Reposted by Shasta H AliNational Theatre of Scotland @ntsonline.bsky.social · 28/03/2026More info here: www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/latest/mayda...nationaltheatrescotland.com 022
Reposted by Shasta H AliNational Theatre of Scotland @ntsonline.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! Cora Bissett & Hannah Lavery present an urgent, collective response to the times we are living through with a one-night-only gathering. BOOK NOW Friday 1 May 2026, 7pm Central Halls, Edinburgh www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/mayday 164
Reposted by Shasta H AliI Am Loud CIC @iamloudpro.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Our first Open Mic of 2026 is NEXT WEEK! Our first feature poet is our Grand Slam Champion, Aditya Narayan! Aditya is a spoken word poet born in India and performing in the UK for over a year. He is the current Roundhouse Slam Champion and the reigning Loud Poets Grand Slam Champion. 122
Shasta H Ali @shastahali.bsky.social · 09/08/2025This is going to be the best blether on belonging, language and poetry @edbookfest.bsky.social. So excited to be chairing Karen on her beautiful collection - Minx @karendownsbarton.bsky.social. See you next week #EdBookFest #poetry 021
Reposted by Shasta H AliThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/08/2025This is the week Scotland was forced to confront its role in slavery, and say: ‘Yes, that was us’ | Hannah Laverytheguardian.comThis is the week Scotland was forced to confront its role in slavery, and say: ‘Yes, that was us’ | Hannah LaveryGuardian revelations about Edinburgh University’s links to both the practice and theory of the evil trade must now provoke a national reckoning on race, says poet and playwright Hannah Lavery 129525
Shasta H Ali @shastahali.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Powerful read from @hannahlavery.bsky.social over on @theguardian.com ‘History is not settled. Our story is not finished’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... .theguardian.comThis is the week Scotland was forced to confront its role in slavery, and say: ‘Yes, that was us’ | Hannah LaveryGuardian revelations about Edinburgh University’s links to both the practice and theory of the evil trade must now provoke a national reckoning on race, says poet and playwright Hannah Lavery 020
Shasta H Ali @shastahali.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Come join us for an evening of poetry and fundraising for families in Gaza @lighthousebks.bsky.social 02017
Shasta H Ali @shastahali.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Come see us for #DisruptingTheNarrative at the @edbookfest.bsky.social A poetry performance interrogating Edinburgh’s historic & heritage collections. Photography by Kat Gollock’s & music set to our poems by S.Niroshini Hannah Lavery Niall Moorjani Jeda Pearl Alycia Pirmohamed 030
Reposted by Shasta H AliThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/05/2025What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawitheguardian.comWhat did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa MahdawiWhen future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say? 18257135
Reposted by Shasta H AliRosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Rereading this poweful little beauty @sidhepress.bsky.social @shastahali.bsky.social @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social @janeburn.bsky.social as we really need light right now. #Poetry #domesticviolence 1123
Reposted by Shasta H AliIbram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Their silencing must be our speaking. Words to encourage in our homes, institutions, and neighborhoods. Source: NYT 21503218
Reposted by Shasta H AliFoysol Choudhury MBE @foysolchoudhury.bsky.social · 03/03/2025In March's @edinreporter.bsky.social 📰 Read it here t.co/kmNfGqthZm 041
Reposted by Shasta H AliRegenerative Futures Fund @regenfuturesfund.bsky.social · 05/03/2025We're looking for people living in Edinburgh who have experienced poverty and/or racism and want to see real change in the city. A paid opportunity to help decide which community projects will really make a difference and get funded for ten years. regenerativefuturesfund.org.uk/join-us/resi... 095
Shasta H Ali @shastahali.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Reflecting on @corra.scot brill #CYPFEIFConference2025 I had the best audience to travel to the future with. Huge thanks to all the delegates for being open, hopeful & visionary. As always 🙌🏽 @lighthousebks.bsky.social whose shopfront messages of hope I use for all my #CollectiveImagination sessions 141
Reposted by Shasta H AliRegenerative Futures Fund @regenfuturesfund.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Hey there it's Andy here, just arriving in bsky. Working with the brilliant @leahblack.bsky.social and Aala on the Regenerative Futures Fund regenerativefuturesfund.org.uk a 10 year community fund for Edinburgh that puts decision-making power into the hands of those most often excluded.regenerativefuturesfund.org.ukRegenerative Futures Fund | Working Together Towards A Regenerative And Just Future For Edinburgh | Community Fund | Scotland - UKThe Regenerative Futures Fund is a ten-year community fund for Edinburgh that puts decision-making power into the hands of those who are most often excluded. It supports approaches to improve the live... 121
Reposted by Shasta H AliCarolyn Sawers @four-story.bsky.social · 26/02/2025One of my conference takeaways today, from a beautiful imagination exercise led by my colleague @shastahali.bsky.social 051
Reposted by Shasta H AliJude Turbyne @judeturbyne.bsky.social · 26/02/2025So nice to be chairing the CYPFEIF&ALEC/CYPFAL conference with @corrafoundation.bsky.social . Such a brilliant bunch of people in the room, and loved our Collective Imagination Session session with the lovely @shastahali.bsky.social this morning. 0113
Reposted by Shasta H AliJohn Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 05/02/2025After months of collective punishment and the death of over 40,000 in Gaza, any suggestion Palestinians should be removed from their home is unacceptable and dangerous. There must be no ethnic cleansing. Only a proper two state solution will bring lasting peace. 18588212
