The Gazan Women
Art27 Scotland are delighted to announce our new community play, which will be performing at the Scottish Storytelling Centre from Fri 15th – Sun 17th May. The Gazan Women is a powerful new play developed and adapted from The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus and drawn from real-life testimonies of people living in Gaza. This staged reading by the Palestinian community and their allies reflects the personal and complex realities of surviving a genocide with dignity.
BOOK TICKETS NOW: www.scottishstorytellingcentre.com
This moving piece is the result of a long collaboration between Art27 Scotland, the community cast, and those currently living in Gaza. We are hoping for an audience filled with solidarity and we would value your support – we would be hugely grateful if you could share this around your networks 🇵🇸 We will also be collecting funds for MAP at the performances.
VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITY: We’re also recruiting volunteer stewards to support the show, especially during the play’s promenade section. If you’re interested in volunteering or would like more information, please get in touch with Katya either by email (info@art27scotland.org) or text/WhatsApp (07468 632 171).
Volunteer Shifts are available on 14th-16th May from 6-10pm and 16th-17th May 1-5pm, with an Essential Induction at 1-2pm OR 5-6pm on 13th May. (Note the 14th is an open dress for invited audiences only.)
النساء الغزّيات
تم تطوير وإعداد مسرحية “نساء غزة” من قبل Art27 Scotland، استناداً إلى مسرحية “النساء المستجيرات” لإسخيلوس. وهي عمل مسرحي جديد ومؤثر يستند إلى شهادات حقيقية لأشخاص يعيشون في غزة. يقدّم هذا العرض القرائي، بمشاركة أفراد من المجتمع الفلسطيني وحلفائهم، صورة صادقة ومعقّدة لتجارب العيش في ظل الإبادة، ويجسّد معاني الصمود والحفاظ على الكرامة رغم قسوة الواقع
معلومات الحجز
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تتخذ منظمة Art27 Scotland من إدنبرة مقراً لها، وتستمد رسالتها من المادة 27 من الإعلان العالمي لحقوق الإنسان، التي تنص على أن «لكل شخص الحق في المشاركة بحرية في الحياة الثقافية والاستمتاع بالفنون». وتستكشف من خلال أعمالها كيف يمكن للفنون المعاصرة والممارسات الثقافية والأفكار أن تدافع عن الثقافة بوصفها حقاً من حقوق الإنسان، وذلك عبر تقديم أعمال فنية مميزة وسرد قصصي مؤثر. كما تقوم بتنظيم برنامج متعدد الفنون يشمل المعارض والعروض والمنشورات والفعاليات، استجابةً لقضايا وموضوعات ترى أنها ملحّة في عصرنا، مثل الهجرة وتغيّر المناخ والديمقراطية
Our Right to a Cultural Life in Scotland
Adopting our mission from Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Art27 Scotland stands as Scotland’s leading organisation dedicated to cultural rights. By fostering partnerships, commissioning projects, and empowering artists and communities, our work seeks to discuss the most urgent questions of our time. Through our creative practice we explore the significance of cultural rights, why they matter now more than ever and the means by which they can be actualised.
CULTURE=LIFE: Palestinian Artist Programme
To learn more about this project, please click the image below.
BLOOD RED LINES: a documentary in development
A feature length documentary which combines powerful personal testimony and a stage play to tell the truth about the British state’s complicity in sectarian killings during the Conflict in Ireland and continuing search for truth and justice.
It is a critical time in the search for truth and Justice in Ireland. In Britain, the government is trying to pass what is colloquially knowns as The Legacy Act, which would in effect prevent any further criminal prosecutions in relation to the Conflict in Ireland, and set up a body to collect information and promote reconciliation.
The film also aims to increase public understanding of the recent history of Ireland, North and South, and particularly the role of the British state in the conflict. Although the Denton report will finally put parts of the story told in the project in the public domain, this may be read by a small number of people and be quickly forgotten. By sharing the honest and raw lived experience of those who carry the memory of some of the worst atrocities, the film aims to stop that happening, and in so doing, deepen understanding and promote respect and tolerance between different groups and cultural identities in society, especially in relation to Britain and Ireland.
On Blood Red Lines: Thank you. A powerful performance. Brought back so many memories – the fear, the destruction of individuals, of families, of communities. The divisions, the support. the anger, the kindness, the despair, the laughter in spite of it all. And of course – the silence. The silence of death. The silence within families. The silence within communities. The silence of successive governments. Thank you for raising your voices, for telling your stories and the stories of those we lost. Remembering, too, Brendan Doherty. RIP. 24/2/1975