Today’s Highlights Thursday 31 July 2014 Events Key: • Comedy • Family • LGBT • Music • Dance and • Film • Literature and • Sporting Event Physical Theatre • Gaelic Spoken Word • Theatre • Visual Arts Green Live Zone

Cycling Time Trial 10.00am to 4.00pm The Shed The Shed is a friendly place for creating your own Living Room imaginative crafts and browsing the works of -based • From Scotland with Love 7.00pm to 8.30pm designers and makers. It includes the workshop space in the Creativity Hothouse and the Big Draw Greenhouse. Please sign up in advance for workshops. Playhouse • - 11.00am to 4.00pm • Glasgow Jazz Festival presents... 11.00am to 11.50am Brass Jaw workshop with Creativity Hothouse Carmen Pieraccini • Glasgow Print Studio - 11.00am to 5.00pm • Glasgow Jazz Festival presents... 1.00pm to 1.45pm Bunting & Banners Brass Jaw • Glasgow Jazz Festival presents... 2.00pm to 3.00pm Stu Brown The Kitchen • Glasgow Jazz Festival presents... 3.15pm to 4.00pm Scotland is a land of food and drink, blessed with world- Young Pilgrims class produce, so visit The Kitchen to enjoy hot smoked salmon • Glasgow Jazz Festival presents... 4.15pm to 5.00pm rolls, gourmet burgers, sushi and wood-fired pizza alongside Penman Jazzmen favourites like haggis, neeps and tatties. Breakfast, lunch or • Mrisi featuring The Funky 7.00pm to 8.00pm dinner, there’s always something cooking in The Kitchen! Fully Shepherds of Lesotho licenced, you’ll also be able to enjoy a refreshing pint, a cocktail and a range of Scottish craft beers whilst catching the sporting action on the big screens. Back Garden Try out lots of sports, including athletics, cycling, hockey, judo and table tennis with Glasgow Sport. Explore how your body works with interactive exhibits from . Have fun and learn new skills playing traditional games from the Commonwealth with UNICEF.

LET’S CELEBRATE TOGETHER CLOSING CEREMONY PARTIES – SUN 3 AUGUST Live Zone & Kelvingrove Bandstand Live Music – Food and Drink – Live Screenings of the Ceremonies Buy your tickets now – Call 0141 353 8000 to book tickets or buy from the Box Office at City Halls or the Museum Shop in the People’s Palace

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Wee House The Wee House is especially for our younger visitors, hosting free Commonwealth-themed family events for ages 0-12 every day, in the Wee Den, Wee Garden and Wee Shed.

Wee Den Wee Shed • Hare & Tortoise with Licketyspit 12noon to 1.00pm • Building a Common Map with 10.00am to 5.30pm and Vision Mechanics Stone Opera • Sotho Sounds - Junk Workshop 1.30pm to 3.30pm • Hare & Tortoise with Licketyspit 4.00pm to 5.00pm Wee Garden and Vision Mechanics Try out sports and play activities with Glasgow Sports, UNICEF and Glasgow play organisations - or get your face painted. Glasgow 2014 Sponsor Family Watch out for many more hands-on experiences including a once-n-a-lifetime speed challenge with Virgin Media; a digital, interactive game with a choice of three sports with Emirates; the Longines Reaction Test and a great photo opportunity at SSE’s interactive Hashtag.

Kelvingrove Bandstand Restored to its former glory, this charming open-air venue is situated in the West End of the city in the picturesque Kelvingrove Park, adjacent to the Lawn Bowls arena and close to the renowned Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. We highly recommend a visit to experience a wonderful array of events including live music, comedy, dance, film and children’s entertainment. Enjoy our tasty wood-fired pizzas and a refreshing drink from our bar while you soak up the sun and enjoy the unique atmosphere.

