Our Work | August 12, 2024
When people seeking safety come to Scotland, they bring with them a wealth of new ideas,
cultures and creativity.
Listening To Our City is an ongoing Glasgow-based project involving people who have experience of the asylum seeking and refugee process. This project has been developing since 2022, and we are currently in discussions with our partners on the next phase.
We have been working with people to create soundwalks and films which take audiences on a journey of places in the city that hold meaning for them. Through this work, people are enabled to tell their stories and celebrate their diversity, connecting them to their communities and bringing new audiences to contemplate the experiences and stories of Glasgow’s New Scots.
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.
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.
Listening To Our City is funded by Creative Scotland, funders and partnerships have included: Glasgow Life, Poverty Truth Community, Maryhill Integration Network, Common Ground.
Main Image credit: Lucas Chih-Peng Kao