Reposted by Shasta H AliCaitlin Skinner @caitskin.bsky.social · 11/01/2025I'm in Pitlochry. It's gorgeous, as are these writers. @hannahlavery.bsky.social @catacts.bsky.social @shastahali.bsky.social 0193
Reposted by Shasta H AliLeah Black @leahblack.bsky.social · 10/01/2025How to start the year! Celebrating achievements of Edinburgh based Bengali women’s group Mohila Ogrojatra in Scottish Parliament. Women, confidence, showing leadership, public speaking, there was even poetry 💜 Supported by @shastahali.bsky.social and her colleagues at @corrafoundation.bsky.social 093
Reposted by Shasta H AliLeah Black @leahblack.bsky.social · 20/12/2024A wee reflection on our Regenerative Futures Fund collective imaginagion work in 2024 💜 leah-black.medium.com/developing-a... @shastahali.bsky.social + not sure who else is on here, hopefully I find you all! 🌿✍️leah-black.medium.comDeveloping A Regenerative Futures Fund #13: ‘All That Is Needed Is A Dream’In 2021 I started with a dream, a funding utopia an imagining of a different future for communities in Edinburgh. My funding utopia was… 081
Reposted by Shasta H AliJoseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Bangladeshi, Black African and Pakistani families are up to 5x more likely to be living in severe poverty for a long time compared to white families in the UK 📢 We've carried out new research to understand what these families experience and why they have this elevated risk 1/6 25643
Shasta H Ali @shastahali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Maybe now the silent majority will get behind a ceasefire and start calling it a genocide. 140
Reposted by Shasta H AliSusie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Word of the day is a favourite, from old Scots. To ‘tartle’ is to hesitate while introducing someone because you have completely forgotten their name. 577149232403
Reposted by Shasta H AliAlycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social · 04/12/2024so inspired by Jasleen Kaur makes me think of how representation at the gallery or lit event isn't the work done. the politics that underline our art aren't thought experiments. real life action must happen, a changed world must follow. if not, these places aren't housing our art, they're caging it 0146
Reposted by Shasta H AliRachel Hamada @rachelhamada.bsky.social · 03/12/2024❤️🔥 Jasleen Kaur, on winning the Turner Prize: “I’ve been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery but when that dream meets life we are shut down” youtu.be/6RoLMAf37qYyoutu.beTurner Prize 2024 Jasleen KaurYouTube video by chunkymark 113263
Reposted by Shasta H AliSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Last night Turner Prize 2024 winner Jasleen Kaur used her acceptance speech to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, to demand an end to institutional complicity in Israels genocide & to call for an immediate arms embargo. 9489194
Reposted by Shasta H AliCorra Foundation @corra.scot · 29/11/2024Today’s #HenryDuncanGrants community story is from Scottish Arab Women’s Association, who are all about befriending & empowerment: www.corra.scot/scott... Thank you to Huda Alarishi, Chairperson of Scottish Arab Women Association, for writing this piece for us. corra.scotScottish Arab Women AssociationScottish Arab Women Association (SAWA) aim to empower women and families from Arab and Ethnic Minority backgrounds. 152
Reposted by Shasta H AliRosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 30/11/2024This is an absolutely fabulous book. Highly recommended. 222
Reposted by Shasta H AliNational Theatre of Scotland @ntsonline.bsky.social · 20/11/2024We are delighted that Hannah Lavery has been nominated for Best Narrator at this year's AudioUK’s 2024 Audio Production Awards for Finding Seaglass 🏆 This emotional story of love, loss, grief, and hope is also available to listen to again on BBC Sounds 1346
Reposted by Shasta H AliLeah Black @leahblack.bsky.social · 25/11/2024On Friday @ Push The Boat Out poetry festival in Edinburgh, poets @jedapearl.bsky.social @alycia.bsky.social Hannah Lavery, Niall Moorjani + my friend @shastahali.bsky.social absolutely owned the stage, their presence, confidence, vulnerability and unity was powerful, moving, my heart was thumping 💕 1102
Reposted by Shasta H AliJeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Disrupting the Narrative performance last night moved through what it means to live in Edinburgh as Black & brown people whose heritages intersect with it's colonial history. Such an honour to share & hold space with Hannah Lavery, @alycia.bsky.social @shastahali.bsky.social Niall Moorjani 1/ 172
Shasta H Ali @shastahali.bsky.social · 21/11/2024So looking forward to this tomorrow evening #PushTheBoatOut poetry festival. Truly disrupting the narrative around Edinburgh’s heritage & historic collections with these wonderful humans. Set to haunting photography by Kat & stunning music by Niroshini for each of our poems . See you there 🫶🏽 092
Reposted by Shasta H AliCoalition for Racial Equality and Rights @crer-scotland.bsky.social · 20/11/2024In case you missed it yesterday, CRER's new analysis of racial inequalities in socio-economic deprivation is available now at the link below. 043
Reposted by Shasta H AliCorra Foundation @corra.scot · 21/11/2024First up we have Ubuntu Women Shelter, based in Glasgow: www.corra.scot/ubuntu-women... They provide support for destitute women and people of other marginalised genders who have no recourse to public funds, and have insecure immigration status in Scotland.corra.scotUbuntu Women Shelter-A blog by Ubuntu Women Shelter Director Dania Thomas about their charitable objective to develop a trauma-informed wellbeing programme. 183
Reposted by Shasta H AliJeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social · 15/11/2024This time next week! Friday 22 Nov at Push the Boat Out Resting as Artists 11:15 am Dance Base, Studio 3 Free, ticketed Disrupting the Narrative 8:30 pm Scottish Storytelling Centre £15 /£12 /or £5 with festival pass BSL interpreted Free live-stream, captions jedapearl.com/push-the-boa... 143