Days Out, Previews

World International Acrobatics Championships

2 Oct 2008

The cream of the British acrobatic crop are gathering in Glasgow to compete over ten days against stiff competition from countries including Russia and China. Bring along a Union Jack to wave, and prepare to be amazed, excited or maybe just thoroughly…

Glasgay! - Tennessee Williams

18 Sep 2008

Some years ago, I attended a conference where a debate about the work of Tennessee Williams came very nearly to blows. The bone of contention involved Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, in which the character Brick confesses an attraction to a friend that surpasses…

2008 Merchant City Festival

18 Sep 2008

Anyone who has cast their eye over the website for this year’s Merchant City Festival will have found the photograph of Baillie Gordon Matheson flicking through the festival programme while a pair of parkour performers jump around him. In suit and tie…

Glasgay! - Highlights

18 Sep 2008

David Trullo’s Ecce Homo & Gregor Laird’s Plastic Pastorals These two rising stars of the European art circuit display their wares at the Q! Gallery. Spanish photographer Trullo unpicks the enduring Western obsession with beauty while Scot Laird…

Magnificent Machines

18 Sep 2008

Boys and their toys, eh? The pick of the vehicular crop will gather at the National Museum of Flight for ‘Magnificent Machines’ on Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 September and will welcome car enthusiasts, families and big kids alike. Expect a mouth-watering…

Words 2008

A way with words

4 Sep 2008

How do you create an exhibition of creative writing? And why? Kirstin Innes finds out about Words 2008

Glasgow Pride

Out and proud

21 Aug 2008

It’s that time of year again. Dig out the cowboy hats, the feather boas and anything whatsoever with a rainbow on it. Oh, and dig out your conviction about your sexuality because this is one of the best days of the year to make a statement, celebrate…

Farm Open Day

14 Aug 2008

Experience countryside life in the east end of Glasgow at the Tollcross Children’s farm. Open 7 days a week from 10am-3pm, the farm boasts a variety of farmyard animals to get up close and personal with, as well as a fun-filled day of music and games…

Hidden Gardens

Birds suddenly appear

14 Aug 2008

The Hidden Gardens, tucked away behind Tramway, may have been open for five years, but many people aren’t aware of the rich cultural history that’s entrenched in the foundations of the site and built into its design. ‘When the Gardens opened, we…

Big Things on the Beach

7 Aug 2008

If you’ve got a couple of hours on your hands and fancy getting out of the flyer-strewn city centre, hop on a bus to Portobello, where 30 of the sea-facing private gardens have been made over into outdoor galleries. Visit www.bigthingsonthebeach.org.uk…

All day hip hop event

31 Jul 2008

Banksy’s subversive street art sells for millions, Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre are basically musical royalty and films such as Step Up 2 continue to popularise break-dancing and battling. Hip hop and street culture couldn’t be having more of a moment. Funny…

Afr-I-Can

17 Jul 2008

Running between June and September, Afr-I-can is a loose series of events, talks, workshops and concerts led by artists of African origin and celebrating African achievement. Although the events are mainly aimed at families of African and Caribbean…

Big Tent Festival 2008

17 Jul 2008

While the pretend hippies drive their SUVs to Glastonbury and this year’s T in the Park fades into lager-sodden memory, all yer actual planet-savers are off to Falkland Palace. The Big Tent Festival, which grew out of a response to the 2005 G8 summit…

Up river city

17 Jul 2008

Ahead of the fifth annual Glasgow River Festival, Eve Barlow discovers why the nautical look is big this year.

Sound offering - sound 2008 Festival

17 Jul 2008

It might be all quiet in the Central Belt, but the cultural flurry up North continues this fortnight with the launch of sound 2008, which sets its musical stall in Aberdeen this October. Now in its fourth year, the multi-genre festival will feature two…

Scotland: A Changing Nation

3 Jul 2008

‘I don’t want to blow our own trumpet, or anything,’ says Maureen Barrie, standing with her arms spread in front of a blank wall that will shortly be emblazoned with a giant replica of a Tunnock’s Teacake, ‘but we’re a hell of a nation if you think…

Good Vibrations

3 Jul 2008

One of the Capital’s most exciting visitor attractions, Our Dynamic Earth, has teamed up with Edinburgh International Science Festival to bring you Good Vibrations. Join Maestro and Bella as they embark on a journey of discovery to find out how noise is…

Wet Sounds

3 Jul 2008

Underwater, you hear things differently. This is part of the thinking behind Wet Sounds, a knowingly named tour of sound art which takes place not in uptight white space galleries, but in ten public swimming pools between London and Nairn. With the…

Circus Summer School

3 Jul 2008

The Arches’ long-running circus school rolls around again, headed up by the ever-excellent performer, artist and professional buffoon Al Seed (pictured). It’s a week-long intensive course open to anyone between 15 and 25, during which time you’ll train…

GoMA Family Festival 2008

3 Jul 2008

FUN DAY Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Sat 5 Jul Messing around with paint, glue and glitter is fun at any age, so why should kids have all the fun? Although aimed primarily at 3–12-year-olds, the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) Family Festival…

Koala Alert!

3 Jul 2008

Oh look at this lickle guy! Look at his face! Now feel guilty and concerned, please, because there are less than 100,000 of these eucalyptus-munchin’, fuzzy-faced wee fellas left in the wild. The CEO of the Australian Koala Foundation has flown all the…

All Star Wrestling Tour

19 Jun 2008

Once upon a time, before the well-oiled ogres of WWE ruled the world in day-glo spandex, The Wrestling was a national institution. Every Saturday afternoon in the 1970s and 1980s, everything stopped at 4pm, to watch end-of-the-pier Greek tragedies…

Edinburgh World Justice Festival

19 Jun 2008

An excellent programme of events about global justice this year, with a firm focus on how the ‘ordinary’ Scottish resident can do their bit to help create a fairer world. Highlights include an Alternative Olympics, part family sports day, part…

Edinburgh Treefest

5 Jun 2008

We are aware that there are other festivals covered in this particular issue, and that many of them are trying to be carbon neutral or similarly ecologically friendly. But none of them are actually about trees. A celebration of all things wooden, leafy…

West End Festival

5 Jun 2008

Best for al fresco frolicking There is of course more to the West End Festival than Scotland’s Mardi Gras (pictured), but the impact of 500+ musicians and costumed revellers stopping traffic on Byres Road (Sun 15 Jun) is not to be sniffed at. Propping…