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This presents a new programme of creative activity in the Red Road estate in North Glasgow and hosts projects with local residents. The site will be updated regularly with information, opportunities for participation, project submissions, blog entries, radio programmes and documentation! Visit the site.
Multi-Story during Refugee Week
As part of the weeklong celebrations marking Refugee Week 2008, the work of the Multi-Story project was showcased.
Multi-story showed work at The Arches as part of Scotland UNITED
Thursday 12th June
Ankur Productions writer Tawona Sithole and artist Lindsay Perth worked with young people in North Glasgow to create a text-based projection for the Arches wall during the gig. The project explored ideas of journey and destination for creating the text works.
West End Carnival Parade + The Scottish Parliament
Sunday 15th June
A group of 6 seagulls, 4 butterflies and 3 10ft towers appeared at this years West End Festival Parade. This years procession theme was ‘nature’. Multi-story artists Iseult Timmermans and Rob Welsh worked with young people at Tron St.Mary's Church in Springburn to bring aspects of the Red Road environment to carnival life through foam, fabric and glitter. The 10 foot foam replicas of the endangered Red Road flats reflect the local landscape and also aimed to celebrate a dying breed of housing for the positive social vision they represented and the diverse communities they now house in Glasgow. The towers, a couple of seagulls and a butterly travelled through to the New Scottish Parliament to greet MSP's at the Parlimentary launch of Scottish Refugee Week 2008 on Wednesday 18th June.
Mothers of Purl
Saturday June 21st at Street Level
Not your average craft sale but more a Craft Happening - an exhibition, performance, poetry, music and food! This day of events launched Mothers Of Purl, a group established during the first year of Lindsay Perth's artist residency with Multi-Story. Multi-Story at Toryglen - the exhibition also featured a series of embroidered panels from workshops with Toryglen's Women's Group. To watch a short movie from the event click on the link on the right hand side of the page.
Posterworks
Monday June 16th - Sunday June 29th 2008
Three posters featuring photographs made by the Red Road Girls Group working with Iseult Timmermans were on display at Hillhead, St. Enoch and Buchanan Street Underground stations. The group used compact digital cameras and Holga (real film) cameras to explore and document the Red Road estate from different perspectives, including using fish eye lenses. To view the posters click on the link on the right hand side of the page.
A slideshow of documentation from the Parade, Paliament and the Arches