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The Atlantic Cable
A cross-disciplinary evening, featuring a network of scholars, artists and musicians who come together to exchange ideas and culture beyond national borders (and that wide, wide expanse known as the Atlantic Ocean).
The Glad Café, Glasgow (2.4 miles)
Thu 23 May
Free / 0141 636 6119
The first ever Atlantic Cable, featuring talks by Dr Michael Morris (Glasgow University), Dr Michael Brown (University of Aberdeen); music from Joe Black, Siobhan Wilson, and Jill O'Sullivan (Sparrow and the Workshop); and video work from artist Annie Crabtree (Picture Window).
- 19:00 – 22:30
An Archive of Feelings
Ann Cvetkovich discusses queer archives and the importance of recording traumatic cultural experience.
Tramway, Glasgow (1.7 miles)
Sun 26 May
Free / 0845 330 3501
Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.
- 11:00
Badges of Honour: Talks and Events
A chance to explore the GWL's collection of badges and learn more about the history of badges in political and social movements from the experts.
People's Palace & Winter Gardens, Glasgow (0.8 miles)
Wed 12 Jun
Free / 0141 276 0788
Today's event is entitled 'People’s Palace'.
- 14:00 – 16:00
Glasgow Women's Library (1.1 miles)
Fri 7 Jun
Free / 0141 248 9969
Todays' event is entitled 'GWL Badges'.
- 14:00 – 16:00
Langside Talks
A series of talks at Langside Library covering a variety of topics.
Langside Library, Glasgow (2.6 miles)
Thu 23 May
Free / 0141 276 0777
Today: 'Three Poets: Three Languages' with Glasgow-based prize-winning poets Maggie Rabatski, A C Clarke and Sheila Templeton, who will each read for 15 minutes.
- 13:00 – 14:00
Thu 30 May
Free / 0141 276 0777
Today: 'The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society' by Stuart Robertson, who is the director of the society.
- 13:00 – 14:00
No Church in the Wild
Jack Halberstam mines mainstream culture for its queer potential in relation to female masculinity and drag kings, anarchy, failure and chaos, here finding an emergent cultural idiom of anarchistic revolt in Jay Z and Kanye West's No Church in the Wild.
Tramway, Glasgow (1.7 miles)
Sat 25 May
Free / 0845 330 3501
Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.
- 17:30
Public Feelings
Ann Cvetkovich looks at the possibilities of a queer community politics and how aspects of queer life and intimacy are depathologised to create new modes of creative survival.
Tramway, Glasgow (1.7 miles)
Sun 26 May
Free / 0845 330 3501
Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.
- 14:30
SFHA Annual Conference 2013: Reform of Re-Form?
The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations brings together a panel of experts to discusses the state of the housing sector as it faces increasing pressure from welfare reform and financial constraints. Speakers include Minister for House and Welfare Margaret Burgess; John Hocking of Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust; and…
Hilton Glasgow (0.9 miles)
Thu 6 Jun
£69–£775 (different residential and day delegate places on offer) / 0141 332 8113
- 09:00 – 17:30
Fri 7 Jun
£69–£775 (different residential and day delegate places on offer) / 0141 332 8113
- 09:15 – 15:30
Soulnessless – Introduction
Terre Thaemlitz reads from Soulnessless – Introduction and discusses whether seeing transexuality as an unbecoming rather than a becoming would allow a kind of deprogramming in relation to ideas of the self, the soul or religion.
Tramway, Glasgow (1.7 miles)
Sat 25 May
Free / 0845 330 3501
Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.
- 16:00
Talk of the Steamie
The People's Palace host this series of talks that given more insight into life in Glasgow.
People's Palace & Winter Gardens, Glasgow (0.8 miles)
Sat 8 Jun
Free / 0141 276 0788
Today: Drawing Out the Story of Red Road, or What Is a Dialectogram Anyway? – Illustrator Mitch Miller talks about the creation of detailed pen and ink drawings of the Red Road community, which he completed with the help of its residents over a three year period.
- 14:00 – 15:00
Unstated: Writers on Scottish Independence
Contributors to Unstated: Writers On Scottish Independence talk about the impending referendum in 2014.
CCA, Glasgow (0.8 miles)
Wed 19 Jun
Free / 0141 352 4900
- 19:00 – 20:30
Vox Populi Seminars
A series of seminars looking at how the 'voice of the people' has manifested in Scotland, from medieval times to today, presented by a variety of scholars in disciplines ranging from literature to politics. All welcome.
University of Glasgow (1.8 miles)
Tue 21 May
Free
Tonight: 'The Referendum of 1997: The Settled Will of the Scottish People?' by Brian Taylor of BBC Scotland.
- 17:30
We have something to say about … Pt 1
Vogue’ology examines the roots of the House & Ballroom Scene and discusses its response to intersecting race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions with womanist theologian Eboni Marshall Turman.
Tramway, Glasgow (1.7 miles)
Sat 25 May
Free / 0845 330 3501
Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.
- 13:30
We have something to say about … Pt 2
Vogue’ology examines the roots of the House & Ballroom Scene and discusses its response to intersecting race, gender, sexuality and class oppressions with womanist theologian Eboni Marshall Turman.
Tramway, Glasgow (1.7 miles)
Sun 26 May
Free / 0845 330 3501
Part of ARIKA13 Episode 5: Hidden in Plain Sight.
- 16:30
