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The launch of the fifth annual GRAMNet & BEMIS Film Series will be taking on Wednesday 15th October, at the CCA in Glasgow from 5.30pm. The 2014/2015 series will showcase films and documentaries that feature themes of home and homecoming, and this launch event will include the first showing of the BEMIS Multicultural Homecoming documentary.

Also being shown is a new version of  ‘Future Memory in Red Road’ (which featured in the previous series) with additional footage.

The event is free but if you are intending to attend please email us so that we have an idea of numbers. Refreshments will be available after the screenings. Should you wish to reserve a ticket for any of the screenings, please contact the CCA.

For more information, please see the 2014/2015 Series Brochure.

In an article posted online by The Telegraph on 24th August, it is incorrectly stated that BEMIS campaigns for independence. This is not true. BEMIS holds its impartiality as an organisation as a core value which enables us to deliver with credibility a broad programme of work which seeks to instill a culture of active citizenship with our diverse communities.

We have asked for the article to be corrected and sent a formal letter of complaint.

This week saw the release of the 400th issue of MEMO (Minority Ethnic Matters Overview), our weekly newsletter produced in partnership with SCoJeC. First issued in August 2005, for nearly 9 years MEMO has been providing a weekly overview of information of interest to minority ethnic communities in Scotland, including parliamentary activity at Holyrood and Westminster, new publications, consultations, forthcoming conferences and news reports.

Check out the special 400th issue edition of MEMO below:

• MEMO 400 – 23rd June 2014

BEMIS is pleased  to share with you the launch of the Equality Internship Programme which is a Scotland wide initiative. 150 paid Internships are being created  within third sector organisations and  are being promoted  to unemployed graduates with a disability or long term health condition and graduates from Ethnic Minority communities.

The internship will be for a period covering three months (at 35 hours per week), paid at the national minimum wage or higher.

Eligibility criteria is:

• Resident in Scotland
• Hold a SCQF LEVEL 8+ Qualification (equivalent to a HND, SVQ Level 4, degree or above)
• Registered unemployed

For the latest vacancies, click on the following link : SCVO Equality Internship Programme.

Anyone interested please contact Mr Zahid Mahmood on 0141 548 8047 or via email zahid.mahmood@bemis.org.uk

Interested to welcome one of our interns in your organisation?

Follow the link to have more information.

• Internship Application form
  

On Monday we held our Employment, Race Equality & the Referendum conference at the University of Glasgow (photos here). On both the way in and way out we asked people the same question that will be asked in the Independence Referendum – ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’. The results of these polls were as follows:

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