Book now for our Glasgow Recharge day, 25 June - Postponed due to rail strikes
SADLY DUE TO THE LATE JUNE RAIL STRIKES, WE ARE UNABLE TO GET THE MOH CREW TO GLASGOW FOR THE RECHARGE DAY ON 25TH JUNE. WE ARE POSTPONING THE EVENT FOR NOW AND MORE UPDATES WILL FOLLOW.
We are teaming up with Glasgow Women’s Library and Ubuntu Women’s Shelter in June to host our second Recharge day, following on from our first one last April.
Taking place at the library, we will host a day of creative activities, good food and togetherness. This event is for anyone who could do with some breathing space from the fight against the hostile environment, austerity, housing injustice or other things! Join us for a space of solidarity and a chance to breathe out.
Recharge has been made possible with generous support from the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries
When an where?
Date: Saturday 25th June
Timings: 11am - 3.30pm
Address: Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow G40 1BP
About Recharge
Recharge is not an event about organising or exchanging tactics. Instead, we will have informal activities, workshops and other things to do which are intended to be nourishing and healing.
Aderonke Apata, Trustee of Museum of Homelessness will kick off our event and introduce the day. Aderonke is a Human Rights Activist, legal professional and the founder of African Rainbow Family. Aderonke’s incredible victory after a 13-year battle with the Home Office is the stuff of legend. She will share some thoughts on activism in 2022 to frame the day.
Throughout the day there will be creative activities, sharing food and relaxation. The event will be facilitated by Museum of Homelessness crew members Benji Lain, Jess Turtle and Matt Turtle.
As a key part of the event MoH collaborator, artist Jacob V. Joyce will share their spaceship. The spaceship is a huge mobile fabric mural which is activated through games, grounding rituals and the embodied gestures of systemically marginalised activists. The spaceship was created by many voices and invites people to consider the ways we can resist alienation together and create new ways of moving forward together: cruising beyond the isolating grip of oppressive state violence.
Booking
The event is free and open to all. To attend, please visit the relevant part of the Glasgow Women’s Library website on the link below to book. Upon booking they will share an email invitation with you. When we have a new date for the event, we will post the booking link here.
Accessibility
Glasgow Women’s Library is wheelchair accessible, with lifts to the first floor and the Mezzanine Floor. They have accessible toilets and all the bathrooms are individual closed stalls and are gender neutral. Their larger Events Space is fitted with an induction loop. A portable induction loop is also available.
Find more information on Accessibility at GWL and if you have any access needs (such as sign language interpretation) please don’t hesitate to contact them and they will ensure the event is accessible for you.
Background
In 2020 Museum of Homelessness campaigned for hotel rooms to be made available for people who are homeless to self-isolate during lockdown. Roll on a few months and in August 2020 we were angry to find that far right groups were targeting the hotels as migrants who were homeless were staying there. We set up an installation outside the UK govt Home Office in response, challenging UK government for their racist policies which affect our community.
Throughout 2021, thanks to a grant from the Isla Foundation, we have carried out anti racist work including research into racism, xenophobia and homelessness and how misinformation about homelessness, migrants and veterans circulates online. We set up a street clinic to support homeless EU citizens, in particular the rough sleeping Roma community, with applications for Settled Status post Brexit. We work with grassroots colleagues to fight all kinds of racism and xenophobia within homelessness. We challenge the hostile environment and we stand in solidarity with all affected by it.
In December 2021 we were awarded the Activist Museum Award from the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries in Leicester and we are spending the award money on these solidarity days, one in London and one in Glasgow.