To identify why the South Asian Cohort have historically not been progressing through the pathway to performance, given the high numbers playing the game. What are the perceived obstacles, issues that the sport require to address in order to resolve this issue.

The title of John Duncan’s Ivory, Apes and Peacocks: The Queen of Sheba (c.1923) refers to gifts that this Ethiopian Queen brought to King Solomon but it is also highlights the painting’s major problem – its white, European-looking sovereign with attendants of colour. An opportunity to discuss with Curator of British Art Jo Meacock and Curator of Legacies of Slavery and Empire Nelson Cummins how/if Glasgow Museums should display and contextualize such problematic paintings.

The walks take participants on a historical journey through Glasgow's mercantile past and examine the city's connections with tobacco, slavery and the abolition movement. Tours will be led by Amy Rich and Lucien Staddon Foster. The walking tour will leave from the David Livingstone Statue, Cathedral Square. The tour will end outside GoMA, Royal Exchange Square.

A storytelling performance by Gauri Raje

India in the 18th century is a British colony described as ‘the jewel in the crown of Britain’. A young English girl lives in the Deccan region of middle India with her father, who is an officer in the British army. Every summer, they travel in a caravan to the mountains to escape the heat of the plains. It is a long journey, made by horse and palanquin and too long for the young 11 year old. She has her ayah - her nanny who has wet-nursed her and brought her up since her mother has returned to England. The nanny is a ‘native’. She is ‘dakhani’ - from the Deccan region. She tells stories to the young English girl to keep her occupied on the long march. The girl never forgets them. A storytelling piece that is a journey across the world of the coloniser and the colonised to find intimacy, wonder and reckonings.

The stories are told in English, Gujarati, Urdu and Marathi - the languages of the Deccan region. The stories are told with an appliqué backdrop created by the rural women in India, my musical instruments & some mystery items related to the story for the audience to peruse. The storytelling is open to children & adults.

We are thrilled to invite you to a screening of Maud. This short film is a call to celebrate the life and work of the Scottish-Ghanaian artist Maud Sulter (1960 – 2008) who grew up in the Gorbals, Glasgow.

African and Caribbean Women Association (ACWA) Scotland celebrate Black History Month 2023. Come join us!

At a time when Glasgow had over 100 record shops, only a few specialised in Asian music. More than just music retailers, they helped galvanise their communities and beyond. This talk will celebrate the ones we know about and reach out for people’s memories of those we don’t.

From its foundation, Kelvingrove Museum has been shaped by Empire and slavery. This tour led by Nelson Cummins, Curator of Legacies of slavery and empire will explore this history in the present day Kelvingrove through a tour of some of the current galleries and displays in the museum.

A ‘pop up’ African Digital Experience running in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum’s Cultural Connections Gallery. The content will be curated by Jideofor Muotune – aka #theafrowegian - Jideofor is a multi-platform storyteller and community outreach partner with Glasgow Life in the Devolving Restitution Programme.

Naa Densua Tordzro is a Ghanaian fashion designer and textile artist who specialises in working with African textiles, in particular Ghanaian cloth and wax prints. Her research focuses on the uses, significance and meaning of designs and patterns in most of the Ghanaian indigenous textiles such as Kente, Adinkra, Tie and Dye, wax and roller prints made in Ghana. Join Naa Densua at Kelvin Hall for this series of textile-printing workshops.

Naa Densua Tordzro is a Ghanaian fashion designer and textile artist who specialises in working with African textiles, in particular Ghanaian cloth and wax prints. Her research focuses on the uses, significance and meaning of designs and patterns in most of the Ghanaian indigenous textiles such as Kente, Adinkra, Tie and Dye, wax and roller prints made in Ghana. Join Naa Densua at Kelvin Hall for this series of textile-printing workshops.

Please join us in celebrating our African culture and ancestry in the first ever Ayrshire African History Month Festival. We aim to celebrate everything African with both Africans and non-Africans to foster a better cohesive community.

The dress code is Culture Attire. We encourage everyone to come dressed in their cultural attire and share their rich culture. Prize for best African attire is up for grabs.

Naa Densua Tordzro is a Ghanaian fashion designer and textile artist who specialises in working with African textiles, in particular Ghanaian cloth and wax prints. Her research focuses on the uses, significance and meaning of designs and patterns in most of the Ghanaian indigenous textiles such as Kente, Adinkra, Tie and Dye, wax and roller prints made in Ghana. Join Naa Densua at Kelvin Hall for this series of textile-printing workshops.

