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Event synopsis: How do we create a hospitable environment within a hostile environment? With the uncertainties of Brexit, we are falling into a new era of instability. To soften a hard landing, we work together to move into a phase of renewal, turning leaves into mulch to stimulate new growth. We celebrate migration, and embrace a world on the move as our ecosystems continue to unravel. How can we actively nurture and strengthen old and new networks of solidarity and mutual support?
Tickets are now available from Brownpapertickets: https://likeleaveswefall.bpt.me
Please be sure to let us know
- if you will bring any children (age & numbers) who will take part in the creche
- about any dietary requirements you may have (there’ll be a light vegetarian / vegan lunch)
- any other access needs you may have
Bus passes will be available on request.
Programme
Wee Talks: 21 images X 20 seconds.
Sapna Agarwal: The Dispersal and Displacement of the Coconut Seed
Talk synopsis: Sapna will talk about the oppositional pulls climate activism can bring to a woman of colour who is a second generation immigrant – the tedium and necessity to represent and some of the questions that raises.
Sapna Agarwal is a community organiser and educator. Much of her work is informed by her status as a second-generation immigrant, woman of colour, parent. It is currently focused on climate activism and she is the coordinator of Wee Rebellion, the families group of Extinction Rebellion Scotland.
Ali Fleabite: Palestinian liberation struggles and the transformation of Jewish identity and practice.
Talk synopsis: Resituating Jewish narratives, symbols, ritual and practice to emphasise their commonality with liberatory ideas and struggle and evolving a progressive, anti-occupation Judaism from a Zionist orthodoxy.
In 2003, Ali Fleabite spent 4 months doing Palestinian solidarity activism in the West Bank and Gaza. Subsequently they have been involved with, communicated with, and visited, Jewish organisations and communities within the Palestine solidarity movements, many individuals and communities, and a homegrown chosen family of progressive Jews in Glasgow, from 2005 onwards.
Alvaro Huertas: When my Growth Days came to an End.
Talk synopsis: Exploring the end of the illusion of unlimited growth as a parallel story between the personal and the global, from a career in academia to working in solidarity projects.
Alvaro Huertas-Rosero is a scientist by formation, holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Glasgow and has worked as a lecturer in Chemistry and Physics (primarily Quantum Theory). He now spends most of his time raising his child and working for migrant solidarity and food justice in Glasgow.
Annie Lord: Graft
Talk synopsis: Graft uses hand drawn illustrations and photographs to explore borders, boundaries and unions between plants and people and weave together several story lines including the birth and regeneration of Edinburgh’s Botanic Gardens; the cultivation of the Bramley apple, and the formation of symbiotic and parasitic relationships.
Annie Lord is a performer and visual artist based in Edinburgh. Her work explores material processes, cultural and geological histories and the ways in which they shape the present. Recent work has examined the botanical origins of celluloid film and the art of apple tree grafting. You can follow Annie on Twitter and Instagram.
Nayab Khalid: Even dreams must fall to rules. A simple love story
Talk synopsis: Through narrative fiction, I tell a story about immigration, culture and society. The beliefs and values my characters orient themselves by are mirrors. They might clash because of their differences, but their similarities are what truly drives them apart.
Nayab Khalid is trying to rekindle her love for fiction and performance. Her stories often involve elements of science fiction and fantasy, but in this one instance she has found the real world strange enough.
Jonathon Shafi: Deconstructing Fortress Europe
Talk synopsis: Building solidarity beyond the EU
Jonathon Shafi works for Common Weal. He has played a long-standing role in anti-cuts and anti-war in Glasgow and a founder member of the Radical Independence Campaign.
World Spirit Theatre: Theatre and Raising Awareness: solidarity, community, creativity, borders, social movements and arts
Talk synopsis: Showing images from our recent production ‘Where are you are really?’, World Spirit Theatre present the communities we have engaged with, responses we received from the communities and challenges of using theatre as a method of raising awareness.
World Spirit Theatre uses Theatre of the Oppressed methods to create plays and discussion around migration, working with people with direct experience of migration.
Short film
Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte: Amateur Botanist film screening (5mins 59 sec) followed by Q&A.
Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte is a Glasgow based artist working with moving image, photography and objects. Her practice explores themes of migrations, ecology, histories and future projections. She holds a BA and Mlitt from Glasgow School of Art, and exhibits and works internationally.
