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LOCAL INFORMATION Glasgow SAE Glasgow 85-87 Portman Street, Kinning Park, Glasgow, G41 1EJ 03330 112 315 www.sae.edu/join Contents Things to Do 3 Wellbeing 4 Best Places to Eat 5 Best Places to Drink 6 Best Places to Go Out 7 SAE Student Discounts 9 Student Support 9 The Boring Bits 10 2 Travelling around Glasgow most popular free-to-enter attractions. There are lots of weird and wacky pieces of Glasgow is well connected by art, including Sophie Cave’s spooky floating buses and the Glasgow Subway, heads, as well as work by the Scottish which offers student discounts colourists. It’s a nice place to go to get and is the third oldest subway your creative juices flowing, but be warned: it gets busy. The Lighthouse is Scotland’s in Europe, after London and Centre for Design and Architecture is a Budapest. similarly quirky building, with a top floor Many SAE students choose to cycle to viewing platform. campus, and there is a bike parking facility Find out more here. outside the main campus building. You can use TravelineScotland to plan Support indie cinema at Glasgow your journeys around the Film Theatre city. Uber also operate in From arthouse to foreign- Glasgow, but this may be language films, from a more expensive way of independent documentaries travelling around. to late night cult screenings, there is something for the Things to Do fussiest of film lovers at the Glasgow Film Theatre. Listed as one of the top ten The cinema opened in best cities in the world in 1939 as Scotland’s first 2019 by TimeOut, nobody arthouse cinema, and was is going to argue with us named the Cosmo until when we say that there is 1973. It’s the main hub of no shortage of fun things to the annual Glasgow Film do in Glasgow. Festival, which takes place Swing by SWG3 in February. SWG3 arts complex is Find out more here. a hub of creativity, live Be blown away by entertainment and partying your favourite bands with spaces including the at The Barrowland Poetry Club, the Warehouse, the Acid Bar and, during Ballroom summertime, the huge This family-owned Glasgow Galvanizers Yard. SWG3 institution has been a host a multitude of events, beacon of the Scottish ranging from niche product live music scene since it launches to fashion shows and food and opened, known for its acoustics and sprung drink events. There are frequent outdoor dance floor. You can’t miss the neon sign live shows, and high profile club nights on the front of the building. There are gigs along with in-house SWG3 promotion. throughout the year and you won’t have properly experienced live music until you’ve Find out more about upcoming events here. been to the Barrowland Ballroom. Kick back for a day at Kelvingrove Find out more here. Art Gallery and Museum and The Lighthouse Dive into the hip hub of Finnieston The quirky gallery building is fashioned out Finnieston is renowned in Glasgow as a of red sandstone and is one of Glasgow’s foodie hub, with lots of cool independent shops and creative studios. Craft beers and 3 gins are served up at stylish bars, while old- Wellbeing school pubs offer vast whisky selections and traditional folk music sessions. The Blackfriars Dance Classes striking riverside venues SEC Armadillo and At weekly drop-in classes at Blackfriars SSE Hydro regularly stage rock and pop Bar every Monday, you can learn a wide shows. variety of dance styles including Lindy Hop, Find out more here. Charleston, Collegiate Shag, Balboa, Solo Jazz steps and more. They have a very laid Maybe you’ll find something at back atmosphere, there are lots of students Monorail Music from other universities who attend. It’s Stephen McRobbie - better known as great fun! Stephen Pastel, singer with cult ‘80s Find out more here. Glasgow indie band, The Pastels - was one of the founders of Monorail Sloan’s Ceilidh in 2002. There’s loads of You can’t leave Scotland unique 7” and 12” vinyl and without having tried your a range of CDs for you to luck at Ceilidh dancing. peruse at your leisure, and Luckily for you, Sloan’s if you’re feeling peckish you hosts a Ceilidh night every can go next door to Mono! Friday – and don’t worry, Find out more here. beginners are welcome! Student tickets are £8. Get involved with Find out more here. Scottish Student Sport Glasgow Sport Gym Our campus membership Memberships to Scottish Student Sport University of Glasgow means that students can sports facilities offer public compete in their own memberships based in the individual sports on behalf West End to students at local of SAE in SSS led events colleges and universities (for example, the individual