Exciting new opportunity with the People’s Pantry

We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and committed individual to join the team of staff and volunteers at the People’s Pantry! We’re looking for a new Development Worker to help deliver the aims of the People’s Pantry,

The Pantry offers an alternative way for people facing food insecurity or food inequalities to access the food and essentials they need, giving a greater deal of choice and dignity. As Covid restrictions are relaxed we hope to offer more ways for Pantry members to engage with food, starting with a small urban growing space and associated events around the theme of growing and making at home.

Applications must be in by 9.00am Monday 31st October 2022. For full details and job description visit our vacancies page.

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Welcome to the team!

We’re delighted to welcome two new members to our ceramics team! Meet our new new instructors Zoë and Rob!
Zoë is a ceramicist working in Glasgow. She specialises in production throwing as well as large one-off pieces. After self-teaching for a number of years, she spent time as a visiting apprentice at Shin Chul’s studio in South Korea. There she learnt traditional Korean throwing techniques as well as the process of wood firing and glaze making through ash.
Since returning to Glasgow she has set up a private studio in the East End where she focuses mainly on restaurant commissions alongside teaching and collaborating with other artists.

After graduating in ceramics and glass from Gray’s school of Art in 2017, Robert has been able to travel with his work with an internship with Maria De Haan in the summer of 2017 and most recently, completed an 3 months Artist in Residency with her in Deia, Mallorca.

Robert is mainly a thrower but is also interested in developing his own glazes by collecting natural materials on his travels, making his work inspired by location, nature and time. Now based in Ayr, Robert is working from his home studio where he continues his work and develop his glaze research further.

More information on all our courses and kiln hire available here.
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A poster featuring three medals. The poster reads 'At The Swim Club: amateur swimming clubs and competitions at Govanhill baths, 1917-2001.'

Exhibition: At The Swim Club

From 12th – 18th September, we’ll be holding a new interactive, multimedia exhibition focussing on the life and times of swimming clubs and other communal activities at Govanhill Baths. There will be a chance to see some rare archival footage of swimming in Scotland, together with a wide range of objects from our building’s history. The exhibition will also feature an immersive soundscape by artist Ros Fraser.
Exhibition co-curated by Beulah Ezeugo and Ghazala Ansar, Community Engagement Trainees.
The weekend of the 17th and 18th September will see a wide range of other events at the Deep End as part of Doors Open Days Festival including open studios and a craft market from our award winning upcycling project Rags To Riches.
The exhibition will be open Monday 12th-Sunday 18th September from 2-6pm, with a reception event on Thursday 15th September from 6-8pm.
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2022 saw the biggest Govanhill International Festival yet

This year the Govanhill International Festival and Carnival returned: bigger, brighter and more vibrant than ever before!

While GIFC started as a carnival, parade and weekend of music back in 2016, it has since blossomed and grown into a two-week long celebration of the richness and diversity of the flourishing arts and culture scene in Govanhill!

This year the programme held talks, music, workshops, film, exhibitions, theatre, heritage events and guided walks. We also welcomed back our Carnival and Parade which saw our biggest turnout yet! We were thrilled to be able to bring back our Street Music Festival for its third year – becoming a much-loved highlight of the festival.

Govanhill International Festival and Carnival is, and will always be, an anti-racist festival: celebrating the contributions immigrants have made to a community that is home to people of 40+ nationalities speaking 60+ languages.

Join us again next year for events everyone can enjoy and which will bring us together to share in and appreciate the different stories, talents and histories of all those who have made Govanhill their home…

Thanks to Susanna Hotham for some wonderful photos from this year’s event which you can check out below!

 

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New RE-BROLLY drop off point with Rags to Riches

Rags To Riches have teamed up with mice & meys to become one of their official RE-BROLLY drop off points.
If you have any old brollies cluttering up your cupboards – don’t throw them in the bin! Drop them off at The Deep End where they’ll be reused in some amazing new designs!
You can find The Deep End at 21 Nithsdale Street (G41 2PZ)
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Exterior of Govanhill's Bath in the early 1900s

Annual General Meeting Notice

Govanhill Baths Community Trust 2022 AGM will be held on 20 September at 6:00pm.

The meeting will take place at The Deep End, 21 Nithsdale Street, Glasgow G41 2PZ.

 

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Check out the Our Rights, Our Communities 6 month report

After being awarded New Scots Refugee Integration Delivery Project funds by the Scottish Government, COSLA and the UNESCO Chair at the University of Glasgow, Govanhill Baths Community Action Programme has been working hard alongside our friends at Unity Sisters and Milk Café to bring the ‘Our Rights, Our Communities’ project to life.

The Project aims to deliver a unique model of community-based, New Scots Women-led advocacy over 2021 and 2022. Exploring, acknowledging and developing an understanding of intersectional oppression, we have been creating collective and accessible resources to tackle it from a grassroots perspective.

“Our Rights” will put the needs of New Scots Women at the heart and head of the struggle for equality. They will be at the forefront in delivering anti-racist and equality work, rather than having equality done for them.

We’re now delighted to say the project has been successful so far as outlined in the project’s first six months report. Check it out here.

For more information click here, or email community@govanhillbaths.com

The project is part-funded through the European Union Asylum Migration Integration Fund. Making management of migration flows more efficient across the European Union.

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New Job Vacancies

Govanhill Baths has two exciting new job opportunities.

Administration Officer

An exciting opportunity exists for a well qualified and creative person to join the team of staff and volunteers at the Govanhill Baths Community Trust. We are looking to recruit an Administration Officer to perform a variety of administrative and clerical tasks. Duties of the Administration Officer include providing support to our Trust Manager and employees, assisting in daily office needs and managing our company’s general administrative activities. Applications must be in by 9am Monday 29th August 2022.

Govanhill Baths Rags to Riches Manager

An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced and passionate person to join the team of staff and volunteers at the Govanhill Baths Community Trust as our Rags to Riches Manager to manage our award-winning Circular Economy/ Zero Waste social enterprise. Applications must be in by 9.00am Monday 29th August 2022.

Click to find out more about both posts and view job descriptions.

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Job Vacancy: Creative Sounds Workshops Support Worker

DEADLINE EXTENDED
Govanhill Baths Community Trust is looking to recruit a freelance Support Worker to help support a series of 4 x creative sound workshops at Govanhill Baths in late June and July.
A support worker is needed to generally help ensure the smooth and safe running of the sessions and help create a supported atmosphere for participants. The workshop will have between 6-8 participants.
These 4 x workshop sessions will involve participants getting together to listen to radio, sounds of nature as well as learning how to make their own soundscapes. There will be some reflective conversations around how the listening activities have made participants feel (e.g. relaxed, curious etc.) The sessions form part of a research project for the Baths, which is looking at the ways sound might be used as a tool to help us relax and support our mental health.
Closing date 14 June 2022
For more information or to apply, please visit this link:
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Latest What’s On Guide to Govanhill Baths Events

Our What’s On guide for June to August has been printed with a host of exciting activities including new woodworking workshops and sound design workshops, in addition to our usual programme of health and wellbeing classes of course.

Click to view the online version

Click to view or download a PDF version

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