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Installing our exhibition today ‘Red Easterhouse: Building a people’s archive’ at @platformglasgow Featuring material from The Easterhouse Project ( a radical youth led social justice org) established in 1968 by Archie Hind (writer and playwright, I met Archie a few times in Heraghtys’s bar ) Sitting alongside is up to date contributions from contemporary artists- ELECTION is a performance project by artist @bishopmaydown , which sees young people aged 10-12 in Easterhouse write and perform a political manifesto- which you can read for yourself! ( it’s quality btw and would 💯 get ma vote!) East ender and Glasgow artist @eliseprntice also contributed a beautiful banner . Their work spans across various media including painting, embroidery and banner-making and is grounded in their politics as a working-class queer artist. Film archivist and curater @caireenstuart_ has curated a series of film and programmes Easterhouse related- there’s a lot of material ABOUT Easterhouse made by others , not much from folk actually from here. Caireen’s work is about trying to redress the balance! There is QR link where you can download Cathy McCormack’s audiobook’The Wee Yellow Butterfly’ for free courtesy of @glasgowcommunity who also operate a radical art fund in Cathy’s name. We also have material from The Easterhouse Festival Society , an amazing community led initiative that used culture to address social inequality. Work from Easterhouse Women’s project, material from radical community newspaper The Voice and hunners more! Get yourself along , it’s free and part of the official @glasgowtuc Mayday programme. We launch Saturday 25th April at @platformglasgow Whose History is it Anyway? It’s OURS comrades! 🚩❤️✊

💥ELECTION Friday 10 April 12.30pm @ Platform, Easterhouse💥 With accompanying exhibition!😮 Most suited to ages 8+ and their adults, ELECTION imagines children as political bigwigs with the power to make real change. A group of 11-year-olds in giant suits deliver a political manifesto written with local young people across Easterhouse. They want to end war, lower food prices, and tax the rich - and they also want no school ever. There is also a performance of @just.us.clareandlesley A Home for Hamish at 11am and 2pm 🏡 why not stick around? Seeya there ✌️

Wrapping things up for easter 🎁 after facilitating seven mornings and an assembly for ELECTION with Oakwood Primary P7, their incredible teacher and @hussmitha Talked all things this horrible jammie dodger government and what everybody deserves and should we build a Dr Pepper factory in the middle of Easterhouse. “Put the whole of London inside Easterhouse and also do something about the bins.” Also completed a brilliant first term with @citizenstheatre S1-3 where we asked adults “Does your head hurt? What did you have for dinner? Why do you always think you are right?” Love my job and getting up at 7.15am❤️

The suits are coming to Glasgow 🙌 I’m very excited that ELECTION has received funding from @youthlinkscot @creativescots Youth Arts Open Fund! 👨‍💼👩‍💼 I’ll be working with the lovely @margotcondearenas and in partnership with @platformglasgow to remount the project with young people in Greater Easterhouse 🤩 More exciting announcements to come!! 🗳️🗣️

I had the great pleasure of dancing/running/kicking/punching my way across the Dundee Rep stage presenting Conversations with Eve with the most amazing team. ⭐️⭐️ It was a special and surprising process to reacquaint this work with 2025 reality (more on that soon). I’m grateful to peers and audiences for their openness to the work and to post-human collective imagining which I hope to do more of. Thanks so much to all who came along, hoping for opportunities to bring it to the Central Belt (and beyond? ✈️🏖️) Keep eyes out for more things soon (less kicky punchy and more talky writey)🤓 As part of Present Futures Dundee 2025 - curated by Colette Sadler @colette.sadler and produced by Feral @feralartprojects . Image Credit: Erika Stevenson @erikascamera Lead Artist - Bishop May Down Producer - Seán Talbot @sean.talbot.art Dance Dramaturgy and Choreography - Emma Lewis-Jones @emmalewj AV Operation, Video Design and Technical Management - Tim Reid Sound Design - Louise van Tassel @louisevantassel Lighting Design - Benny Goodman Production Manager - Sarah Wilson Captions - MK Giannico

