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Cllr Claire Miller (she/her) @cllrcmiller.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

📽️🍿 Community energy screening and discussion Power Up! by @takeoneaction.bsky.social watch two short films about power and who owns it - Wed 10th June In partnership with Grassmarket Community Project and The Crannie as part of Great Big Green Week

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Power Up! Film Screening, Discussion And Collective Poetry Making - Take One Action!

As part of the Great Big Green Week, Take One Action and Grassmarket Community Project are partnering for a special community cinema screening exploring energy and who owns it, from […]

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Join @globaljusticenow.bsky.social for this free public meeting, which sounds like an eye-opening, must-attend event! We'll be there to learn how to contest the approval of massive AI data centres in Scotland – which would be at the huge expense of our climate change goals ...

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

There are just a handful of places left for this tomorrow evening! It's going to be exciting, come down.

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Join Take One Action and friends next month to explore what it might look like to have a radical social centre in central Edinburgh, and to explore together all the different things that a space like this could offer! Find out more: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/how-do...

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How Do You Make A Radical Social Centre? - Take One Action!

Join Take One Action and friends to explore what it might look like to have a radical social centre in central Edinburgh, and to explore together all the different things […]

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🌻Community amidst chaos: Programmed by five wonderful young people from Hot Chocolate Trust! Following delicious food and a screening of Knit's Island, the young people will lead us in conversation around the importance of nurturing community in both virtual and physical spaces. 🎟️ > bit.ly/43TkEbK

A still from Knit's Island showing five video game characters in survival outfits standing in a line, facing the camera and interacting with each other. Bottom left is an image from the walls of Hot Chocolate Trust showing colourful drawings on a graphic colourful background. Text reads: Film screening & community-creation with the young people of Hot Chocolate Trust & food provided by Beirut. Sunday 9 November, 3-6pm, Hot Chocolate Trust, The Steeple Church.

A still from Knit's Island showing a video game character in survival gear standing in a church adorned with paintings of saints. Bottom left is an image of the Steeple Church showing an arched, intricately-designed window. Text reads: In the midst of these increasingly polarised and individualistic times, come in out of the storm for a while and join some of the young people from Hot Chocolate Trust to simply share space to talk together, play together, make together, eat together, dream together. Share thoughts on the film, make new friends from an audience of strangers, and explore together how we might create some community amidst the chaos!

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Alyssa from Living Rent Dundee connects the radical spirit of 'Red Skirts on Clydeside' and the Glasgow Rent Strikes to parallel, lesser-known strikes in Dundee too! ✊🏡 Join us at 3pm on Saturday 8 November at Steps Theatre in Dundee 🎟️: takeoneaction.org.uk/event/red-skirts-on-clydeside-dundee/

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Here's what you've had to say about our Real Utopias film festivals so far in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness 💬

A photo of a darkened cinema with people watching someone fly the Palestine flag on screen. Text reads: “Really inspired to get back into direct action after feeling jaded and depressed about not being able to make a difference.” TOAFF25 Edinburgh audience member

A photo of three people sitting in cinema seats, smiling and talking. Colourful boxes around them read: “I was moved. It inspired me to be more politically active.” TOAFF25 Edinburgh audience member; “Such a motivating, moving festival, vibe and programme.” TOAFF25 Glasgow audience member

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

💌 NIÑXS in Dundee! Join us at Steps Theatre on 8 November for NIÑXS – a stunningly warm, laugh-out-loud coming-of-age documentary where trans youth get to tell their own stories. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🎟️ takeoneaction.org.uk/event/ninxs-dundee/

A still from NINXS, with two kids lying on a bed chatting and smiling; one sits in front of a mirror. Text around the image reads: NINXS + poetry and conversation with Leyla Hussain. Sat 8 Nov, 6PM, Steps Theatre.

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

🏠 RED SKIRTS ON CLYDESIDE – programmed by Scotland's mighty tenants' union, Living Rent! 👉 Sat 8 November | 3pm at Steps Theatre 🎟️ takeoneaction.org.uk/event/red-skirts-on-clydeside-dundee/

A still from Red Skirts on Clydeside showing three older women sitting in a living room, talking to the camera. Text around the image reads: Red Skirts on Clydeside (1984) + workshop with Living Rent Dundee. Sat 8 Nov, 3PM, Steps Theatre.

