Have your say

When I was up at the Glasshouses earlier I found a pile of survey forms calling for the people of Shawlands to provide feedback on the production of a Town Centre Action Plan for Shawlands. This is a great oppertunity to help set the agenda for the further regeneration of the area and hopefully there will be a big responce. There are two versions of the form - a quick style version and a fuller Customer Survey. Both shouldn't take too long to complete and can be done online at the below links. Take a look.

Shawlands Town Centre Action Plan

This survey has been developed by Glasgow City Council to help prepare an Action Plan for Shawlands. The aim is to find out how you feel about Shawlands Town Centre, how often you use it, and how you think it can be improved.

The survey boundary encompasses all of the retail units from the Pollokshaws East Station railway bridge, (270 Kilmarnock Road to Queens Park at 970 Pollokshaws Road). It also includes all businesses contained in Shawlands Arcade, Minard Road and Skirving Street the new Tesco Metro block at the southern end of Kilmarnock Road and also Newlandsfield, Morrison’s.

The survey will take around 10 minutes to complete but the information you provide will be extremely helpful to us in taking the centre forward.

Links:
Quick Survey: Shawlands Town Centre Action Plan
Customer Survey: Shawlands Town Centre Action Plan

Further information can be obtained by contacting:

David Dunlop
Glasgow City Council Development & Regeneration Services
Exchange House 229 George Street Glasgow G1 1QU

Phone: 0141 287 6097
Email: Shawlands@drs.glasgow.gov.uk

Art in the Park 2009

Well the art in the park show that Ann organised at the Glasshouses as part of the Southside Festival was a lot of work but as you can see from the photos here it was all worth it.

The show went really well and we have had lots of nice comments from visitors saying how much they enjoyed it and there was lots of work sold too with all the commission going towards paying for next years event.

Thanks to all the artists who entered work into the show - hopefully it will be even bigger and better next year. The artist shown this years were Joe Hendry, William Dobson, Joe O Brian, Stuart Gibb, Malcolm S Dobson, Alexandra Milsom, Graham Govan, Carole Gillman,, Gillian Orr, Sam Cartman, Patrica Cain, Doc Haliday, Becky Wilson, Kathryn Pender, Margaret Mariotti, Sheila Cameron, Sarah Connolly, Johanna Henderson, Brian Inglis, Mark Thomas McGhee, Allistair Burt and Alica McInnes.

William Dobson

Joe Hendry

Joe O Brian

Allistair J Burt

Stuart Gibb

Sheila Cameron

Patrica Cain

You were where?

We've had quite a few emails and comments about the Southside Festival graphics that we said we were working on. I know many of you have asked why you didn't see any of the posters around the Southside and asked where were all the maps and signage we said we had created.

Well to be honest we are not really sure what happened to it all - you'd have to ask the guy who was in charge of printing it. But to prove that we really did try to make the festival look all super shiny and allow people to navigate easily around the park and also find out what time the different acts were playing, the below is a few samples of the some of the work we designed.

In the next few days we'll be posting some feedback forms and some voting panels to get a better idea of what things worked or didn't work at this years festival but I know that the Festival committee would really welcome any feedback so why not drop them an email and let them know what you thought. southsidefestival@hotmail.com

MAIN STAGE

BOATING POND

SPORTS ZONE

GLASSHOUSES
TYPICAL CROSSROAD DIRECTIONAL SIGN

The Wee Chill

Just one short week after the Festival has finished and already Queens Park is hosting another interesting event. The Wee Chill is the pre-event to The Big Chill.

Have a read on the List for and interview with the orgainsers or check out the main site.

It all looks pretty class with lost of music stages, art installations and entertainers for more info visit here and for tickets go here.

Southside Festival Parade

So the Southside Festival is drawing to a close...we'll be posting some images and news shortly...but we've both been working the whole weekend in Art in the Park and are knackered.. but here's a link to Hugh Spicers Flickr page

Southside Festival - Music

There is loads of music at this years Southside Festival, here is the music programme for the weekend. Over and above this bands such as SheBoom, NGamba Samba and the Taiko Drummers will be playing around the park.

