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Delighted to promote George Chamier's new book, With Net and Coble, on The Electronic Cottage's website.
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With Net and Coble - The Electronic Cottage This is a personal record of a unique method of net fishing for salmon on the Cromarty Firth, and the life associated with it. Net and coble is an ancient, skilled and environmentally friendly way of fishing that has now been brought to an end in the Firth by order of the Scottish government. Its [....

Established in 1986

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Celebrating 20 years with the Media Support Group! Where did the time go?

Digital and Social Media for Social and Behaviour Change Communication Produced by iMedia Associates, this paper explores the ways in which current and emerging digital and social media channels can be used to drive behaviour change in young men and women from lower socioeconomic groups around the world.

“This play gives us Syrians a voice,” says Sanaa, in the garden of her council house in Milton of Campsie, a village outside Glasgow. “It helps us psychologically to tell our stories and the stories are real.”

Sanaa and fellow Syrian refugees living in Scotland, have recently starred in a successful adaptation of Euripides ‘The Trojan Women’. After nine months of drama workshops in which 30 participants incorporated their own narratives into the 2,500 year old play, it was performed in February 2019 as ‘The Trojans’ to packed audiences at the Platform Theatre in Easterhouse, Glasgow.

MSP’s partner, the Trojan Women Project (TWP), which created and led this initiative, has been running since 2013 with the aim of providing a safe place for Syrian refugees to work through their trauma and share their experiences — while meeting new friends — but also to raise awareness of what they have been through, and to build links with local communities.

Charlotte Eagar, Co-Founder and Executive Producer of the Trojan Women Project (TWP), writes: “Every time we produce The Trojan Women, it’s different. Back in Jordan in 2013, our original cast were in shock, a desperate limbo. By the time we toured the UK, with the Young Vic, as Queens of Syria in 2016, they were angry and that rage gave their performance power. But this cast have hope; they love Glasgow — apart from the weather — and are rebuilding their lives…Sanaa is hoping to requalify at Strathclyde University, her children are at a school where nobody shoots at them, and the sunflowers and jasmine she has planted in Milton of Campsie are growing.”

Reactions have been highly positive, garnering 4 stars from the Wee Review, and interest in staging it at numerous venues in future, including at the Edinburgh Festival. We are delighted that the production will soon be coming to Inverness, where MSP is registered and two of our board members reside.

Following our direct grant support to similar workshops in previous years, TWP is in discussion with broadcasters to air the radio drama ‘My Aberdeen’. TWP is also seeking funding for the UK tour of ‘The Trojans’. Please contact Charlotte for further information.

Enjoying updating The Electronic Cottage website (www.theelectroniccottage.co.uk) with its smart new design, thanks to Meg Smitley, Sproutee Solutions

We were saddened by the news that Iain Mackay - author, publisher, crofter and stalker for the Red Deer Commission - died peacefully on 2nd December 2016.

A Positive Media Story from Bangladesh Recently Bangladesh has become synonymous with negative stories surrounding its media: murders of bloggers, attacks on writers and journalists, the blocking of opposition media and...