Festival 2014 Highlights
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Today’s Highlights Friday 1 August 2014 Events Key: • Comedy • Film • Literature and • Theatre • Dance and • Gaelic Spoken Word • Visual Arts Physical Theatre • LGBT • Music • Exhibition • Family • Sporting Event • Talks Glasgow Green Live Zone Living Room Back Garden • The Ha Orchestra 12noon to 12.45pm Try out lots of sports, including athletics, cycling, hockey, • Soweto Spiritual Singers 1.30pm to 2.15pm judo and table tennis with Glasgow Sport. Explore how your body works with interactive exhibits from Glasgow Science • Clinton Fearon Band 3.00pm to 4.00pm Centre. Have fun and learn new skills playing traditional • Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars 5.00pm to 6.00pm games from the Commonwealth with UNICEF. • Kobo Town 6.45pm to 7.45pm • Maxi Priest 8.55pm to 9.55pm The Shed The Shed is a friendly place for creating your own imaginative crafts and browsing the works of Scotland-based Playhouse designers and makers. It includes the workshop space in the Creativity Hothouse and the Big Draw Greenhouse. • Stories of Scotland and the Caribbean 11.00am to 12noon Please sign up in advance for workshops. • Have a go... Carnival Dance 1.00pm to 3.00pm • Unoma Ukudo and Band 4.00pm to 4.45pm • Glasgow School of Art - Color Hotel 11.00am to 4.00pm • Glasgow and the Caribbean: 5.30pm to 6.30pm Slavery and Emancipation Discussion • Calypso Rose & Band 7.15pm to 8.30pm Creativity Hothouse • O-Pin - Recycled Fabric Jewellery 11.00am to 1.00pm Making Workshop The Kitchen • O-Pin - Recycled Wood Jewellery 2.00pm to 4.00pm Scotland is a land of food and drink, blessed with world- Making Workshop class produce, so visit The Kitchen to enjoy hot smoked salmon rolls, gourmet burgers, sushi and wood-fired pizza alongside • O-Pin - Pin and Brooch 5.00pm to 7.00pm favourites like haggis, neeps and tatties. Breakfast, lunch or Making workshop dinner, there’s always something cooking in The Kitchen! Fully 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. LET’S CELEBRATE TOGETHER CLOSING CEREMONY PARTIES – SUN 3 AUGUST Glasgow Green 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 glasgow2014.com/festival2014 /glasgowfestival2014 @culture2014 Loving Today’s Programme? Friday 1 August 2014 Sign up for an E-newsletter and we’ll will deliver links to upcoming events, the latest news, most popular articles and features straight to your inbox. Glasgow Green Live Zone Simply visit - www.glasgowlife.org.uk/newsletter 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 • Ipdip Theatre - Calvinball 11.00am to 3.00pm Wee Shed • Tartan Puppets & Carnival Craft 11.00am to 5.30pm with Bridgeman Arts Wee Garden Try out sports and play activities with Glasgow Sports, UNICEF and Glasgow play organisations - or get your face painted. 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 Competition! enjoy the unique atmosphere. All events are free apart from our screening of the Closing Take photos – win tickets Ceremony on Sunday 3rd August. Follow directions to the Lawn Bowls on public transport We want you to share your Glasgow Green Live Zone celebration with us. Every day we will be asking you to send us your best photos of Listing Festival 2014 at Glasgow Green Live Zone • RSPB present Animal Athletes! 