Community Connections Glasgow Gathering

Lineup

• More details about Diana Quitana-Cataño

  Diana Quitana-Cataño

  Diana Quintana Cataño is a Colombian community educator, artist and organiser shaped by feminist and popular education traditions from Latin America. She has participated in grassroots organising in Argentina and Colombia around collective memory, land struggles and social justice. Now based in Scotland, she contributes to Collective Economies and The Commons Initiative, supporting community-led processes around food, care, land stewardship and popular education. Her work focuses on rebuilding the commons through everyday practices of cooperation, solidarity and collective life.

• More details about Dr Charmaine Blaize

  Dr Charmaine Blaize

  Charmaine is co-founder of Women of Colour Scotland and has a PhD in Health Care Management. A solutions-driven professional across multiple disciplines in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors, Charmiane is passionate about justice, equality, and fairness and this is what has motivated her to become an Offers and Needs Market Certified Facilitator, a certified business and life coach, as well as working alongside the PGI. She is originally from the twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago, a land of festivals and infinite possibilities. For the past 15 years she has lived in Scotland, where she juggles growing up her teenager, curating Caribbean cultural festivals, and volunteering for the Hwupenyu Health & Wellbeing Project.

• More details about Donnie Maclurcan

  Donnie Maclurcan

  Born on Cammeraygal land, Australia, of French/Celtic descent - Donnie Maclurcan has most recently been living on Mapuche lands in Patagonia, Argentina. He loves writing birthday songs for friends, exploring the deep psyche, and performing improvisational theatre. Beginning as a professional singer at age nine, Donnie’s unusual career has included working as a freelance journalist, documentary producer, maths teacher, refugee and Indigenous rights activist, telephone counselor, homelessness support worker, property manager, exercise physiologist, and consultant for 500+ social enterprise projects, across 38 countries. Along the way he completed a PhD assessing nanotechnology’s global implications, coached the Fijian sailing team, was a semi-professional athlete, held the Guinness World Record for the fastest run across Australia, and became an affiliate professor of economics at Southern Oregon University and adjunct professor with the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney. Establishing the Post Growth Institute in 2010, his professional focus is designing frameworks, methodologies and experiences for creative collaboration and collective liberation, including the Offers and Needs Market, the Post Growth Fellowship, the Post Growth Alliance, and Free Money Day, along with an intuitive model for a post-capitalist market economy that builds on what's already working.