Maryam Yahia Mohamed

Maryam’s art is a celebration of many of these diverse African cultures: starting with the civilization of Kush or the Funj, of the Pharaohs in addition to the Byzantines in North Africa, the Berber civilization to the pagan civilization and the heritage of all the religions that Africa and the Middle East were the cradle […]

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The Fribourg Declaration

The launch of the Fribourg Declaration on Cultural Rights was held May 7, 2007 at the University of Fribourg and May 8, 2007 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The text was presented by the Observatory of Diversity and Cultural Rights (which headquarters are at the Interdisciplinary Institute of Ethnics and Human Rights at […]

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Culture Collective

The Culture Collective is a Scottish Government pilot programme which has established a network of creative practitioners, organisations and communities, working together to create a positive difference locally and nationally in response to COVID-19. Have a look at the other projects that are involved below: culturecollective.scot

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Robert Rae

Robert Rae is the project’s embedded artist. As the embedded artist Robert is not creating his own work but utilising his skills as a socially engaged theatre practitioner, film director and writer to devise an exploratory route to unpick and rethink what cultural rights mean in Scotland.

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Ghazi Hussein

Ghazi is a poet and a teacher who has taught Arabic poetry and calligraphy for many years. He studied philosophy and Arabic grammar and went on to teach a range of different age groups and abilities in schools and universities.

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Shatha Altowai

Shatha Altowai شذى التوي is a Yemeni artist based in Edinburgh, UK. She is an Artist-in-Residence at Art27scotland where she works on a socially-engaged art practice within the Southside of Edinburgh. Shatha has been creating art since 2014. She has presented at several art galleries in Yemen and beyond, and has won multiple awards for […]

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Elaine Cheng

Elaine Cheng  鄭依玲 (she/her) is a composer/sound artist from Edinburgh, Scotland and from Hong Kong descent. Her practice is currently based around producing drone music from analog and modular synthesisers and has come from a compositional background in electroacoustic music. As Artist in Residence with Art27scotland, Elaine has utilised free improvisation as a compositional tool […]

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