Almost time for our first event with Ali Affleck & The Copper Cats! We spoke to Ali earlier today and she told us:“I’ve always felt a calling to New Orleans and its early music … I spent a huge amount of time there when I was living full time in the USA and as the […]
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Art Inspired By Women Who Broke Down Barriers
Karen Fleming, from DOK Artist Space, tells us why she decided to offer an art workshop based on the womens emancipation movement. Karen says “It is purely coincidental that I had been reading about The Edinburgh Ladies Emancipation Society when this years AWF was being discussed. I realised this would be the perfect opportunity and the […]
Interview with Geraldine Wooley – Make It Happen!
We spoke to Geraldine Wooley about her Festival event Make It Happen! which will support women to plan their own audacious acts. We asked her what being audacious meant to her and why she was offering the workshop. Geraldine told us “Being audacious can be a ‘one off’ act, done on the spur of the moment without […]
‘A Revolution on Roller Skates’
Glasgow Women’s Library celebrate the audacious women of roller derby. Hell hath no fury like an audacious woman on roller skates. It may come as a surprise to some people that learn that Scotland has a vibrant female roller derby scene, from the Auld Reekie Roller Girls in Edinburgh, to Glasgow Roller Derby, to the […]
Conversation with Karen Fleming & Olivia Turner, DOK Artist Space
Audacity comes in handy when you’re making art – or setting up an artist space. Karen Fleming and Olivia Turner founded the DOK Artist Space with fellow ECA graduate Daryl Mckee, which houses exhibitions and offers studio space to up to nine artists at a time in Ocean Terminal. We caught up with Karen and Olivia about […]