Blog — Moments of Freedom

Clydesider Magazine workshops

The women of Moments of Freedom partnered with the Clydesider Magazine earlier this year to work on creating a new resource to help welcome other New Scots to their communities.

Outside The BoxSeptember 25, 2024

Refugee Festival Community Gathering

On Wednesday 19th June the women of Moments of Freedom hosted a community gathering in Centre 81, Clydebank as part of Refugee Festival Week.

Outside The BoxJuly 23, 2024

Project Worker

Outside the Box is excited to announce that they are recruiting a Project Worker to support their work in West Dunbartonshire.

Outside The BoxMay 6, 2024

Climate chats

Over the last few months the group have been chatting about how to become more sustainable and keep down their costs.

Outside The BoxFebruary 20, 2024

Moments of Freedom visits Scots Syrian Roses

In October we had a wonderful day in North Ayrshire with the New Scots women of Scots Syrian Roses.

Outside The BoxDecember 11, 2023

Summer sessions and Marie McNair MSP visit

Over the last two years the women have been building up their relationships with their locally elected representatives.

Outside The BoxDecember 11, 2023

Community coffee afternoon

Around 60 people came together to chat over a variety of traditional Syrian drinks, including the women’s famous coffee.

Outside The BoxJune 28, 2023

Refugee Festival - Community Coffee Afternoon

The women of Moments of Freedom are looking forward to attending events all over the city and hosting their own event on World Refugee Day, Tuesday 20th June.

Outside The BoxMay 31, 2023

MSP Visit

The women of Moments of Freedom recently met with Marie McNair MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie.

Outside The BoxApril 26, 2023

Parliamentary Reception

Outside the Box’s Parliamentary reception

Outside The BoxApril 3, 2023

Burns Day Lunch

Last week we gathered in Centre 81 for a celebratory lunch.

Outside The BoxFebruary 1, 2023

Our 2022 reflections

Outside The BoxDecember 14, 2022

Film Screening

Last Tuesday the women hosted their long awaited film premiere in the Glasgow Film Theatre.

Outside The BoxDecember 5, 2022

Summer

The women have had an extremely busy summer working with Ignite Theatre Glasgow making a film.

Outside The BoxAugust 10, 2022women, film, filmmaking, scotland, syria

Ignite Theatre film making

After their community gathering in May, the women were approached by Ignite Theatre Glasgow with an opportunity to make a film together.

Outside The BoxJune 28, 2022syria, women, scotland, new scot

Refugee Festival Scotland 2022

The countdown is now well and truly on for the highly anticipated Refugee Festival starting on Friday 17th June.

Outside The BoxJune 13, 2022refugee, refugee festival, women, syria

Community gathering feedback

Since the community gathering on 25th May, the women have received such incredible feedback from those who attended.

Outside The BoxJune 1, 2022

May community gathering

Last week the group welcomed over 30 community members, organisations and elected officials to Centre 81 for their May Community Gathering.

Outside The BoxMay 30, 2022

Our resources

We now a new tab on our website with all our resources in one place. This page shares tools we use for New Scots community connections. We hope you find something helpful.

Outside The BoxMay 2, 2022women, scotland, new scot, resources

Spring community gathering

We are excited to finally announce that our first community gathering since 2019 (!) will take place on Wednesday 25th May in Centre 81 in Clydebank.

Outside The BoxApril 27, 2022women, community, syria, glasgow