PhD student HA Orchestra (The African Symphonic Orchestra) wove #Scotland & #Africa together today by making his own kilt especially for grad using Ghanaian material! 🇬🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Well done Gameli 🎉 #UofGGrad18 #ScotlandIsNow UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡 UNESCO UK Translating Cultures Arts and Humanities Research Council School of Education Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️

Textiles travel with people and to people. MIDEQ researcher Naa Densua Tordzro digital exhibition features #Ghanaian textiles. Examining them highlights how #colonialism, manufacturing and more have changed their meaning and designs. Head to the exhibit for more bit.ly/2TSNokp

Our opening #iasfm18 keynote is with @Alison_phipps Tawona Sithole Gameli Tordzro and Naa Densua Tordzro from University of Glasgow Entitled ‘Mmere dane’, it sets out to disrupt the ways in which time is understood, managed and represented in the context of #forcedmigration

Sitting back and taking time to enjoy our opening keynote with Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️ Gameli Tordzro Naa Densua Tordzro Tawona Sithole #iasfm18

Time turns, brings change. Life is not permanent. Beautiful words from Naa Densua Tordzro and Gameli Tordzro

Mmere Dane. Time turns. #IASFM18 keynote by Naa Densua Tordzro Gameli Tordzro Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️ Tawona Sithole

What a joy and delight to witness the beautiful ⁦Naa Densua Tordzro⁩ craft this necklace and earrings for us 🧡. Thank you to our ⁦UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡⁩ family ⁦Tawona Sithole⁩ & little ones ⁦Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️⁩ @Meligkt & Bella & ⁦The Scottish Crannog Centre⁩ for a fabulous day

And it’s a wrap! What a joy to be working outside Scottish Crannog Centre with a world of stories and their tellers and singers. Thanks to all who joined us and to the Crannog Folk for their warm welcome of the Calabash People! UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡 Tawona Sithole Gameli Tordzro Naa Densua Tordzro

📢new #podcast episode out! #music and #stories By the fire at the Scottish Crannog Centre Centre, with Christine Kammerer, Rena Gertz, Naa Densua Tordzro, @Meligkt and Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️ Listen here 👉bit.ly/RILA_podcasts Refugee Voices Scotland 🧡 Accentricity-Podcast @ScotStoryFest #SISFImagine

Yes, that's right, new #podcast episode out already! Part 2 of #songs and #stories by the fire at the Scottish Crannog Centre Centre, with Naa Densua Tordzro, @Meligkt, Christine Kammerer and Rena Gertz 👂Listen here: bit.ly/RILA_podcasts or on any of the major podcast platforms

Dani Garavelli Naa Densua Tordzro (Cecilia) UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡 MIDEQ You ain’t seen nothing yet! Checkout her wedding gown - Centre Piece in World Cultures museum in Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum - and her exhibition online from her MPhil thesis - also her lovely song with Karine Polwart a few years ago bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05… UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡 Naa Densua Tordzro (Cecilia)

Enjoy listening to our podcast highlighting the gaps, flaws and disparities in the literature on #migration studies and the arts. Hear more from our MIDEQ colleagues Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️, Gameli Tordzro, Naa Densua Tordzro and Tawona Sithole bit.ly/3nJwyPC

A podcast reflecting on literature that has focused on artistic practice as research activity for exploring inequalities in migration studies. ⁦Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️⁩ ⁦Naa Densua Tordzro⁩ ⁦HA Orchestra (The African Symphonic Orchestra)⁩ #music #textile #film m.soundcloud.com/mideqhub/inequ…

Fleece to Fashion Naa Densua Tordzro Gameli Tordzro Tawona Sithole Adinkra Knits?

Textiles travel with people and to people. MIDEQ researcher Naa Densua Tordzro explores the role of wax and roller prints in #Ghana. How has #colonialism and manufacturing changed their meaning and designs? Learn more bit.ly/2TSNokp

I am privileged to be among the first recipients of the James McCune Smith scholarship funds, through the College of Arts, School of Modern Languages and Cultures. My research will be supervised by Dr Rachel Douglas Dr Rachel Douglas and Dr Sally Tuckett Sally Tuckett.

Introducing Naa Densua Tordzro, JMS Scholar #11! Naa Densua is a multidisciplinary art professional from Ghana living in Scotland. She holds a BSc in Fashion Technology and an MPhil in Education and works as a Research Assistant with MIDEQ & UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡

Naa Densua’s focus is on textiles as objects of migration and the development of Adinkra symbols for research methodology and a conceptualisation tool for research. She also has an interest in exploring the concept of ‘Decolonising Textiles’ in the Ghanaian and Scottish contexts.

@Linguacene @ervinmalakaj Naa Densua Tordzro Chantelle Reynwar The Adventures of Herr Kürbis sounds like a mash between David Sedaris and a tongue in cheek critique of whiteness in academia. I'd read it lol