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🎮 KNIT'S ISLAND 👉 Sun 9 November | 3pm | Hot Chocolate We're delighted to have a film and post-screening workshop curated by the young people at Hot Chocolate as part of our inaugural Dundee festival! 🤩 🎟️ takeoneaction.org.uk/event/knits-island-dundee/

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Inverness pals! Our Real Utopias festival is starting tomorrow and there's so much going on. The festival will feature films from Mexico to the UK, Kenya and Japan, exploring ideas from community responses to climate change to the power of libraries, tenants’ rights and trans identity and thriving.

A poster with bronze and purple graphics, saying Take One Action Film Festivals 2025, Real Utopias, Edinburgh 17-21 September, Glasgow 25-28 September, Inverness 10-12 October, Dundee 7-8 November

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

🗞️✂️From Junk to Joy: Zine Workshop (Inverness)📖🧶 WHEN: Sunday Oct 12, 2pm at Highland Zine Bothy! ✊Inspired by How To Build a Library, this sustainable zine-making workshop invites you to dig into the possibilities of scrap, story, and solidarity.

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Thanks again to @takeoneaction.bsky.social for a great event last night, which ran three short films exploring the hidden labour of our tech infrastructures. Great to speak w/ @foxglovelegal.bsky.social too. Below is a checklist to get more involved in tech labour/justice/de-Googling your life.

Dismantling Tech Fantasies pathways to action check list, which has a list of resources to get involved with tech justice. You may be able to get a copy of the list from Take One Action at https://www.takeoneaction.org.uk

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Join us for a session with Dan Edelstyn, co-director of Power Station to explore alternative models of political and independent filmmaking, working with and for communities and side-stepping traditional gatekeepers to craft bold, radical documentaries. www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/crossi...

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Crossing the Line with Dan Edelstyn - Take One Action!

Join us for a session with Dan Edelstyn, co-director and co-producer of Power Station to explore alternative models of political and independent filmmaking.

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Rachel Hamada @rachelhamada.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Excited to moderate this at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Sat as part of our Real Utopias festivals. Come along if you like weird but brilliant shorts exploring the frontiers of tech, and brilliant-post screening conversations with @karengregory.bsky.social, @foxglovelegal.bsky.social and YOU

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

⛓️‍💥 DISMANTLING TECH FANTASIES 🌐 Our programmer shares a highlight from our Edinburgh festivals, a shorts programme about interrogating the false promises of AI. Screening at @filmhouseedinburgh.bsky.social on Saturday 20th September, 3PM! www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/disman...

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Migrants Organise @migrantsorganise.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Solidarity is not a slogan; it is a practice. Every bit of progress we’ve made, from trade union rights to migrant justice, was won not because those in power handed it down, but because ordinary people demanded it. And took action to make it happen. ⬇️

on a blue background, with a yellow bird. Text says "Dignity, justice and welcome for all migrants" Art by Migrants in culture

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

⭐5 DAYS TO GO!⭐ Join us next week for REAL UTOPIAS in Edinburgh! Starting with Black Butterflies - an animated film draws from the testimonies of three women whose geographically disparate stories are connected by climate change. 👉 Wed 17 September | 7:00pm at Filmhouse Edinburgh

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Black Butterflies (Edinburgh) - Take One Action!

Exquisite animations depict the struggles of three families of climate refugees whose respective cultural traditions buoy them in times of crisis.

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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

"There's quite a lot of evidence that facts alone don't necessarily change people's minds. You need to get to people's emotions as well" @takeoneaction.bsky.social, Scotland's film festival for social change is back – we talk to director Rachel Hamada

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Better Worlds: Take One Action 2025 preview - The Skinny

Take One Action's director Rachel Hamada introduces this year's festival, which takes place under the banner of Real Utopias.

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

🫘Join us at Platform Easterhouse on 25 Sep for the final event of Beans on Screen, a food-filled community research project culminating in a film screening and conversation with local residents and food charity Nourish. Project funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social Get your tickets here bit.ly/3JH5Dmt 🎟️

A close-up photo of beans and carrots with overlaid topographical branding of Take One Action: Real Utopias. Above text reads: “Beans on Screen”. Below text reads: “Thursday 25 September, 2pm-5pm, Platform @ The Bridge, Easterhouse”. Along the bottom are four logos for: Platform, FARE, Royal Society of Edinburgh and Take One Action: Real utopias.

A photo of two crouching children gardening with overlaid topographical branding of Take One Action: Real Utopias. Above text reads: “Together We Grow (2022) dir. Jordan Osmond”. Below text reads: “A local community in New Zealand come together to tackle food insecurity and social isolation”. Along the bottom are four logos for: Platform, FARE, Royal Society of Edinburgh and Take One Action: Real utopias.

