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Join Maria Sledmere and Kevin Leomo for an evening at Civic House, where they'll present creative output from their recent Project Somnolence residency - expect spoken word, poetry, field recordings, ambience, lying down, dreaming, and somnolent-theme cocktails and mocktails!

Project Somnolence is a portable lab for encouraging curiosity, reflection and speculative approaches to sleep in the past, present and future. Everyone sleeps and is affected by sleep, but we don’t all sleep the same. Sleep inequalities are associated with differences in class, gender and environmental factors. Project Somnolence utilises methodologies from English, Creative Writing, Music and Psychology to bring fresh perspectives in addressing the urgent and global crisis of sleep.

Dr Maria Sledmere is an early career researcher, Lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde and Managing Editor of SPAM Press. Her latest poetry collection Cinders (Krupskaya 2024) concerns the relationship between petromelancholia, femininity, fire, labour and space. A monograph on anthropocene poethics, impossibility and dreaming, Midsummer Song (Hypercritique) is forthcoming from NoUP Press in late 2024. With Rhian Williams, she co-edited the anthology the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2020).

Dr Kevin Leomo is a practitioner of experimental music, the Community and Engagement for the College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Glasgow, and Chair of Sound Thought. Kevin manages The Dear Green Bothy and Thinking Culture programmes and is a co-lead for the Laboratory for Civic Arts Research. His practice involves collaboration, improvisation, critical listening practices, non-standard notation, and working cross-culturally.

Presented by , College of Arts & Humanities at the University of Glasgow and Research and Knowledge Exchange Fund, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Strathclyde.

Accessibility

Civic House was built in the 1920s without accessibility in mind. As we develop the building, we are also working to improve its accessibility.

Ground floor: Platform lift adjacent to the main entrance, an accessible toilet, and assistance can be provided by staff.

Parking

There is no dedicated or free parking at Civic House, but there is a loading bay in front of the building. Paid parking bays can be found on Civic St and adjoining roads.

Toilets

• Ground floor: 1 x accessible toilet, 1 x mixed block with 3 open cubicles.
• First floor: 2 x individual toilets, 1 x shower and drying cabinet.

Transport Links

• Bus: No. 7, 68, 71A, 72, 75 and M3 bus routes from Buchanan Bus Station (Garscube Road bus stop).
• Subway: 3 min walk from Cowcaddens subway station, 7 Minute walk from St George’s Cross subway station.
• Train: 7 min walk from both Charing Cross and Queen Street Train Station.
• Car: 2 minute drive from M8 motorway (Junction 17)
• Bike: NextBike station 15 min walk from Civic House heading north on Garscube Road.

We aim to ensure all people have equal access to our public events. If you need alternative formats or other reasonable adjustments, please contact The Dear Green Bothy.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Civic House, 26 Civic Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom