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📍 Reporting from Studio Somewhere
Our Studio Somewhere artist space has been busy with our funded residencies and collaborations! Here's some highlights from recent weeks:
We welcomed Bea Webster into the studio for a residency developing a new performance work rooted in their experience as a Deaf person navigating the cochlear implant department, where the BEEP of the testing process became a more abstract, alive entity.
As part of Live Art UK's Do It Together (DIT) project, we collaborated with BUZZCUT to host artist Gillie Kleiman and her project Disciplined. Over the course of BUZZCUT festival, Gillie brought together a cohort to dig into the assumptions that surround Discipline and explore the BUZZCUT programme together.
We welcomed Kfir Lapid-Mashall into our artist space to develop Arab Daddy بابا عربي. The project draws on his personal archive and family history, and in the residency he collaborated with a vocal coach, two belly dancers, and a percussionist to expand on the world and convey the texture and feeling of the work.
News 🗞️
Tickets are now on sale for NOW NOT NOW at Tramway (also showing at Southbank, London) - a new show from Cade & MacAskill and Spooner & Clarke. We've supported the show through residency space and business development support, and we cannot wait to see the latest from the team behind The Making of Pinocchio.
The show is a darkly funny, visually inventive performance about time, chaos, and trying (and failing) to keep up. Set inside a warped morning routine, leaving the house on time becomes an epic struggle as tasks loop, snag and unravel.
Our Artistic Director LJ Findlay-Walsh will participate in a panel discussion for Culture Matters: Does Scotland need a basic income for artists?, as part of a collaborative event series from Creative Glasgow in partnership with the University of Glasgow.
LJ will bring to the conversation the findings from Take Me Somewhere's Artist Basic Income pilot, which ran for ten months between 2022 - 2023. Developed not as a broad trial but as a deliberate intervention, a way of examining the economic realities facing the contemporary performance artists we work closest with, the pilot informed how we can advocate for fairer funding models across the sector in Scotland. Tickets for the event are free and the event is open to all!
From friends across the sector ⚡️
There's lots happening in Glasgow and beyond in the following weeks!
Look out for Glasgow Zine Festival, celebrating radical DIY culture through a whole programme and their signature Zine Fair. 📚 Village Storytelling also announced their programme for the Village Storytelling Festival next month for your yarn spinning needs. 🗣️
This year's RISE programme honours global Indigenous artists whose work connects land, story and movement worldwide. It's an amazing programme, taking place across Caithness, Inverness, Findhorn and Glasgow. ⛰️
Glasgow International is almost upon us! To complement the jam-packed programme, we recommend staying up to date with visual arts projects happening during the festival and beyond through the non-profit initiative Glasgow Art Map. 🗺️
We cannot recommend Dyke Systems Limited enough - and it's booking up for Paisley Arts Centre next month! Step into the glittery, unhinged world of multi-level marketing mayhem with Fag Packet, Kheski Kobler and Holly Wilson-Guy, the award-winning cabaret and theatre double act. 🪩
Dancers! Dance Base's Dancers Emerging Bursary Scheme 2026/27 (DEBS) have issued a call out! They're recruiting four emerging dance/movement artists for their programme of mentoring, guidance and practical support with mentor Thomas Small! 💃
We've been loving On The Move's Open Call and Opportunities database, part of their work supporting artists and professionals to operate internationally while working to reimagine mobility as fairer, more diverse, and more sustainable. 🌍
We'll be back soon with more from our artist support programme and news from across the sector. In the meantime, we hope Spring is treating you well and good things are finding you.
Team TMS x