Southside Fringe 2015

Kicking off the Summer and the festival season the Southside Fringe is back.

I know we say this every year but this really is our favourite time to live in the Southside, there are so many community events, pop ups, music, art and other fun stuff happening its an absolute joy to have the area so buzzing.

Other the last couple of years we've both been so busy with work we've not managed to get to too many events but we hope to change that this year.

So in the next wee while we'll try to write up about the upcoming Bungo in the back Lanes, Streetlands, Blossum, Ready Steady Grow, Southside Film Club, theatre at the Shed and The Citizens to name just a few but first lets enjoy what is kicking it all off, the Southside Fringe.

A tiny selection of our picks are listed below, though there are tons of things happening at the 41 venues so check out the website and find some brilliant things to entertain yourself with.

Web: southsidefringe.org.uk

Brochure: http://southsidefringe.org.uk/assets/programme/SSF2015.pdf

Art:
The Steamie Galleries

http://southsidefringe.org.uk/events/the-steamie-galleries/

Theatre:

21st Century Poe: Falling For The Ushers

http://southsidefringe.org.uk/events/21st-century-poe-falling-for-the-ushers/

Comedy:
Stand up in the shack
https://www.facebook.com/events/819232558143253/

Beer:
Grunting Growler Beer Tasting
http://southsidefringe.org.uk/events/grunting-growler-beer-tasting/

Music: (There's a lot!)
Prismatic Winds: Film Music and More
http://southsidefringe.org.uk/events/prismatic-winds-film-music-and-more/

Glasgow Open House 2-4 May

This looks like fun, an art festival taking place in odd locations and peoples homes. Its a mini art festival crossed with doors open day.

"Glasgow Open House is an artist-led, not-for-profit organisation that was founded by Glasgow School of Art alumna Amalie Silvani-Jones in 2013. It was formed in order to meet the practical needs of the city’s grassroots art community and takes its lead from Glasgow’s already prevalent ‘Do-It-Yourself’ culture in relation to visual art and music."

For more on the festival, including maps and info on the venues, artists and shows take a look on their website - www.glasgowopenhouse.co.uk

Its City wide but there are a list of Southside Venues including:

#33 LAURIESTON ARCHES
Laurieston Railway Arches, Cleland Lane, Glasgow, G5 9DS

#34 CALEDONIA ROAD CHURCH
Caledonia Road Free Church (WAVEparticle), Glasgow, G5 0SJ

# 35 STATE OF MIND/ HOT BOX
58 Bridge Street, Glasgow, G5 9HU

#38 GENRE, GOOD LIFE
Flat 2/1(buzzer OAG), 36 Arundel Drive, G42 9RF

#40 HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
Flat 1/2, 336 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G41 1QS

#41 HOMESHOW AND KEIR STREET KITCHEN
Flat 1/1, 19 Keir Street, Glasgow, G412NP

#42 EXPANDED HOME CINEMA
1/B 109 Forth Street, Pollockshields, G41 2TA

#43 DELIRIOUS ANTHROPOLOGY
2/2 101 Forth Street, G41 2TA

#45 THE KEN DOLLS
230 Kenmure St (top buzzer), Glasgow, G41 2JF

#46 PROJECT ZERO, OAKLEY DRIVE
The Garage, 0 Oakley Drive, Netherlee, Glasgow, G44 3PU

#47 I DON’T EAT BREAD
The Old Barn, Pollock Country Park, 82 Dumbreck Road, G41 4SN

#49 CHAR NAH! HOR
2-1, 493 Victoria Road, G42 8RL

#50 VIEW FROM THIS SIDE
Flat 2/R, 59 Skirving Street, Glasgow, G41 3AH

#53 KEY LIME PIE
Flat 2/2, 1023 Cathcart Road, Mount Florida, G42 9XJ

#56 STARTING POINT
2/2, 78 Kingarth Street, Glasgow, G42 7RW

On the Sunday 3 May there is an Art Walk in the Southside

"Join us for a walk around the South Side exploring some of the highlights of this year's Glasgow Open House Art Festival."

