Our Work | November 26, 2025
Listening To Our City is an ongoing Glasgow-based project involving New Scots.
Working in partnership with organisations across the city, Tricky Hat artists lead sessions in storytelling, movement, music and film to position artmaking as a mode of building social connections. Listening To Our City, has been developing and evolving since 2022. It is designed as a long-term method of co-creation, with people who have lived experience of the asylum seeking and refugee process. Working slowly and over extended periods to create new artworks which celebrate the stories of and connections between the people we work with.
In 2025, Listening To Our City occurred in partnership with Garnethill Multicultural Centre and their Conversation Cafe, and with Glasgow Community Food Network’s Scotstoun Supper Club. Both projects culminated in the creation of a short documentary film of the workshops. In June 2025, one of the films was screened at the Glasgow Film Theatre as part of Refugee Festival Scotland’s programme.
Listening To Our City is not a documentary, but rather a creative output that invites the audience to be immersed in another world. The recorded nature of the sound walks and films mean it will exist beyond live events and Tricky Hat Productions is interested to explore how the stories which make up the sound-walk and films might be offered to Glasgow’s heritage, sewing the lives of New Scots into our city’s cultural history.
Tricky Hat intend to sustain and develop these collaborations – with individuals and partners – over the next 3 years. If you are interested in this opportunity please email info@trickyhat.com
Previous phases of Listening To Our City include:
A workshop with Poverty Truth Community during Refugee Festival Scotland in June 2022.
A pilot sound walk in the Anderston area of Glasgow, hosted on the Echoes app, alongside a
launch event in August 2023.
Common Ground Festival in 2024, with a new sound walk launching on Sauchiehall Street, a film screening and workshop at the CCA.
Main Image credit: Lucas Chih-Peng Kao
Listening To Our City is funded by Creative Scotland, funders and partnerships have included: Glasgow Life, Poverty Truth Community, Maryhill Integration Network, Common Ground.