Performance
Joyous Choir – songs about hope, solidarity, sisterhood and women’s rights.
Maryhill Integration Network’s Joyous Choir consists of women from many different backgrounds who come together every week to share songs from their own cultures. Its members include refugees or asylum seekers who have made Scotland their home to escape conflict or danger in their home countries.
For directions to the venue, have a look at this map.
We are grateful to the Network for Social Change for supporting this event.
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Public talk
Billiard Hall, The Pearce Institute (G51 3UU)
Wednesday 2nd October, 6:30pm – 8:30pm.
Scotland has a variety of environmental problems, including flooding, soil erosion, water quality and biodiversity loss. What these problems have in common is that they could be ameliorated by a relatively simple intervention: maintaining and encouraging wetlands. We might try to do this for ourselves, but much better would be to encourage beavers to do the job. They’re good at it, they’re highly motivated and very persistent, and they’re cheap with it. But beavers and beaver wetlands would not be a free lunch: there would be costs and conflicts, albeit these could usually be mitigated.
Dr Richard Horobin is a biologist, consultant and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow.
There’ll be a Members’ Meeting following the talk, open to everyone who’s interested, with a special focus:
Should we re-emphasise the ecology and natural science aspects of human ecology at CHE? If so, how should we go about this?
There’ll be plenty of space but to help us keep track of numbers, please rsvp by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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If you are interested in joining our budding education co-operative, this is a great time to become a member of CHE and get involved!
November Members’ Meeting:
Join us online on Wednesday 6th November, 7:30pm – 9pm.
If you’d like to attend, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we’ll send you instructions how to join.
For our online meetings, we use a video conferencing programme called Zoom – ideally you need access to a computer, but you can also dial in from a phone. Zoom is free to download from here. If members would like a free training session on how to use it, please let us know!
About CHE Members’ Meetings
CHE Members’ Meetings are open to members and everyone who considers joining CHE.
What we’ll discuss: Building on conversations at past meetings (see minutes below), we continue to review how we can work more co-operatively and involve more members. We’d like to hear your views on this and on how we can best involve you in our various work strands – including co-operative university, fundraising or events.
We’d also like to hear from YOU: our members. If there is something you would like to propose, contribute, discuss, or a specific question you’d like answered, please let us know by Tuesday evening before the meeting, and we’ll add it to the agenda.
For our online meetings, we use a video conferencing programme called Zoom – ideally you need access to a computer, but you can also dial in from a phone. Zoom is free to download from here. If members would like a free training session on how to use it, please let us know!
Minutes of past meetings:
Click on the links to read a summary of the updates and discussions, where available.
7th August 2019, and Roundtable with Maria Latumahina
3rd July 2019 (online)
29th May 2019 (online)
20th February 2019 (Pearce Institute)
Future meetings:
These will be held on the first Wednesday of every month.
6th November 2019 (online)
4th December 2019 in the Pearce Institute: seasonal get-together
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Wednesday, 23 October 2019 from 18:00 – 20:30
Billiard Room, The Pearce Institute, 840 Govan Rd, Glasgow G51 3UU
CHE will host our Annual General Meeting for all current and potential members of our Education Co-operative and everyone who is interested in our current projects. We will also vote new people onto our Board of Directors. Please register for the AGM here.
If you would like to join the CHE as a member (to be eligible to vote) or director, or if you are currently a member and would like to vote by proxy, you can download the relevant documents below:
The public talk prior to the AGM will outline a project led by Alastair McIntosh, Maria Latumahina, Verene Nicolas and Sibongile Pradhan have been leading in the last few years, supported by CHE. The ‘Papua Project’ has been exploring the changing relationships between communities in Papua and the land, and organised visits of government and community delegates to island communities in Scotland. You can download the project report from our website.
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Sociocracy is a model for both decision-making and governance that allows any organisation to behave as a living organism; self-organising and self-correcting. The term literally means governance-by peers, however it is sometimes referred to as Dynamic Governance.
The workshop will be led by Kim Scott and will explore the basic concepts: how we empower and connect teams and improve continuously over time. Participants will leave with practical tools and embodied knowledge of Sociocracy.
Tuesday 18th June 2019
10:15 am – 4:30 pm
Clyde Community Hall, Glasgow Ibrox.
Free for CHE members, £40 waged, £1.29 students/ low income (£10 deposit to secure a place).
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