User:GovanRedskirts

I'm t s Beall, a socially-engaged artist and researcher based in Dumfries and Glasgow, Scotland. Mostly my creative work involves working with communities in a specific locality to recover and 're-voice' or reinvigorate local histories in a way that is meaningful to them. This is often durational, and I've been working in Govan (a part of Glasgow) for almost a decade. One of those projects, Protests and Suffragettes, has also been hosting Wikipedia Workshops/Edit-A-thons for several years, in partnership with Wikimedia UK and Women's History Scotland. I also occasionally do some consulting (mostly with third sector/charities) on participatory practices and heritage engagement, and I was recently Project Lead for the Dumfries Stonecarving Project, led by the Dumfries Historic Buildings Trust. We were super-chuffed to work with Wikimedia UK for that project (and we even won a wee award, which was lovely)!

I'm part of a network of folks who are looking to increase the information available on Wiki (and elsewhere) about women's histories, women's roles in specific protest movements in Glasgow, post-industrial and working-class histories, and the histories of Scottish Showpeople (also known as Occupational Travellers) and Scottish fairgrounds. In 2013, working collaboratively with a group of Travelling Showpeople, I founded a project called Fair Glasgow, which in 2021 is constituting as a national charity under a new name, Fair Scotland.

I'm also a member of the Glasgow Women's Library.

Specific interests:
Women's Histories, specifically
 * Scottish Suffragettes
 * The 1915 Rent Strikes in Govan and Glasgow
 * The Upper Clyde Shipbuilder's Work-In (women's roles within)
 * Women's activism in Scotland


 * History of Scottish Travelling Showpeople (also called Occupational Travellers) and European Fairgrounds
 * [[File:Govan ArtWalk 2019 – Wikipedia Editing Workshop – Video Conferencing Background Images – 'Protests and Suffragettes' project.jpg|thumb|Another of these backgrounds, image taken during an 'artwalk' by Protests and Suffragettes in Govan, Glasgow in 2019. Riverside Museum visible top left.]]Intangible Cultural Heritage of Fairgrounds and Showpeople in Scotland and Europe

Education
I have a practice-led PhD from University of Glasgow, Theatre Studies ; a Masters from The Glasgow School of Art; and an undergraduate degree in Photography from Pratt Institute in New York. I've studied contemporary visual art, photography, contemporary theatre, and museums.