🕺 The Glasgow Culture Wrap: 19 - 25 February 2025
Gaelic Arts Plan introduced, Short Film Festival programme, new mural, Glasgow Art Map archive + food/drink updates, gig/stage announcements and more
🕺 Welcome to The Culture Wrap, Edition 36. This weekly curation of all things food/drink/arts/music for paid subscribers hits your inbox every Wednesday afternoon.
The most-viewed links from the last Glasgow Culture Wrap:
🗞 Culture News:
🎶 Glasgow Life has introduced a new Gaelic Arts Plan 2025-2029 to safeguard, strengthen and celebrate Gaelic language, arts, music and culture in the city. - Liam Smillie, Glasgow World.
🎞 Glasgow Short Film Festival reveals 2025 programme - Jamie Dunn, The Skinny.
📖 Numbers presents the launch of Elijah - Make The Ting at Exit tonight at 7pm. The lecture will cover Elijah’s new book concepts with a Q+A session. - Instagram.
👩🎨 Refuweegee, Glasgow School of Art and GUM are hosting a fundraiser exhibition on Friday to celebrate Refuweegee’s move into a new space near George Square. Free but ticketed.
🎛 Synthesis, a free exhibition involving electronic music alongside digital and abstract art is at Strange Field on Monday, February 24. - More info.
🎶 Glasgow indie band Bottle Rockets is dropping a new single called Video Call tomorrow. - Liam Smillie, Glasgow World.
🍴 Still Game actor Sanjeev Kohli spoke to Glasgow World about his top picks for people, places and music in Glasgow. - Declan McConville.
👗 This year’s Glasgow Charity Fashion Show theme is ESSENCE. Simona Lomangino speaks to the team for Glasgow Guardian ahead of the March 1 show.
🤳 The Agency: Unfiltered, a reality show that follows Scotland’s biggest influencer agency, is back on BBC iPlayer for Series 3. Full press release.
🎨 Creative Glasgow is bringing its regular monthly members meet up to Third Eye Bar for the city’s creative community to network in person on February 27. Free and open to all! - RSVP via Tickettailor.
🖼 Glasgow Art Map’s archive is officially live with every exhibition ever featured on the map since 2018, searchable by gallery, artist and year. - More info.
🏟 TRNSMT 2025: Your ultimate festival guide including dates, line-up, travel and accommodation - Benjamin Jackson, Glasgow World.
🖌 Shaun Devenney has painted a new mural “on the general disconnect and apathy that’s been shown in the face of insanity we’ve all been watching on our phones for the past year”. It’s at the corner of West Nile Street and Bath Street. - Instagram.
🍽 Food & Drink News:
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to The Glasgow Wrap to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.