ALT Four people stand in a row with their arms round each other and smile into the camera. Santa hats have been photoshopped on their heads. Overlayed text reads: Thanks for helping us raise 10k for Christmas! We’re grateful for every penny! See you in the new year!

ALT An off-white background with pastel-coloured illustrations of trees and a television with a globe on it. A red ribbon bow crosses the top left corner. Text reads: Real Utopias. There is a Santa hat on the “s” and a bauble in place of the “o”. Text at the bottom reads: This Christmas, thank you for supporting our mission to bridge film, communities, and social justice in Scotland!

ALT Soft ombre blue background, an image and text. Image shows someone wearing a matching hat and scarf, standing in front of a waterfall, smiling into the camera. Text reads: Leo Torre Barral, "I hope for TOA's future to be full of pushing the boundaries of what community solidarity within film curation can look like. And maybe some events on the environmental and social impacts of fashion for all the garment making nerds (me)."

ALT Soft ombre blue background, an image and text. Image shows someone wearing a blazer and a baseball cap, smiling into the camera. Text reads: Tomiwa Folorunso, "During the 2018 festival edition I was part of a Take One Action post-film Q&A for Time for Ilhan. It was the first time I had ever publicly discussed film with others, and one of my first encounters with a film space that was looking outwards and thinking collectively."

ALT Soft ombre blue background, an image and text. Image shows someone with bold red glasses standing in front of a shop-front, smiling into the camera. Text reads: Maili Fraser, "A lovely Take One Action memory of mine was the screening of Foragers in Inverness in 2022 - a beautiful, powerful film followed by rich and important conversations. I’m really looking forward to more connecting through films about Real Utopias next year!!"

ALT Soft ombre blue background, an image and text. Image shows someone on a sunny day, holding and looking at a ginger dog. Text reads: Oliver Goulden, "My favourite memory? Thing that jumps to mind is my first year in Scotland, pretty skint and disconnected, going to a free screening of a documentary about housing and financialisation featuring contribution from Scotland’s tenants union Living Rent. Global stories -> tangible routes for action and to build power."

ALT A pink and orange ombre background with an image, text and the logo of Scottish Queer International Film Festival. One image shows a group of around 20 people gathered around collage materials and a large board. Another image shows a film still featuring a yellow-painted body adorned with leaves. Overlayed text reads: Uyra: The Rising Forest + mural making with SQIFF, TOAFF23

ALT A pink and orange ombre background with an image, text and the logos of Refugee Festival Scotland and Unity Sisters. Image shows someone standing in a hair salon, looking downwards with a smile on their face as someone else looks on from behind. Text reads: Chez Jolie Coiffure Screened with UNITY sisters in June 2024

ALT A pink and orange ombre background with an image, text and the logo of One World Centre. Image shows four people looking and pointing at a worksheet on the desk they sit around. text reads: Diamond 9 workshop on ethical tech after screening of 'Neptune Frost', October 2024

ALT A pink and orange ombre background with two images, text and the logo of Friends of the Earth Scotland. One image shows two people sat in front of a projector screen - one person holds a mic and looks towards the other person who is smiling back at them. Another image shows a room of cinema-style seating filled with people who look on towards the projector screen at the front. Text reads: Anthropocene screened with FoES as part of TOAFF19

ALT A red, yellow and orange ombre background overlayed with grey text that reads: 12 days of take one action more-than-just-film festival! The word "take" has a santa hat resting on the letter "e". Below this red text reads: workshops; performances; discussions; dinners.

ALT Photograph of two people wearing headdresses adorned with feathers, fabric and cowrie shells. One is seated and plays a guitar. The other is standing and plays a ukelele. Overlayed text reads: Performance by West Papuan musicians, The Lani Singers, 2011.

ALT A grainy photograph of three people wearing jackets and scarves. Two people look towards the sky and the third holds a super-8 camera. There is light refraction from the sun. Overlayed text reads: Super 8 Rebels: An introduction to DIY, ecological filmmaking with Lydia Beilby, 2023

ALT A photograph from behind someone holding a microphone. The person looks in front of them towards three seats with mushrooms placed on top of cushions. Overlayed text reads: Mushroom Panel Discussion with A+E Collective, 2022

ALT A white background with irregular blobs of pink, purple and green ombre. Around the blobs writing reads: Access is not an add-on! We work to remove barriers to access and engagement across all our activities. It’s built into our strategy.

ALT A white background with irregular blobs of pink, purple and green ombre. Writing reads: Our events have: Sliding scale ticketing from £0 - £10; Descriptive subtitles; Audience access funds to cover travel and/or childcare costs; Community ticket funds: free group-tickets for community organisations, youth groups & charities.

ALT A white background with irregular blobs of pink, purple and green ombre. Writing reads: Where possible we have: BSL / English interpretation; Quiet spaces; Live captions; ...and we're always trying to do more...

ALT A white background with irregular blobs of pink, purple and green ombre. Writing continues from the previous slide: ...and make more connections, which is why we loved "Our World: Signs for the Future" where we got to work with Edinburgh Deaf Festival, SQIFF and Charlie Little. In the centre of the slide is a photograph of four people sitting on a panel at "Our World: Signs for the Future". Four cups of water sit on a blue stand in front of them. One person is signing while the others watch them.

ALT A colourful graphic with a photo of Aidan Nicol, who has dark hair and is wearing a yellow jumper. She is smiling.

ALT A colourful graphic with a black and white photo of Tomiwa Folorunso. She is wearing a checked blazer and a cap and smiling at the camera.

ALT A blue poster with warped text reading “Radical Reels: a low-tech, lo-fi filmmaking installation at the Radical Book Fair.

ALT A photo of a tote bag with a Real Utopias logo design on it in blue, against a rainbow gradient background. Some illustrations of flowers, trees, and a video camera are dotted around the image.

ALT A photo of a white t-shirt with a Real Utopias logo design on it in grey, against a rainbow gradient background. Some illustrations of trees and a projector and screen are dotted around the image.

ALT A gradient yellow to purple background. A dark-background image of Paix’s face, as they look into the camera. Text around the image says: Somatic Sound Healing, a workshop with mother, multi-disciplinary artist, weaver, builder, and dreamer, Paix. An arrow points from the word Paix to the image of Paix. At the bottom, text reads: Music & Resistance: Everywhere.

ALT A yellow & purple background. Inside a dotted border text reads: In Paix’s words: As Bayo Akomolafe reminds us, "the times are urgent, let's slow down," this session acknowledges the ongoing trauma we experience just by existing at this time as Black and PoC bodies. Together we will be invited to slow things down and rest as an act of resistance. We will engage in some gentle embodiment practices and be invited into a moment of collective rest with a relaxing sound bath. Sound therapy, particularly sound baths, can help induce a state of deep relaxation, activating the parasympathetic nervous system, which reduces the body's stress response, it can reduce tension, pain and promote better sleep amongst many other benefits. Music and sound in general has been used as healing technology for thousands of years and science has confirmed the power that vibrations have to induce our own bodies' self-healing capacity. I hope we can release some tension and experience a moment of calm together.