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Listen gallery, 60 York Street, Glasgow (2026)

21/02/2026

The dreaded news has come, we’re being forced to leave York Street. I’ve lost so much sleep from the anxiety and stress. It’s devastating, especially during Ramadan, but SubhanAllah, I now see it as a blessing. Ramadan isn’t just about fasting from food, but also from negative thoughts and words, and deepening our connection to the immaterial.

I’m sorry to those who planned events here, I thought we’d have another year. Having to cancel so many events and partnerships and letting you down is the hardest part.

If anyone has connections to vacant space in Glasgow, please reach out. I’m torn between wanting to keep going and feeling defeated by the same people and cliques succeeding here. I worked so hard to provide mutual aid and keep Listen Gallery alive as the only Iraqi-run, free space offering food, tea, and events, but the whole cultural system here is built on monetisation, which is exhausting and impossible to keep going when funders ignore you, and the culture values wealth over effort. No matter how hard I try, I can’t compete with those who have money or know how to speak the language of neoliberalism.

For now, I’ll start packing and moving things into storage. Any physical help or donations (link in bio) would be greatly appreciated.

I have full faith in the community we’ve built, I know people who support Listen are the kindest most caring people, and even if Listen ends here, I know it will live on in those who experienced it.

I’m truly sorry to everyone.

(And for the Islamophobes: my practice is personal, and I don’t want to convert anyone.)

09/02/2026

Salams lovely people! This Thursday we open our first exhibition of 2026 ‘Semaphoria’ by joshua elza breen-tucci

Opening night 6 - 9 pm w/refreshments
Open between 13th - 21st Feb 2 - 7 pm

Joshua has been a longstanding supporter of Listen, and it is always a joy to work with artists who really believe in this space. His practice brings together sound and sculpture in an elegant, masterful way, unfolding through movement and rhythm that often feels like a dance.
Through kinetic machines, Joshua challenges the idea of art as a static object to be passively observed, instead inviting audiences into dynamic, sometimes temperamental, co-creative encounters. His work is driven by a desire to perforate reality, drawing attention to phenomena and mechanisms that are often invisible, obscured, or overlooked.

We hope to see you!
Also, people have frequently asked if they can come read/listen to the collection at listen - this is your chance!

19/01/2026

This Saturday at CCA, the Liberated Zone returns with another amazingg programme curated by Lock it in ya diaries and tell a friend to tell a friend!
The courtyard will be our shared space to gather, listen, learn, sing, and grow on our collective commitment to care, solidarity, and future for Palestine

Listen Gallery will host an experimental singing workshop from 7 to 8 pm on Saturday 24 January. The session will explore song as a shared space using experimental voicing techniques. No singing experience is needed, just curiosity and openness.

There will be a full line up of activities throughout the day and evening, creating many different types of ways for us to create together. Please look out for the schedule of events.

Everyone is welcome.
Free for all.

16/01/2026

What a day yesterday was btw! I never laughed so hard! Pure joy, pure energy, pure love. Here’s some tasters for those we missed. So humbled by you lot, if this is a taster of 2026, year 10, the horse, then boy oh boy we in for a ride!

Huge huge thanks and abundant blessings to:
irl for setting the tone and being so generous with their time and talent

for the madness we needed! For connecting and believing in that connection enough to follow through

for the delicious food!

for giving us motive to raise money, we raised £536!

for giving us a second home here. The show with

And to all yous who came out participated, donated, laughed, danced, listened. Will never forget that! I don’t take this for granted no way.

Until soon mwah mwah mwah!

06/01/2026

💞Artist Spotlight💞
WHO IS NDNMK-SOLUTIONS?

Bringing art and the absurd back into holy matrimony, I have been blown away by this artists imagination for some time now. It’s so hard to make participatory sound art with the right balance of concept, jest and care and I really feel they mastered it! What an achievement. Their website is an amazing taster so please visit () I am really excited to spotlight this artist and hope fellow artists, organisers, curators can come and get connected with their practice.

From Rotterdam to Glasgow, Thursday 15th January is a ticket into a vortex you didn’t even know you needed! January must explode and this night will ruin our lives in the best way, I think. X

TICKET LINK IN THE BIO

05/01/2026

Ayyyyy first Listen Gallery event of 2026, les go! 15th January 6-9pm (SOON, sorry for short notice!)

Come spend your Xmas money or just join us for an evening of listening to live sound! This event is fundraising for the amazing who are currently delivering on the ground aid in El Fasher, Sudan.

So excited to host two artists that I have been admiring for so long and .irl

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
NDNMK Solutions
Djatá Bart-Plange (1993, Meijel, NL(NL-GH)) is founder, CEO, and staff of NDNMK Solutions – a Rotterdam-based, artist-run company that specialises in ideology management and whiteness-related consultancy. We provide sound-focussed memetic mind castles that serve as spaces of reflection, confusion, digression, and possibly ascension.

Our projects are often narrative-driven and transdisciplinary – digital ecologies/structures where sound, short story, performance, image and point&click mutate/pollinate into exportable, likable, sharable, immersive pathworkings related to politics of knowledge, seductions of privilege, rituals of innocence, (new age) marketing strategies, etc.
*11:11
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
(Please check www.ndmk-solutions.com it’s very good)

Comfort is a Glasgow-based duo featuring siblings Natalie and Sean McGhee, known for their industrial, electronic punk sound with feminist and anti-capitalist lyrics. Emerging from the city’s queer/punk scene, they have released albums like What’s Bad Enough? (2023) and Not Passing (2019) via FatCat Records.
(Please check www.comfortglasgow.bandcamp.com for the juice)

Came celebrate the first time these artists will be at listen and ndmk is coming to us from Rotterdam, so join us in a warm welcome.

