An exhibition of photography, including a vibrant series of portraits made with people from over 15 different countries including Eritrea, Iraq, Mongolia, Turkey, Somalia, Sudan and Zimbabwe. This also marked the launch of the multi-story website. The photographs, personal stories, songs and video on the site have been made with asylum seekers living in North Glasgow. Introductions to digital recording, digital video, photography, web design and digital imaging were run in the community resource at the YMCA ’s 31st floor.

multi-story.org features cookery videos of traditional recipes from China, Eritrea and Zimbabwe and traditional songs from Lithuania, Mongolia and Somalia, alongside photography taken around Glasgow. Narratives also offer an inside perspective on life as an asylum

The site can be navigated in 6 different languages – Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Somali and Turkish. It celebrates positive aspects of Glasgow’s growing ethnic communities that are being established through the refugee population.

Street Levels’ work with refugees and asylums seekers dates back to 2000, since then over 10,000 refugees have settled in Glasgow. What do these new citizens bring? What can we share and learn together? In a society where culture is universally under threat from global consumerism and difference is treated with suspicion, these questions and creative exchanges offer a channel for fostering better foundations for Scotland’s growing communities.

A slideshow of images from the exhibition itself together with documentation of the exhibition in situ, the opening and Glasgow Hip-Hop outfit 4D performing at the opening.