MAIN STAGE

SATURDAY

12 .00 BAILIE MARGOT CLARK OPENS THE FESTIVAL
12.15-12.30 DESI BRAVEHEARTS
12.40-13.10 MACDONALD BROS
13.20–13.35 DESI BRAVEHEARTS
13.50-14.30 NIKITTA ANGUS
14.40-14.55 DESI BRAVEHEARTS
15.00-15.45 LANGSIDE COLLEGE BAND
16.00-CLOSE HOT LOVE THEN COMPERE FOR CLOSE

SUNDAY

12.15-12.30 DESI BRAVEHEARTS
12.45-13.25 NIKITTA ANGUS
13.35-14.00 COMPERE & FESTIVAL STARS WINNER
14.10-14.25 DESI BRAVEHEARTS
14.35-15.20 HOT LOVE
15.35-16.00 ALKOTRON
16.15–CLOSE THE LA FONTAINES

YOUTH MUSIC STAGE [near the pond]

SATURDAY (DANCE! DANCE! DANCE!)
12.00-13.00 ANDY PIANCENTINI (dj - Dance ! Dance ! Dance !)
13.00-14.00 JOHNNY WHOOP (dj)
14.00-15.00 (Live electro/house/synthpop)
15.00-16.00 SLABS OF THE TABERNACLE (djs)
16.00-close DEREK SMITH (dj - Dance ! Dance ! Dance !)

SUNDAY
12.30-12.45 DJs
13.00-13-15 GYPSY HEART
13.30-14.15 PLAYTONE
14.30-15. 15 SANTOY santoymusic.com
15.30-16.15 FEDERATION OF THE DISCO PIMP
16.15-close DANCE ! DANCE ! DANCE ! dj s

ACOUSTIC TENT

SATURDAY
12 .15-13 .00 INNESS THOMSON
13.15-14.00 ROBERTO CASSANI
14.15-15. 00 ROBIN LEWIS ADAMS
15.15-16. 00 THE MOONSHINERS

SUNDAY
12.15-13.00 JAMIE FLETT & SAFETY NETT
13.15-14.00 MARY K. BURKE
14.15-15.00 HELEN McCOOKERYBOOK
16.00 LORNA BROOKS

GLASSHOUSE AFTERNOONS

SATURDAY
12.15–13.00 BRASSMONKEYS
13.15–13.30 BELLYDANCERS
13.45-14.30 LATCHICOS
14.45–15.30 ROBERTO CASSANI
15.45-16.00 BELLYDANCERS
16.15-17.00 BRASSMONKEYS

SUNDAY
12.15-12.30 BELLYDANCERS
12.45-13.30 THE SWING GUITARS
13.45-14.30 THE BALLACHULISH HELLHOUNDS
14.45-15.30 THE SWING GUITARS
15.45-16.30 THE BALLACHULISH HELLHOUNDS
16.30-16.45 BELLYDANCERS

Southside Festival

Well the forecast is for a wee bit of sunshine come the weekend. Lets all keep fingers crossed that stays true.

We are pleased to post the maps we've been making for the Festival - so you can all get a better idea of what you will find when you along to Queens Park on Saturday. Click on a map for a bigger image and check out http://www.southsidefestival.co.uk/ for all the event times etc.

La Roche Rumba - Rumba in the Park

If you can't wait until the first Saturday in June for your next dosage of Rumba frolics? Well you don't have to because La Roche Rumba have been invited to be part of this year's Southside Festival. They'll be playing Saturday in the Glass House in Queen's Park with live performances from Fear The Fives, Hot Love and Edinburgh electro outfit, RBRBR.The Rumba DJ crew will also be on hand to provide all the sonic materials and repetitive beats you'll need to keep you throwing shapes into the night.

Tickets are available from the Royal Concert Hall or on the Door

Click Here to join La Roche Rumba's facebook page

After Mary Rose

In Conjunction with the Southside Festival - Magnetic North presents After Mary Rose. Written by J.M Barrie who created Peter pan. The play wright D jones is from the Southside... The play is on from Wednesday 20th until Saturday 23rd of May. It starts at 8 o clock, tickets are £8 and can be purchased from the Tramway.

It started with Hitchcock,’ says Nick Bone, artistic director of Magnetic North. ‘I had read an interview with Hitchcock and was intrigued by this play that had fascinated him. And I had a very strange reaction to it when I read it.’

