Exhibition
Mining Seams and Drawing Wells: A Living Archive for Easterhouse
19 Nov 2022 – 28 Jan 2023
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Monday
- 09:00 – 20:00
- Tuesday
- 09:00 – 20:00
- Wednesday
- 09:00 – 20:00
- Thursday
- 09:00 – 20:00
- Friday
- 09:00 – 20:00
Free admission
Address
- The Bridge
- 1000 Westerhouse Road
- Glasgow
Scotland - G34 9JW
- United Kingdom
From poets and theatre-makers to tenants’ associations, rent strikers and everyday activists, this new exhibition shares the stories of a community that has always fought hard to make its own voice heard.
About
Taking place in a specially-created ‘living room archive’, this is a shared space for anyone to come and add their own stories and memories, swap tales across a cup of tea, and make sure the tale of Easterhouse continues to be written.
The exhibition launches on Saturday 19 November 2022 with an opening event – Tenement Salon - admission is free and everyone is welcome. The exhibition closes on Saturday 28 January 2023.
Across the Year of Stories, writer Joey Simons and artist Keira McLean have worked with local residents in the Greater Easterhouse area. Creative writing, oral history, walking inquiries and radical education weaves the community's many histories together in unexpected ways.
Mining Seams and Drawing Wells takes place across the exhibition spaces at Platform and The Bridge – with opportunities planned for anyone to add their own stories and memories, swap tales across a cup of tea, and make sure the story of Easterhouse continues to be written.
The exhibition wall will feature a timeline of new artworks, the library terraces will show archive materials depicting local history from politics, protests and housing struggles and capture recent conversations with Cathy McCormack.
