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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 12d

Welcome AGA’s New Trustees! We’re delighted to welcome Cole Collins, Jade (Stout) Sneddon & Andrew Leitch to our Board. They bring vital expertise in EDI, data analysis & capital investment to help grow and support AGA’s mission. Find out more on our website!

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 13d

Join us for Archive tours this Oct–Dec, led by @sorchadallas.bsky.social & Holly Rennie Brown. Explore Gray’s legacy & handle our sensitively curated collection Book via link in bio or email [email protected]✨

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · 14d

Finally read Heather Parry’s Orpheus Builds a Girl—a chilling, brilliant gothic novel. Twisted love, control, and obsession meet razor-sharp critique. Fans of @agrayarchive.bsky.social’s Poor Things will love it too, highly recommend.

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 15d

Delighted to welcome OpenGate Productions as they filmed our Custodian, @sorchadallas.bsky.social, for Makers of Glasgow, a new series celebrating the city's creative scene. Stay tuned for the full video — coming soon!

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 16d

📣 FREE webinar + resource launch! ‘Memoir & Biography Writing: Towards Inclusion & Social Justice’ 🗓️ Sept 30, 6:30–8pm. With @sorchadallas.bsky.social @rodgeglass.bsky.social & Lucy Lauder. Sign up via Eventbrite – link in bio! 🙏🎉 #webinar #memoir

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · 25d

Last night, I finally watched Rebel Dykes, a powerful documentary tracing the journey of a tight-knit group of friends who first met in the 1980s at the Greenham Common peace camp and later became artists, musicians, performers, and activists in 1980s London. Highly recommend.

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · Aug 28

Sorley and Snoutlet in Millport. August 2025 by the awesome Alan Dimmick ❤️

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · Aug 27

The incomparable Willy Maley at his ‘Scrap Mettle’ new collection of poetry book launch with Seahorse Publications, a great night!

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · Aug 4

Unputdownable…a dark & twisting triumph by Elle Nash, highly recommend reading 🖤🪲🕷️🐛

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Aug 1

We are taking part in Glasgow Doors Open Day 2025!

➡️ Tour our collection with Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social & our new exhibition ‘The City’ curated by Holly Rennie Brown

👨‍👧‍👦 Kids activities including building a Minecraft ‘Glasgow of the Imagination’

🎟️ Booking essential, link in bio👆🏽

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · Jul 20

Fun weekend caravanning with the other cousin crew❤️

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · Jul 4

After four day trip be like…

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · Jul 4

Day 4 (part two): visit to The Forbidden Corner which is like a more populist Little Sparta (with more cafes and less art) kids loved it 😂

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · Jul 4

Day 4 glorious visit to the Hepworth Wakefield with inspiring Helen Chadwick and Elizabeth Fritsch works ❤️

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · Jul 3

Day 3: another day, another unofficial Dr. who exhibition, this one ‘Adventures in Time & Space’ at Peterborough Museum, then a hang in Leeds.

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · Jul 3

Day 2 @artfund.bsky.social Museum of the Year 2025 Beamish Museum, a formative experience for me when young and the smalls loved it too.

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · Jul 3

On a road trip with the smalls, Day 1 Hadrian’s Wall, Museum of Classic Sci-fi in Allendale then hanging with pals in Newcastle.

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · Jun 28

Had a fun afternoon at Romanfest produced by Hydra Arts. At Morven Mulgrew’s Museum of Imagined Things we trebucheted some clay,, made coins, pots & portraits. Sewed with Emma Henderson & listened to a spoken word reading by Oli Higham which spoke to current times.

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Jun 28

We welcomed some lovely French visitors yesterday Orane Delphine and Francois Chambe from @artefr.bsky.social who were filming the archive & interviewing our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social for a new documentary.

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · Jun 26

Very sad news.

Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · Jun 26

School is out for the summer! Huge thanks to the incredible staff team at KPS for their love and encouragement over this last year, hope you all have a restful summer and solidarity to all parents over the 7 weeks ahead 😉❤️

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks to everyone who attended our @sgsah.bsky.social Summer School session today on ‘Reflecting Creative Practice Through Archiving’. Our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social enjoyed sharing her journey to growing AGA over the last five years & the development of @aowensarchive.bsky.social

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Jun 12

Huge thanks to our brilliant volunteer Evie Glen who has written on ‘Glasgow’s Community Archives’ for GUM mag which highlights AGA and @aowensarchive.bsky.social feat. interviews with our Custodian @sorchadallas.bsky.social
& @sgsah.bsky.social CDA researcher Laura MacDonald

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · Jun 6

Our @aowensarchive.bsky.social @sgsah.bsky.social funded CDA student, Laura MacDonald is presenting today at the Oral History Society conference, ‘Whose Voices?’, on outcomes of interviews with one of Owens’s sons, John Crosbie, and how these interviews have shaped her ongoing doctoral research.

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Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social · May 31

Can’t let the kids have all the fun 😉🤪😂

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