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GRAMNet Film Series: My Name is Anik

CCA (Centre for Contemporary Arts) 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

GRAMNet in partnership with BEMIS is delighted to present this stunning short, MY NAME IS ANIK, by Glasgow based director Bircan Birol. Details: Documentary: UK (2019) | Colour | Director: Bircan Birol | Languages: Turkish, Kurdish | Running Time: 15m | Subtitles: English | Rating: PG Synopsis: How many stories can one language hold? Anik is the only one in the family who can speak Kurdish, the once-forbidden language in Turkey. Since she didn’t want her family to suffer like she had...

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Launch of the Ethnic Minority Race, Equality and Human Rights Network

Merchants House of Glasgow, Grand Hall 7 West George Street, Glasgow

In March 2020 the Ethnic Minority National Resilience Network (Scotland) was initiated by BEMIS Scotland and over 100 ethnic minority led community organisations to respond to the social, economic, health and welfare needs of communities due to the pandemic. Following an extensive period of consultation members have decided to evolve the network to reflect long-standing race equality ambitions contained with the Race Equality Framework 2016–2030 and the evolving human rights compliance and legislative landscape. We would be delighted if you...

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GRAMNet Film Series: Through Our Eyes

University of Glasgow Gilmorehill Centre 9 University Avenue, Glasgow

For Refugee Week 2023, in partnership with GRAMNet and BEMIS are delighted to present an IN PERSON screening of Bafta nominated director Samir Mehanovic’s  THROUGH OUR EYES (2018). Filmed over three years, Samir Mehanovic’s emotive documentary gives a fresh and personal insight into the human catastrophe of the Syrian conflict. A Muslim refugee himself, Mehanovic fled Bosnia in the 1990s and settled in the UK. Drawing on his own experience of claiming asylum, he travels to meet Syrian refugees in their...

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