Join our exhibitions and events officer, Dr Heather Carroll on a tour of Thomas Stuart Smith’s portraits of black sitters. This tour will look at the stories behind the paintings of three unknown black men and explore how they represent complex portraits of race in Victorian Britain.

Naa Densua Tordzro is a Ghanaian fashion designer and textile artist who specialises in working with African textiles, in particular Ghanaian cloth and wax prints. Her research focuses on the uses, significance and meaning of designs and patterns in most of the Ghanaian indigenous textiles such as Kente, Adinkra, Tie and Dye, wax and roller prints made in Ghana. Join Naa Densua at Kelvin Hall for this series of textile-printing workshops.

This workshop is led by Beulah Ezeugo and is a response to Billie Zangewa’s “A Quiet Fire”.

Billie Zangewa is a Malawian artist who creates intricate, hand-stitched silk collages exploring objectification, self-fashioning, racial stereotyping and constructions of identity.

Glasgow’s George Square was laid out in 1781 and the statues, erected between 1819 and 1902, are designed to celebrate scientists, writers, military figures, politicians and royals. Dr. Michael Morris’ walking tour reveals an alternative story of Scotland’s involvement in slavery and abolition associated with every one of the statues on display.

Black History Month programming. Radio Awaz will amplify voices, share stories, and foster meaningful discussions surrounding Black history, heritage, and contributions to society.

18+ Cabaret/Variety show will celebrate Blackness for what it is… stunning, inclusive, sensual, stimulating, impactful, mixed, everything. This show will include drag, burlesque, rhythm and poetry, and everything that is BLACK. There will be a table dedicated to The African Arts Centre (TAAC) where local artists will be selling their art. Come check it out before the show begins!

As part of the Govanhill Baths Black History Month Programme, we are delighted that Adura Onashile, actor, playwright, and director, will join us to screen her short film Expensive Shit. Onashile wrote and directed the 2013 play Expensive Shit and adapted it into a film in 2020.

Lisa Williams will explore female resistance leaders in the Caribbean, trailblazers in the pan African movement and scholars and activists fighting for change in Edinburgh in the 20th and 21st centuries. Rescheduled talk.

Join our exhibitions and events officer, Dr Heather Carroll on a tour of Thomas Stuart Smith’s portraits of black sitters. This tour will look at the stories behind the paintings of three unknown black men and explore how they represent complex portraits of race in Victorian Britain.

Stories That Shape Us Podcast is a podcast that believes everyone has a story worth sharing.

Tabitha Nyariki: Race Equality Charter Project Officer at Glasgow Caledonian University, Child Literacy Advocate and co-founder of Kosi Africa, a non-profit organisation focused on improving education, leadership, environment, Pan-Africanism and community volunteerism. Her episode will be released on Friday the 27th of October.

Join us for an evening celebrating Black culture, exploring creative expression and asking what it looks like and means to be Black in Scotland today. While there is great anger at the established press, institutions and systems for misrepresenting and appropriating Black culture and heritage; the BPoC community in Scotland is pushing back through art, performance, and through cultural and political activism. In collaboration with No Permission Needed Zine and contributors, this event seeks to bring people together to show that there is an amazing creative and anti-racist movement which is beautiful, proud and challenging the narrative. There will be performances, a screening of a film by Simone Seales and a chance to talk to the team behind No Permission Needed.

The release of the 1921 census opens a window into the lives of Scotland’s people a century ago. In this event, Special Collections librarians will celebrate some of the people of colour recorded in the 1921 census, discuss the snags of such research, and demonstrate how library resources can help.

This talk delivered by Dr Arunima Bhattacharya (Edinburgh Napier University) will map “whiteness” as a contested and politically constructed category in colonial Calcutta, the capital of British India until 1912. It will explore the race and class-based privileges that created degrees of “whiteness” in the colonial city officially divided into the “black” and “white” towns.

It will use examples from institutional and cultural life of 19th and early 20th century British India to show how discourses of hygiene were used to interpret race on the lines of contamination and physical corruption which by extension officially determined the social and moral nature of racial others. These racial others included racially different bodies of Indians and “Domiciled Europeans” as well as mixed-race “Anglo-Indians”.