through their GUConnect Archery Championships, membership. Trampoline, martial arts, Find out more here. etc). It also offers possible selection for national The Climbing squads, so team sport Academy players could end up playing The Climbing Academy for Scotland within the SSS (TCA) is based across the home nations competitions. There are also street from the SAE campus and is popular recreational opportunities through the SSS with staff and students. Audio Lecturer, Ladders League, where pick up games of Craig Hamilton welcomes students to join 3-a-side basketball and 5-a-side football him on weekly sessions. are arranged on an ad-hoc basis with other local colleges. Find out more here. Find out more here. Rollerstop Rollerstop is an 80s style roller disco local to the SAE campus, who offer student discounts and host regular themed events. Find out more here. 4 Yoga with Ana Costa Best Places to Eat Ana Costa is a Vinyasa Yoga teacher who delivers beginner-friendly yoga classes at The 78 Merchant City Yoga on a Wednesday from The bar and kitchen at The 78 are 100% 7.30 - 8.45 pm. She’s visited the SAE vegan and the prices are very reasonable. Glasgow campus before to lead a session, They have an extensive range of beers as and is also happy to offer private sessions. well as live jazz on Sunday evenings, and Merchant City Yoga offer student discounts they run a 20% student discount on food and saving passes. every Tuesday. Find out more here. Opening times Future Fitness 11.00am-12.00am 11.00am-1.00am Mon, Tues, Weds Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun This modern gym complex offers cardio and weights equipment, Find out more here. exercise classes, and has Mother India’s Cafe a sauna and steam room. Situated across from They also have Muay Thai Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Boxing if you’re after in the West End, Mother a challenging workout or India’s Cafe is a Glaswegian a new hobby. With £18 off favourite with its original peak monthly memberships, twist on tapas. There is a as well as individual class wide range of veggie and passes, you’ve got no vegan dishes, as well as excuse not to try something lots of chaats, pakoras new! and dosas, seafood, fish, Find out more here. chicken and lamb dishes. Clyde Judo Club Opening times: For anyone martial arts 12.00pm - 10.30pm minded, judo sessions Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Sun are held at the Palace 12.00pm - 11.00pm of Art Sports Centre at Fri, Sat Bellahouston Park on Monday evenings. They Find out more here. offer a student discount, Paesano and Student Recruitment Officer Paul is also one of The two Paesano outlets the many coaches at the in the city centre and west session. end are renowned for their authentic Napoletana Find out more here. pizzas. The homemade dough is Pinkston Watersports complemented by simple toppings such as spianata spicy salami or grilled aubergine. Pinkston Watersports is a community paddlesports centre with Scotland’s only Opening times: artificial whitewater course, offering unique 12.00pm - 10.30pm urban watersports such as rafting and river Mon, Tues, Weds, Sun boarding, kayaking and canoeing. 12.00pm - 12.00am Find out more here. Thurs, Fri, Sat Find out more here. 5 Bread Meats Bread you can book a tour, or you can just whet There are two of these popular burger joints your whistle with one - or several - of the in Glasgow, one in the city centre and one in 26 rotating beers on tap, and countless the West End. With burgers priced from £8 more bottled varieties. They also have big you may have to queue for a table, but it’ll screens for screening sport, which is worth be worth it once you take that first messy remembering on match day. bite. There are lots of vegetarian and vegan Opening times: choices as well. 11.00am - 12.00am Opening times: All week 11.00am - 10.00pm 12.00pm - 10.00pm Find out more here. All week (City Centre) All week (West End) The Flying Duck Find out more here. This daytime vegan diner transforms into Mono the perfect watering hole in Mono is a vegan café bar that the evenings. The basement opened in 2002, furnishing bar venue is tucked away Glasgow with a unique and in the city centre. They versatile space in which to have regular quizzes, eat, drink and discover new film screenings and drag music. They have developed kareoke, so you’ll never fail a reputation for good beer, to be entertained in their good vegan food, good gigs quirky venue. and good times. Opening times: Opening times: 11.00am - 1.00am 11.00am - 11.00pm Mon. Tues, Weds, Thurs, Sun All week 11.00am - 3.00am Fri, Sat Find out more here.