Agnew Lane: Taking Root
Event at a glance:
Location: Glasgow City
Date: 2 November 2025
Number of Staff & Volunteers: 8
Number of Attendees: 25
First-time participant? Yes
Bursary support received: Yes
What they said:
We had a reading of two short plays which were commissioned by Climate Change Theatre Action, an international project using creativity to foster dialogue about the climate crisis. We wanted to do an event to allow people to consider how our community project sits in a global context, how it connects to other actions and activity all over the world. It gave us a chance to think, to reflect and mull on big epic questions whilst we sat around the fire with a mug of cocoa.
It brought new people to the lane who had never been before, and also sparked new kinds of conversations and interactions between people who are already part of the project. It created a gentle space to sit with difficult questions, to feel connected, and to tentatively imagine positive futures together.
The comments that I remember from people at the end were ‘excellent’ and ‘magic’!
Outcomes and Community Feedback
At a time when we are facing significant challenges against our eventual goal of community ownership, it felt really special and important to do something which brought us together in a positive way, and gave us a reprieve from the struggle and a reminder of the heart and soul of the project. Previously, we have done a number of events which are purely social in nature, so this was something new for us to feature performance. But it was very positively received to have something a bit more, that felt a bit special, that gave us a chance to think and interact a bit diffferently – whilst still retaining the food and fireside chat which people love.
Challenges
Weather – as it was outdoors it was a risk. In the back of our minds we knew that we were at the mercy of that. And with any volunteer organisation, there were issues around capacity and people’s ability to find and commit time to support the event.