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  • The Art of Human Connection: choose connection, not closure

    The Art of Human Connection: choose connection, not closure

    At the start of February we were invited by DJCAD’s Contemporary Art Society (CAPSoc) to facilitate a [synonym] session in early March for the then upcoming exhibition The Art of Human Connection, Generator Project, Dundee. It was an exhibition filled with Duncan of Jordanstone Contemporary Art & Design’s students and their works ranging from fleshy… Read more

  • [synonym] session x Kelvingrove Writers: Giving the Burrel a burl

    [synonym] session x Kelvingrove Writers: Giving the Burrel a burl

    ‘… it is to say, a constant, cursory hauling of visual (and verbal) images before the court of political judgment – with the politics deployed by the prosecution usually as undernourished and instrumentalized as the account given of what the image in question has to “say.”’ T. J. Clark, The Sight of Death (2006) On… Read more

  • GIO Fest 2025

    GIO Fest 2025

    The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Festival 2025 held at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow was a three day music extravaganza with the central focus on artists from Indonesia, Japan, and Sri Lanka, with an additional performance of Gamelan music. We had the privilege to attend a few of the events during the festival – evening… Read more

  • Walk Write Blether: Pilot

    Walk Write Blether: Pilot

    I am delighted to write a review revolving around my creative colleague and co-GalBagger, Eliza Coulson, and her most recent launch of Walk Write Blether (also known as Write Walk Blether) on Saturday 15th of November. It was great seeing new and familiar faces at this crisp outdoor event and, were pleasantly surprised by blue… Read more

  • ellen crofton: iterations

    ellen crofton: iterations

    The congruence within/from chaos – ‘the repetition of a process or utterance’. Iterations is a performance piece using contemporary dance produced by experimental multidisciplinary artist and choreographer Ellen Crofton. Having previously shown this work as a solo performance at Strangefield, Glasgow, this is the first time Crofton has developed this piece with two joining dancers,… Read more

  • Pepita Mwanga: Critical Review

    Pepita Mwanga: Critical Review

    We find ourselves visiting Inside Voices, a collaborative poetry night with Anoraq and Glasgow Review of Books, housed in King Tuts. On this night we hone in on poet and writer Pepita Mwanga who shared her words alongside other performers; all accompanied by live impromptu music. The music from Anoraq was improvised based on the… Read more