🕺 The Glasgow Culture Wrap: 19 - 25 June 2024
Welcome to your weekly Glasgow culture update! A one-stop shop for creative news, food and drink updates, exciting announcements, jobs + opportunities.
Welcome to The Glasgow Culture Wrap, edition 4. Each Wednesday, this weekly curation of the city’s top creative news, food + drink updates, events, jobs and opportunities hits your inbox to help you stay on top of all things culture in Glasgow (in about 5 minutes or less). If you have something to be featured 👉 *please* send it in via form or email.
🗞 Culture news this week:
🎸 Gene Gallagher, son of Oasis legend Liam Gallagher, is performing at Stereo in November with his band Villanelle. - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
⚓ Below Deck’s Captain Lee is hosting an event at the O2 Academy on October 8, An Evening with Captain Lee: Nightcap. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.
🌹 Glasgow Pavilion Theatre has revealed the cast for this year’s pantomime, Beauty & the Beastie including Grado and Stephen Purdon as Hammie and Tammie. - Declan McConville, Glasgow World.
🖼 An “impressive” art collection belonging to the late Herald journalist (and Glasgow’s “Urban Voltaire”) Jack McLean will go under the hammer at McTear’s on June 20. - Caroline Wilson, The Herald.
🩰 Tickets are on sale now for Scottish Ballet’s spring 2025 show, The Crucible. The award-winning rendition of Arthur Miller’s play will be at Theatre Royal May 22-24, 2025. More info.
🪩 The 30+ Club, an early disco exclusively for folk over 30, is coming to Glasgow after finding success in Ireland. The event will take over Glasgow’s O2 Academy September 14 (5pm-9pm). - Rebecca Newlands, Glasgow Times.
🎵 Headed to TRNSMT next month? David Hepburn has the full stage splits for all three days of the Glasgow Green festival for The Scotsman.
🟢 SPOT is hosting a 5th Birthday Market on June 23 back where it all began, Civic House.
🎸 The Bathers have released new music for the first time in nearly 25 years. The band will play at Glasgow University Debates Chamber tomorrow and there are a few tickets left at the time of writing. Read Ann Fotheringham’s interview with founder Chris Thomson in the Glasgow Times.
🎀 The Corset Club is hosting a new monthly show called ECHO to showcase emerging and established queer artists. More info.
🎷 Glasgow Jazz Festival starts today. Check out the full programme & buy tickets.
↳ Iconic label Blue Note Records is popping up at Loud & Clear on St Vincent Street June 19-22 for the festival. It’s the first time the shop will have a store outside of London and will be stocking the largest physical collection of Blue Note vinyl for sale in the UK. - Mike Flynn, Jazzwise.
📚 Tickets are on sale now for The Village Storytelling Festival 2024 at CCA (June 25-29). Full listings.
↳ “Scotland’s biennial Contemporary and Community Storytelling Festival is back for 2024! Join us as we explore themes of identity and language through a rich and diverse programme of performance from acclaimed international storytellers premiering new work in Scotland, award winning homegrown talent and exciting new emerging voices in storytelling.”
🍽 Food & Drink updates
☕ Exceedingly popular cafe OUTLIER is dabbling in dinner service. Click here to book.
🍴 In his latest review for The Herald, restaurant critic Ron Mackenna gives The Giffnock Cafe a glowing review. “Very high standard of cooking and presentation. Simple stuff done well. Scallops outstanding, hanger steak and rib-eye fab,” he writes.
🍝 Hinba Coffee Roasters is opening a new location inside Sauchiehall Street’s McLellan Works. Instagram.
🥂 The Skinny has launched Gnaw Magazine, a new food and drink publication for Scotland. Issues will hit the stands later this month.
🎭 What’s on Glasgow’s stages this week?
↳ Hen Night Horror, a new musical by Fraser Boyle and Ali Clelland about a bride attempting to bring together warring bridesmaids with a hen night in the Highlands, is at The Pavilion June 20-22. More info.
↳ Mumbelina, the summer panto at Oran Mor, starts on June 25 and runs until July 20. “One morning Mumbelina wakes up to discover she’s shrunk to smaller than Glasgow city council arts budget. And to make matters worse she’s been kidnapped by the wicked amphibian dark overlord Froggie Mercury.” More info.
↳ Party of the Century directed by Joe Douglas is on at Oran Mor for A Play A Pie and a Pint June 17-22. More info.
↳ Grease is on at the King’s Theatre until June 22. More info.
↳ Life of Pi is on at Theatre Royal until June 22. More info.
📌 Culture news from the Community Noticeboard
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📌 Wall Sun Sun launch their new album – ELK – at The Old Hairdresser's on Renfield Lane in Glasgow on Sunday 23rd June from 8pm. Tickets. Thanks for sending this in!
👨🎨 Networking, jobs and funding opportunities
↳ Here are the new opportunities:
✒ Kyoobit is looking for a Creative Director. Salary £30,000. Deadline June 19.
🏠 Provan Hall Community Management Trust is looking for creatives to help “deliver an inspiring creative programme at Provan Hall. Project Fee £8,000. Deadline: June 27. Apply.
🎥 New Netflix project Prodigal Father is looking for extras aged 18-80. Compensation undisclosed. Filming in Summer 2024. More info via Two 10 Casting.
🎞 Scottish Queer International Film Festival (SQIFF) has a £1000 commission for a queer artist based in Scotland to create the artwork for this year’s festival. Deadline: June 30. Pitch form.
🎛 Stereo has a DJ open call for new talent to play at the venue in August. Those who haven’t played in a club setting yet will be prioritised. Compensation undisclosed. Deadline: July 1. Apply.
↳ Tabac is also looking to promote new DJ talent from marginalised and underrepresented groups with BUTTER curated by REYKA. More info.
↳ Still open:
👩🎨 The CCA has an open call out for artists and designers to create window display artwork for its new Learning Space. Artist Fee £510. Deadline: 30 June. More info.
🩰 Scottish Ballet seek a Partnerships Manager (Maternity Cover, temporary, 12 months). Salary is £30,000 to £32,000. Deadline: 5 July.
🎭 The Arika arts organisation is hiring an Episode Artist Support and Liaison Manager for its run at Tramway in November. The contract payment is approximately £11,938. Deadline: 1 July.
🎭 Local arts charity Cryptic is looking for a new Administrator. It currently has a core team of six people and employs freelance artists and contractors throughout the year. Knowledge of the arts sector is not essential. They say: “We are looking for a person who has an interest in the arts, is pro-active and enjoys working within a small busy team.” Salary: £27,500. Deadline: 24 June.
🎞️ Glasgow Short Film Festival is has a contract available for a Programme Lead role. The fee is £7,200 and the deadline is 21 June.
🎼 National Youth Orchestras of Scotland are looking for a new Chair of the Board. Deadline: 2 August. Salary not listed.
🥧 A Play, A Pie and A Pint are looking for two full-time Designers. Salary: £25.5K. Deadline: June 24.
🖌 There’s a studio space at the Barclay Curle complex for an artist or two with large windows. £160/month. More info.
✏ More studio spaces are available at Hayburn Studios near Partick station. More info.
🟢 SPOT Design Market has a call out for designers/makers/food+drink producers/artists/florists etc to register their interest in taking part in upcoming events this year. More info.
💰 Culture organisations in arts and heritage can now apply to the Culture & Business Scotland Fund. Deadline: March 31, 2025.