Please note: this event will be held in person at Glasgow Zine Library.
Emerging from a winter of discontent into a hot spring, this workshop will look at how the periodic eruption - and sometimes strange absence - of rioting has shaped Glasgow over the centuries.
In the session we will look at Black Audio Film Collective’s radical approach to capturing riots, and the ghosts of riots, in Handsworth Songs (1986). Using some of the same techniques of montage and fragmentation, the session will work through a series of writing prompts drawing on Chartist court transcripts, 19th century diaries, eyewitness riot accounts, Thatcher-era documentaries, police handbooks and contemporary newspaper articles.
Collectively we will create our own documentary poems, mash-ups of riots past and failed, and maybe still to come…
No writing experience necessary!
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About the facilitator:
Joey is a writer and community education tutor from Glasgow with an interest in submerged histories of class and culture in the city. His work includes the The Fearful Part Of It Was The Absence (Collective, 2021), on the history of rioting; Mining Seams and Drawing Wells: a living archive for Easterhouse (Platform, 2022); work on the 19th-century pedlar poet James Macfarlan for the CCA Annex and the Edwin Morgan Trust (2023); and Stalling, a residency with the GSS looking at land, housing and gentrification in in north Glasgow.
Ticket information for this event:
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This event is suitable for ages 18+. There will be 12 attendees maximum, and the event will feature comfort breaks. During this event, participants will be involved in: small group discussions, whole group discussions, hands-on activities, reading out loud, reading alone, writing, film clips and sharing work that has been created in the workshop.
This event will take place at the GZL space on Cathcart Road in Govanhill. You can view our accessibility guide for the Library here.
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