Whats For You Will Not Go by You

Och well - we didn't win at the Creative Scotland Awards - but being nominated as one the top three community projects in the Arts in Scotland last year was a huge honour. Congratulations to the winner - The Zombie Project from Paisley....and also to fellow finallist Elderflowers from Edinburgh.

We (well Tara did) managed to mooch enough tickets for 9 of us from Nothing About Us to attend the awards dinner in the fabulous Kelvingrove Art Gallery - great craic was had by all! Govan certainly made an impression....

Compere Fred Macauly on stage

The Govan Table

Poet Tom Pow reading 'The Change'

Govan Old Team with new friend in the Kelvingrove

The great news for us in the evening was the success of our great pals the Whysman project in the Visual category.....nice one folks - well deserved indeed!

Exchanging Language

NothingAboutUs' Ingrid Shearer receiving translated texts from the Govan and Craigton Integration Network in the Pearce Institute

Ingrid next to the NothingAboutUs noticeboard in the halowed halls of the Pearce Institute

The Legendary Salmon of Knowledge

The good folk of Northlight introduced a new character into the mix of NothingAboutUs today - the Salmon of Knowledge - you can read the legend here. Ingrid Shearer is leading the project for Northlight and is busy circulating material from the NothingAboutUs text resources to speakers of a bewildering array of languages from ancient Brythonic to modern Parsi. 

Northlight (and their helpers) will be contributing 'translation stations' on 28thApril at NothingAboutUs:

Govan has long been a vibrant, multi-cultural hub. From its early origins as the creative, spiritual, administrative and royal centre of the Kingdom of Strathclyde, Govan has played host to many languages and many voices. Norse and Pictish influence is literally ‘set in stone’ in the massive hogback monuments, sarcophagus and cross-slabs in Govan Old Church, but the ancient Cumbric tongue of the Strathclyde Britons is preserved in the name Govan itself, meaning ‘small hill’, and in Partick, ‘little grove’. 

Staged near the site of the ancient assembly point of ‘Doomster Hill’, this event aims to celebrate the many voices of the Clyde, both past and present. It will include speakers and translators of as many languages as we can gather together for the day, creating a ‘Babel’ on The Clyde. 

Ingrid Shearer

Ingrid is an archaeologist with Northlight Heritage, an independent charity which investigates the past for the benefit of present communities and future generations. She has a particular interest in Govan having contributed to the Govan Burgh Survey and conducted historic walking tours of the area for Doors Open Day. She is currently working on the redisplay of the medieval sculptured stones in Govan Old Church (http://thegovanstones.org.uk). She is really excited to be involved in the project.

'River Patter: Voices of The Clyde' Govan has long been a vibrant, multi-cultural hub. From its early origins as the creative, spiritual, administrative and royal centre of the Kingdom of Strathclyde, Govan has played host to many languages and many voices.

Staged near the site of the ancient assembly point of ‘Doomster Hill’, this action aims to celebrate the many voices of the Clyde, both past and present. It will include speakers and translators of as many languages as we can gather together for the day, creating a ‘Babel’ on The Clyde.

http://www.northlight-heritage.co.uk/