Meeting point: Queens Park Railway Station, 2.30pm
Ending at: Laurieston Arches & Caledonia Road Church: http://glasgowopenhouse.co.uk/map?v=33&e=laurieston-arches-and-caledonia-road-church-sunday-night-schedule

Southside Hustings 2015

Here is a list of all the Southside husting events that we've been able to find. If you hear of any more, then let us know and we'll add them.

Glasgow Central
17 April
Garnethill Community Council
(You can click here to watch a recording by Democracy TV)
23 April (Environmental Issues)
Adelaide’s, Glasgow Central
25 April 19:15
Glasgow Central Mosque, 1 Mosque Avenue
30 April 19:00
Larkfield Centre, 39 Inglefield Street, Govanhill, G42 7AY

Glasgow South
16 April
Langside Parish Church
(You can click here to watch a recording by Democracy TV)

21 April 19:30
Cathcart Trinty Church, 90 Clarkston Road

28 April 19:00
Castlemilk Youth Complex, 90 Ardencraig Road
29 April 19:00
Mansewood Community Centre, 88 Parkneuk Road
1 May 19:30
Destiny Church, 1120 Pollokshaws Road

Glasgow South West
23 April 19:30

Kinning Park Parish Church

East Renfrewshire
24 April 19:15

Newton Mearns Baptist Church, 2 Greenfarm Road, Newton Mearns

Also the Southside featured in a recording of BBC Radio 4’s “The World at One” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8s-cDeWfJU&feature=youtu.be

Data and Candidate info from Yournextmp.com

General Election 2015

Here is a list of all the candidates covering the Southside for the General Election 2015, with links to their pages on the YouNextMP.com website with more info on each one and where you can contact them or follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

Glasgow Central
Winner 2010 / Anas Sarwar, Lab, 52% vote share (34.5% majority)

Candidates

Simon Bone, Con
Anas Sarwar, Lab
Chris Young, LD
Alison Thewliss, SNP
Cass MacGregor, Green
Stuart Maskell, UKIP
James Marris, CSA
Katie Rhodes, SEP
Andrew Elliott, TUSC

Glasgow South

Winner 2010 / Tom Harris, Lab, 51.7% vote share (31.6% majority)

Candidates

Kyle Thornton, Con
Tom Harris, Lab
Ewan Hoyle, LD
Stewart McDonald, SNP
Alastair Whitelaw, Green
Brian Smith, TUSC

Glasgow South West

Winner 2010 / Ian Davidson, Lab, 62.5% vote share (46.2% majority)

Candidates

Gordon McCaskill, Con
Ian Davidson, Lab
Isabel Nelson, LD
Christopher Stephens, SNP
Sean Templeton, Green
Sarah Hemy, UKIP
Bill Bonnar, SSP

East Renfrewshire

Winner 2010 / Jim Murphy, Lab, 50.8% vote share (20.4% majority)
Candidates

David Montgomery, Con
Jim Murphy, Lab
Graeme Cowie, LD
Kirsten Oswald, SNP
Robert Malyn, UKIP

Data and Candidate info from Yournextmp.com

Indy Debate and Jazz Cafe

A lot of people sending us news of Southside #Indyref events at the moment. Seems to be a very popular topic.

Tomorrow night's event should be a more relaxed event as its twinned with a jazz cafe.

The music will start from 7:15 with refreshments and then the debate.

The local MP Jim Murphy was due to be taking part in this event but we've been informed that he has now pulled out due to another booking.

"This will be a jazz cafe style event with live music and refreshments where the candidates will have the chance to speak about their vision and values rather than simply re-state the economic and political arguments we are all familiar with."

Venue- Newton Mearns Baptist Church, 2 Greenfarm Road, Newton Mearns G77 6FA
http://www.newtonmearnsbaptist.org.uk/

Friday 29th August 7.30pm
Refreshments and live music from 7.15pm

Candidate from Yes Scotland- Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp of Business for Scotland
Candidate from Better Together- Ken Mackintosh MSP

Hosted by Rev Brian More
Discussion chaired by Ruth Walker, business mentor and founding director of Turquoise Insight

Endurance @ Govanhill Baths

Link to the Facebook page

Imagination Festival of Ideas

A rather brilliant sounding event is taking place in the Southside next month.

