Name: Letle Telt by Lainey Dempsey
Start: 2024-08-09T18:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-08-09T21:30:00+01:00
Location: The Roma Cultural Centre

Letle Telt by Lainey Dempsey

The Govanhill International Festival and Carnival (GIFC) is back once again and this year we’re arriving bigger and bolder than ever before. Now in our sixth year, we’re thrilled to bring you a programme of more than fifty events fusing together art, heritage and community activism. This two-week long showcase of music, talks, walks, film, art exhibitions and workshops is a testament to the amazing cultural, ethnic and religious diversity that exists right here in Govanhill. We’re also delighted to be able to say that the Govanhill Parade and Carnival will be making a colourful return to the festival after last year’s biggest turnout to date!While the festival might have grown in scale and size over the years, at its heart, GIFC will always be an anti-racist festival. Every year, we continue to celebrate the contributions that immigrants have made to Govanhill, showing that there is no room for racism in our community. Govanhill really is a neighbourhood unlike any other in Scotland; home to people of 40+ nationalities and 60+ languages. The richness of our flourishing arts and culture scene shows that our diversity, history and heritage is what makes Govanhill so unique and why we feel so proud to live here and call this community ours!So, what’s stopping you? Come and get stuck in and marvel at all that Govanhill has to offer!

Govanhill Baths Community Trust

Little told songs and stories of women from Scottish history.

The Roma Cultural Centre

Govanhill International Festival & Carnival 2024

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Women are most commonly represented in traditional folk songs (at least in the ones we tend to sing) as ‘pretty fair maids’ with ‘lily-white hands’ who are heartbroken and/or ‘ruined’ by the men around them.Even in the old songs there is so much more variety of types of women to pull out of the repertoire and sing about. Traditional folk song is brimming with working class and military heroes and rebels. It tends to be men we sing about but women were there too organising, defying and rebelling wherever they saw injustice. Letle Telt is a small step on a long road toward redressing the balance of the historic stories we choose to tell. Image credit: Colm Keating 18:30 - 19:30 - Lainey Dempsey19:30 - 20:30 - Reception with food and drinks20:30 - 21:30 - Songs/Stories from the floor *The Roma Cultural Centre acknowledges the mutual interdependence of Govanhill's diverse communities and their histories. They warmly welcome the Irish diaspora and their allies into their space.*The venue is fully accessible, ground floor with no stairs and double door, accessible toilet

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