Friday 22nd October | 12pm - 2:30pm
Join us for a guided walk through the Hamiltonhill Claypits Local Nature Reserve led by anarchist organiser and herbalist Nicole Rose and artist Mitch Miller to learn about the use and stories of edible and medicinal common place plants, how to use them and what health challenges they can support. Throughout the walk, Nicole and Mitch will reflect on the importance of inner-city green spaces as sites of healing, respite and recreation for working class communities. We’ll finish our walk with a tea tasting as one example of the different ways we can prepare plant medicines.
This event is suitable for all ages and is free to attend but booking is required. Follow the button below to book your place
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Prisoner's Herbal is a book written by the anarchist organiser, herbalist and ex-prisoner, Nicole Rose. The book shares her experiences of using plants in prison as a means of circumventing medical neglect and the dehumanising effects of being separated from wild spaces. The book is widely distributed to prisoners and solidarity projects around the world.
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Glasgow Sculpture Studios and Hamiltonhill Claypits Local Nature Reserve have been working with artist Mitch Miller since 2018 on a project that looks to capture and document the social history of the Forth & Clyde canal and surrounding area.
Mitch makes participatory artworks that he calls ‘Dialectograms’ that blend comics, maps and ethnography to tell the various stories that make up a specific place or area. To make these artworks, Mitch spends a lot of time getting to know a place, talking with lots of different people and hearing their stories, experiences, and points of view. These stories will then be gathered and woven into a ‘Dialectogram’ by Mitch which will become a public artwork in the newly reopened Hamiltonhill Claypits Local Nature Reserve.
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This event is part of School of Abolition; a year-long action research project developed and led by artist and curator Thomas Abercromby using contemporary art and activism to challenge Scotland's prison industrial complex and the ways in which we respond to harm and crime without resorting to further policing or imprisonment. Thomas has invited various artists, academics, writers, activists and other guest contributors to expand the sharing of abolition praxis as a way of reimagining our criminal justice system through a free public programme of readings, workshops, screenings and public art displays. The School will work in close collaboration with communities in Glasgow North, providing a support structure that recontextualises the very idea of policing and prisons towards community-based models of safety, support and prevention.
Supported by Creative Scotland, Necessity and Glasgow Sculpture Studios
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This session will be held outdoors so please dress appropriately for the weather
We encourage all participants to do a lateral flow test before attending the session. Lateral flow tests can be picked up for free at your local pharmacy or you can also order them online to be delivered to your door by visiting;
https://test-for-coronavirus.service.gov.uk/order-lateral-flow-kits/condition
For access queries and support to cover childcare, travel for those on low incomes and additional disability support available please email kirsty@glasgowsculpturestudios.org