Looking Back, Thinking Ahead: The GRAMNet/BEMIS Film Series
The 2018/19 GRAMNet/BEMIS Film Series was a journey of (self)discovery through a variety of film themes and forms that broadly reacted to and interrogated current political and social issues around … Continue reading
The Art of Displacement: Understanding Refugees’ Connection to Place Through the Works They Create
This guest blog post is written by Elizabeth Hampson, an MSc Comparative Public Policy student from the University of Edinburgh. She is currently a visiting researcher at the African Centre for … Continue reading
Film Series: Lady of the Harbour
Join us on Wednesday, 19 June, from 6pm at CCA for the final screening of this series before we return in October with a brand new programme. To celebrate World Refugee … Continue reading
UNESCO Spring School: Part 2
The third and final day of the UNESCO Spring School 2019 offered a performative, engaging, playful opportunity to listen and share stories of labouring and resting. The day started energetically … Continue reading
Catrin Evans keynote listener report – Spring School 1 May 2019
Keynote listening – UNESCO RILA Spring School, Wed 1st May 2019 Catrin Evans I hear music I hear the stories of geese and the histories of gathering that hold us … Continue reading
UNESCO Spring School 2019: Part 1
A music festival I attended a few years ago had a very catchy tagline: ‘A festival like a holiday’. It sounded just right for a weekend of escaping our daily … Continue reading
Film Series: Stitching Palestine
This year, we commemorate Nakba Day with the screening of Stitching Palestine, a documentary film made by Carol Mansour that focuses on the stories of twelve Palestinian women, their memories, … Continue reading
Film Series: Beyond Borders – Stories of Freedom and Friendship
Our English Language Day screening for the GRAMNet/BEMIS Film Series presents a film with… no spoken language. Join us on Wednesday, 17 April, from 6 pm at the CCA for the … Continue reading
‘Migrations: A field study of adversity’ by Derek Robertson – Exhibition open at the University of Glasgow
Nowadays, many stories of migration are told through images, in photographs or videos, for their ability to offer a visual ‘realistic’ representation of the horrors of war, perilous journeys, the … Continue reading
The Refugee Festival as a Pilgrimage
This post is written by Hyab Yohannes, PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow and GRAMNet intern for Refugee Festival Scotland 2019. Check out the GRAMNet programme of events for Refugee … Continue reading →