🕺 The Glasgow Culture Wrap: 06 - 13 May 2025
Glasgow Group recognition for Clare Henry, CCA May programme revealed, Rains opening in city centre, Grateful Gallery fundraiser, DIG returns + more...
🕺 Good Afternoon, Glasgow! Welcome to Edition 46 of The Culture Wrap. This newsletter, exclusive to paid subscribers, is the result of a week spent wading through clickbait, ads, social media sludge and confusing event websites to bring you a curation of the top culture news of the week. Consider upgrading your subscription for just £5 to get full access and support The Wrap.
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👗 Glasgow pupil 'flies flag for Scotland' at global fashion contest
🎞️ Wrongful Glasgow Airport arrest to be made into feature film
🎨 Arts & Culture
👩🎨 Clare Henry, a long-time critic for The Herald, has been made an honorary member of the Glasgow Group nearly 50 years after she first started writing about their exhibitions. - Brian Ferguson has the exclusive for The Herald.
🎞️ Falastin Film Festival is this weekend. Ahead of the Palestinian film festival, Maria Farsoon spoke to co-founders Nastassia Isawi and Gabrielle Kacha for The Skinny.
📽️ The CCA has announced a new multi-part exhibition, The Ring in the Fish by Alia Syed. Featuring a new experimental 16mm film work, the show draws inspiration from the tale of St Mungo. May 17-July 26. - Details.
↳ EXTRATEMPORAL, a solo exhibition by Robert Thomas James Mills (RTJM), is on until May 24. - Details.
↳ More information on the CCA’s May programme via Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
🎸 Our city’s music heritage is being celebrated in a new guide, Glasgow’s Greatest Hits: Tales From The City of Music, compiled by the three founders of the Glasgow City Music Tours. It will be published on June 5. - Brian Ferguson has the exclusive for The Herald.
📷 Pictures from inside the Glasgow School of Art 2025 fashion show by Colin Mearns are in the Glasgow Times. - Beth Oliver.
🎨 More than 80 Glasgow artists have signed up for Artesial, an online platform founded in Scotland that aims to connect artists with local buyers to create a network of artists and collectors that removes commission fees and traditional barriers. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times. Check out the website.
🖼️ The Dowanhill tenement that features in Avril Paton’s famous painting, Windows in the West, is on the market for offers over £575,000. - Kieran Webster, Glasgow Live.
☔ Rains has opened on Ingram Street. Co-founder and CEO Daniel Brix Hesselager said: “It’s exciting to launch in a city with such a strong cultural landscape, with world-renowned art and design schools, which is one of the reasons we chose Glasgow as the home to our first Scottish store.”
🧑🎨 The CCA has a new open call for Intermedia Gallery proposals designed to support artists with space and resources to present new work. - Deadline June 17; £1,150 budget per exhibition.
↳ There is also a call out for artist facilitators for the CCA Young People Programme for Summer 2025. - Deadline May 21, £855 + £150 Materials Fee.
🖌️ Artists OhPandah and Ciaran Globel have launched a fundraiser to open a new Grateful Gallery in Garnethill. Check it out via GoFundMe.
☀️ Check out Outer Spaces’ latest events and installations coming up amid their takeover of the former Clydesdale banking hall at 30 St Vincent Place. - Programme.
🎤 Music, Theatre & Stage
🩰 Tramway’s Dance International Glasgow (DIG) festival is back from Friday until May 24. Check out the programme at a glance. Event website.
🎤 Malin Lewis: Halocline Anniversary is at The Rum Shack tomorrow (May 7). “Hair tingling, philosophical and dance inducing melodies inspired by European folk traditions, queerness and the universe.” - Tickets.
🎭 Strictly Come Dancing’s Ore Oduba will join the cast of Picture You Dead, an adaptation of Peter James’ novel. Theatre Royal, June 10-14. - Amy Myles, Glasgow Times.
🎻 The Reeling’s festival founder Michael Pellegrotti has shared his top five picks for fans attending this year’s trad music festival. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.
🍯 “Glasgow’s biggest nineties and noughties day party” Jam Pot is back at BAaD on June 7. - Tickets on sale now.
🎤 The Theatre College of Scotland's latest production, 9 to 5: The Musical, will be performed at Glasgow's Boardwalk Theatre for two nights on May 9 and 10. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
🎅 The Muppet Christmas Carol is coming to the SEC on November 27. Tickets on sale soon.
🎤 Eurovision stars Remember Monday will perform at SWG3 on October 28. - Nicole Mitchell, Glasgow Times.
🎸 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club are coming to the O2 Academy on December 11. - Details.
🎼 John Wilson and Sinfonia of London will perform Rodgers & Hammerstein Greatest Hits at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on June 28. - Ann Fotheringham, Glasgow Times. - Tickets.
🎶 Other gig announcements this week: Spacey Jane/Barrowlands; Jessie Murph/Barrowlands; Zach Templar/King Tut’s; Model/Actriz The Art School; Knox/The Garage; Newton Faulkner/SWG3; Ray LaMontagne/SEC Armadillo; Food House/King Tut’s; Cloth/King Tut’s.
🎙️ Ahren Belisle and Martin Phillips, two comedians who gained popularity as Golden Ticket Winners on the Kill Tony podcast, are performing at Reid Hall on June 3. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
🎻 The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra has released a new album, Sleeping Warrior, after collaborating with Clockwork Sessions Studio. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.