Winter: Sat 29 November 2025
The NewBridge Project
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The NewBridge Project is an artist-led organisation supporting artists, curators and communities. Visit us at the Shieldfield Centre to explore our exhibitions & projects, reading room, cinema, bookshop, studios and social spaces. We work with people inside our building, offsite and through digital platforms, connecting with people in our neighbourhood of Shieldfield, the North East, nationally and internationally. We shape our work in response to the needs and interests of artists, communities locally and further afield.
We are excited to present ‘Lintukoto’ by studio member and artist Henna Asikainen with a host of amazing collaborators alongside the 2024 film ‘Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing’ by Palestinian filmmaker Theo Panagopoulos. Both urgent and poignant works explore the entanglements between people, land, and the natural world. Against the unfolding crises of our times – escalating fascisms, global warming, forced migration, genocide – they invite us to look and listen carefully to stories of displacement and belonging, resisting the erasure and dehumanisation of diasporic communities.
Lintukoto
1 November – 29 November
Lintukoto is a new sound installation developed by artist Henna Asikainen in collaboration with landscape architect Usue Ruiz Arana and composer Ben Ponton. Taking its name from Finnish folklore, Lintukoto is a mythical haven at the far edges of the world, where the sky meets earth, and birds were thought to migrate to for winter. Visit the gallery to experience this new sound work amidst a forest of birds’ nests. Listen to a chorus of voices both human and non-human that speak to migration, climate change, and the possibilities of creating sanctuary in an age marked by crisis.
The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing
1 November – 29 November
When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wildflowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender film essay questions the role of image-making as a tool for both testimony and violence when connected to the entanglements between people and the land.
“The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing began in the summer of 2023 as an accidental encounter with film archives showing Palestinian flowers of the 1930s and 1940s. The footage, which had remained undigitised and unseen for decades, was located just a ten minute walk from my current home in Glasgow. The archives present a world that my Palestinian grandparents knew very well – a world that is now actively being erased through current narratives, imagery and violence. My film reclaims the footage as a form
of testimony in a heightened and uncertain time, and as a form of resistance to culturalerasure.” – Theo Panagopoulos, Director
Access Information:
Our building has lifts to the gallery, accessible and gender-neutral toilets, baby changing and breastfeeding facilities and two accessible parking bays. You can watch a walkthrough of our building and learn more about accessibility here. NewBridge has a Safer, Braver Spaces policy. Everyone here treats each other with respect and consideration. Transphobia, misogyny, racism or harassment of any kind is not welcome.
