🕺 The Glasgow Culture Wrap: 3 - 10 March 2026
Yardworks returns, inside Trongate eviction row, CCA update, Cafe D'Jaconelli exhibit in Maryhill, new art shows, creative opportunities and funding, what's on the stages this week + more...
🕺 Good Afternoon, Glasgow and welcome to Edition 82 of The Culture Wrap.
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👩🎨 Latest culture news
🎨 Yardworks Festival, Scotland’s flagship graffiti and street‑art weekender, returns to SWG3 on Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 May 2026 for its 10th anniversary, promising a bigger line‑up of muralists, workshops, family activity and street‑art cycling tours.
🖌️ GMAC chair appeals to film stars over Trongate eviction row - Andrew Learmonth spoke with Mark Langdon after council-owned property company City Property issued notices to quit to arts organisations based in a landmark Merchant City cultural hub.
↳ Trongate 103 shows arty Glasgow dying before our eyes - Theatre critic Neil Cooper shares his thoughts on the Merchant City/City Property eviction row for The Herald.
🍦 A new exhibition at the Maryhill Burgh Halls explores the Scottish-Italian migration and community through the story of Cafe D’Jaconelli, a century-old cafe that featured in Trainspotting. - Craig Williams, The Herald.
👀 Councillor Annette Christie, SNP, said the Sauchiehall Street Culture and Heritage District award is “very welcome” and Glasgow Life is in ongoing conversation with Creative Scotland over whether the £2.35 million pot could be put towards the CCA situation. - Sarah Hilley, Local Democracy Reporter, Glasgow Live.
🎻 The Reeling festival, which is usually held in Rouken Glen Park, will move to Edinburgh this year. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.
🎸 Rushfest Scotland returns to the city in May for a weekend-long celebration of Canadian rock legends Rush. - Amy Myles, Glasgow Times.
🖌️ Colourful Women, a new show by Debbie Green, opens at Alchemy Experiment on March 6, with money raised going to Women’s Aid. - Instagram.
🗞️ The latest newsletter from Glasgow Art Map is here with a detailed programme of the exhibits happening around the city this week.
🧟♀️ Scotland’s biggest horror convention, Horror Con Scotland, is stalking back into the SEC on Saturday 11 April 2026 with an occult‑themed day of guests, panels, scare zones and horror‑market oddities. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
🖼️ Beagles & Ramsay: Posters Invitations Press Releases 1996–2026 launched at Broadside, Govanhill (26 February – 14 March). Three decades of ephemera from the Glasgow art duo. - Glasgow Art Map.
🧪 Days and Years by Hannah Ellul opened at Glasgow Project Room, Trongate 103 (28 February – 8 March). - ArtRabbit
↳ A four-channel sound installation exploring language loss, translation and song – voices describe their shifting relationship with Arabic, their first language, with close attention to hesitation, repetition and non-verbal sound.
🎨 Violet opened at Project Ability, Trongate 103 (28 February – 11 April). A group exhibition bringing together 33 artists from across all three of Project Ability's studio programmes. - Project Ability.
📸 Brutal Scotland: Scotland's Post-War Modernist Architecture by Simon Phipps opened at Street Level Photoworks (21 February – 16 May). - Street Level Photoworks.
🎨 Gnash pops up at Boxing Gym Gallery in Dalmarnock from 13–20 March with A Rose is a Rose and is Not a Rose, a group show of artists testing humour, language and semiotics, with a private view on Friday 13 March (18:00–21:00) and step‑free access via lift and ramp. - Instagram.
🎨 A Mark on Heaven by Alistair Quietsch at Mono (until 12 March). Open daily 11am–10pm. - Glasgow Art Map.
🧵 The Creative Craft Show & The Scottish Quilting Show hits the SEC from 5–7 March. - Creative Craft Show.
✊ International Women's Day Exhibition by Agora Gla at Burns Street Studios on March 7. Featuring 38 artists, with an opening party 7–10pm (tunes, workshops, pop-up shop, Brewgooder welcome drinks). Gallery open through 10 March. - What’s On Glasgow.
🏡 Strathbungo Window Wanderland returns on Saturday 7 March, 6–9pm. - What’s On Glasgow.
🎨 Skypark’s refurbished Donated Gallery has reopened in Finnieston, inviting applications from artists, festivals and charities for free exhibition slots in the office campus’ street‑facing project space. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
