Low Rent - Day Of Film, Workshop & Music
Low Rent at The Glad Cafe is an event exploring our relationship with both land reclamation and land itself.
About Low Rent - Day Of Film, Workshop & Music
12 - 1:15pm Film
Low Rent | Dir. Cloudberry MacLean | 1hr 15mins | Scotland | 2024
Low Rent spans the year I spent secretly living in a hut I built on my allotment in Edinburgh back in 2005. It follows the full cycle of the seasons and captures moments such as early dawn from the hut doorway, a fox running with a scavenged egg in her mouth and trees bending with fruit. In its course I explore questions that continue to preoccupy me about land ownership in Scotland, class, poverty, colonialism and how the violence of capitalism and the joy of life meet in our bodies. With a unique score created by Jer Reid drawing from live improvisation by Jer Reid (guitar) & Una MacGlone (double bass).
Content note: references to colonialism and chattel slavery.
2 - 5pm Workshop - Our Lands
Land back now! ...but how?
Many of us know the current set up isn't fair with 432 owners holding 50% of Scottish land and an area half the size of Wales given over to private bloodsports, in the form of grouse moors.
This workshop encourages us to explore our relationship with both land reclamation and land itself. It aims to be a place of learning that is equally as fruitful for those of us who are new to land reclamation and people who have given land struggles plenty of thought.
It will:
• Share strands of relevant history as well as concrete examples of successful land reclamation.
• Aspire to integrate a focus on our current situation in Scotland with a commitment to decolonisation* and reparations from the global north to the global south.
*A process of acknowledging and actively striving to undo the suffering and damage caused by past and current processes of colonisation.
7:30 - 11pm Live Music
Lainey Dempsey, Harry Gorski-Brown, Claquer (Lisa Fannen & Jer Reid)
Lainey Dempsey - Lainey is a singer and songwriter from Glasgow. Her first album 'Letle Telt' was self-released in May 2023 & is in the most part a collection of stories. Many historical, some mythical, almost all have a strong female voice either in the writing or the telling. Many of the songs were recorded around a campfire in the Highlands of Scotland. Half were found in antique song books and are rarely sung today if at all. The other half are new compositions and have been inspired by tales of Scottish history & lore.
Harry Gorski-Brown - HGB is an artist based in Scotland, working in various mediums, in particular electroacoustic music and audiovisual production/performance. He gravitates towards experimental composition, often including elements of electroacoustic and traditional music in his work.
Claquer - Claquer is a duo of Jer Reid & Lisa Fannen, doing guitar, loops, sound layers, spoken word, sometimes movement.
“guitar spoken words yesterday at Occii was brilliant: crystal clear language, both in voice and music, politically involved and humanly resonant. Touched.” (Isabelle Vigier)
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