LATEST NEWS

NEW CULTURAL ENTERPRISE LGBTQ+ PHD FOR SCOTLAND

Through our links with the Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities, we are delighted to have been named Partner Organisation in a brand new Collaborative Doctoral Award starting this October, focusing on Cultural Geographies of LGBTQ+ Entrepreneurship in Scotland.

We are hugely delighted to be working alongside our Academic Partners in the Department of Geography within the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh.

Applications for this fully funded PhD (starting October 2020) are now closed. Thank you and good luck to all our applicants!

SCHOLARSHIP & MENTORING: LGBT+ FIRST FOR SCOTLAND

In 2019, a joint partnership between Somewhere and University of Edinburgh Business School co-created Scotland's first LGBT+ MBA Scholarship and Mentoring Programme, and this is continuing again in 2020/21.

Somewhere offers mentoring to LGBTQ+ people in business and cultural organisations and is mentoring this year's scholarship recipient.

Applications for 2020/21 for both full- and part-time MBA programmes are now closed. Good luck to everyone who applied. Watch this space for news!

SATF 2020: 

A GROWING SUCCESS

Our yearly campaign supporting the 5% of shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe made for, by or about the LGBTQ+ community, is going from strength to strength. Our 2019 campaign built on the success of 2018, with a fantastic team of volunteer interviewers and reviewers.  

Though we are saddened that the 2020 Fringe is COVID19 affected, we are delighted to have been awarded a PhD internship through the University of Glasgow, to work with us on our SATF project for 2020 - more soon!

Thank you to everyone who supported us this far, and please get in touch if you would like to be part of an even bigger SATF 2021

NEW LGBTQ+ RESEARCH: 

2018 / 2019 / 2020 / 2021

Somewhere is a research-led social enterprise and is contributing to research, knowledge and understanding of LGBTQ+ equality, diversity and inclusion issues. 

As well as our Arts and Culture Fund, through our members, we are co-creating a new Enterprise and Research Fund, starting with the launch of our magazine in autumn 2020. 

We continue to actively expand our research collaborations with HEIs across Scotland, and we have new work with the University of Strathclyde and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH). 

LAVENDER MENACE RETURNS: 2019, 2020

Somewhere is delighted to be a community partner in the exciting new plans to reimagine and relaunch the famous Lavender Menace LGBT bookshop. 

The bookshop was a first for Scotland, and its founders, Bob and Sigrid, are much-loved community role models, and a big part of Scotland's LGBTQ+ cultural heritage.

As well as supporting Lavender Menace on their journey to becoming a new community interest company, there will be a permanent book-related Lavender Menace section in our new Somewhere: For Us magazine for 2020

LGBT YOUTH SCOTLAND'S LGBTQ+ HERITAGE FESTIVAL  

The annual LGBT History Month programme of events is a fantastic opportunity to strengthen our knowledge and understanding of LGBTQ+ history past and present. 

Somewhere is here to shout about all the fantastic work across the month, so check in with us to check out the many diverse events taking place across Scotland each February.

As 2020's Pride season is COVID19 affected, we are especially looking forward to LGBT History Month 2021, to be able to rejoin our communities post-lockdown