Our Advisory Group

The festival’s Advisory Group represents an array of voices from the Scottish cultural, education and third sectors as well as individuals with lived experience of forced displacement.  

Current members are: 

• Huss Al-Chokhdar (Artist and Curator)
• Marzanna Antoniak (Glasgow Network Co-ordinator, Migrant Voice)
• Euan Borland (Head of Engagement, Eden Court, Inverness)
• Rosie Burrell (Training Officer, Scottish Refugee Council)
• Malini Chakrabarty (Multidisciplinary Artist/Director, Art of Birdie)
• Becky Duncan (Director, Open Aye, Paisley)
• Rose Filippi (Development Manager, Maryhill Integration Network, Glasgow)
• Sandy Greene (Managing Director, Scrap Antics, Dundee)
• Bella Hoogeveen (Project Manager, UNESCO Chair on Refugee Integration through Education, Languages and Arts, University of Glasgow)
• Laura Ndanuko (Project Worker, Kairos Women+, Paisley)
• Suz O’Neill (Co-founder, Radio Buena Vida, Glasgow)
• Natalia Palombo (Freelance Producer/Director, Many Studios, Glasgow)
• Julie Smith (Trustee and Volunteer, The Depot, Dumfries)
• Hashim Suliman (Board Member, Perth International Café)
• Joseph Tema (Curator of Global Majority Cultures, Glasgow Museums)
• Nii Sackey Vanderpuye (Artist)

Organisations previously represented in the Advisory Group have included: A Moments Peace Theatre Company, Amnesty International, British Red Cross, CAMASS (Cameroonian refugee community group), CCA, Central West Integration Network, Citizens Theatre, Confab, Cranhill Development Trust, Deveron Projects, The Educational Institute of Scotland, Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Housing Association, Glasgow Film Theatre, Govan Community Project, GRAMNet, Kinning Park Complex, Migrant Help, Open Museum – Glasgow, Positive Action in Housing, Project X, Refuweegee, Tron Theatre, V&A Dundee, Voluntary Arts Scotland and Wheatley Group.