A new publication from Hope Street Collective and Aye-Aye Books.
Launched in the midst of the hope and despair that is the COP 26 climate talks in Glasgow, What Starts Here Stops Here is a tale that connects the city’s history with our global future.
The idea for the book arose out of conversations leading up to COP26 about how to best welcome visitors to Glasgow today while acknowledging its historic and continuing role in the systems that brought us to this point.
It’s a tale that ranges across James Watt’s invention of the steam engine in 1776, the subsequent industrialisation, Glasgow’s significant role in the Atlantic slave trade, the rise of powerful social movements, traditions of song and story telling, continuing inequality, and the diversity of the city today.
It’s about Glasgow’s place at the start and Glasgow’s place in the solution.
Hope Street is a feminist collective with roots in the Woodlands area of Glasgow devoted to growing a Dear Green Place fit for the 21st century, with the wellbeing of people and planet at its heart.
babs nicgriogair is a worker poet, co-operative activist, and a friend of Woodlands Community Garden.
Annabel Wright is an illustrator using her skills for positive change. She is also a mother of a Robin.
Leda Bartolucci, a citizen designer, is passionate about the relationship between design and activism. She’s a proud volunteer photographer of the climate strikes.
Sapna Agarwal is an artist, educator, community activist, facilitator and organiser who loves to stop and talk. She uses play, stories and everyday chat to explore social justice and climate issues, working primarily with young people and intergenerational groups.
You can read a free pdf of the book here
You can buy a copy from Aye-Aye Books at the CCA in Glasgow, or (soon!) from your local bookshop.You get it direct from us by adding it to your basket
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What Starts Here Stops Here
A gallus wee glesga robin is blown off-course by an unseasonal gale onto a rollercoaster flight of discovery in the Dear Green Place.
A story about change, a story about time, past, present and future and a story about not just asking for justice, but roaring for it.
It’s co-published by Hope Street Collective and Aye-Aye Books, printed in Glasgow by PR Print on 100% recycled paper with vegetable based inks.
The price is £6.99
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