Editor’s Opinion

March 26, 2009

Everyone faces challenges. Right now the credit crunch, recession, downturn in markets, loss of confidence in banks or whatever you call it, is hitting sorely. But the answer can be found locally – use the credit union to keep a better balance. On Glasgow’s poor health record – post code lottery for length of life, greater incidence of diabetes in the ethnic communities – neighbourhood solutions can be found as people learn to work together through the arts, through picking up litter or even going to tea dances for a bit of the old one…two….three.

Taking into consideration how hard it is to confront the problem never mind find the right solution in your friendly backyard, it can only be imagined how much more difficult it must be for someone who is in prison to sustain a quality of life and make life changes.

Yet that is what’s happened for a lot of men incarcerated in Barlinnie and other jails. Through Theatre Nemo – a life giving organisation that uses art to unlock complex personal issues – they have found hope and ways to face down their demons – and they don’t even need to open the door at Bar L.

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