NACUSSO

14/12/2020

Resilient Refugee Communities - Wednesday 16/12 at 19:00 (GMT).
Explore refugee initiatives that sparked during the pandemic, and see how refugee communities and organisations, responded to the COVID-19 crisis, in Scotland and Greece. Talks 🎙 film screening 📽 and music 📻 from the Musicians in Exile.

Get your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resilient-refugee-communities-in-the-time-of-covid-19-tickets-131590541853

Govan Community Project Migratory Birds Maryhill Integration Network The HOME Project Scottish Refugee Council

04/12/2020

Join us in our first screening of Pa'lante - Moving Forward, a short film created by a group of refugees in Glasgow, last May. Along with the film screening we will discuss with members of local refugee organisations about the condition of the refugee communities during the pandemic and the response of local action groups.
Get your (free) tickets for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../resilient-refugee...
The film and the event are created in collaboration with Govan Community Project, and with the support of the Scottish Refugee Council

30/07/2020

Bird-watching is having a moment, thanks to the pandemic. As non-essential workers adjusted to spending more time at home, their ears adjusted to the increasingly non-foreign sound of birdsong outside their windows.

13/07/2020

Today we're celebrating the closure of our first Glasgow-based project BYOL - Bring Your Own Language, with refugees and asylum seekers. Together we developed the short film 'Pa'lante - Moving Forward'. Pa'lante was based on a series of biographical writings of the group, documenting their experience of travelling from their homelands to Glasgow.

Find out more about our journey with BYOL: https://nacusso.com/byol-bring-your-own-story-in-collaboration-with-govan-community-project-glasgow-scotland/

BYOL was developed in collaboration with Govan Community Project and it's part of the Sharing Lives, Sharing Languages scheme by the Scottish Refugee Council.

Pa'lante - Moving Forward is a short film produced by the BYOL - Bring Your Own Language project, with refugees and asylum seekers from Glasgow. The movie was…

13/05/2020

What an amazing forum of ideas and hope 🤝 Thank you UNESCO RILA Spring School for the opportunity to share our programme outcomes and experience with you, along with the trailer of our upcoming short film 'Pa'lante -Moving Forward'.

18/02/2020

Pa'lante, is a prompt, a word of encouragement; to move forward, to survive and thrive despite the adversities.

Pa'lante, is a performative reading of biographical writings about the journey from Homeland to Glasgow, created and performed by the BYOL group of refugees and asylum seekers.

Unravel their stories, this Saturday 22/02, at 13:30.
St. Mungo Museum of Religious Life
For BHASHA - The Glasgow Language Festival

Bring Your Own Language (BYOL) is a collaboration between NACUSSO and Govan Community Project. BYOL is part of the Sharing Lives, Sharing Languages peer education initiative by the Scottish Refugee Council.

17/02/2020

We've been quiet for a while, and that's because we've been up to something special! Our group has been working on autobiographical writings about the journey from Homeland to Glasgow. Now they are ready to share their stories in a spoken word and music performance, titled 'Pa'lante - Moving Forward'. Don't miss them this Saturday at 13:30, at Glasgow Language Festival at St.Mungo museum.

03/11/2019

Feeling the pulse of the city 🎧🏛️ Snapshots from our soundwalking and field recording workshop in Govan, Glasgow.

29/10/2019

Aspects of sound and architecture 🎧🏛️ Our first Soundwalk with our group and the sound artist/researcher Katerina Taliani was a first class opportunity to explore some of the most iconic buildings in Govan. From the impressive Lyceum Cinema on 908 Govan Road (also known as Bingo County Social Club), to the Elder Park Library, to the Govan Old Parish Church.

24/08/2019

Who said we're only on the fringes? 🎭🎊 Snapshots of our group of refugees and asylum seekers visiting festival. Together we had a blast watching the amazing street performances and the puppetry &live music spectacle 'Boulder'. @ Edinburgh Festival Fringe

26/07/2019

Tomorrow at BYOL (Bring Your Own Language) we are going to discuss about refugees and the media. We will explore how life stories have formed the public opinion on refugees and learn how to prepare and deliver oral history research! 📰📻📺📱

23/07/2019

Walking in Sound and Colour🚶‍♀️🎧🌳