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Multi-Cultural Football Cup

Toryglen Regional Football Centre Prospecthill Road, Glasgow

The Scottish FA and BEMIS Scotland are delighted to announce the launch the 2018 Multicultural Football Festival which will take place on Saturday 27th October at Toryglen Regional Football Centre in Glasgow. The 2018 festival will bring together teams from across Scotland celebrating diversity and inclusion across the country. The 2018 event will support the Year of Young People 2018 and celebrate the contribution of young people within Football. The event is open for teams from the following age groups: Men’s...

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Tackling Prejudice and Building Connected Communities Conference

Hampden Park Glasgow

BEMIS Scotland and partners including Police Scotland and the Scottish Government recognise that hate crime, prejudice and hostility towards citizen’s different identities and characteristics, as defined in the Equality Act (2010) and others, are complex and variable. Experience of prejudice can change in different situations and identity is not static. Our conference is open to all people to attend from across the equalities community and beyond.

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

Loro di Napoli Documentary: Italy (2016) | Directors: Pierfrancesco Li Donni | Running Time: 66 Mins | Italian with English Subtitles Loro di Napoli follows the difficulties and football matches of the Afro-Naples United. The team, founded in 2009, is formed by Neapolitan migrants from Africa and South America and by second-generation Italians and Neapolitans. They started gradually winning amateur tournaments in the football fields the northern suburbs of Naples. The protagonists of this story are Adam, Lello and Maxime, all...

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

Talented & Young: We Are Scotland Documentary: UK (2018) | Directors: Etienne Kubwabo | Running Time: 30 Mins Celebrating the Year of Young People (YOYP), this documentary offers a snapshot of the talents revealed by the diverse young citizens of Scotland: diverse talented youth celebrating their inclusive national identity, cultural heritage and Scotland as home through showcasing and sharing their experiences and validating their abilities and talents. In addition, this documentary gives a platform through which such young diverse Scots...

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

The Dead Nation Documentary: Romania (2017) | Director: Radu Jude | Running Time: 83 mins | Romanian with English Subtitles In observance of Holocaust Memorial Day A film constructed using the opposition of what a huge collection of recently discovered glass-plate photographs from the 30's and 40's tell us about Romania and what they do not show. The Dead Nation is a documentary-essay, which shows a stunning collection of photographs from a Romanian small town in the 1930's and 1940's. The...

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Celtic Connections 2019: St Andrew’s Fair Saturday

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, New Auditorium 2 Sauchihall Street, Glasgow

First held on December 1 2018, St Andrew’s Fair Saturday is Scotland’s contribution to the fast-growing international Fair Saturday movement, launched in Bilbao in 2014, as an annual social and cultural response to Black Friday. BEMIS, the umbrella body supporting Scotland’s ethnic minority voluntary sector, and a key St Andrew’s Fair partner, jointly hosts this follow-up musical celebration with Bilbao’s Fair Saturday Foundation. From Scotland, Dallahan fiddler Robbie Greig and accordionist Paddy Callaghan lead an international line-up including Iranian singer/songwriter...

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

Piripkura Documentary: Brazil (2017) | Directors: Renata Terra, Bruno Jorge, Mariana Oliva | Running Time: 81 mins | Portuguese with English Subtitles In observance of World Day of Social Justice In this chronicle of an expedition, the Amazonian habitat of the only two nomadic Piripkura, can only be protected if there is proof they are still living there. Two of the last three members of the Piripkura still live as nomads in the Amazon rainforest, in the Brazilian state of Mato...

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

Ouaga Girls Documentary: Sweden, Burkina Faso, France, Quatar (2017) | Director: Teresa-Traore Dahlberg | Running Time: 83 mins | Mooré and French with English Subtitles In observance of International Women's Day. A group of young women tweak machines and hammer away at a school for auto mechanics in Ouagadougou in this poetic story about life choices, sisterhood and the endeavor to find your own way. In a country with youth unemployment at 52 percent, jobs are a hot issue. The young...

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

Films for refugee children, for their friends and for everyone else. This creative documentary (episode film) without dialogues takes the viewer on a journey into children’s worlds of different countries, real and dreamed. In these cinematic miniatures, which were designed by filmmakers from countries such as Syria, Iran, Jordan, Germany and Colombia, the whole emotional range of refugee children is renegotiated.

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

Stitching Palestine Documentary: Palestine (2017) | Director: Carol Mansour | Running Time: 78 mins | Arabic with English subtitles In observance of Nakba Day. Twelve Palestinian women sit before us and talk of their life before the Diaspora, of their memories, of their lives and of their identity. Their narratives are connected by the enduring thread of the ancient art of embroidery. Twelve resilient, determined and articulate women from disparate walks of life: lawyers, artists, housewives, activists, architects and politicians...

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