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vikki scott senior publicist for watkins publishing talks to eden magazine
about women’s empowerment and make good trouble. read the full article here.
10 self-improvement guides for the new year.
new Year, new you…. or something like it. In this piece by Aine toner for Belfast Times, make good trouble is listed as the first in a top ten self-improvement guides for the new year. explore the article here.
Working for Progress.
Briana Pegado speaks to Dani Trudeau founder of tribe porty and keystone women about everything related to disruption and being a menace (in the best possible way). From reflections on experiences in the creative industries to talking about the simple pleasures in life, this podcast explores working for progress.
(December 2023)
Taking the initiative.
Briana Pegado features in the first episode of Rise Up Reflections, a podcast series by We Are Here Scotland CIC recorded in 2022 at the first ever Rise Up! Festival in Aberdeen commissioned by Aberdeen Performing Arts and produced by We Are Here. This panel discussion was recorded with Founder and Director of We Are Here Scotland, Ica Headlam, the first day of the festival.
(07 April 2023)
Making It: Women in Film.
Welcome to the last episode of the season! #70 Our Lives Shapes By Film with Creative Producer Briana Pegado. Briana is a creative producer with more accomplishments on her resume than can be fitted into this box. In this conversation, Briana shares her life story - from getting her first guitar to becoming student president, creating and directing Edinburgh Student Arts Festival, signing a book deal, and so much more. And what better way to do that, than by pinpointing the movies that were with her throughout it all, and what they have meant to her?
By Bonnie and Braw & LS Films
(01 February 2023)
Tanatsei Gambura and Briana Pegado, two of Scotland’s leading cultural practitioners, discuss their experience of working in the Scottish creative industries
True & Woke - S01 E07 - Representation in Scotland's Creative Sector.
What's changed in Scotland's Creative sector since the Uprising?
Join us for a conversation with Briana Pegado, FSRA, artist and writer as we unpack our thoughts on this matter. Is there an equal playing field for POC artists in Scotland? Are we fairly represented in a meaningful way or is it tokenism? Will it last?
(August 2022)
One in three young women in abusive relationships, YWCA Scotland and Scottish Women's Aid report finds
As Interim CEO of YWCA Scotland, the Young Women’s Movement, Briana Pegado commented on a piece of research conducted by the Young Women’s Movement’s Young Women Lead advisory panel on the impact of abusive relationships on women and girls in Scotland in The Scotsman.
(24 July 2022)
The Modern Craft: Powerful Voices on Witchcraft Ethics
Join us in celebrating the publication day launch of The Modern Craft: Powerful Voices on Witchcraft Ethics with editors Claire Askew and Alice Tarbuck, as well as some of the anthology's other contributing writers, Stella Hervey Birrell, AW Earl, Briana Pegado, and Megan Rudden.
We are planning for this event to take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience, as well as a livestream for attendees watching from home. On the night of the event, our team will be wearing masks.
Please note that vouchers can be used on any item in the bookshop and on our website – including books by featured authors. Please consider supporting the bookshop by purchasing a book or voucher.
(14 June 2022)
Healing, transformation and ethics - An Interview with Briana Pegado.
On today's episode I'm joined by Briana Pegado who has recently contributed to the Book: The Modern Craft; Powerful Voices on Witchcraft Ethics - Publisher: Watkins Publishing - available on Amazon June 14th (pre-orders now open).
Her essay is titled 'You cannot heal others until you heal your own 'stuff':
We have a fabulous conversation on healing, transformation, goddesses, religion, rituals and navigating our current times - I hope you enjoy it!
Follow her at @brianapegado on instagram and @briana_pegado on Twitter.
Website: https://briana-pegado-values-compass.squarespace.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brianapegado/
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SCAN Sparks Podcast - Episode 4 - Briana Pegado.
SCAN Sparks is a new programme exploring how the cultural community can support grassroots activism and equalities-focused working. Later this year we'll launch our SCAN Sparks seed funding programme of micro-grants. In the meantime, we're thinking aloud with some people already making change. Here in the fourth of five SCAN Sparks podcasts to be released this spring and summer our Artist Policy Officer Sekai Machache speaks to Briana Pegado, the Founder and Director of the Edinburgh Student Arts Festival (ESAF), a social enterprise that supported public access to the arts and youth access to the creative sector.
Briana is also Creative Director of Fringe Of Colour Films, Co-Director of We Are Here Scotland, Chair of The Young Women's Movement Scotland and sits on the advisory board of the Travelling Gallery. In 2014 Briana was elected Edinburgh University Students Association’s first ever black woman president in its 130-year history.
(24 August 2021)
Before the Applause.
Before the Applause is the Fringe of Colour podcast. Edinburgh-based Fringe of Colour was set up in 2018 by Founder and Technical Director Jess Brough to support Black and People of Colour creatives throughout the August Festivals. The podcast delves into the creators’ intentions, creative processes and what it meant to be a part of the festival.
Hosted by Creative Director - Briana Pegado.
This 2020 feature for the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine Edit explores Briana’s relationship to creative expression and working as a producer in Scotland.