A photo of six people backgrounded by green vegetation. One person looks into the camera, gleefully holding a carrot. Image overlaid with topographical branding of Take One Action: Real Utopias. Above text reads: “The Bean Team (2025) dir. Saoirse Amira Anis”. Below text reads: “A Take One Action production featuring the local participants of our food-and-joy-filled project, Beans on Screen.” Along the bottom are four logos for: Platform, FARE, Royal Society of Edinburgh and Take One Action: Real utopias.

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Our screening of Union on September 20th at the Filmhouse Edinburgh will include an introduction from Chris Smalls - founder of the Amazon Labor Union - especially recorded for Take One Action! 👇Here’s an early sneak peek of it...

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We decided to ask the authors of the Bread and Roses Award 2025 shortlist to recommend books from the last five years of shortlists - and we'll be sharing their thoughts with you on our website in the lead-up to the 2025 winner ceremony on 15th September! lighthousebookshop.com/events/bread...

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Lighthouse | Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing : Celebrating the shortlist and announcing the 2025 winner

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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

One of our fave festivals is BACK! Enjoy the post Edinburgh Festivals calm for a beat, and then dive into all the film/activist goodness at TOA Film Fest in Sept!

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

📚FILM SPOTLIGHT: How to Build a Library (2025)📚 In Nairobi, Kenya, two women are on a mission to transform and decolonise a dilapidated library into a public space that truly serves its community. Showing in Edinburgh, Inverness and Dundee! www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/how-to-...

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How to Build a Library - Take One Action!

Two intrepid Nairobi women decide to transform what used to be a whites-only library until 1958 into a vibrant cultural hub.

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

✊FILM SPOTLIGHT: Union (2024)✊ A group of fulfilment centre workers take the fight to Amazon, becoming the first unionised Amazon workplace in the United States. Showing in Edinburgh on Sat 20th September!

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Union (Edinburgh) - Take One Action!

A group of fulfilment centre workers take the fight to Amazon, becoming the first unionised Amazon workplace in the United States.

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

“The great waiting utopia is the old slogan of solidarity, that’s our greatest weapon.” Great to hear from our patrons, two legends of cinema, Ken Loach and Paul Laverty. 👉This year’s Take One Action is on the theme of Real Utopias! Screenings in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness & Dundee.

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Pooka & Co @pookaco.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Take One Action perform thought proving activism through film, and often on a shoestring. We're proud to support them online. Get involved. #WordPress #Charity #Edinburgh #WebsiteDesign #WebsiteDevelopment #CiviCRM #OpenSource

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

🪐Real Utopias in... EDINBURGH! 🪐 Our Edinburgh leg of the festival is happening on September 17-21, with a number of screenings at the Filmhouse Edinburgh. To make our events more accessible, we operate a sliding scale ticket policy. 🔗Book your tickets before they sell out!

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Events - Take One Action!

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Space @ The Broomhouse Hub @spacebroomhouse.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Take One Action programme coming soon to Edinburgh! Tickets from £0; travel, childcare and access fund also available.

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One World Centre @oneworldcentre.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

This looks great, coming to Dundee Sat 8 Nov, 3:00pm - 5:30pm at Steps Theatre More details & to book: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/red-sk...

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Red Skirts on Clydeside (Dundee) - Take One Action!

A documentary about the hidden stories of women’s activism in the Glasgow Rent Strikes of 1915, presented by Living Rent.

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Brilliant film!

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

✊FILM SPOTLIGHT: Red Skirts on Clydeside (1984) ✊ 📽️A documentary about the hidden stories of women’s activism in the Glasgow Rent Strikes of 1915. 👉Screening in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Dundee! Presented in partnership with Living Rent. www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/red-ski...

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Red Skirts on Clydeside - Take One Action!

A documentary about the hidden stories of women’s activism in the Glasgow Rent Strikes of 1915, presented by Living Rent.

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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Take One Action (@takeoneaction.bsky.social) returns with a programme titled Real Utopias. Expect stories of solidarity and hope from across the world, including films from Mexico to Kenya via the US, UK and Philippines www.theskinny.co.uk/festivals/uk... [Article: @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social]

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Take One Action reveals 2025 programme - The Skinny

Take One Action returns with a programme titled Real Utopias; expect stories of solidarity and hope from across the world.

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

👁️FILM SPOTLIGHT: NIÑXS 👁️ In the rural small town of Tepoztlán, Mexico, fifteen-year-old Karla gets to tell her own coming-of-age story as she navigates the joys and complexities of trans adolescence. Book your tickets: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/ninxs/

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NIÑXS - Take One Action!