Organised by Gerry Hassan and Roanne Dods (supported by University of the West of Scotland and PAL Labs), the Imagination Festival: 'Scotland's Festival of Ideas' is on the weekend of Friday Sept 5th-Sunday Sept 7th.

Taking place at the Govanhill Baths, the Glad Cafe and other Southside venues there will be over 20 events with 60 speakers, films, eight bands, musical acts and a DJ set;

"Our programme and speakers will cover areas of ideas, culture, history and politics – all in a way which is non-partisan and non-aligned. We are aiming for a programme that is intelligent but relaxed and personable – marrying the best sense of an intimate book festival with an engaged light touch connection to people and place."

The Southside of Glasgow has for a long time been at the forefront of community engagement projects and new ways of thinking with things like Locavre, Bungo in the Lanes, GladCafe, Southside Fringe, the Laurieston Arts project, Caledonia Church, Govanhill Baths and the Kinning Park Project etc, people of the Southside are just getting out and making things happen. This festival seems to be a celebration of that type of approach and thinking.

Gerry Hassan, southsider and organiser said

“Scotland's first ever Festival of Ideas promises to be exciting, diverse, challenging and enjoyable. It brings together a stellar range of speakers, topics, films, live music and a range of perspectives across a number of venues at a pivotal moment in Scotland's history.”

You can see the full selection of speakers here but they include a mix including Billy Bragg, David Torrance, Ross Colquhoun, Cat Boyd, Iain MacWhirter, Adam Tomkins and Robin McAlpine.

You can book tickets to go to individual sessions or there is a weekend ticket to get into everything. All details are here.

Imagination: Scotland's Festival of Ideas

Weekend 5-7th September

www.imaginationfestival.co.uk/

Event @ Caledonia Church

Unique opportunity to get inside the empty structure of 'Caledonia Church' in the Gorbals which was designed by Alexander Thomson.

More info is available here:

Tickets can be booked here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spotlight-caledonia-tickets-12565009281

Building of the internals for the events taking place in the below photo.

Caledonia Church - http://www.scotcities.com/thomson/
Alexander Greek Thomson - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Thomson

Commonwealth Disco

"Glasgow, 15^th July, 2014 - Come and enjoy the opening weekend of the Commonwealth Games with us this Friday, 25^{t h} July and get down to the tunes of Commonwealth. From 8 p.m., the Kinning Park Complex will start to vibrate to the rhythms of Jamaican, Ghanian, Bolywood and Aussie beats. Make your experience of the 20^th Commonwealth games unforgattable and take part in the unique Commonwealth Disco event brought to you by one of the Scotland's most interesting international youth organizations Xchange Scotland.

“We would like people to have fun and great time with us and at the same time remind them the various cultures of the Commonwealth and importance of intercultural events for our common future.”, says Martin Avila, the director of Xchange Scotland and main organizer of Commonwealth Disco.

Xchange Scotland, a youth-led charity set up 6 years ago and is involved in international volunteering and educational projects, sending many young volunteers overseas every year. Its aim is to make a positive change in today's society and to inspire volunteers both around the world and around the corner. The work of organization consists of three main areas: sending Scottish volunteers abroad, hosting in Scotland and Global Education projects.

The celebration event is funded by Big Lottery and the guests can look forward to tunes and snacks from round the Commonwealth and friendly international atmosphere. Both entrance and refreshments are for free."

Kinning Park Complex Carnival

"KPC is excited to announce this years summer programme in partnership with Glasgow United Football Club, Open Jar Collective and KPC resident artists.Week 1 + 2 will be hosted by Glasgow United Football Club, a local community football project that focuses on anti-discrimination and inclusion. GUFC will be providing educational sessions of football coaching, training and group games .Week 3 + 4 will be centred around an exchange of local and international cultures, from Scotland to Africa, Asia and the Caribbean; using music, cookery, storytelling and carnival arts to share experiences and celebrate diversity.

Places available for local children aged 7-12 years old.For more information email:kpckidz@gmail.com or call KPC on 01414190329."

'Tommorrow is always too long' @ Rose Garden Queen's Park

19 July - 'Tomorrow is always too long'

A one night only film installation in the Rose Garden of Queen's Park.

Southside Shindig @ Queens Park Arena

Lovely poster and a chance to do a double bill of events with the nearby Bungo in the Back Lanes

21 June - Southside Shindig
A celebration of British and Asian Food and music 12-5:30pm at the Queens Park Area

Bungo in the Back Lanes 2014

21 June - Bungo in the Back Lanes (1pm -4pm)
The wonderous Bungo in the Back Lanes as the people of Strathbungo, set up stalls, make things, cook tasty burgers

Events in June/ July 2014

After the excellent Southside Fringe, the Southside Filmfest and Streetlands the summer of Southside fun continues over the next couple of months with the following.
(Anything we've missed please add to the comments.)

13-15 June - Govan Puppet Weekend
Puppets in Partnership is a small participatory arts festival in Govan, Glasgow being held on the 13-15 June 2014 with a variety of puppetry performances from both professionals and the local community. 

14 June - Ready Steady Grow
Pollokshields celebration of greenspace and community is back over Saturday the 14th and Sunday the 15th June. Download the event poster and leaflet or visit the website www.readysteadygrow.org.ok

15 June -  Ready Steady Grow
Pollokshields Church events including a guided walk around Pollokshields architectural history with Niall Murphy.

17 June - Southside Film Club @GladCafe
Southside Film Festival & Document International Human Rights Film Festival present three shorts that explore what life is like for immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland, Brazil and Spain. 

17/18 June - To Infinity @ Science Centre
A trip into the hidden universe with Dr Jonathan Whitemore

21 June - Bungo in the Back Lanes (1pm -4pm)
The wonderous Bungo in the Back Lanes as the people of Strathbungo, set up stalls, make things, cook tasty burgers

21 June - Southside Shindig
A celebration of British and Asian Food and music 12-5:30pm at the Queens Park Area

21/ 22 June - "Hit that Harmony"
Pie and a pint show from 1pm at the Shed by Tramdirect featuring a barber shop quartet plus other singers.

25-27 June - Tin Forest Southwest
Songs and stories collected from the community of Penilee as part of the build up for the Nathonal Theatre of Scotland's Tin Forest event.

27 June - 'Generation' @ The Tramway
Tramway, GoMA, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, People's Palace and Riverside Museum invite you to celebrate the Glasgow launch of GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland

28 June - Battefield Community Street Party
Local community fun day including a bak-off judged by Bakery47, live music and stalls.

30 June - 04 July - Team Effort @ GladCafe
A thought-provoking evening of discursive, poetic and performance essays about human nature, fragility and the mind. Hosted by Rose Ruane. Featuring essays by Elizabeth Reeder, Harry Wilson, Rose Ruane and others to be announced.

19 July - 'Tomorrow is always too long'

A one night only film installation in the Rose Garden of Queen's Park.

22 July - Tin Forest

A new festival of performances by the National Theatre of Scotland taking place at the iconic building of the South Rotunda.

July - Science Tower reopens at the Science Centre.
Date to be confirmed.

1/2 August - Sound to Sea
A night time nautical extravaganza featuring Over 150 performers,  the best performance specialists in the country, outdoor art and pyrotechnic specialists Walk the Plank, aerial dance company All or Nothing and the Royal Navy

Creative Thursday - Kate Tough

Today's Creative Thursday interview is with poet Kate Tough who also co-runs the regular poetry nights at The Ivory.

Where in the Southside are you based? 

I live on the far edge of Clarkston, by the fields and woods of High Flenders Road. It’s beautiful, but I’m ready to be closer to Shawlands. If anyone has a quiet, leafy flat to rent out, or a nice Newlands ‘annexe’, let me know.

What do you do?

I write, publish, perform and collaborate with others in the genres of fiction and poetry. Also, I host space for writers to share work and inspire each other, and I tutor new writers.

In fiction, the main focus was a first novel, written 2007-10, revised 2011-12, and published by Cargo in May 2014. It’s character-driven, with a distinctive narrative voice that incorporates my poetic bent. Others tell me it’s laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreaking, too; if that’s true, I’m pleased.

