🕺 The Glasgow Culture Wrap: 16 - 23 April 2025
Wastelands Festival, new fashion event, creative internship programme, cheap drinks at BLOC+, questionable champagne terrace appears, Wes Ander-Season, gig announcements & more
🕺 Good Afternoon, Glasgow! Welcome to Edition 43 of The Culture Wrap. For the uninitiated, this newsletter for 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.
The most-viewed links from the last Glasgow Culture Wrap:
🎨 Arts & Culture
🎵 When prog rock ruled the world - the Glasgow band which led the way - Russell Leadbetter looks back at Beggars Opera's debut, Act One, for The Herald.
🚇 I did the Glasgow sub crawl and discovered what’s killing our pubs - Mark Smith takes a ride on the Subway and speaks to publicans around the route about the industry.
🎶 Wastelands Festival is taking place across BAaD, Stereo, SLAY and Room 2 from June 6-8 with 80+ of the city’s top bands and DJs on the line up. - Find out more.
🦋 Glasgow Women’s Library is hosting a launch for the new freely available Audiobook of the late Cathy McCormack’s ‘The Wee Yellow Butterfly’ on Saturday, June 21. - Instagram.
👗 SALAD Sessions x Scotland Re:Design: From Paris with Love is a new one-day fashion event at Social Hub on May 10, filled with panel discussions to unpack Scotland’s evolving role in the fashion world. - Gemma Meek, Quine Magazine. Tickets.
📝 Applications are open for the UNLOCKED Internship Programme, a programme aimed at “unlocking” new internships for marginalised ethnicities and those from low-income backgrounds who are underrepresented in the creative industries. - Find out more.
👶 The Weeling, a festival for youngsters with ceilidh sessions, story-led yoga and crafts, will debut as part of The Reeling Festival at Rouken Glen this summer (June 7-8). - Festival Website.
👩🎨 Check out the latest creative opportunities via Creative Scotland.
👖 ILOVEYOURXES is hosting an Easter weekend pop up at The Alchemy Experiment. - Instagram.
🍽 Food & Drink
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