SWF 2020 Funded Events

Ando Glaso brings together a fantastic family group of musicians, to celebrate St Andrew’s Day. Beatrice Ciuraru is a young singer and currently a student of Perth College. She will be joined by her father Vali Ciuraru on keyboard and uncle Valter Ciuraru on Saxophone. They are expert players of traditional and Gypsy music styles from Romania, currently residing in Glenrothes.

This performance is three parts:
Reveal: The music of REVEAL is a colourful mosaic. It is composed of multicultural depth, interwoven with mutual respect and compassion. The three musicians of Arabic, Asian and European origin create a musical counterpoint to the facades that society imposes on us. The band will perform Two tracks ‘Reveal’ and ‘Inner Dhwani’. For more info please check out the website https://www.reveal-music.com/

The second performance is by ‘The Chai Wallah’s’ playing an percussion improv using traditional elements of the traditional Tabla solo by Hardeep Deerhe (Sodhi), Bryan Jones (Drums) and Samrath Majumdar (Guitar)

The third performance is by Karan Rana accompanied on tabla by Hardeep Deerhe (Sodhi). Karan is an Indian classical singer who resides in Edinburgh, performing Sufi, Bhajans and Semiclassical traditional songs.

This gig is a celebration of the multi-generational Irish community in Scotland as part of Scotland’s national festival. Filmed just ahead of new lockdown restrictions, this concert features 3 leading musicians in the traditional music world for an uplifting energetic performance.

Paddy Callaghan is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist from Glasgow known for his energetic style of Traditional music heavily influenced by his Irish roots in the north of the country. Having won the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year award in 2013, he has gone on to tour worldwide with his own trio and in bands such as Barrule, SuperTrad and Dallahan.

Ryan Murphy is a world-renowned Piper and Flautist from Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland. From a young age he has been touring with bands such as Cara and Ealu whilst studying for a degree in music from University College Limerick, and in more recent times as a key instrumentalist in both Manran and Imar.

Luc McNally is a Guitarist, Accordionist and singer from the outskirts of Sunderland. Having originally travelled to Glasgow to study traditional music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, he soon became a mainstay of the local traditional music scene playing in bands such as Suas, Dosca and Barluath.

A short, open air performance for the children of Leith primary school, facilitated by Intercultural Youth Scotland.
A mini version of our Scotland in Colour Festival curated for a little audience, and featuring some of our extremely talented and diverse young artists.

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In the spirit of St Andrews day, INFADENS SPACE TO EXPRESS KINDNESS INITIATIVE will feature the following-

A ‘be-kind 60 mins virtual conversation’ on Monday 30th November where diverse families will come together on zoom to discuss ten kindness values, reflect on and highlight ways to develop, practice and embed these values during these challenging times, also featuring mindfulness session and a live music by a guest community member.

Provision of ‘A kindness family friendly Pamper packs’ to the 25 families which will incorporate culturally relevant and appropriate food items, craft, care packs which will empower them to be kind to themselves. This will entail mobile delivery of packages to families in their homes on Saturday 28th November by our designated keyworker/volunteers bearing in mind necessary health and safety precautions. Success of activities which will enhance/improve physical wellbeing and mental health, will be documented through feedback by beneficiaries.

We will provide foods and art and crafts materials to the Nepalese community members and isolated communities, who have worked incredibly worked during this pandemic. Most of the Nepalese community members works in NHS as health care support workers and nurses. We would like to provide cooked food and arts and craft materials as an act of kindness. Similarly, there are isolated community members of older people who have retired from Gurkha Army and serve this nation in war.

We will also provide cooked food and art and craft materials to them. Later in the evening we will organise online event, where we discuss about citizenship, diversity and home. We will also try to invite Aberdeen City Council representative, local representative for online event.

We would like to deliver the act of Kindness project within our community by ways of either a Scottish themed High tea or Scottish treat away box.

These will be created in house from our Community Café facility and delivered direct to the recipient. We would like to do this by including the wider community in choosing the recipients and encouraging everyone to get involved by using our online social media platform to choose/nominate who is to receive the acts of kindness. As our organisation has already been active throughout lockdown all Covid health and safety procedures are fully established and in place.

The performances will be mainly based on the culture and heritage of Scottish and Indian music, dance and song. In this event, performers will be encouraged to come along and participate in dance and music activities. Our project will contribute to encouraging people from diverse backgrounds to participate. Thus this will also help to promote social cohesion amongst diverse communities. Also, to ensure a wide range of people are able to participate in this online event, Jhankar Beats will use a number of channels to encourage participation. By building the self-esteem and self-confidence of people the project will not only have a positive impact on the community people but the wider communities as a whole as the project will seek to impact family lifestyles in a positive manner during this Covid-19 In this event, Jhankar Beats regular students are going to perform Dance and music. Our project, Bringing communities together. Events have direct and indirect impacts on our communities.