The play is Mary Rose, written by famous Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan. Written late in the playwright’s life, it tells the tale of a young woman who mysteriously vanishes from a secluded island twice in her life with no explanation. She returns both times without signs of aging and with no memory of having ever been gone. It’s a challenging work that is hardly ever performed.

Director Alfred Hitchcock, a major fan of the play, had wanted to turn it into a film but never managed to do so. Bone thinks he knows why it’s seldom seen on stage. ‘I felt that if I’d gone to see it [in modern times], I wouldn’t buy into the mystery. It’s set up like a ghost story but it doesn’t work like a ghost story.’ He also finds fault with Barrie’s female protagonist, calling her a middle-aged man’s fantasy, and odd. ‘There’s an innocence in what he’s trying to capture, but I found that he didn’t quite find a way of getting that across.’

As a solution, Bone proposed to create a brand new play, one that would honour Barrie’s characters and plot but would resonate with a modern audience. He met playwright D. Jones and gave her a copy of the play to read. ‘We both felt there was something disturbing in it and darkly imaginative that we wanted to develop, staying true to Barrie’s themes of grief, loss and disappearance,’ says Jones.

Speaking about the writing process, Jones says ‘I struggled early on with wanting to stay true to Barrie but at the same time wanting to make the script our own.’ In speaking about her script, Jones says that there is a resemblance in setting and structure but that the characters are emotionally richer, an aspect she found lacking in Barrie’s script. ‘I think the end result is that we have hopefully done something original.’

This end result is the new play, After Mary Rose. The play still follows the rules set forth in Barrie’s original and follows two stories, that of Rose’s disappearances and the parallel story of her son Harry’s quest for understanding. Of duality, Bone says, ‘Mary represents mystery and things that cannot be explained, while Harry’s journey is one of explanation.’ There are also parallels to the regrettable losses of war; Mary’s disappearance occurs at the end of the First World War whereas Harry’s story takes place after the Second.

In speaking about the upcoming production, playwright Jones said she now realises that, ‘We had really set ourselves a big challenge’ but remains convinced that ‘there is still something darkly emotional and moving in this play that has a timeless quality and will translate to a contemporary world.’

Click here for review

Art in the Park

The stunning Victorian glass house’s, in Queens Park, is to host Art in the Park, during this years Southside Festival. The art show aims to promote both established and emerging locally based artists.

Alongside the work of Artists such as Joe Hendry, Patricia Cain and Sam Cartman, the show will also exhibit work from amateur artists and groups from the surrounding area. Art in the Park will be exhibiting paintings, sculpture, prints, glass work and photography in a fun and relaxing atmosphere. So whether you’re browsing or buying make sure you visit the show. Art in the Park will be open from 12pm until 5pm, 23rd and 24th May.

Castlemilk Family Day

With all this talk of the Southside Festival, we almost forgot to tell you about another important day in the Southside Calender. On Saturday [16th May] Castlemilk are holding their annual family day. There are event's all over Castlemilk on Saturday so if your in the area, stop by and see what's going on. I really like the fact that the Southside has so many community events happening through out the summer..like Bungo in the Lanes, Govanhill festival, and Govan Fair - to name just a few. We have put most of these events in our calender but if we've missed any let us know.

* As far as I know there will be no balloon performances like the one in the photo...sorry

Southside Festival 2009

We've been busy working away on a lot of the graphics and art work for this years festival and are now really looking forward to it - it should be great fun.

Here are the poster and the main map that we've designed which will give you a bit more of an idea of all the fun things coming up next week. Click on the images for bigger versions.

The General

Hello, hello how are you? Long time no see. Apologies for another gap in posts but we have been very busy little bees working on a couple of projects and also helping out with the Southside Festival.

The comedy night the other week was good fun, slightly Pheonix Nights style but the comedians were good and I think the audience were enjoying it.

The next Southside event is on this afternoon at Pollokshaws Burgh Hall at 2:30pm. Its a playing of the Buster Keaton Silent movie "The General" accompanied by an organist on the halls old SCOT Wurlitzer cinema organ. Not only is the film great, the organ itself is quite famous - we'll try and get some good photos and do a post about it separately.