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1—12 August Welcome to 3 Festival 2018

GLASGOW’S status as a global sporting city is matched only by its reputation as a creative powerhouse and a home to extraordinary art, culture and entertainment. glasgow2018.com/festival Our city can boast rich, historic art and architecture alongside cutting-edge contemporary movements. Opera and ballet jostle for space on ’s many famous stages with the biggest names in music, theatre and comedy. Our music heritage is renowned and we are proud to be a UNESCO City of Music, an WELCOME to Glasgow for what is sure to be an accolade we have held for over a decade. incredible 11 days of fun and excitement for everyone Glasgow is also a gateway to the rest of and Festival 2018 will put both our involved. As well as the incredible sporting action city and our whole country’s world‑class creative contribution in the spotlight. happening around Scotland, the inaugural European The programme you hold in your hands showcases everything from music, visual art, Championships are also an excellent chance to street art and dance to theatre, literature, digital art and comedy. showcase the very best of Scottish culture. It has been shaped by our city and its people – and it is also the catalyst for a truly We’re delighted to be running an action-packed groundbreaking cultural partnership between Glasgow and our co-hosts Berlin that will programme of cultural events alongside the highlight the vital and vibrant creative scenes in two great European cities. Championships. This will capitalise on Scotland’s Whether you call Glasgow home, or are visiting from near or far, there is something world-renowned reputation for creative excellence "With Festival 2018 we here for everyone. and will allow everyone to play their part in the fun. Glasgow’s iconic will form the continue to build on Glasgow Councillor Susan Aitken beating heart of these celebrations with the action and Scotland’s international Leader of spreading to other sites right across the country. 2018 is also the Year of Young People in Scotland – cultural reputation. In creating the first of its kind in the world – which is dedicated the programme we have to celebrating the amazing achievements and contributions that young people make to Scotland. worked side by side with There are opportunities for young people to engage local communities, artists in sporting and cultural events throughout Glasgow 2018, showcasing their talents across this exciting and cultural organisations to programme of activity. bring their ideas and creative We welcome sharing these Championships with Berlin who are hosting the Athletics. We have ambitions to the fore, delivering strong ties with our German neighbours and these a large-scale spectacular event Championships are yet another chance to strengthen the cultural links that bind us in close friendship. with a truly international and accessible programme." B Berlin Glasgow UNESCO City of Music Fiona Hyslop Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and Jill Miller OBE External Affairs, Scottish Government Director of Cultural Services, Glasgow Life FF Festival Fund Year of Young People The Great Big 5 Opening Party!

1 Aug, Doors 16:00

£15/£7.50 + booking fee Join us in the spectacular setting of George Square to Sacred Paws, Glasgow/London duo, write instantly welcome the 2018 European Championships and our infectious songs, fitting perfectly between uplifting friends from across Europe to the beating heart of the indie-pop and intricate post-punk. city. Glasgow’s prodigious talent C Duncan released A new era in sport gets underway with the start of his critically-acclaimed second album ’The Midnight an exciting new multi-sport event bringing together Sun’ last year. Recorded and produced entirely in elite athletes in Athletics, Aquatics, Cycling, Golf, his Glasgow flat, it blends electronic elements and Gymnastics, Rowing and Triathlon. sweeping synth sounds with his signature layered The big stage programme features some of the vocals and dreamy instrumentation. most exciting names in Scottish music today. Classic Brit and Global Award nominees, Infinitime Nina Nesbitt’s recent tracks ‘The Best You Had’ and Music and Young Scot Award winners, Scottish- ‘The Moments I’m Missing’ are a huge leap forward Egyptian multi-instrumentalists The Ayoub Sisters are from her Top 15 debut album ‘Peroxide’. With her fast becoming the sound and faces of a truly exciting character-filled voice, the heartfelt, easily-relatable new generation of classical and crossover artists. lyrics demonstrate a command of modernist pop and Featuring alongside a celebration of the European R&B-tinged sounds. Championships sports and the people who have been Winners of 2017 BBC Scots Trad Awards 'ALBUM part of the Glasgow 2018 journey. OF THE YEAR' and Nominees 2018 BBC Radio 2 Other highlights include performances by CREATE Folk Awards 'BEST GROUP', Elephant Sessions have Voice Factory, Behind the Noise present Bowie, Pivot, exploded onto the indie folk scene with unparalleled Beats Per Minute, Bonnie and Her Splashmob, Nevis effect; transcending boundaries and shaking the very Ensemble and Mischief La Bas, all culminating in a foundations of expectation. spectacular fireworks display!

Supported by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. Book tickets at glasgow2018.com/festival George Square 7 2–12 Aug

The iconic George Square will be the beating heart of Festival 2018 during the Glasgow 2018 European Championships, creating a carnival atmosphere through a spectacular lineup that will delight all ages and put Glasgow and Scotland’s renowned creativity in the spotlight.