There will be food and tea as always!
Can’t wait to see you and listen together!
Tickets sliding scale. Event link in bio x

21/12/2025

Big love and gratitude to all the gorgeous people who came out on what seemed like the busiest Saturdays of the year! There was literally a million places to be last night but my deepest appreciation to y’all who performed / the flying duck staff / listeners / people who donated / people who shared the event / people who cheered us on. I think we raised £400, with being this close to xmas is crazy!

I’ma keep saying it but the only reason Listen Gallery is able to brave this hostile world is because of the community behind it, and every single person that believes in the importance of having a POC-femme run space in Scotland. The solidarity is real, thank you!

I especially wanna extend hugeeeee respect for who organised this all in two weeks and has the power to carry fruit to fruition with such ease and charm! You’re a real one!

Signing out but coming back next week with first event of 2026. All Listen Gallery wants for Christmas is liberation for Congo, Safety in Sudan, a free Palestine and release of all hunger strikers!

11/12/2025

Dear Listeners,

Now public programming has come to an end I want to take a moment to reflect after being so wrapped up in cooking, cleaning, admin, programming, facilitating and general running around. Those who are signed up to the newsletter would’ve got a polished version, this post is a mess but I wanted to fit as much in as possible cos I am so proud of everything we have achieved here, together. I always say ‘we’ because none of this happens without you; patreons, donors, artists, audiences, visitors, people who send kind messages, people who root for it, people who support and people who listen. I hope to show my gratitude by holding this space and growing it with all of you in mind. I also must acknowledge my ancestors who continue to power me, and my faith that guides me every day.

Here’s Listen Gallery’s 2025 recap;

♡ This year we moved into a bigger space thanks to .scotland

♡ We had 2,032 visitors

♡We fed 1,375 people

♡ We hosted 38 events

♡ We held 4 exhibitions

♡ We supported 72 artists

♡ We held the Art Workers for Palestine Liberated Zone.

♡ We applied for £188,000 worth of public funding

♡ We were awarded £4,800 of public funding

♡ We hosted 11 radio shows with

♡ We partnered with some amazing local organisations;
, .group .klub

This is just some of so many achievements, all done with so little finances. It’s been wild and I can 100% say although it’s been worth it, it won’t go on this way. I have never felt burnout like this year. Listen Gallery must receive funding from . It must remain free for the people who need it most. It must pay staff. It must evolve. And with this, the culture sector must also change,- the weight of the current Islamophobic, racist, classist systems and the structural barriers facing small, community-rooted and minority-led spaces are very real.

i have run out of text space but thank you so much to everyone who believes in this space and listening x

06/12/2025

It’s been a jam packed and insanely special three days for the .as.porosity project here with .arr.tk and . What an amazing group of artists and people!

Here’s some snippets…it all kicked off with the DIY hydrophone workshop, then listening session on quadrophonic setup and concluding with a public symposium on critical/ethical field recording practices.

To the people who came to each event and those who came to all, thank you! Thank you for being so kind, so generous and so supportive of this project but also this space. For being so present in seeing, hearing and feeling. I know I say it a lot but I don’t take this work for granted, it’s truly an honour to be part of this space with you!

I also said it during the events but all the equipment at Listen has been donated throughout the years and thanks to Mathias we now have a subwoofer and quadrophonic system for artists to use, what a dream come true!!!! This means even deeper listening futures together 🥹

And last but not least thank you to the super chefs and staff at for the delicious food and always being so good to us ###x
The love is real!!!

02/12/2025

Tuesday trip down memory lane with a recent event a few Saturdays ago, with supported by and partners .group and .gorashi

As always thank you to everyone who came out, shared the space and listened. It was quite a vulnerable day but also very wholesome and really appreciate the importance of coming together in this way and holding each other. It definitely put a lot of things into question for me in terms of working habits and how much burnout I am functioning from - Nkem was so skilled in soft guidance and different techniques to bring our bodies/minds (both individual and collective) back into focus. Would love to hear how others found it?

My deep gratitude to the amazing grassroots organisers/artists who support this space, thanks to them then I am able to source food from such amazing hardworking local restaurants THANK YOU so much for providing the basis of our warmth and comfort.
Until soon xx

21/11/2025

Shukrun, Tapadh leibh, thank you! That’s a wrap (for now) of the éisd (aysht) listening with Gáidhlig project.

This project really reinforced the creative power of: archives, learning through different languages, vulnerability in the uncovering, accessibility of song, where different heritages overlap, memories lost and found, the breath in communication and the imagining that happens through collective listening. So grateful to the past and present ancestors of Gáidhlig who offer us so much space to learn and discover.

Thank you to all the amazing artists .x for their generosity and strength in sharing and creating - you inspire so many of us!

Thank you to for the amazing poster design.

Thank you to the DASG for the archive and preserving a living open resource for us.

Thank you to the amazing and for providing the most delicious food for us to share. Please support these local restaurants!

Thank you Glasgow life for the financial support - like I mentioned at the event this was the only bit of funding listen received this year and although it wasn’t a huge amount I am so honoured to be able to spread it far and wide.

Feel like I’ve posted a lot this week so going to take some time off from clogging y’all feeds. Until soon sweet people x

20/11/2025

So many special moments from last nights listening party for Simone Seales new album Dearest.

There was such a huge team and collaborative force behind this project and these snippets don’t do them justice but thank you to those all behind the scenes, the organisers, the artists, the folk who came out - it was a pure joy to celebrate so many layers of creativity.

The album Dearest will be released 21st November 2025 please visit .cello for links. You will hear all the warmth we felt yesterday and more…

.nwll .kie___

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