🕺 The Glasgow Culture Wrap: 23 - 29 October 2024
This week's culture news, food & drink updates, creative jobs & funding opportunities.
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🗞 Culture news this week:
🎭 Tributes have been paid to the “brilliantly talented” Maryhill-born actress Myra McFayden after her death aged 68. - Caroline Wilson, The Herald.
📖 Singer Katy Lironi will launch her memoir on family and the 80s music scene at Mono on Thursday (October 24). Read her interview with Ann Fotheringham for Glasgow Times.
✂ Festive Make It Market is happening on December 1 from 10.30am-4.30pm at The Pyramid at Anderston. - Instagram.
🕺 Dance party Hot Towel is taking over The Ivory on November 9 with food from Kofi Kade alongside music from Wheelman, A. Rodgers and Lewis+Sean. Poetry by Maia Harding. - More info.
🎨 Scotland-based South Asian creative community collective Theiyā Arts will bring their new interdisciplinary mixed media performance - Maiden | Mother | Whore to Civic House on November 15, following their 'experiential symposium' for arts and academic collaboration at DanceBase in early October. This new work explores the positioning of women in society, and patterns of oppression and resistance. Thanks to a subscriber for submitting! Eventbrite.
👩🎨 An immersive exhibition celebrating the work of Scottish-Ghanian poet Maud Sulter will open at Tramway on November 23. - Connor Steel, The National.
🔵 Meanwhile, casting has been announced for Blue Now, the live performance of Derek Jarman’s 'Blue,' shown for the first time in Scotland at Tramway on November 2. - More info.
⚱ Govanhill Baths has two Pottery Club workshops: November 2 and November 30. - More info.
🎙 Eddie Chacon and Lylo are playing a gig at Stereo on November 5. - Tickets.
🪩 Disclaimer, a DJ collective, club night and record label, is having its next party at La Cheetah Club tonight (October 23). - Tickets.
🦁 Theatre School of Scotland is putting on 11 performances of the Wizard of Oz panto at the SEC from December 19-23. - Sandhya Suresh, Glasgow Times.
🛁 There is a soundbath at Queen’s Park Govanhill Parish church on Monday, October 28. Find out more.
📕 Pillowtalk is hosting a sex-positive reading group at Glasgow Zine Library on October 29. Details.
🪨 The pop-up at Spot Design Market this weekend is by science illustrator and outdoor educator Rocks On Paper. Expect great chat and geological drawings". - Instagram.
🍽 Food & Drink updates:
🍽 27 best restaurants in Glasgow from fine dining to cheap eats - Rosie Conroy, CN Traveller.
🍝 Caffe Crostini, a new specialist Italian cafe, is open on Dumbarton Road in Partick. - Liam Smillie, Glasgow World.
🚂 Somewhere by Nico’s newest menu is Murder on the Midnight Express, a murder mystery just in time for Halloween. - Bookings.
🍴 Margo (from the team behind Ox and Finch) officially opens on Monday. Everything you need to know about “the most exciting and ambitious restaurant opening in Glasgow this year” by Paul Trainer, Glasgow World.
🍲 Roastits, the sister venue to Fanny Trollopes and former Roastit Bubbly Jocks, is opening Thursday. - Instagram.
☕ Rise and Grind Roastery and Cruice Juice are teaming up to open a new cafe in The Barras called Bain Street Coffee. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.
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