A SOUND engineer who was locked up in Dungavel has launched a UK-wide drive to take asylum seekers to gigs, football matches and the ballet.
Robert Makutsa has worked with everyone from Wet Wet Wet to Glasgow School of Art but says those living on the margins are cut out of the arts and sport. Now he’s working with big-name promoters and venues to open up access for asylum seekers, refugees and others.
Fanzclub provides free tickets to cinema screenings, live music and theatre for marginalised people, including asylum seekers and refugees. Fanzclub recently took funk fans to see the Average White Band at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and will this week head to see The Human League at the Hydro. Tickets for that gig cost around £35 – almost the same as an asylum seeker’s entire weekly living allowance of £39.63.
This summer, he’ll take 50 people to experience an open-air festival at Doune the Rabbit Hole, near Stirling.
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Makutsa, who has lived in Scotland for…
