[ELECTRON] Reshuffle fliers

Thu Jan 21 13:25:38 UTC 2010

That be good Yas.

Yasmin Ali wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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.
> 
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