In poetry I publish a range of work; from short, quiet nature meditations, to gobby analyses of love, to experimental pieces made with black-markered documents and found bits of paper.

In Shawlands, I co-run Poetry@TheIvory, the regular showcase night where Scottish headline poets and new, local poets share the same stage. We have a reputation for relaxed, egalitarian, stunning loveliness. Come along.

Summary of your background?

After uni and travel, I worked at Greencity Wholefoods, then the Scottish Parliament. I left to do the Glasgow Masters in Creative Writing. Since graduating in 2008, I’ve worked in the arts and education: lecturing in creative writing, running a drama drop-in, teaching animation in afterschool clubs and, recently, undertaking a PGDE.

Tell us about your favourite piece of your work?

Well, the fun of the moment is coming from the novel, Head for the Edge, Keep Walking. It was a long, solitary journey to write and redraft it, but it had supporters along the way (such as Creative Scotland) which helped my diligence. After years of not knowing why I kept going, it ended up with three publication offers. Choosing Cargo was the best decision – what a wonderful team. Collaborating with other specialists (on editing, cover design, promotion) and benefitting from their expertise is a privilege. It’s been a strange, humbling experience to have readers now, too – people who’ve spent £9 on the 80k words I determinedly crafted. Their support and appreciative feedback has meant more than I realised it could. They’re superstars.

What's next? Upcoming shows, exhibitions, projects.

Check www.katetough.com for full details of what’s coming up, including: a Scottish Literature Residency at Cove Park; airing the novel (Edinburgh Book Fest, 11 August & Cargo-Saraband Commonwealth Fest, July-August); reading poetry at the launch of four.fold (Tell It Slant bookshop, 27 June); plus a collaborative performance on the Auld Enemies tour (10 July. A major event in UK experimental poetry, supported by Creative Scotland.)

What is your favourite creative blog/ website or other source of inspiration? 

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again (and again) Sunny Govan radio station is the 8th wonder of the world. It’s a beacon of authenticity in a sound-sea of constrained, contrived, banal sh*te. 

What key piece of advice do you wish you'd known? 

There’s seldom a single right answer. There isn’t one, right way to do things. The way you want to do it is just fine – so get on with it.

Tell us your favourite place/ space in the Southside? 

If a non-tangible phenomenon can be a ‘space’… then my favourite space is the Southside’s commitment to community. That ‘common weel’ spirit is evidenced everywhere, from the Glad Cafe, to the Govanhill Baths project, to Locavore, Urban Roots, Merry-Go-Round and more.

Name another Southside creative whose work you admire? 

I’ve become a huge fan of local poet Alexander (Sandy) Hutchison – a mighty talent who’s also a top-notch kind of bloke. www.alexanderhutchison.com

If money was no option what would you change about the Southside? 

I’d bring the subway system out as far as Cathcart, so the Southside and West End were connected in one big love-loop, and I’d have it running till 3am.

Tell us one other interesting fact about you?

The debut novel was fiction when I wrote it (2007-2010) but elements within it have come true since it was written. Weird.

Creative Thursday - Lisa Ballantyne

After a little break we return to our Creative Thursday interviews. This week is shawlands noveliest Lisa Ballantyne.

Describe your creative practice or what it is you do?
I am a novelist. My debut novel, The Guilty One was published in 2012 and my second novel will come out in 2015. I am currently working on my third novel. I am a full time writer at the moment, and tend to write in the afternoon and early evening. It is something I have always wanted to do since I was very young, so despite giving up a demanding, exciting job to devote myself to writing, I am still loving it.

I am from a small town in West Lothian, and have lived in Glasgow for nearly ten years, coming here initially to work in the International Office of University of Glasgow. I am very well travelled, having lived and worked in China for 6 years, and travelled to many different countries in my previous career. I still really enjoy travelling and meeting people from different cultures to my own. I think it's hard to write well unless you've lived a fair bit.

Tell us about your favourite piece of your work?
My favourite piece of work is still forming in my mind!

