‘Magic for Socialism’ on Sunday 22 April with Charlotte Brown and the choir of former Socialist Sunday School students, Scotland Street School Museum, Glasgow, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art (20 April - 7 May 2012). Photo by Alan Dimmick.
To celebrate the opening of The Glasgow Schools there were performances by Socialist Magician, Ian Saville, and a choir of former Socialist Sunday School students led by Charlotte Brown.
'The Glasgow Schools' was a project by artist Ruth Ewan. It mapped out the city’s Proletarian, Socialist Sunday and Socialist Fellowship Schools, part of a network of alternative educational organisations that once spread across the UK, of which Glasgow was a particular centre. The schools explored a spectrum of left-wing ideologies with children and young adults, from the Marxist revolutionary zeal of Tom Anderson’s Proletarian Schools (1918 – c1939) to the Christian leaning ethics of the early Socialist Sunday Schools (1896 – 1965), which later evolved into the Socialist Fellowship (1965 – 1980).
Event Details
‘Magic for Socialism’ was an event held as part of ‘The Glasgow Schools’, a project by Ruth Ewan, presented at Scotland Street School Museum.
The project was curated by Kitty Anderson and Siobhan Carroll in association with The Common Guild as part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art.
