[ELECTRON] Reshuffle fliers

Thu Jan 21 13:00:17 UTC 2010

hey bob
my partner lives off paisley rd w nr kinning pk station so could cover that
area. (from grand ole opry up to cessnock tube) have exam monday so ideally
after then.
looking forward to it
yaz xx

2010/1/21 Bob <bob at citystrolls.com>

> Ah time to dish out the Reshuffle fliers. Now usually I keep the whole
> 5,000 to myself - Up and down Govan road, Paisley road W, Flying away
> keeping fit. But this year out of generosity I am going to let others join
> in the fun - wandering in and out of the hairdressers chatting to the women
> and the guys getting a short back and sides. Pop in and wind up Nicola
> Sturgeon, on the way - Galgael for a cup of tea - Sunny Govan - for an
> update - the Indian guy shop across from the PI who gave me a hat for all
> the good work I do (you might get lucky) - Have a look round the Afro
> Caribbean shops dotted along Govan road. By this time you will be knackered
> and need another cuppa, but it is OK Unity shop is close at hand, might even
> get a cheap bag to carry your stuff as well as a cup of tea - or you could
> hold on till you do Linthouse and get some soup in the Cafe Pearce on the
> way back. Theres a good sandwich shop at the Clyde tunnel to you might like
> to try. Man your spoiled for choice in Govan.
>
> Email if you can help Fliers & posters at Electron Club (Sat) or by
> arrangement. Govan - Paisley road west - Partick and around
>
> ------
>
> The flavours of Glasgow, by Robinson Barría Montalva
>
> For one month now I have lived in Glasgow. I come from a rainy land which
> is by a great lake and volcano in the South of Chile. I have arrived in
> Europe for the first time. In the last month I have traveled around the city
> by different means – subway, bus, car, bicycle and on foot – which has
> allowed me to experience the city at different speeds, each giving its own
> particular experience of the city. Only by bike and on foot have I had the
> freedom to lose myself in this unknown city and to discover it like a virgin
> terrain full of new experiences for my attentive senses.
>
> Neighbourhoods of red or yellow stone, intact and ordered in spite of the
> passage of time. Sculptures protruding from the buildings and constructions,
> mute witnesses to an era of architectural development and urban necessity.
> Bridges, labyrinths of pillars, arches and ...........beautifully blue in
> the night, like the look of its native people. Piers and walls,
> archaeological relics of the city’s vigour.
>
> Everything being of stone, its age permits me to allow my imagination to
> fly and to visualise the scenes of old aquatic times, with their grates and
> tunnels through which the gladiators came to mortal combat. Or to simply
> imagine the noise of steel against steel, voices drowned out by the roar of
> metal in the execution of this daily task.
>
> With its organisations of workers, engineers and technical people, with its
> inheritance of thousands of years of naval construction.....where are these
> warriors who conquered the world from these shipyards and piers? Might there
> still be living, people who climbed these steep stairs to get to the
> quayside when the ............was still dry?
>
> Today the quayside is a desolate area where bushes grow between the stones
> and the ghosts of generations of labourers resist leaving there....
>
> How many archaeological relics are still hidden along the Clyde as yet
> unknown to me?
>
> Glasgow knows about ports, steel and stone, but also about summer and
> flowers.....colours, beautiful women and parks green, clean and well looked
> after, in every neighbourhood...
>
> How many churches are there in Glasgow? And how many of them point their
> spires towards the sky to touch the clouds, piercing them to make it
> rain.... The Cathedral, older than my own country, historic epicenter of the
> city, its walls, floors and roof have condensed the breath, dreams and
> prayers of centuries of generations .... soaking up even their tears. And
> there, each war has its space, its dead; and they their place and their
> memory.....how many more names will have to be added to this infinite list
> of martyrs? If it was a telephone guide, you would look them up under their
> respective war.
>
> So, one arrives easily to the nearby cemetery, fields punctuated by stones
> and crosses engraved with woven signs from the depths of the culture, older
> perhaps than the scriptures. Is it a cryptic language? Mental exercises to
> enable you to arrive at an altered state of consciousness? I don’t know, but
> they are there in order to challenge time, without knowing that time can’t
> be challenged, and many stones have already lost their inscriptions or have
> fallen, broken and forgotten as if it were a double death...
>
> You can’t know Glasgow without visiting its University. Since they thought
> that the earth was flat and was the centre of the universe, how much
> knowledge has had to change, be corrected and even hidden? Nevertheless, it
> is there, medieval architecture, the tower which dominates and watches over
> the city, point of urban reference which hasn’t been darkened by the
> metallic shine nor the new design of the architecture of globalisation. It
> lifts itself towards the sky and is buried in the depths like the roots of
> an oak tree. The labyrinth and subterranean levels attract me even more than
> its bell tower – the latter I can see and enjoy, the former no but I can
> sense and feel them....
>
> Glasgow is a recent discovery for me. It is summer and the sun warms in
> between the rain and rain. Soon Autumn will come to change the colour and
> temperature, and then winter will arrive with its chill as yet unknown to
> me, at which time I will retrace my steps and take with me the experience of
> having been received by this old city, and the memory of every cell in my
> body will say that this was true.
>
> I can’t finish this writing without speaking of the people of Glasgow. My
> stay here would not have been possible if it was not for a friendly couple
> who invited me to get to know their country for a long period. I could think
> that this was just fortunate, but I have noticed the amiability of the
> people in the streets. I must confess that not knowing the English language
> has impeded me from having more meaningful contact with the people from this
> city, but in this time that I have lived here I have received great
> solidarity, friendship and warmth from the Scottish people, more than I
> expected and maybe more than I have deserved. I am a sculptor and I have
> been accepted as a member of the organisation known as Gal Gael in Govan, in
> order to work in their workshops where I’d like to develop my creativity and
> be able to give something back in some way, giving of my energy to the task
> that it’s necessary to undertake.
>
> Glasgow and its people have offered me a unique possibility and I want to
> give the best of me as a tribute to the warmth I have received. I know that
> I have much to learn and that the road is not always easy, it never is, but
> I know to savour the challenges because in them is the meaning of life and
> here I am beginning to savour the flavours of Glasgow....
>
> Robinson Barria
> Chilean Sculptor.
>
> http://www.citystrolls.com/z-f-page/translation.htm
>
>
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