Before 5pm, Talks & lectures

Amy Lamé and David Coke have a natter about the Vauxhall and its history and culture.

Cybraphon, the autonomous and emotional robot band, joins the permanent collection of National Museums Scotland, and Alexander Hayward is joined by Professor Simon Kirby of FOUND, Mark Daniels of New Media Scotland, and Alison Taubman of National Museums Scotland to welcome it to its new home.

Deus ex machina is probably one of the oldest dramatic plot devices. Professor of Theatre at Hull University Christopher Baugh explores some of the relationships between technology and performance and the ways in which new technologies are creating new forms of theatre. Chaired by James Robinson of National Museums…

The modern piano is as different from Mozart’s piano as a Mercedes from a horsedrawn carriage. But what effect did changes in the instrument have on the music written for it? Concert pianist Kenneth Hamilton, Professor of Music at Cardiff University, offers insights into three centuries of music at the keyboard. Chaired…

The Arditti Quartet’s acclaimed founding violinist, Irvine Arditti and Margaret Faultless, worldrenowned specialist in historical performance practice, discuss string playing techniques past and present in the company of BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service.

Hamish Innes-Brown from the Bionics Institute Melbourne draws on the experience of commissioning music for cochlear implant users to explore how artists utilise and influence technology. Chaired by Stephen Allen of National Museums Scotland.

Period performance has been famously dubbed ‘the most modern sound around’. Clarinettist and Director of the Royal College of Music Professor Colin Lawson discusses the value of using period instruments today with Alexander Hayward of National Museums Scotland.

Join us for a celebratory afternoon of readings, performances, installations and poetry films. With water as this year's theme, be carried along on a wave of words as the Poetry Society and Southbank Centre celebrate National Poetry Day. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall Free

A two-day conference organised by Glasgow Natural History Society, featuring a series of talks, workshops, and excursions about the influence of ecology on wildlife conservation in Scotland. In celebration of the British Ecological Society's 100th anniversary.

Nature stirs powerful emotions, creating awe-inspiring moments that can change our perspective and make us feel more alive. Sara Maitland, author of Gossip From the Forest and David Maitland, one of the world's most highly regarded nature photographers, discuss how nature inspires them in their work. 'Awe is a…

A panel of emerging choreographers discusses the New Voices programme, hosted by Dance Base Artistic Director Morag Deyes.

SUNDAY 8 DECEMBER Weekend events from 10am 'We live in a time not of mainstreams but of many streams', said composer John Cage. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, old certainties were cast aside and globalisation made a truly worldwide musical scene. During this December weekend we ask: what next? View the full…

SATURDAY 7 - SUNDAY 8 DECEMBER Weekend events from 10am 'We live in a time not of mainstreams but of many streams', said composer John Cage. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, old certainties were cast aside and globalisation made a truly worldwide musical scene. During this December weekend we ask: what next?

Learn about the fascinating four hundred year history of the country park.

Mark Stevenson is a writer, deep-thinker and stand-up comedian. When suddenly confronted with his own mortality, he began to consider what the future holds for our species. Stevenson set out simply, asking, 'What's next?' He then travelled the world looking for the answers. Find out about his encounters with…

In a world increasingly dominated by chaos and noise, Tim Parks' critically acclaimed Teach Us To Sit Still champions the transformative power of silence. 'Just when I seemed to be walled up in a life sentence of chronic pain, someone proposed a bizarre way out - sit still, they said, and breathe…' Level 5 Function…

Glasgow Music Therapy Centre hosts an open evening to allow those in the community to gain insight into the work of Nordoff-Robbins, and even make a little music themselves! At 5.30pm, catch a live performance from one of the drumming groups.

Local craftsman Gordon Stevenson demonstrates his woodland heritage techniques. Taking inspiration from history, folklore and natural beauty, Gordon makes horn ware from local timber and red stag antler, collected in the wintertime after the stags have shed their horns naturally.

A final African adventure from the writer whose gimlet eye and effortless prose have brought the world to generations of readers. The Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux's ultimate safari. He talks to Rosie Goldsmith about his journey in the kingdom of light, from Cape Town, heading northwards up the left-hand…

SUNDAY 6 OCTOBER Weekend events from 10am A new generation. Innovation. Radicalisation. Electronics. In the six years of the Second World War, art, music and technology had been used to manipulate and destroy. Composers saw no option but to start from scratch and set about creating radical new music in the…

Ann Cvetkovich looks at the possibilities of a queer community politics and how aspects of queer life and intimacy are depathologised to create new modes of creative survival.

Tom Murray, the Purse Bearer to the Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, explains his complex role.