Engaging Pictures Exhibition and Cultural Event

We were brought together to celebrate Migrant Voice's Engaging Pictures exhibition. And here is the proof of what was going on at the Govanhill Baths yesterday...



Contemplating the exhibition...

John Cavanagh - the wonderful host of the event
"Let's begin our multilingual poetry session!"

Alessandro Valenzisi reading a poem in Italian

Claire McCracken and the charming sounds of French...

Smiling at the funny sounds...

The tremendous Jim McGregor reading his poems about arriving and living in New Zealand, and leaving NZ to come back to Scotland!

Burns by Leong Teh is incredibly expressive!

Nadezhda Antonova reciting Russian poetry.
... and Tomek Emigrant capturing those precious moments...

The brilliant Anna Strzałkowska and her lively Polish onomatopoeias: TRRRACH, ZGRZYYYYT, BRZDĘK!

Odin Eidskream reading a poem in Norwegian

The lovely Vilte Vaitkute and the mysterious sounds of Lithuanian

Yajun Deng and Chinese poetry

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Zuzanna Strzałkowska invited everybody to recite "The Jumblies"

John introducing the lovely dancers from Maryhill Integration Network

This dance was for Karen Gordon, whose unique photographs form the Engaging Pictures exhibition.

Fiona Frank and Wilf James

Wilf James, Stepan Zatkulak and Paweł Głowienka

Thank you for the amazing tunes!!!

There was singing and dancing too - too absorbing so no pictures! :)

Migrant Voice would like to say thank you to all who attended our event in Govanhill Baths tonight! Thank you for being such a lively audience - for helping out with "The Jumblies", for singing and dancing with us!
Thank you to wonderful John Cavanagh who hosted the event!
Thank you to all beautiful poets and poetry readers:
Anna Strzalkowska
Leong Teh...
Annie Bowyer
Odin Eidskrem
Alessandro Valenzisi
Jim McGregor
Nadezhda Antonova
Hamid Navid
Peter Bowyer
Vilte Vaitkute
Claire McKracken
Yajun Deng
Zuzanna Strzalkowska
John Cavanagh
Thank you to our incredible musicians:
Pawel Glowienka
Wilf James
Stepan Gsus Zatkulak
Fiona Frank
Miro Cuba
Thank you to our charming dancers from Maryhill Integration Network:
Sharon Roulston, Mairead McColgan and Valbona Faulds
Mairead McColgan your song was beautiful!
Thank you to Tomek Emigrant and Pawel Glowienka for filming.
Thank you to Lukasz Pawlowski for all sorts of support.
We are also happy that two of our exhibition participants could be with us tonight: Hing Fung Teh and Mahdi Bahrami.

It is amazing that so many people got involved in this event! We are glad that our Engaging Pictures project has brought together so many people from different backgrounds and ages!