Songs of Stolen Children: The Daughters of Donbas

On Friday January 30th, the Centres for Art & Politics and the Study of Global Postsocialisms (GloPost), with the generous support of the Alex Danchev Fund, hosted the Toronto-based Ukrainian music group, Daughters of Donbas in School III, St Salvador’s Quad. Their tour—entitled “Songs of Stolen Children”—directly addresses the Russian war crimes of abducting young people … Read more

From the Black Sea to the North Sea: a workshop in stop-motion animation with film screening

Tuesday, 18 November 2025 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm Wardlaw Museum, Learning Loft The Centre for Art and Politics (CAP) offered an unusual workshop in animation, dedicated to the legends of the seas. With invited stop-motion animation artist Viktoriia Ivanova, this event explored the seaside to collect stories and wake up the memories of other … Read more

Dispatches from the Quiet Centre

Vira Karpinska: Documentary cinema and DOCU/CLUB in Ukraine during war Thursday 17 April 2025 Vira Karpinska, a member of the DOCU/CLUB initiative in Ukraine, spoke about the role of making and watching documentaries in precarious times and spaces, the role of cinema in community developments, and the challenges and aspirations of independent documentary movements in … Read more

Theatre of War

 

Thursday, 19th May

2.30pm to 5.00 pm

The University of St Andrews and Bravehound present

 Ajax and Philoctetes: Theater of War

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Dr Jeffrey Murer

Tuesday 1st June at 17:15 BST

Dr Jeffrey Murer

As part of the ‘Saints Talks Series‘ Dr Jeffrey Murer of the School of International Relations presented

Art and Politics; How works of imagination communicate the established order, become acts of resistance, and inspire action.

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Dr Molly Castelloe

VAMIK’s ROOM

A New Vision of Global Diplomacy

A film by Molly Castelloe

February 2021

Online screening and Q&A session

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Tomas Ayuso

Tomas Ayuso

A Right to Grow Old

November 2019

Arts Building, The Scores, St Andrews

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