I am very excited that my ‘solo’ work Conversations with Eve will be presented at Present Futures Satellite Edition in September, as part of a stunning double bill with @colette.sadler The Violet Hour ⭐️🌕 Many thanks to Colette and @feralartprojects ! 📅 11 September 2025 📍 Dundee Rep ⏰ 21:00-21:40 🚊 Last train to Glasgow is at 22:12! 🎟️ Ticket link in bio Conversations with Eve is a live conversation between human and computer, created collaboratively with AI chat-bots. Across digital and corporeal presence, they speak of love, origin, and existence in crisis; and in the end, they dance. The performance is an experiment in co-authorship and (mis)translation, through text, video, and live motion capture. With an awareness of rapidly shifting social contexts, I have created a statement surrounding the project’s use of artificial intelligence, which can be accessed on the Present Futures website and at the link in my bio. Lead Artist - Bishop May Down Producer - Seán Talbot @sean.talbot.art Choreography/Dance Dramaturgy - Emma Lewis-Jones @emmalewj Video Design, Operation, Technical Management - Tim Reid Sound Design - Louise van Tassel Outside Eye - Althea Young @althea_later_alligator Development has been supported by Creative Scotland’s Open Fund for Individuals, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Make it Happen Fund, and Tramway’s Residency Programme.

Still reeling from the process and performance of ELECTION 💚🧡🩷 My dreams for this project came true watching an incredible group of eleven year olds shout about accountability, wealth redistribution and a Free Palestine in their community and beyond. Huge thanks as always to @edchildrensfest and their brilliant and exciting Creative Encounters programme🧡 Commissioned by the North Edinburgh Arts Youth Arts Collective with Imaginate Written by NEA Youth Arts Collective and Forthview Primary P6b Cast - Farouk, Reel, Dominik, Blessing, Willow and Aimee Design - Mamoru Iriguchi Stage Management - Eleanor Condon Workshop Collaboration - Hussein Mitha Movement Direction - Farah Saleh Photos Brian Hartley and Geraldine Heaney (individual credit in alt text) And MASSIVE thanks to legends @loubrodie @annabroomfield ⭐️⭐️ The project model of ELECTION - political thinking and writing workshops leading to a script performed by community cast - is one that I would be really excited to take to different contexts. That is to say I’m fully freelance now soooo… hire me? 🥺👉👈

🎉 It was great to have @stvnews at our Family Day yesterday to kick off the @edchildrensfest 2025! Featuring the performance ‘Election’ by @bishopmaydown commissioned by young people at North Edinburgh Youth Arts Collective with Imaginate. Our shows starts today and run till next Sunday (1st June). There are still tickets available so grab them now! Ticket link in bio! 🎥 STV

Some highlights from a great day at the North Edinburgh Community Festival @northedinarts ⭐ Check out some clips of Wig Waltz and Election, two commissions who will also perform at the #EdChildrensFest Family Day at the @nationalmuseumsscotland on May 24! Wig Waltz by @danbrownartist & @minniecrook commissioned by children from Forthview Primary School with Imaginate Election by @bishopmaydown commissioned by young people at North Edinburgh Arts Youth Collective with Imaginate

Check out some behind-the-scenes of Election by @bishopmaydown commissioned by young people at North Edinburgh Youth Arts Collective with Imaginate. Election imagines children as bigwig decision-makers with the power to make real change. A group of eight-year-olds perform a political manifesto written by eleven-year-olds, offering a child’s perspective on what is valuable in the world. They want to end war, and lower food prices, and they also want no school ever. See the final performance at @northedinfest on 17 May 2025 and at #edchildrensfest Family Day at the @nationalmuseumsscotland cotland on 24th May🧡🎭

V lovely to spend this afternoon @bowlinggreentogether @rumpusroom_ Romp Around experimenting with political engagement for early years 🚩🌹 We built houses, wore moustaches, and whacked each other with placards 🪧🥸 and chanted VIVA VIVA PALESTINA🇵🇸 ELECTION approved for wee ones ‼️ and excited to experiment more with play-based political art-making ⚡️

Finished with an amazing series of workshops with @northedinarts @hussmitha and kids P6/7 to inform the script of ELECTION. Debates on everything from corner shops to military spending and which batmobile they would ride around in as prime minister. “How will I do it? Am gonnae tax the rich.” Very excited to start on rehearsals with a stunning cast and exciting costumes from @mamoruiriguchi1 🤠 17 May at North Edinburgh Community Festival and 24 May at National Museum of Scotland for @edchildrensfest Family Day ☝️🗓️