All events are free apart from our screening of the Closing Competition! Ceremony on Sunday 3rd August. Take photos – win tickets Follow directions to the Lawn Bowls on public transport • Alex McCall 10.30am to 11.30am We want you to share your Glasgow Green • Visual art screening programme 11.45am to 12.45pm Live Zone celebration with us. Every day we will for children be asking you to send us your best photos of • Kids arts and crafts workshop 1.00pm to 3.30pm Festival 2014 at Glasgow Green Live Zone • Scottish Refugee Council presents 3.45pm to 4.10pm through social media. A View From Here (25mins) • Lahore Ceol Mor featuring Mischa 4.15pm to 5.00pm Our favourites will be shown on the big screens - Macpherson Trio and one lucky winner each day will win four free tickets to the Closing Ceremony Celebration at BANDSTAND CLOSES 5.00pm - 7.00pm Glasgow Green. • Authors Live at the 7.30pm to 9.00pm Bandstand including Alan Bisset, To be in with a chance of winning, just Tweet or Christopher Brookmyre, Instagram us your best picture of the day to: Beatrice Colin, Denise Mina and Zoe Strachan @culture2014 • Horse 9.15pm to 10.00pm including the hashtag #WelcomeHome • Street Level Photoworks All day ‘Commonwealth Family Album’ Kelvingrove

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Merchant City Festival

Airc II (Gaelic Cultural Space) - 121 Saltmarket The Old Fruitmarket • Airc II 9.30am to 6.00pm • Hosts and Champions Exhibition 12noon to 7.00pm • Grounded 11.00am to 6.00pm • Hosts and Champions 1.00pm to 2.00pm • Joy Dunlop 3.00pm to 3.35pm Guided Tours • Festival Club 2014 featuring 9.00pm to 3.00am New International Bell Street • The Best Thing (cocoloco) 1.30pm to 2.30pm Pride House - 14 Albion Street • The Best Thing (cocoloco) 3.30pm to 4.30pm • Pride House - LEAP Sports 11.00am to 11.00pm • Gameface - 11.00am to 11.00pm Blackfriars Pub Lucy Holmes-Elliott & Garry Mac • Stand-Up for the Commonwealth 8.00pm to 10.00pm featuring Stu Who? And Kalonde Scottish Music Centre • Team Talks: Scottish Sporting 3.00pm to 4.00pm Brunswick/Street South Conversations - Richard Haynes • Laberint II 11.00am to 5.00pm Wilson/Hutchison Street Junction Brunswick/Wilson Street Junction • The Desk 1.00pm to 1.30pm • The Desk 3.00pm to 3.30pm • Te Odiero 1.30pm to 2.00pm • The Desk 4.30pm to 5.00pm • Te Odiero 4.30pm to 5.00pm Plus... Fashion Cultures, Ingram Street • Irn Bru Shop & Museum - 9.00am to 8.00pm • How I’d Sink American Vogue – 6.00pm to 11.00pm Wilson St BAM Hoardings • Glasgay! Festival 9.00am to 5.00pm • Reversible Golfer – Jaegar 10am to 5.00pm ‘Sporting Heads’ • Pam Hogg Exhibition and 11am to 5.00pm • Markets, throughout 10.00am to 9.00pm Pop Up Shop • Billionaires Boys Club: 11am to 5.00pm • Brunswick Hotel Stage - 12noon to 9.00pm A Printed History - Cruise 2 Brunswick St • Home/Away – The Poetry Club, 7.00pm to 9.00pm • Community Street Theatre 2.00pm to 5.00pm SWG3 • Scotch Hoppers - Parnie St 2.00pm to 5.00pm • Street Level Photoworks All day Hutcheson Street North ‘Commonwealth Family Album’ Merchant City • Refashion Glasgow - 10.00am to 7.00pm Drop Down Pop Up Shop

Merchant Square • Lunchtime Music Show – 12.30pm to 1.15pm Young Pilgrims • Osadia 2.00pm to 5.00pm • Evening Music Show 6.00pm to 8.00pm

