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 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 • - 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 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 • 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

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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 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

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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 - 9.00am to 5.00pm 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 – 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. A must-see is the Sauchiehall, Buchanan, cultural Merchant City or the The Big G work of Glasgow born Art Ingram and Argyle streets, is eclectic South Side. Nouveau Architect and jam packed with malls, For a keepsake memento Eating out of your visit to the city during 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 catered for. Look out for Clyde, the Look out for Glasgow 2014 clyde around Museums & Galleries Commonwealth games the city on mascot. There are 25 Clyde’s Trail! The city has a fantastic colourful statues around the 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