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DARREN McGARVEY Keynote speaker Darren McGarvey (@lokiscottishrap), better known by the stage name Loki, is a writer, columnist and hip hop recording artist, who has made regular media appearances as a social commentator. Darren grew up in Pollok on the south side of Glasgow, and has lived through extreme poverty, addiction and homelessness. Between 2004 and 2006 he wrote and presented eight programmes on social deprivation for BBC Radio Scotland. Since then he has been a regular contributor to the BBC, STV and other national media, and currently has a weekly column in The Scotsman. McGarvey has a certificate of excellence for his voluntary work with young people. In 2009, he founded Volition Scotland, an organisation that was designed and run by the young people who used it. He was part of the Poverty Truth Commission that was hosted in Glasgow in the same year. McGarvey became the Violence Reduction Unit’s first ever ‘Rapper-in Residence’ in 2015 and continues to work across Scotland in some of its most challenged communities. 3
In November 2017 his first book Poverty Safari was published, and was an instant bestseller and critical hit, making the Sunday Times top ten bestseller lists and receiving plaudits from national newspapers and magazines. He won the prestigious ‘Orwell Book Prize’ in June 2016 leading to an upsurge in media requests and appearances. He will be performing at Edinburgh Festival this year and is working on new writing and TV projects. Welcome & Introduction Leonie Bell joined Renfrewshire Council in Autumn 2018 in a newly-created post of Paisley Partnership, Strategic Lead for Cultural Regeneration. In this role Leonie leads on Future Paisley, a far-reaching and ground-breaking approach to cultural regeneration that builds from Paisley’s UK City of Culture bid and aims to establish Paisley as a centre of excellence for cultural regeneration. The approach is underpinned by a partnership of local, Scottish, UK and international partners to harness the power of culture to impact positively on social change and to generate greater equality of opportunity through creativity. Leonie was previously the Scottish Government’s Head of Culture Strategy and Cultural Engagement, before moving to this role Leonie was Director or Arts & Engagement at Creative Scotland. Previous to this Leonie led on Scotland’s national cultural programmes for London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. Leonie is a trustee of Edinburgh International Festival and is Chair of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art Advisory Board. 4
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