What's next?
I was delighted to be awarded one of the prestigious Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowships to spend a residency in the fabulous Grez-sur-Loing, France (just an hour south of Paris). I will head to France in July this year and hope to finish the novel that I am working on at present. I am immensely grateful to the Scottish Book Trust and Creative Scotland for the opportunity. http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing/scottish-book-trust-training-awards/the-robert-louis-stevenson-fellowship-2014

What is your favourite creative blog/ website or other source of inspiration?
Timothy McSweeney's - Dave Eggers publishing company's daily humour website http://www.mcsweeneys.net/tendency

What key piece of advice do you wish you'd known?
Always have a back up!! True technological advice for writing and wise advice for the heart and for future plans!

Tell us your favourite place/ space in the Southside?
I have so many: Lovestruck Cafe, Queen's Park for running and Pollok Park when I'm stressed, Glad Cafe for evening, Young's Interesting Books for wasting time, Biscuit for their French Toast.

Name another Southside creative whose work you admire?
I am a great admirer of William McIllvaney. Although he has moved away, he used to be a Shawlands resident.

If money was no option what would you change about the Southside?
Shawlands Arcade - get rid of it!

Tell us one other interesting fact about you?
I speak Mandarin. I am very tall.

Art on the Hill

Art on the Hill is a group showcase of Glasgow’s fine artistic talent. Running for the month of May upstairs in the amazing empty upper floor of the Church On The Hill, the exhibit will cover a diverse range of practices from painting, sculpture, photography and audio visual works.

"Art On The Hill will be taking place in the ‘Church On The Hill’ Battlefield Queens Park, as part of the Southside Fringe Festival in May 2014. We aim to be something of a new Glasgow Art Fair showcasing the work of around 100 artists. Bringing together select fresh faces just starting out, recent graduates from the Glasgow School Of Art, seasoned professionals and even some artists from Edinburgh!

The aim of this exhibition is to act as an artist run platform, where by the artists can show in a professional large group show without the prohibiting costs of mainstream art fairs and also allow the public access to the diverse breadth of artistic talent that is rampant in Glasgow.

Some of our artists are well established, some just starting out. But we welcome them all equally and hope you enjoy the art on show. Come an introduce yourself to some work by the artists who choose to call Glasgow home."

Artists featured include; Libby Walker, Hole in my Pocket, Martin Grubb and Michelle Cohen.

Website for Art on the Hill

Preview 2nd May 6-10pm

Dates/Times: Fri & Sat 12pm – 10pm / Sun – Thurs 12pm – 8pm (2nd-31st May)Entry: Free

Cinemap

After three successful years of running a film festival in May Southside Film Festival the team behind the festival have decided to do something a little different for this May. 

Southside Film Festival presents Cinemap, a screening event over the weekend of 23-25 May, 2014 in various Southside locations.

Cinemap is inspired by last year's ALBERT DRIVE project that asked the people of Pollokshields to meet their neighbours through a series of artistic commissions exploring the central question 'who is my neighbour'?

Cinemap will screen a number of ALBERT DRIVE films including work by Basharet Khan and Abigail Howkins which explore the theme of neighbour but also highlight the importance of local, of community and of bringing people together. 

• Cinemap is looking for more films that explore the wider Southside community and the themes of COMMUNITY and LOCAL. We are looking for films that have imaginative approaches to these themes. 
• We are also looking for new work made in Southside Glasgow and/or made by Southside filmmakers that has not screened at previous Southside Film Festivals. 
• We are also inviting filmmakers to submit site specific work that responds to and relate to the Cinemap screening spaces- Shawlands Arcade, The Glad Cafe, Govanhill Baths, New Victoria Gardens and East Pollokshields Quadand The Tramway.

How to Submit: download a submission form and return to southsidefilmfest@gmail.com along with film

Submission Deadline: 9am, Monday 14 April, 2014

Cinemap is a partnership project lead by Southside Film Festival with the ALBERT DRIVE project, Art Village, The Glad Cafe, Govanhill Baths, New Victoria Gardens, East Pollokshields Quad, The Tramway and filmmakers Abigail Howkins and Basharet Khan.

