an aged newspaper is cropped so that the text is not readable. The title reads Awaken The Masses with the first words cut off, the image in the paper has three people holding old school megaphones and its captioned The Red Star Troupe in Action.

Their Theatre and Ours: a people’s translation workshop with Joey Simons

Saturday 13 September, 2 – 4pm. Their Theatre and Ours: a people’s translation workshop I n the early 1930s, Ewan MacColl and other young unemployed workers in Salford formed Red Megaphones, a revolutionary theatre troupe aimed at reflecting and changing the world around them, from local factory conditions to anti-colonial revolts. In Manchester’s public libraries…

A collage with a central photocopied old black and white photograph with miners at work. Around the central image there are blocks of text hand written using blue, red and black pen alongside newspaper clippings.

Joey Simons – Solo Show November 2025

~ Introducing our 2025 Solo Show ~ a commission which supports an emerging artist based in Glasgow to develop, create and exhibit new artworks. The commission culminates in a 6-week exhibition, taking place in November 2025. Joey Simons is an artist and writer working across video, theatre, research, publishing and community arts to explore the…

25th Birthday programme announcement!

Please join us in celebrating Market’s 25th year through 1-6 September 💫 with a packed week of events marking the occasion. The events will take place in Many Studios at 3 Ross St / 13 Ross St G1 5AR with our closing party on Saturday 6th kindly hosted by 16 Collective at 173 Trongate. All events…

here is where we meet

“Archives are not inert historical collections. They always stand in an active, dialogic, relation to the questions which the present puts to the past; and the present always puts its questions differently from one generation to another.” Constituting an Archive, Stuart Hall It’s a Saturday at Market Gallery and the energy from the Barras swarms the…

From A Distance / text response to the Reader Residency by Harvey Dimond

‘Hydrocolonialism riffs off the term postcolonialism and, like that concept, has a wide potential remit that could include colonization by way of water (various forms of maritime imperialism), colonization of water (occu- pation of land with water resources, the declaration of territorial waters, the militarization and geopoliticization of oceans), a colony on (or in) water…

as a point of departure | A little extra

as a point of departure was presented within Glasgow International 2024, Scotland’s biennial festival of contemporary art. In conjunction with their sound work, Alma Simba and Darragh Amelia offered a sharing of audiovisual and literary landing points which informed the process of making and communicating at distance. Film and TV This Is My Life (1992) dir.…

Library Digest: Kirsteen Stevenson

A review of Imperial Intimacies by Hazel V. Carby. Scanned Image: Hazel V. Carby, Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands, Verso Books, London, pp. 324-325, 160-161. Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands, begins with ‘the girl’ – the girl who is constantly asked ‘the question!’. ‘The question’ was always lying in wait –…

Library Digest: Beulah Ezeugo

Keep it in Mind: A review of In These Circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices by a.pass Scanned Images 1 & 2: Philippine Hoegen, Lilia Mestre, Various Authors (2022) In These Circumstances: On collaboration, performativity, self-organisation and transdisciplinarity in research-based practices, Onomatopee 181, Netherlands, pp. 210-211, 160-161. I started reading ‘In These…

Open Letter in Solidarity with the People of Palestine

Image: Yousef Anastas We, the committee members of Market Gallery, write to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine, and their struggle for life, freedom and dignity. We are calling for an immediate ceasefire. We condemn Western support of the ongoing occupation and systemic violation of human rights which normalises dangerous rhetoric and propagates…