All About Beans!

Join us for an inspiring evening of film, food, and community connection!

As part of our Food & Climate Action Project, we’re excited to host the final event in our winter Food & Climate Film Club series together with Take One Action Film Festivals!

We’ll be showing Team Bean — a short film celebrating local growing and community action made by Take One Action — alongside Together We Grow, an uplifting story from Aotearoa/New Zealand that explores how growing food can nourish people, community, and collective power.

Though set in different parts of the world, both films share themes of care, resilience, and collaboration.

After the screening, enjoy a delicious vegan, gluten-free, bean-based community meal prepared by Herina Achieng, community chef trained the Central & West Integration Network (CWIN) as part of the community chef training programme run by GCFN's Food and Climate Action Community Activator, Jenny MacGillivray. Herina's meal will bring together flavour, stories, and conversations that highlight food as a source of connection and belonging.

We’ll also be joined by two guest speakers (TBC) who were involved in the Team Bean project and will share insights from their work. Herina will also speak about her journey as a community chef and introduce the dish she has created for the event.

Come along to be inspired, exchange ideas, and connect with others passionate about community growing, good food, and grassroots climate action.

Free event – all welcome!

Please let us know if you can't attend anymore so that we can pass your ticket on to someone else.

Please book in advance so we can plan food accordingly. When you book for the event, your meal is automatically included.

Ingredients for the meal will be confirmed soon.

The dish is vegan and gluten-free, which we hope will be suitable for most dietary needs.

This event is funded by the National Lottery.

About Take One Action Film Festivals.

Take One Action Film Festival brings communities together to harness the transformative potential of film and storytelling for collective change, bridging the space between film and social action to build power, imagination and active hope in Scotland and beyond.

The 17th edition of the festival has just come to a close after travelling to Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Dundee, exploring the idea of 'real utopias', with a programme that glimpsed utopian futures already shimmering within reach.

For more information, please visit Take One Action

Access:

Many Studios is a wheelchair accessible venue, its bright yellow front step is step free (see image). Inside there is an entrance corridor with a concrete floor on a shallow incline. There is an accessible toilet and gender neutral cubicle toilets.

Many Studios is not equipped with a hearing loop, so you may wish to bring your own.

Please get in touch if you would like to attend but you have concerns about accessibility or any other questions: [email protected]

How to get here:

This event is hosted at Many Studios, which is located at 3 Ross Street, Glasgow G1 5AR (see attached image). It is round the corner from Thompson’s coffee shop (see photo below), which is on Gallowgate.

By bus - Local buses including First Bus 2, 60(A), 61, 240 and 255 stop opposite Ross St on Gallowgate heading east (out of town), and along Gallowgate towards Charlotte Street heading west (into town). Both are less than a 2-minute walk away.

On foot – Many Studios is on Ross Street in the East End of Glasgow, between Gallowgate and London Road. Ross Street has good-quality, modern stone pavements; there are dropped kerbs at each corner. We have a portable ramp for wheeled access if required.

By bike – Many Studios has several bike racks inside which you are welcome to use.