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Sing Sistah Sing – Must See Hit Edinburgh 2022

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on August 25, 2022

Todays review discusses the Edinburgh fringe show  Sing Sistah Sing! Tales of Transatlantic Freedom – which is the next edition of Andrea Baker’s Sing Sistah Sing! series. I had the pleasure of attending […]

REFLECTIONS ON THE JOHN BYRNE EXHIBITION 2022 AT THE KELVINGROVE MUSEUM GLASGOW SCOTLAND 

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on August 8, 2022

Art Is Such An Elitist World By Christina Milarvie Quarrell  Art is such an elitist culture Having attended the John Byrne retrospective at Kelvin Grove the first thing that struck me was […]

Paradise Lost – Memory, Health Inequality and Injustice

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on November 9, 2021

In today’s article Christina and John explore our relationships with our memories.  The article builds from a recent piece (see link) written by Claudia Hammond (the author of The Art of Rest). 

Songs/Play List Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on September 30, 2020

This Post Provides A List of The Songs Employed in The Don’t Let Me Die in Phoenix Series

What We Can Learn From The ‘Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix’ Series About Post-Traumatic Stress:

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 20, 2020

In today’s article John Davis draws out lessons from his near death experience regarding Post-Traumatic Stress and seeks to ‘normalise’ our ideas concerning mental health by explaining that mental well being is […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 13  Epilogue – ‘Yir a Lang Time Hauf Deed!’

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 15, 2020

Article 12 explained the connection between the Gal Holiday song Come Home and my own home coming.  The connection between the song and my own poem about the Cherry Blossom – was […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 12: Come Home

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 7, 2020

Article 11 explained that I was finally home but that getting home was only the start of things.  Something of the experience, of getting home but things never being the same again, […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 11: The Cherry Blossoms of Home 

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 6, 2020

In this article, John Davis continues to discuss his recent near death experiences and critiques his experience of being discharged from a Scottish hospital. The previous article explained the limitations of some […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 10: It’s Hard Tae Catch A breath When Yir Daein’ Mair Fir Less

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 1, 2020

I had paid just under £80 pounds for LV holiday insurance, the best money we have ever spent in my life and I was very privileged to have experienced such a high […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 9: ‘It Doesn’t’ Have To Be ‘Right’ To be Called Love’

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 1, 2020

In today’s post, John Davis explores ideas of resilience, trauma and resistance/power in ways that critique individualised and overly medicalised notions of trauma.  This critique utilises notions of strength-based working and the […]

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  • Sing Sistah Sing – Must See Hit Edinburgh 2022 August 25, 2022
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  • Paradise Lost – Memory, Health Inequality and Injustice November 9, 2021
  • Songs/Play List Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix September 30, 2020
  • What We Can Learn From The ‘Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix’ Series About Post-Traumatic Stress: June 20, 2020
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