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Valentine’s Day in Govan

Govan Free State

– ‘A playful exploration of power and legitimacy in the face of climate emergency’ – amongst other things is holding a day to remember Pollok Free State 30 Years on with an adhoc gathering of talks, fireside chats and music, exploring how protest culture (and law) has changed since then.

Celebrating radical love & surviving the Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1995 : 30 years on since the Pollok Free State

More details here: https://www.govanfreestate.scot/pollok-30-years-on-valentines

The event is free but you are asked to register for numbers: LOVE IS A 4 LETTER WORD: Pollok Free State 30 YRS ON Tickets, Sat 15 Feb 2025 at 16:00 | Eventbrite

Just Write Glasgow

Just Write Glasgow presents a workshop delivered by Hussein Mitha (@hussmitha).

“Using tools for anti-colonial, abolitionist and revolutionary sci-fi, speculative fiction and theory, participants will respond to writing prompts that imagine the chain of events that leads to the end of Zionism, and the downfall and abolition of all borders and carceral regimes.”

Hussein Mitha has a diverse practice that incorporates writing, organising workshops and collective learning platforms, mural making, and collaboration with other artists and community groups. Their debut collection, Vegetal Soul, was published by Rosie’s Disobedient Press in 2023. You can follow Hussein on Instagram.

The event is on Thursday 6th March, 18:00 – 20:00 @printculturestore. More information and to purchase tickets at their Eventbrite page HERE.

2000 and leave us alone

Scottish sci-fi feature film ‘2000 and leave us alone’ is the brainchild of artist and filmmaker Danny McConnell. It’s set in a Glasgow tenement spaceship adrift at the furthest edges of our solar system.

McConnel says: “I wanted to make something extraordinary out of the least extraterrestrial place I could think of. To make something totally otherworldly out of somewhere completely ordinary and domestic. So I turned my mum’s house into a spaceship.”

Featuring the debut performance from beloved Scottish playwright Ann Marie Di Mambro (WRITER: TALLYS BLOOD, BROTHERS OF THUNDER, EASTENDERS) Leading performances by Scottish cast Susannah Laing (THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US, THE LAST BUS,CHRYSALIS) Grant McDonald (BEAR HUNT, INSTA-LOVE, LOVE LOCKED, MY SUNSHINE) as well as Kate Donnelly (TRAINSPOTTING, REBUS, STILL GAME). With a completely original soundtrack Scottish musician and composer Everyday Dust (THE GREEN DECAY, MYSTERIES FROM THE MAGNETIC REALM, THE SLATE LANDS) as well as editing and post-production work by Kaspar Vidunas (1815, PINK MOON, SUNSHINE PERIPHERY, ETWAS NUTLOZ) and produced and featuring talented documentary filmmaker Phoebe Cottam (UP IN THE AIR, HOLD, WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG WERE YOU AFRAID OF THE MOON).

Support their crowdfunded HERE.

Echoes: Samhla resources, screening room and artist talk

From Monday 20 January – Sunday 23 February, Lauren Gault’s Samhla moving image work will be available to watch from Atlas Arts, the Skye and Lochalsh based arts collective.

You can download the whole Samhla programme HERE.

More details HERE.

Atlas Arts suggest you watch and listen to this with headphones on for the full sound experience.