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Around the City

Throughout Festival 2014, Glasgow will be transformed as artists and performers bring its streets, parks, public squares and buildings to life with a programme of events that will make you see the city in new ways. • On Common Ground Citizens Theatre 6.30pm to 9.00pm • Paul Towndrow’s Pro-Am Suite Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 8.00pm • How Glasgow Flourished 1714 – 1837 Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum 10.00am to 8.00pm Scotland and the Commonwealth Exhibition - 9.00am to 8.00pm 400 Hundred Years in the Making • The Road from Delhi 10.00am to 5.00pm • Tin Forest Puppet Show South Rotunda 2.00pm to 6.00pm • News Just In The Arches 9.00pm to 10.00pm • Emancipation Acts The Briggait 1.00pm to 3.10pm • Empire Café – Barbado’ed: Scotland’s Sugar Slaves The Briggait 2.00pm to 4.00pm • Empire Cafe - Sugar in the Blood, Fury in the Soul The Briggait 7.00pm to 9.00pm GREEN2014: The Environmental Legacy of the • XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow The Lighthouse 10.30am to 5.00pm • Glasgay! Festival - Alan Bennett’s ‘Talking Heads’ The Mitchell Theatre 2.30pm to 4.30pm • Glasgay! Festival - Alan Bennett’s ‘Talking Heads’ The Mitchell Theatre 7.30pm to 9.30pm Slow Down Tokyobike Glasgow 10.00am to 5.00pm • Blue Block Studio Tramway 10.00am to 11.00am • Blue Block Studio Tramway 11.15am to 12.15am • Yellow Valley Tramway 1.30pm to 2.30pm • Grimm Tales Tron Theatre 2.30pm • Yellow Valley Tramway 2.45pm to 3.45pm • Musical Interludes Tron Theatre 3.30pm to 6.30pm • Edwin Morgan’s Dreams and Other Nightmares Tron Theatre 7.45pm • Beowulf Tron Theatre 8.00pm • New Playwrighting Responses to the Commonwealth Tron Theatre 9.15pm Street Level Photoworks ‘Commonwealth Family • Album’ Trongate Trongate 103 10.00am to 5.00pm Explore Glasgow Architecture Shopping Sides to the City Don’t forget to look up! Glasgow has the best Discover the individual Make some time to Glasgow has some beautiful shopping in the UK outside of character of neighbourhood explore all that Glasgow has buildings and architecture, London, with over 1,500 areas such as the to offer during your visit. from the stunning Victorian shops to browse round. The entertainment district of Check out our top tips:- City Chambers to the Gothic city’s Style Mile, located Sauchiehall Street, the drama of Glasgow along the interlinked bohemian West End, the The Big G Cathedral. A must-see is the Sauchiehall, Buchanan, cultural Merchant City or the work of Glasgow born Art Ingram and Argyle streets, is eclectic South Side. For a keepsake memento Nouveau Architect and jam packed with malls, of your visit to the city during Eating out Designer, Charles Rennie department stores, high street Games time, make sure you Mackintosh – his magical retailers and designer Sightseeing is hungry take a selfie at The Big G in style is inspirational, from boutiques. During Games work – so make sure you George Square – the House for an Art Lover to the time, many shops are open to re-fuel. Glasgow’s dining spectacular 3D installation , there’s a 8pm and some even later – scene is as varied as it is provides the perfect Mackintosh experience for so there are lots of delicious. From an indulgent backdrop. everyone. opportunities for souvenir afternoon tea, to a relaxed Use #TheBigG shopping and lots of excuses bar meal or fine dining in a to treat yourself. top restaurant, the full Clyde’s Trail spectrum of tastes is Look out for Clyde, the catered for. Glasgow 2014 Look out for Museums & Galleries Commonwealth games clyde around mascot. There are 25 the city on The city has a fantastic colourful statues around the Clyde’s Trail! selection of art galleries and city, each dressed in a museums, most of which are different outfit designed by free to visit. Discover world Glasgow schoolchildren. class collections at Download the free Clyde’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Trail App and see how many Museum, The Riverside you can bag. Museum, The Burrell #clydestrail Collection and the Hunterian Art Gallery. Find out more at: people make glasgow.com All information listed correct at time of going to print. glasgow2014.com/festival2014 /glasgowfestival2014 @culture2014