This project provide opportunities for participation, skills development, volunteering and social, cultural economic and environmental developments. Jhankar Beats strives to bring people together from all walks of life, create an opportunity to make friends and socialize.

Fife Centre for Equalities would like to give people who are restricted in partaking in its social events (such as ceilidhs) due to lockdown measures the opportunity to be part of the international community celebrating St Andrews day. Our proposed activity is an online demonstration of Scottish dance along with an invitation to take part from the safety home, so that participants (including people who are shielding) are able to connect with people across Scotland and beyond through the medium of music and dance.

Our aim is to make ceilidhs more accessible and we have hired a local dance troupe will explain and demonstrate to beginners how to do Scottish dancing. The troupe will also be abiding to social distancing rules while performing. The demonstration will broadcast on our FCE Diversity Week Facebook page, and during the event we will encourage people to share photos or videos of themselves participating and joining in the reels from the safety of their home. We will use the opportunity to promote the wider programme of events also that people can join in over the 3-day event and build connections and make new experiences through Fair Saturday.

In addition, following the event, we have asked the troupe to record further tutorial videos, which we will drip feed online over December and January. This will build up to an online event for Burn’s Supper in January, with a similar online ceilidh featuring Scottish music performed by a Fife-based bagpiper.

We will hold celebration of St Andrews Day at Howwood Park. The day will comprise of a local bag-piper playing to celebrate the life of St Andrew and to entertain park users. Scotland flags bunting will be displayed and Scottish themed ‘Gift Packs’ shall be distributed in an act of kindness. We shall also provide a ‘Scottish Scavenger Hunt for children, by hiding the names of Scottish places around the park. The schools are off on the day of the planned activities.

The event is open to everyone from all ethnic and minority cultures and communities and we believe it will promote inclusion and togetherness. The gathering will be hugely beneficial to our community at this time, giving them something to look forward to in a safe, outdoor, local space, reducing isolation and increasing community cohesion. Organisers shall ensure compliance with the Scottish Government Covid-19 Guidance relevant at the time.

Online performance for families, children age 9-12 and particularly isolated individuals/groups, comprising:

1. Sita Kumari, Indian dancer/storyteller and Director of Heartstone, will present an interactive performance about an ‘act of kindness’. The story’s principal character helps Chandra, a victim of a racist incident when she feels totally rejected/in despair. This provides the event’s story ‘envelope’ ensuring appeal for children and route to the following performances;
2. stories from refugee families living in Highland Scotland about an ‘act of kindness’ they have experienced making them feel welcome in Scotland and ‘at home’ in a new country having fled from a danger;
3. a closing candle/lantern ceremony and readings celebrating diversity including all faiths/cultures/nationalities/backgrounds resident in Scotland today. This will be led by Highland Interfaith Group. This online event will be recorded and circulated to schools/other community organisations across Scotland, ensuring a wide audience.

We wish to provide a Scottish themed afternoon tea box to 32 isolated and/or older community members from the Gypsy/Traveller community living on sites or in housing who are experiencing poorer mental health due to the restrictions placed on them by the current pandemic. Tea boxes will be sourced from local providers and the contents will feature Scottish produce. The tea boxes will be delivered by MECOPP staff based in Edinburgh/Lothians and Perth & Kinross to comply with current travel requirements. We will identify beneficiaries through our own knowledge of the community and will supplement this by consulting directly with community members in the respective local authority areas.

Freedom from Torture and Healing Neighbourhoods Project will be working in a therapeutic way with our clients, survivors of torture, to demonstrate an act of kindness, to those who have been working tirelessly to save lives during the onset of Covid-19 and to Elderly at Nursery Homes. As our clients themselves noted, giving kindness to others makes them feel kindness within themselves.

This project will take place by doing the following: 2-3 virtual Design workshop Sessions with our clients to create an image that reflects their thoughts and feelings on kindness to write a message of kindness These images and messages will be printed on cards and sent to all NHS Medical Centres, Surgeries, Hospitals, Nursery Homes in Glasgow in order to spread kindness and express our gratitude for all medical professionals and staff have accomplished during this difficult time including putting themselves at risk while working to save lives and to Elderly at Nursery Homes for their resilience during the Pandemic and lockdown.

We will distribute African food to needy families in our community.

We will also work with some local organisations like More group and No eviction to deliver this project. Masks will be bought and will be worn during distribution of food by our volunteers. 

The distribution of this food will be our way of celebrating St Andrews day. 

As part of the distribution we will include a booklet detailing some of Scotland’s links with Africa, including a brief history of Nelson’s Mandela visit to Glasgow and the cultural relations the Scotland has with Some African countries. South Africa, Namibia and more.