'Representation of South Asian Women in Scottish Cinema' Film Screenings and Discussions
Jun 8, 2024
Description
Free Film Screenings curated by Sana Bilgrami
South Asian communities appear on the periphery of Scottish cinema where films have predominantly explored narratives about white Scottish masculinity and female voices often struggle to be heard. South Asian women are virtually invisible except in a scattering of documentary and fiction films. How are South Asian female characters represented in Scottish films? This series of film screenings is intended to provoke discussions that might create space to challenge stereotyping and explore new possibilities of representation.
PROGRAMME
Saturday 8th June 2024
Red Lecture Theatre, Summerhall
BOOK your FREE tickets at www.summerhall.co.uk/sh-event/representation-of-south-asian-women-in-scottish-cinema
3:30pm - 5:45pm: 'Migration and Belonging': short films + discussion with filmmakers
Meet Me by the Water (Raisa Ahmed, 2016, 15 min)
Ethnoresidue (Jasleen Kaur, 2020, 20 min)
Across the Waters (Sana Bilgrami, 2004, 28 min)
Points of Departure (Alia Syed, 2014, 16 min)
'Looking for Nurses and Midwives in your Family' event at National Library of Scotland
Jun 5, 2024
Description
Edinburgh Napier University, the Royal College of Nursing, and the National Library of Scotland offered a 1-day event for people who want to find out about nurses or midwives connected to their family but who are not sure where to start.
There were short presentations and introductions to family history research from librarians, researchers, and archivists, and opportunities to learn about online searching.
Location
National Library of Scotland, George 4th Bridge, Edinburgh
Queering Participatory Archives & National Collections
May 26, 2023
Description
The Living Archives is a collaborative research project in which we explore connections between archives, identity and materiality. We challenge the hierarchy and centrality of institutional archives by inviting participants to recognise the value of personal archival artefacts through an exploratory, creative and discursive process.
In August 2022, experimental filmmaker, radical archist and curator, Lydia Beilby, and filmmaker/lecturer, Sana Bilgrami, worked with Alchemy festival. We held workshops in Hawick with a group of queer/non-binary young adults, using physical film and archival
objects to engage with concepts of identity and to challenge the dominance of digital culture and the hierarchy of public archives. The group shot a short black and white 16mm film on a Bolex camera. They used the language of experimental film to explore their personal archives and identities, and created their own archive on a film-strip.
In this workshop, we aim to deepen and widen our conversations on participatory archives and identity.
In collaboration with the National Library of Scotland (NLS), we will invite a wider group of ten new participants from LGBT Youth Scotland. At NLS premises, we will analogue-project the Alchemy group's 16mm film alongside a curated selection of short films, followed by a roundtable workshop on archives and identity. The Alchemy young filmmakers will reflect on claiming space to express their identity and on physical archive-making as a creative process. All participants will explore inclusive possibilities of breaking barriers between conventional and counter archives, and creating a sense of belonging, through a sharing of personal archival objects whilst exploring relevant books and ephemera from the Library's archives.
Location
National Library of Scotland, George 4th Bridge, Edinburgh
Gender and Sexuality Research: Work-in-Progress Afternoon
Mar 8, 2023
Description
Marking International Women's Day, this event is jointly hosted by the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture (CAMC) and the Centre for Creative Practice (CCP), with presentations from different disciplinary perspectives in the arts, humanities and social sciences. We will also be joined by an external collaborator (Dr Manuella Blackburn, Open University), with a short performance.
The Living Archives is a collaborative research project in which we explore connections between archives, identity and materiality. We challenge the hierarchy and centrality of institutional archives by inviting participants to recognise the value of personal archival artefacts through an exploratory, creative and discursive process.
In August 2022, experimental filmmaker, radical archist and curator, Lydia Beilby, and filmmaker/lecturer, Sana Bilgrami, worked with Alchemy festival. We held workshops in Hawick with a group of queer/non-binary young adults, using physical film and archival objects to engage with concepts of identity and to challenge the dominance of digital culture and the hierarchy of public archives. The group shot a short black and white 16mm film, 'Letter to Time', on a Bolex camera. They used the language of experimental film to explore their personal archives and identities, and created their own archive on a film-strip.
