🕺 The Glasgow Culture Wrap: 30 October - 5 November 2024

This week's culture news, food & drink updates, creative jobs & funding opportunities.

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🗞 Culture news this week:

🗿 Glasgow Life has appointed Jane Rowlands as the new head of Museums and Collections. - Craig Williams, The Herald.

🗝 Actress Elaine C Smith is to be awarded the prestigious Freedom of the City honour to mark the Glasgow 850 celebrations. - Stewart Paterson, Glasgow Times.

🎙 Meanwhile, Smith has set up a £500 annual prize to support up-and-coming female comedy actors at the Royal Conservatoire. - Sandhya Suresh, Glasgow Times.

🎞 The first details of the Glasgow Film Festival 2025 (February 26-March 9) have been revealed. - Jamie Dunn, The Skinny.

🎥 World of Film International Festival (WoFF) runs November 7-10 in various venues. Programme.

🎶 Nordic Music Days starts today and runs in various venues until November 3. See the full programme.

🖌 Conzo & Globel have a new exhibit, Nostalgia Trap, opening in the gallery space of Cass Art, Queen Street on November 21. Details.

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🎨 A new mural of Donald Trump behind bars by Ashley Rawson has appeared in the Gorbals. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.

🎤 Glasgow band The Gilhoolys share their charming new single, "Little Glasgow Boy". - posted by Fred Bambridge, It’s All Indie.

🖼 John Lowrie Morrison (Jolomo) has a new exhibit, Jalomo: From Switzerland to the Western Isles, at The Glasgow Gallery (Bath Street). He is known for his use of high-key colour in paintings of Scottish landscapes. - Mark McDougall, The Herald.

🎻 What if history had a soundtrack? The Tenementals reveal their debut album ‘Glasgow: A History’. - University of Glasgow.

👄 The Old Hairdressers has a new comedy night GNASH which illustrates humour as artistic practice. November 13. Tickets.

👕 Finnieston Clothing founder Ross Geddes teamed up with his 92-year-old grandfather to create a sustainable outerwear line using wool from Eaglesham. - Ian McConnell, The Herald.

💄 There’s a Drag & Dine event with Baga Chipz at Platform this weekend to raise money for SAMH. - Claire Lindsay, Glasgow Times.

🎥 James McAvoy is scheduled to start filming California Schemin, his directorial debut, in Glasgow in November. It follows the story of two Scottish brothers who “conned the international music industry”. - Paul Trainer, Glasgow World.

📰 The Face has published a “Going out guide: Glasgow” by Nicole Ndlovu.

🍽 Food & Drink updates:

🍔 Smokey Trotters has taken over the former Good Times Roll in Ibrox. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.

🍝 Roma Restaurant on Bath Street has rebranded as Laz with a new modern Italian menu. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.

🥩 “'New Ox and Finch' Margo will be a huge hit - but I have issues” - read Ron Mackenna’s review of Margo for The Herald.

🎃 Halloween Activities

👻 Provan Hall has adult haunted tours on Thursdays (October 31). Tickets.

🎵 Optimo Halloween X Riverside Museum Halloween Party is on Friday, November 1. - Resident Advisor.

🎉 Meanwhile, Melting Pot X Riverside Museum Halloween Party will light up the Riverside Museum on Saturday, November 2, 2024. - Skiddle.

🤡 GlasGLOW at the Botanics has a new scary area called Clowntown. The event runs until November 10. Tickets.

🧟‍♂️ Gravity Active is having a Ghosts and Ghouls Halloween party on October 31 for parents and toddlers. - Glasgow World.

🎞 Vue cinemas are showing a range of Halloween/horror films. See what’s on.

🍭 Clydebank Halloween trick-or-treat extravaganza returns and this year’s theme is The Wizard of Oz. - Laura Ferguson, Glasgow Live.

🔮 Holmwood Séance Experience invites you to a Victorian Séance hosted by Cara Hamilton on October 30 and 31, 2024, at 8pm. - Eventbrite.

🕵️‍♂️ Glasgow: The Dark Side Tour uncovers the city’s dark history from October 31 to November 3, 2024, with tours from 6:30pm - 8pm and 8:30pm - 10pm. - Walking Tours In Glasgow.

🦇 A Rocky Horror Picture Show Halloween Sing-A-Long will take place at Slay in Merchant City on Thursday, October 31, 2024. - Ticket Tailor.

🎬 The Rocky Horror Picture Show Halloween Scream will be screened at Websters Theatre on November 1, 2024, hosted by Tom Harlow. - Skiddle.

🎃 The Barras Halloween Night Market returns with a Beetlejuice theme on October 31, 2024, from 5pm - 10pm. - The Barras Market.

🛶 Canal Ghost Boat Tour sets sail on the Forth & Clyde Canal for a haunting journey on November 1 and 2, 2024, with tours from 6pm - 7pm and 8pm - 9pm. - Skiddle.

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