Cinemap: mapping the Southside through film: 23-25 May 2014

N.B. The Festival are also looking for new volunteers to help with the Cinemap project. If you are interested please email southsidefilmfest@gmail.com with your CV and availability and tell them how you would like to get involved. Deadline to apply for volunteering is also 9am, Monday 14 April, 2014.

Boom Boom

Citizens Theatre and Gilly Roche present a brand new late night arts club called BOOMBOX!

"BOOMBOX is a series of late night surprise multi-arts events at the Citizens Theatre, produced and curated by Gilly Roche, producer of the hugely successful IF events at the Southside Studios in Summer 2013.

The Circle Studio will be transformed into an intimate, informal black box of tricks presented by some of Glasgow’s most dynamic artists. We’ll invite them for to let loose, celebrate, experiment and entertain.

It might be a gig by a big name musician, a work-in-progress performance, a movie night or a DJ led dance party. The bar will be open and we’ll keep things nice and informal. One thing is guaranteed - these events go BOOM!

10pm - midnight and this is the first of three, monthly BOOMBOX events in the Circle Studio. £7 a ticket and the bar will be open all night. AND it's a surprise line-up to that people can come and see their new favourite artists."

The IF events at the Southside Studios were great so the new nights at the Citz is sounding really interesting.

10pm 7 March / 18 Apr / 16 MAy

£7

Citizens Theatre

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Live at the Shed

Another selection of interesting shows coming to the Shed from the Tram Direct team.

A wedding picture tells a hundred stories

The Turner nominated artist Phil Collins is looking for your help. Glasgow born but now living in Berlin, he is creating a project that celebrates the lives and stories of the people of his home town.

Specifically the section for the film that he is currently working on requires photos that explore our relationships, be these from weddings, long friendships or secret affairs. They don't need to be dramatic moments from your life, he interested in the private moments that would not normally make the papers. He's interested in the previously unhighlighted quiet ticking of everyday life that forms the heart and true tale of the City.

Submitted stories/ images will be used as part of a special visual arts project for the 2014 Cultural Programme and take place in Queens Park on 19 July as part of the Festival.

People can take their photographs to Photo Express on Pollokshaws Road (at corner of Alison St) for free scanning - or go to one of the libraries listed at selected times.

For more info you can contact info@thecommonguild.org.uk or 0141 428 3022

Call for stories

About the Common Guild

About Phil Collins

Speedy @ Pollokshaws Burgh Hall

Come along to Pollokshaws Burgh Hall on Saturday 22nd February and join Glasgow Film Festival for an immersive 1920s cinema experience. Speedy will feature a live accompaniment on Pollokshaws Burgh Hall’s majestic Wurlitzer pipe organ (installed in 2008 by the Scottish Cinema Organ Trust), adding a touch of period charm and authenticity to the screening.

Harold Lloyd's final silent film is also one of his finest. The Oscar-nominated Speedy, directed by Ted Wilde, is a warm-hearted comic caper with the King of Daredevil Comedy in his element as the baseball loving soda-jerk who fights greedy, ruthless businessmen to save the last horse-drawn tram in New York. Racing against the clock, Lloyd triumphs against impossible odds, enjoys some achingly romantic moments with his girl and even manages to get the legendary Babe Ruth to his baseball game on time. A joyous, nostalgic delight filmed on the streets of New York and amidst the fairground attractions of Coney Island. Fun for all the family! 

The film was one of only two that was nominated for the short-lived Academy Award for Best Director of a Comedy Picture at the very first ceremony in 1928, losing out to Lewis Milestone’s Two Arabian Knights. By the time of the next ceremony in 1929, the award had been merged with that for dramatic direction to become the award for Best Director.

Speedy 

Saturday 22nd February, 15.00
Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, 2025 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow
Tickets £8.50/£6.50, available from GFT Box Office

Glad Rags

"In preparation of the opening of Glad Rags Thrift Shop, we have teamed up with Refashion Glasgow to bring a free fashion swap and ethical pop-up shop to The Glad Cafe, Glasgow. A chance to not only invest in ethical / sustainable clothing and shopping practices, but also an opportunity to get a whole new festive wardrobe without breaking the bank!"

