The Greater Shawlands Republic

The first event to take place in The Bungo Bar Basement will be  The Greater Shawlands Republic on Sunday, 1 April with an evening of comedy, music and satire.

Acts include the award winning comedian and generalissimo of the Greater Shawlands Republic Bruce Morton, the Southside scribe and satirist Phil Differ, glorious music from tales of jake and comedian and true believer Andrew Learmonth.

Discounted tickets priced at £4.99 are available for Southsiders but those from the city’s West End wishing to come along will be charged the full price of £5. Tickets are available from The Bungo Bar. Keep up to date on our Facebook Event page here:

Doors open at 8pm

Arika 12 Episode 3 Copying Without Copying - This Weekend

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  Arika 12 Episode Three: Copying with out Copying  will be taking place at the Tramway weekend. included in the events will be:
  
  
  Friday 23 March starting at 7.30pm – FREE, just turn up

Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb - A performed installation by Andrea Geyer, one of Germany’s most interesting visual artists, based on edited transcripts of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem and the writings of Hannah Arendt. She will also be discussing her work with Mike Sperlinger from the Lux

and Notes on the Emptying of a City - A dismantled, performed film, where filmmaker and activist Ashley Hunt pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.

Saturday 24 March starting at 7.00pm - FREE, just turn up

Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954–003064: A Public Reading -  Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even: a public hearing.  A four-hour public reading of unedited transcripts from 18 Combatant Status Review Tribunals held at the U.S. military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Nine local people have been invited to read the transcripts, rotating through eight juridical positions during the evening. The piece was conceived by David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes and Andrea Geyer

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  Sunday 25 March starting at 7.30pm - FREE, just turn up

The Russian Woods - a new learning play on myth construction and its reproduction by Chto Delat? with twenty local participants; a spectacular musical show (complete with chorus) which discusses the representation of a nation state, its characters and history.

For loads more information and the full schedule please go to www.arika.org.uk

Shawlands Mela

Now that Spring’s almost here, do you fancy something different, something that celebrates the South Side’s cultural diversity – well Shawlands Mela is just the place for you – and yours. Organised by Shawlands Academy PTC, this first-ever Shawlands Mela has all the fun of the fair: from henna hand-painting to bouncy castles, from Asian (and other) food stalls to live entertainment and lots else besides including local coffee and bakehouse, Tapa. So why don’t you come along to Shawlands Academy for a fun day “in”.

Entrance is £1 per adult and 50p per child, open: 10 am to 3 pm.

Glad Cafe Gig at Kinning Park Complex - March 16th 2012

Another great Glad Cafe gig coming up at Kinning Park Complex on Friday March 16th featuring well known folk musician, song writer and southsider Alasdair Roberts  and psych, folk pop(ish) outfit Adam Stearns and the Glass Animals  - also southsiders.

Tickets at £7 available from The Glad Cafe's Website

Bar will be open from 7 pm.

Tramway Family Day: Sunday 11 March

Tramway Family Day: Impossible Bodies aims to introduce children to contemporary performance through a fun, hands-on workshop and short performance presentation. Based on Colette Sadler’s performance, We Are the Monsters, the workshops will lead participants through an exploration of movement and transformation, facilitated by Colette Sadler and members of stammer productions.

Across the building a range of drop-in, free activities suitable for ages 0-12 plus parents and carers will take place offering the opportunity to make puppets, create mobiles and streamers, and play with live visual projections.

Performance tickets cost £2 each and are available in advance from Tramway box office.

All other activities are free, drop-in and places will be allocated on a first come first served basis

This Weekend - 2-4 March 2012

It's the first weekend of March and the days are becoming lighter and warmer - we can all start coming out of hibernation now.

Since it's the first Saturday of the month, the Queens Park Farmers market will be taking place between 10am - 2pm.

If you're in the park, take a walk up to Langside place to the wonderful Langside Cafe - perhaps it's even warm enough for ice cream? There's a new Boutique and Gallery opened at 36 Langside place called Unique Boutique.

Why not take a wander down to Albert Drive, in Polloksheilds. Take in the Mathew Darbyshires new exhibition - T Rooms - his largest public exhibition to date. There will be an exhibition tour by the artist at 2pm on Saturday and at 3pm The Tramway are hosting an afternoon discussion with the artist about the work.

Continue along Albert Drive, until you reach 334, where you will find an exhibition of still life, portrait and landscape paintings by artist Kevin McFall. The exhibition Fragments is being hosted by Albert Drive Studios and is open from 10am - 4pm on Saturday and Sunday.

On Sunday the Church on the Hill are hosting the Whims-icle Fashion and Arts and Craft Fair from 12pm - 5pm

If we've missed anything let us know - or leave details of your event in the comments section below.

Fragments Exhibition at Albert Drive Studios

Albert Drive Studios present Fragments,  an exhibition of a collection of still life, portrait and landscape paintings by artist Kevin McFall. The exhibition is open every weekend from Saturday 25th February till Sunday 11th March 2012, 10am- 4pm.

An Afternoon Seminar with Matthew Darbyshire, Owen Hatherly and Rupert Ackroyd.

This Saturday the Tramway are hosting, an afternoon discussion focusing on issues which arise from Matthew Darbyshire’s new commission for Tramway, ‘T Rooms’. The artist will discuss issues which arise from his commission for Tramway, alongside his collaborators on the exhibition Rupert Ackroyd, Jacob Farrell, and Owen Hatherley.

Matthew Darbyshire’s installation T Rooms is a trompe l’oeil style architectural render of a proposed development, although owing to the eerie silence of it all, Tramway’s visitors may suspect that they’ll have to make do with the virtual rendition "until the market picks up". With its computer generated geometry, pixelated curves and uniform proportions, T Rooms suggests an abject, homogenised developers vernacular in which the Mackintosh-style has reduced to a series of bland and generic motifs – is it a bar, spa, bank or boutique? Is it for eating, sleeping, praying or a meeting?

Sat 3 March, 3-5pm

£3 / £2

Tramway 4

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Streetland Fundraising Party - 10 March 2012

On Saturday 10th March, there will be a fundraising party, for the Streetland Festival, at the Chalet. Party starts at 4pm. They'll be DJ's, face painting, games, quiz and treats and eats.
Suggested Donation £3