture, landscapes and the environment,...

Artist in Residence: Nosheen Khwaja

Nosheen KhwajaNosheen is an artist, designer, tech and filmmaker given enough time. She’s worked in many disciplines over the years but gravitates towards installations, large textile sculptures, film and sound.The themes that run throughout her work are of the connections between power, control, seduction and the body. The brown female body within the...

Artist in Residence: Chris Manson

CHRIS MANSONChris Manson is a writer and artist based in Glasgow. Originally from Hong Kong, Chris’ work draws heavily from his mixed Scottish-Chinese heritage.His artistic output is primarily in genre fiction visual storytelling, and he has provided illustrations for investigative journalism pieces where the preservation of vulnerable peoples’ anonymity met the need to...

Artist in Residence: Fadzai Mwakutuya

FADZAI MWAKUTUYAI am an innovative woman and artist from Zimbabwe who has a broad career in arts in the UK and Zimbabwe. Embracing a creative outlook on life I have adopted Scotland as my home and creative thinking space.The process of creating my personal artwork explores unconventional mark making techniques such as charring, using...

Radical Route 3: In Search of Culture and Community in Dark Places

‘…in the era of global warming, nothing is really far away; there is no place where the orderly expectations of bourgeois life hold unchallenged sway.’Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the UnthinkableSetting out at a moment of profound disconnection and disruption – in mid-winter – my journey will trace...

From white environmentalism to climate justice

by Nish Doshi“Why is environmentalism so white?” With well over a decade in and out of the climate movement in the UK, this is a question I’ve often been asked, and it’s a question that makes me cringe a little. Climate change isn’t an environmental issue, in my opinion, it’s an issue of human...

Housing justice is climate justice – how neighbourhoods are organising in Barcelona

picture of la base in Barcelona with cars in front and a man and child on the right

Nishma Doshi travelled around Europe with our Routes programme. Here they describe how fighting for housing rights is a part of climate justice in Barcelona.What is climate justice? What are we fighting for when we talk about stopping climate change?Climate breakdown is a problem because it threatens our lives. It threatens our lives because...

Acting Out

Gehan Macleod is one of the people traveling around Europe with our Routes programme. Here she describes where she's coming from and where's shes headed to.Coming from a 90s background in environmental and anti-nuclear activism, I found myself involved in the beginnings of GalGael - a community organisation that originated around a protest fire...

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