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SCAN Sparks is a new programme exploring how the cultural community can support grassroots activism and equalities-focused working. Later this year we'll launch our SCAN Sparks seed funding programme of micro-grants. In the meantime, we're thinking aloud with some people already making change. We are delighted to share this fifth SCAN Sparks podcasts of this summer in which Myriam Mouflih talks to our Artist Policy Officer Sekai Machache.

Myriam Mouflih is a freelance curator, film programmer and writer born in Casablanca, Morocco and based in Glasgow, UK. In this conversation she talks about her work at the Africa in Motion festival, her role as a former Transmission gallery committee member and the ethics and practice of supporting the “solar system” of artists, groups and networks around the gallery. Myriam is an associate programmer of the 2021 Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival. She also works with SCAN as our programme co-ordinator.

SCAN Sparks is a new programme exploring how the cultural community can support grassroots activism and equalities-focused working. Later this year we'll launch our SCAN Sparks seed funding programme of micro-grants. In the meantime, we're thinking aloud with some people already making change. Here in the fourth of five SCAN Sparks podcasts to be released this spring and summer our Artist Policy Officer Sekai Machache speaks to Briana Pegado, the Founder and Director of the Edinburgh Student Arts Festival (ESAF), a social enterprise that supported public access to the arts and youth access to the creative sector. 

Briana is also Creative Director of Fringe Of Colour Films, Co-Director of We Are Here Scotland, Chair of The Young Women's Movement Scotland and sits on the advisory board of the Travelling Gallery. In 2014 Briana was elected Edinburgh University Students Association’s first ever black woman president in its 130-year history.

www.edinburghstudentartsfestival.com , www.weareherescotland.com , www.travellinggallery.com , www.fringeofcolour.co.uk , www.ywcascotland.org

Music by Matthew Arthur Williams @junglehussi 

SCAN Sparks is a new programme exploring how the cultural community can support grassroots activism and equalities-focused working. Later this year we'll launch our SCAN Sparks seed funding programme of micro-grants. In the meantime, we're thinking aloud with some people already making change. Here in the second of five SCAN Sparks podcasts to be released this spring and summer our Artist Policy Officer Sekai Machache speaks to Jess Brough, the founder of Fringe of Colour, which has gone on to become a multi-award-winning promotional platform and support network for Black creatives and creatives of colour at festivals in Scotland. Its online arts festival, Fringe of Colour Films, is back for a second year from 1 - 15 August at fringeofcolour.co.uk.

Music by Matthew Arthur Williams @junglehussi

SCAN Sparks is a new programme exploring how the cultural community can support grassroots activism and equalities-focused working. Later this year we'll launch our SCAN Sparks seed funding programme of micro-grants. In the meantime, we're thinking aloud with some people already making change. Here in the second of five SCAN Sparks podcasts to be released this spring and summer our Artist Policy Officer Sekai Machache speaks to Claricia Parinussa, the founder and co-producer of ID.Y Claricia also runs Vogue Scotland, the home and platform for the House Ball community in Scotland, a family centring and celebrating Black and POC queer people through the artforms of the Ballroom.



Music by Matthew Arthur Williams @junglehussi

SCAN Sparks is a new programme exploring how the cultural community can support grassroots activism and equalities-focused working. Later this year we'll launch our SCAN Sparks seed funding programme of micro-grants. In the meantime, we're thinking aloud with some people already making change. Here in the first of 5 SCAN Sparks podcasts to be released this spring and summer our Artist Policy Officer Sekai Machache speaks to Ica Headlam, the Aberdeen-based founder of We are Here Scotland, the community interest company sharing the work of BIPOC Creatives in Scotland. Ica shares what helps him thrive and where the challenges lie. We Are Here Scotland's Creator's fund has been set up to provide BIPOC artists and creatives with funding opportunities that will help them progress in their professional development. You can follow for more info and to support the fund.  

We would like to thank Matthew Arthur Williams for creating the sound track.