In this joyous documentary co-authored by its subject, fifteen-year-old Karla tells her coming-of-age story as a young trans girl.

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

🎥Film Spotlight: POWER STATION (2025) Two artists and activists are on a mission to power their street with solar energy, one home at a time. We'll be showing POWER STATION in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Dundee! 👉 TICKETS: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/film/power-s...

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Power Station - Take One Action!

Two artists and activists are on a mission to power their street with solar energy, one home at a time.

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Cinetopia @cinetopia.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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Rachel Hamada @rachelhamada.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Really excited to announce the launch of our 2025 film festival programmes - hope to see many of you at one of our events! #RealUtopias2025

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

💫 IT’S HERE! 💫 Watch the trailer for Take One Action Film Festivals 2025 and dive into our Real Utopias programme! EDINBURGH | GLASGOW | INVERNESS | DUNDEE ACCESS: 🎟️ All tickets pay-what-you-can (£0-20) 💬 All films with descriptive subtitles Get your tickets now: www.takeoneaction.org.uk

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

👋 We’re BACK! Real Utopias will be coming to screens and community spaces near you this autumn: 〰️ #Edinburgh (17-21 Sep) 〰️ #Glasgow (25-28 Sep) 〰️ #Inverness (28-30 Oct) 〰️ #Dundee (7-8 Nov) We’re excited to share our gorgeous poster for this year’s festivals, designed by Maddie Lennon!

Poster for the Take One Action areal Utopias poster, in purple and bronze. Topographic lines of a map intersect with bronze stills from this year’s films. It includes dates and info about funders.

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We’ve been asking our team to share their four favourite films ahead of this year’s festival (an idea shamelessly stolen from Letterboxd!). Here’s the legendary Daisy Crooke sharing her picks 🫛🎥 👉Which four movies would you pick?

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

It was an absolute pleasure to work with Culture For Climate Scotland to put Green Tease together in Aberdeen! With grassroots campaigners, artists and cultural practitioners, we gathered at The Anatomy Rooms for a film screening and conversation to explore climate justice.

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🌱Our first Beans on Screen event was a delicious success! On the hottest day of the year, we were so lucky to be in the coldest room in Platform Glasgowfor our film screening and Living Table with artist Désirée Coral.

People sitting around a table and watching the short films on screen.

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

👀Looking for utopias?👀 We’ve got some big news to share in the coming weeks… if you want to be the first to know, subscribe to the newsletter on our website! takeoneaction.org.uk

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Take One Action @takeoneaction.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

GREEN TEASE: CONNECTED AT THE ROOT Tuesday 8th July, 6pm-8.30pm @ Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen. We’ll be exploring climate justice & international solidarity, and reflecting on entanglements between people and land, with short films, presentations, food and a workshop 🌱 Free tickets here: bit.ly/4lxi0yN

A highly-textured photograph of several types of seaweed consisting of greens, pinks, yellows and oranges. The seaweed ranges in texture. Some are bowl-shaped in which there are small amounts of water, some are long and flowing, and some have a sponge-like texture. Text above the image reads: Green Tease: Connected at the Root. Text below the image reads Seaweed (2022) dir. Julia Parks

An image shows green, purple, white and red flowers and plants in the foreground, behind which there is a procession of camels travelling across pale-green grassy terrain. Text above the image reads: The Flowers Stand Silently Witnessing (2024) dir Theo Panagopoulos. Text below the image reads: Green Tease: Connected at the Root.

An image of long green and yellow grass and trees with three high-rise flats in the background. Text overlaid reads: Living With Energy Transition. Text above image reads: Green Tease: Connected at the Root. Text below image reads: Presentation from curator Rachel Grant on her collaborative project framed by St Fittick’s Park, Torry

Image shows a group of roughly twenty people standing outside in winter-clothes and holding various signs and placards. One prominent sign reads: hauns affa Torry. Another prominent sign reads: yir nae gettin awa wi this. Text above the image reads: Presentation from Michelle Marshall of Friends of the Earth Scotland about the importance of weaving together social and environmental justice. Text below the image reads: Green Tease: Connected at the Root.

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Friends of the Earth Scotland 🌍 @foescot.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

CONNECTED AT THE ROOT ✊🌱 Join @takeoneaction.bsky.social for a screening and conversation to hear about two local climate struggle - the fight against new gas at Peterhead & to save St Fitticks Park in Torry 📆 Tue 8 Jul, 6:00pm 📍 The Anatomy Rooms, Aberdeen! www.tickettailor.com/events/cultu...

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