🕺 The Glasgow Culture Wrap: 31 July - 6 August 2024

Govanhill International Festival & Carnival starts, Tramway shows announced, Singing I’m No a Billy He’s a Tim returns + food/drink updates, jobs, opportunities and more

Welcome to The Culture Wrap, Edition 10. This weekly curation of the city’s top creative news, food + drink updates, events, jobs and opportunities for paid subscribers hits your inbox on Wednesdays to help you stay on top of all things culture in Glasgow (in about 5 minutes or less). If you have something to be featured 👉 *please* send it in via form

🗞 Culture news this week:

🎶 Finlay MacDonald, director of piping at Glasgow’s National Piping Centre and director of Piping Live!, spoke to Jim Gilchrist at The Scotsman ahead of the festival next month. He said: “In terms of emerging talent and new strands to the festival we’re really trying to push that, making sure we’re encouraging new music to be written and providing a platform for it.”

🍷 There are still some tickets available for Vin Vivant on August 10, the first-ever natural wine-tasting festival in the city featuring over 120 organic, biodynamic and minimal intervention wines. More info.

🎙 Comedian Paul Black is performing his new stand-up act, All Sorts, at the Armadillo on November 22. - Ben Waddell, Glasgow Times.

🎈 Govanhill International Festival & Carnival starts on Thursday (August 1). Full programme & tickets.