10.30am to 11.30am through social media. • McOpera Brass in the Park ( 5+) 11.45am to 12.30pm Our favourites will be shown on the big screens - • Imagine It 12.45pm to 1.00pm and one lucky winner each day will win four free • Kids arts and craft workshop - drop in! 1.00pm to 3.00pm tickets to the Closing Ceremony Celebration at • Africa in Motion film screening 3.00pm to 4.00pm Glasgow Green. • The Scokendia Ensemble 4.10pm to 5.00pm To be in with a chance of winning, just Tweet or BANDSTAND CLOSES 5pm - 7pm Instagram us your best picture of the day to: • Bill Forsyth’s That Sinking Feeling 7.30pm to 9.05pm (1980, 93 mins,12) @culture2014 • Remember Remember 9.15pm to 10.00pm including the hashtag #WelcomeHome • Street Level Photoworks All day ‘Commonwealth Family Album’ Kelvingrove glasgow2014.com/festival2014 /glasgowfestival2014 @culture2014 Sign up to our e-newsletter Friday 1 August 2014 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/newsletter Merchant City Festival Airc II (Gaelic Cultural Space), 121 Saltmarket The Old Fruitmarket • Tobar An Dulachais 9.30am to 10.30am • Hosts and Champions Exhibition 12noon to 7.00pm • Airc II 9.30am to 6.00pm • Hosts and Champions Guided 1.00pm to 2.00pm • Grounded 11.00am to 6.00pm Tours • Maeve MacKinnon 3.00pm to 3.35pm • Festival 2014 Club featuring 9.00pm to 3.00am Esperenza Blackfriars Pub Pride House - 14 Albion Street • Stand-Up for the Commonwealth 8.00pm to 10.00pm • Pride House - LEAP Sports 11.00am to 11.00pm with David Kay, Bruce Morton and Jamie Dalgliesh • Gameface - Lucy Holmes-Elliott 11.00am to 11.00pm & Garry Mac • Drew Taylor ‘Love Club’ 8.00pm to 10.00pm Brunswick/Wilson Street Junction • Push 2.00pm to 2.40pm Scottish Music Centre • Push 4.00pm to 4.30pm • Team Talks: Scottish Sporting 3.00pm to 4.00pm Curator Neil Johnson-Symington Fashion Cultures, Ingram Street • How I’d Sink American Vogue – 6.00am to 11.00pm Wilson/Hutchison Street Junction BAM Hoardings • The Desk 1.00pm to 1.30pm Reversible Golfer – Jaeger 10.00am to 5.00pm • The Desk 3.00pm to 3.30pm Billionaires Boys Club: A Printed 11.00am to 5.00pm History - Cruise 2 • The Desk 4.30pm to 5.00pm Amy de la Haye – Jaeger 6.30pm to 8.30pm Plus... • Irn Bru Shop & Museum - 9.00am to 8.00pm Hutcheson St North Wilson St • Refashion Glasgow - 10.00am to 7.00pm • Glasgay! Festival ‘Sporting Heads’ 9.00am to 5.00pm Drop Down Pop Up Shop – Rose & Grants Cafe • Markets - throughout 10.00am to 9.00pm Merchant City Merchant Square • Brunswick Hotel Stage - 12noon to 9.00pm • Get Scotland Dancing performance 1.00pm to 2.00pm Brunswick St • Get Scotland Dancing performance 6.00pm to 8.00pm • Blackfriars Stage 12noon to 10.00pm • Community Street Theatre 2.00pm to 5.00pm • Scotch Hoppers - Parnie St 2.00pm to 5.00pm • Scottish Dance at the Scotia - 6.00pm to 8.00pm Scotia Bar • Street Level Photoworks All day ‘Commonwealth Family Album’ Merchant City Visit merchantcityfestival.com for more information @merchcityfest /merchantcityfestival glasgow2014.com/festival2014 /glasgowfestival2014 @culture2014 Sign up to our e-newsletter Friday 1 August 2014 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/newsletter 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. Listing • New Music Biennial Day 1 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall 6.00pm to 10.15pm • Glasgay! Festival - Alan Bennett’s ‘Talking Heads’ The Mitchell Theatre 7.30pm to 9.30pm • How Glasgow Flourished 1714 – 1837 Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum 10.00am to 8.00pm • Scotland and the Commonwealth Exhibition - Mitchell Library 9.00am to 5.00pm 400 Hundred Years in the Making • The Road from Delhi Riverside Museum 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 – The Poetry Cafe The Briggait 2.00pm to 4.00pm • Empire Cafe - Scotland, Colonisers or Colonised? The Briggait 7.00pm to 9.00pm • GREEN2014: The Environmental Legacy of the The Lighthouse 10.30am to 5.00pm XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow • 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 • Callum Ingram Tron Theatre 9.00pm • 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 Cathedral.