Event Details
A Fashion Swap and Ethical Fashion Pop-up Shop
Sunday 8 December
The Glad Cafe (1006a Pollokshaws Road)
4pm drop off opens
5-9pm swap and pop-up shop
www.gladragsglasgow.co.uk/fashionswap
Pop-up shop features The Top Project, Aimee Kent, Think Boutique, Jennie Loof Clothing and Hole in my Pocket.

"We are also collecting donations of clothing, shoes and accessories to Glad Rags Thrift 
on the night. So if you have items you don’t want to swap but would like to donate, just 
bring them along!"

Fashion Swap – How it works
Swappers will receive tokens dependent on the items they bring, high street, designer,
children’s etc which can then swapped for items that they discover in the swap.
• Bring 3 or more items of good quality clothing and accessories
• Swap them for tokens
• Choose new items to take home!

Any items remaining at the end of the night will be donated to Glad Rags Thrift.

Glad Rags Thrift

http://www.gladragsglasgow.co.uk/

"A thrift shop opening up on Glasgow’s Pollokshaws Road very soon, right next door to The Glad Cafe. Our aims are to divert your pre-loved clothes and goods from going to landfill (yay for recycling and up-cycling!), provide volunteering and employment opportunities in the community and, since we are a not-for-profit co-operative, all profits raised from the shop will be used to support the Glad Foundation and the programme of the social enterprise, The Glad Cafe. 

The Glad Foundation provides affordable or free music workshops and lessons for people in the local area. For more info on the Glad Foundation, see www.thegladfoundation.co.uk"

Folk Carols in the Pub with Govanhill Voices

"December is upon us and with it the delights of Folk Carols in the Pub!  If you hate commercial Christmas music, if weeks of saccharine muzak in the shops drives you mad every year, this is for you...

In some parts of the country at this time they still gather in pubs to sing local carols long forgotten or never known elsewhere.  Some of them used to be sung in village churches in the days of the church bands, before organs and church choirs as we know them now, and they sound very different from today's carols.
http://www.voicebeat.org/folk-carols-in-the-pub"

Malls Mire Family Gathering

Migrant Voice exhibition at the Govanhill Baths

Just been sent the below about an event happening in Govanhill Baths this weekend.

"Migrant Voice is celebrating the ‘Engaging Pictures’ exhibition presenting migrants’ contribution to Scotland.

A unique opportunity to experience poetry in different languages, including Russian, English, French, Polish, Italian, Iranian, Lithuanian and Norwegian! No knowledge of any of those languages is needed in order to be able to understand them as our carefully selected poems are rich on the sound level, full of onomatopoeias, rhyme and rhythm. The audience will be asked to guess the meanings behind the foreign sounds.

The event participants will also have the opportunity to sing along to Scottish traditional songs and take part in dancing session led by a group of international dancers. 

The 'Engaging Pictures' exhibition shows photographs and stories representing ten migrants' lives and their contribution to life in Scotland. It is the culmination of the 'Engaging Pictures' project, which has brought together migrants and Scots to engage in a dialogue and promote a better integrated Scotland.

Photographs by Portrait Photographer, Karen Gordon.

Nazek Ramadan, Migrant Voice Director said:

“The 'Engaging Pictures' exhibition aims to present a more accurate and positive portrayal of migrants, their role as an integral part of the community and their contribution to life in their new home.

This is particularly important at a time when the rhetoric in the debate on migration is increasingly negative. The 'latest measures such as the 'Go Home Posters' in Glasgow and the latest Immigration Bill where landlords and GPs will check and inform on immigration status, is leading to a toxic atmosphere and the development of increasing hostility, xenophobia, discrimination and intolerance towards migrants.”

Saturday, 2nd November 2013, 5pm – 8pm

Govanhill Baths

99 Calder Street

Glasgow G42 7RA

Lunchtime Live @ The Shed

Another series of lunchtime events have been announced at the Shed. £10 for a pie, drink and a show is a pretty good deal. There are a variety of different shows which should appeal to everyone.

You can get more information here.