Interactive Memory Game

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The Hidden Gardens
25A Albert Drive, Glasgow, G41 2PE
Free

The Gardens are fully wheelchair accessible at both entrances from Pollokshaws Road and through Tramway. There are wide stone paths around The Gardens, and ramps to take you into different areas of the site. Assistance dogs only allowed. The nearest train station, Pollokshields East, does not currently have wheelchair access. There are no public toilets within The Hidden Gardens, but you can use public toilets (fully accessible) in Tramway. Please check current Tramway opening hours on their website. All ages welcome.

Heritage Storytelling/Poetry/Spoken Word Talk/Workshop

Join us for an interactive memory game developed by Efruz Kaya exploring how migrants and refugees shape Glasgow’s collective memory through stories, spaces, and everyday life.

What makes a city truly belong to its people? This interactive experience invites participants to explore Glasgow through a different lens — one shaped by migration, memory, and shared cultural practices.

Working in small groups, participants will move between a series of “memory stations” by solving clues and puzzles. Each station reveals a different story, guided by a storyteller, uncovering how migrant and refugee communities have contributed to the city’s social, cultural, and everyday life — from food and neighbourhoods to moments of solidarity and belonging.
Blending play, storytelling, and collective reflection, the event creates a space where participants not only discover hidden narratives of the city but also actively engage in remembering together. It offers a playful yet meaningful way to challenge dominant narratives and highlight migrants and refugees as active makers of Glasgow.

Taking place at The Hidden Gardens as part of Grace Browne’s exhibition closing event, the game loosely connects with themes of migration as an ongoing and intergenerational experience — bridging inherited stories with the living memory of the city today.

Open to all (ages and backgrounds).
Free event. Booking required.
Language: English.

Efruz Kaya is an activist and community organiser, originally from Turkey and now based in Glasgow. Her work focuses on migration, collective memory, and creating inclusive spaces for storytelling, dialogue, and community engagement.