Drowning video

Andrew Queen & Marzanna
photo by Stephen Foster

We're finally publishing the video of this year's Drowning Marzanna Spring Festival in Glasgow!

The event was organised by: Marzanna Antoniak, Anna Strzalkowska, John Cavanagh, Ashley Holdsworth, Andrew Queen and Kasia Korzeniowska.

Music: Wilf James, Colin MacLennan, Dagmara Lesiow-Laszczewska, Iain MacLachlan, Stepan zatkulak, Susan McNaughton, Miro Cuba and Fiona Frank.

The film was produced by Vilte Vaitkute and a team of film-makers from Migrant Voice as part of the project Many Voices, One Community.

A huge thank you to the film-makers, musicians, photographers and other supporters, and to all who participated in the event. Another Drowning in only about 9 months!

Verse Universe recording

Here is a recording of our Verse Universe from the 4th of June.
We had the pleasure to hear performances in 8 languages.
Our performers in the order as they appeared on the day:

Fuad Alakbarov - traditional Azeri song
Inga Sempel - a poem in Italian

Owen McAulay and John McAulay - 'The Story of Shaker Aamer'

Amparo Fortuny - a poem in Spanish

Fadi Alchairi - an Arabic song

Macgillivray - a performance in Gaelic, English and ... 

Ivonne Iser - her own poem in German

Anna Strzałkowska - poetry in Polish

John Cavanagh - poetry of Ivor Cutler

Marzanna Antoniak - a poem in Polish