🕺 The Glasgow Culture Wrap: 17 - 24 June 2025
Sadia Sikandar at GoMA, fair work for arts sector plea, The Revelator Open Exhibition, Imagine Glasgow open call, Barrowlands Park music fest, Glasgow Jazz Festival, Fringe for a Fiver & more...
🕺 Good Afternoon, Glasgow! Welcome to Edition 51 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.
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🎨 Arts & Culture
🎭 ‘Fair Work is still a distant dream for some of Scotland's arts sector’ - STUC General Secretary Roz Foyer unpacks the organisation’s latest report, Freelance and Forgotten, for The Herald.
📸 Sadia Sikandar’s new photography exhibition, 'Unwritten Milestones: The Silent Talent Trapped in Limbo' at GoMA, is shining a light on the backlog in the asylum system and the everyday struggles faced by those seeking refugee status. - Gabriel McKay, The Herald.
✍️ Refugee Festival Scotland: Writer and actor Amira Al Shanti on her experience of dual identity - Callum McCormack, Glasgow World.
🏍️ The Revelator’s Open The Doors summer open exhibition is on July 5-6 from 11am to 6pm. - Details.
📰 Meet the tablers at this year’s Glasgow Zine Fair, taking place at Tramway from July 2-6. - More info.
📘 The GSA Essay Anthology: Ideas in Print, a selection of the incredible essays and dissertations produced by students across the Glasgow School of Art, was launched last week. - details.
✏️ Grateful Gallery’s You Do Doodle, a casual sketch night for artists and amateurs, returns to The Vic Cafe Bar on June 24 from 6-9pm. - Details.
💐 Bring your own Vase flower arranging class with Studio Mazzolino is a new workshop at The Chip where you can flex your green thumb over a glass of wine starting next month. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live. Tickets.
👖 Hollister is now open at Silverburn. - Ava Whyte, Glasgow Times.
🐶 Everything you need to know about Barklove: Glasgow's biggest dog festival coming to SWG3 on July 6. - Liam Smillie, Glasgow World.
💋 Meet the Glaswegian stars of I Kissed A Boy season two - Morgan Carmichael, Glasgow Times.
🏙️ Imagine Glasgow, a bi-annual exhibition at New Glasgow Society, has an open call for participants to submit ambitious architecture and design ideas for the city’s future. - Details.
🎞️ Pride Month: BFI Flare x BAFTA Panel, a conversation with producer Isabella Bassett and writer/director/performer Sarah Grant, is at The Social Hub on Thursday (June 19). - Tickets.
🥧 A Play A Pie A Pint has a performer call out for its first scratch night, A Slice of the Pie, on July 4. Deadline: June 18. - Details.
📝 Off The Record Scotland has posted the latest creative opportunities curation on Instagram.
🎤 Music, Theatre & Stage
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