🕺 The Glasgow Culture Wrap: 5 - 12 March 2025
Tributes to Jack Vettriano, Sonica x Ukraine Construction Festival, new Creative Scotland opportunities, Kenny Thomson BEM retires, plus food & drink updates and gig, screen & stage announcements
🕺 Welcome to The Culture Wrap, Edition 38. 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:
🖼️ First Minister John Swinney has led tributes to Scottish painter Jack Vettriano who died aged 73. - Keiran Fleming, STV.
🔊 Sonica Glasgow has announced its first-ever collaboration with Ukraine’s Construction Festival at Glad Cafe on April 10. Expect an eclectic lineup of musicians including Ukrainian sound artist Khrystyna Kirik, French-German-UK trio Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm and Scottish-Portuguese sound artist and musician SHHE. - More info.
👩🎨 Creative Scotland has posted its new job openings on Instagram. Explore all opportunities here.
🎻 One of the UK's serving choir conductors, Kenny Thomson BEM, is retiring after 42 years as conductor of the Glasgow Gaelic Musical Association. A special concert Urram do Choinneach will be held on March 14 in his honour. - Sandhya Suresh, Glasgow Times.
🖌️ Transmission Gallery has an open call for two new committee members to join the collaborative, artist-led space in Merchant City. - Application form.
🍹 Evoke Events is putting on a Sip and Thrift event at The Record Factory on Sunday, March 23 in support of Women’s Aid. - Eventbrite.
🧸 MILK Community Centre and Parents for Peace are hosting a Solidarity Jumble Sale on March 30 (12-4pm) to raise funds for families in Gaza. - More info.
🎸 Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland’s Girl Bands is on at Kelvinhall on Saturday to mark International Women’s Day. It’s sold out at the time of writing but you can still join the waitlist.
📰 Glasgow Zine Library has a “bumper month of events” to celebrate longer days and hopefully better weather. More info on their website.
⚡The Skinny has put together some round-ups for this month:
↳ Scottish New Music Round-up: March 2025 - Tallah Brash.
↳ Scottish Live Music Highlights: March 2025 - Tallah Brash.
🌟 Elaine C Smith spoke with Paul English from The Sunday Post about being honoured with the Freedom of the City accolade.
💫 Peter Capaldi speaks to Paul Trainer at Glasgow World about his new album Sweet Illusions and growing up in Glasgow.
🪩 The Garage is celebrating 31 years with an Overs party on March 29. - Sean Murphy, Glasgow Live.
👕 Bee Inspired is opening a new shop in Silverburn later this year. - Declan McConville, Glasgow World.
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