Open daily 10:00–22:00* Beats Per Minute

Sonica presents Pivot

Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan Pivot: a playground of semi-intelligent seesaws Beats Per Minute BPM Showdown 'A Glasgow Spectacular (or the experience being an Sonica Raw Material & Pachamama Productions FF Raw Material & Pachamama Productions FF experience like the experience you just had)', 2018 2–12 Aug, 10:00–18:00 2-9 Aug, 10:00–21:30, every 30 mins, Free Sat 11 Aug, 15:00, 17:00, 19:00, 21:00 2–12 Aug From the amazing Australian artists who brought 10 Aug & 12 Aug, every 30 mins 10:00–15:30, Free Sun 12 Aug, 17:00, 18:30, 20:00, 21:15 For Festival 2018 Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan you Megaphones at Sonica 2017, Madeleine Flynn & Inside a geodesic dome in George Square, in the heart £12.50 + Booking Fee, Age 10+ have been commissioned to create a large-scale Tim Humphrey present Pivot, a playground of semi- of the city, this immersive 30 minute audio-visual Over the final weekend of Festival 2018 join us inside gateway structure into George Square and to design intelligent talking seesaws. Equipped with built-in event invites you to get inside the beating hearts and the geodesic dome in George Square for a high-octane, the Festival’s logo and brand. Their commission voice communicators with a mind of their own, this heads of athletes who dedicate their lives to their audio-visual showdown dance party. adopts familiar or amusing motifs, and makes specific chattering apparatus will poke, probe, question and sport at incredible cost. As the audience gathers, mingle and dance inside reference to the context of Glasgow and the European counsel you as you seesaw your way to equilibrium. Wearing headphones and vibrating Subpacs the immersive dome surrounded by mind-blowing, Championships. Tatham and O’Sullivan have worked in Consider this an opportunity to join the conversation, attached to your body and surrounded by projections colourful video projections, pop-up live performers will collaboration for over 20 years and their artworks often as Pivot helps unleash your inner child whilst playfully you will enter into the world of the athletes and appear on raised platforms. Dancers, singers, acrobats consider the ways in which art may be expected to pondering the role of peaceful, shared dialogue in our experience their hopes, their dreams and their and DJs combine in a symphony to endurance. perform in public. modern world. Giving the people of Glasgow a voice, adrenaline-fuelled victories. Featuring stunning live performances from Patricia Pivot will help balance things out.  Panther (Glasgow Girls), Chisato Minamimura (London A new work commissioned by Melbourne Fringe Suitable for all ages and fully accessible. Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony), DJ Letitia and City of Melbourne, September 2017. Pleiades, Jamie Rea and some of Scotland's most Created by Cora Bissett (Glasgow Girls) and Leonie brilliant young acrobats performing jaw dropping Supported by Australia Council for The Arts, Rae Gasson, with Garry Boyle, Emily James and moves, this exclusive finale event is the perfect way to Creative Scotland, Glasgow City Council & Cryptic Jamie Wardrop. celebrate reaching the festival finish line with friends. presents Sonica.

Supported by GEO3, Black Light, Slate Room Recording Studio, National Theatre of Scotland, Solar Bear, Tramway, Silent Events and The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

*Venue closes to general public at 16:00 on 10 August. Gates reopen at 18:00 for Orbital ticket holders. Venue closes at 22:30 on 10 August and 22:15 on 11 August. Book tickets at glasgow2018.com/festival George Square 9 Thu 2 Aug Fri 3 Aug

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Citizens of Everywhere! National Youth of Scotland Behind The Noise

Citizens of Everywhere! Sonic Youths Mix the City Live Piping Live! Curated by Douglas Gordon with Jackie Kay Featuring Kathryn Joseph, RM Hubbert, National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland and the RSNO Barbara Morgenstern, Painted X-Ray & more & Friends A youth music showcase featuring some of Scotland’s 20:00 most exciting young artists. 19:00 12:00 George Square hosts an exceptional collaboration 10:30–13:30 Hit the Road is a youth touring This exciting live collaborative night launches Mix the Join The National Youth Pipe Band of Scotland and between artist Douglas Gordon and the Royal Scottish project which takes young artists on their first tours City Glasgow and Berlin ‑ an online interactive music other young pipe bands in George Square, as they National Orchestra. across Scotland where they acquire the skills needed platform where you can create and mix your very own perform on the stage as well as inviting you to come Douglas Gordon curates a programme in response to succeed as a professional touring musician. Hit the soundscape of these two musical powerhouses. and try sessions, where you can try the bagpipes and to the rich heritage of George Square as the civic heart Road present four different musical acts performing Curated by Alun Woodward, a founding member of drums! These short concerts will leave you amazed by of the city and its position between the river and the their own material and showing the future of music in indie rock stalwarts and co-founder of these talented young players. Also making a special mountains. The programme combines classical and Scotland is vibrant. the record label, there isn’t a appearance are Flings & Things, who bring their contemporary sounds and voices with the cornerstone 14:00–17:00 Behind The Noise is an Glasgow-based musician that Alun doesn’t know, so Highland Dancing with a modern, contemporary twist being an orchestration of a glorious overture composed award‑winning music and skills project engaging who better to put together this one time only gig! - think fun, funky, fresh and totally unexpected! by titled 'Music for a Forgotten Future' which with around 100 young people from Glasgow and is to be performed live for the first time. Scots Makar Renfrewshire each year. In addition to performing mixthecity.com Jackie Kay also brings her unique words as an insight to their own original material each band will perform the idea of citizenship. a cover version from a well‑known Scottish band Mix The City is delivered in partnership with the or artist including Annie Lennox, Simple Minds, British Council and Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. The Waterboys, Stealers Wheel, Alabama 3, Primal Scream and many more.

Plus: live music throughout the day from Fèis Phàislig & Nevis Ensemble & performance from Surreal McCoy Plus: throughout the day performances from Mischief La Bas with The Sportables

Supported by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. Supported by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. George Square Sun 5 Aug Mon 6 Aug 11 Sat 4 Aug Greatest Hits Party Jazz at Festival 2018 Ukulele Death Squad Massaoke Scotland in association with Glasgow Jazz Festival

20:30 18:00 Made in Adelaide It’s time for your vocal chords to get involved in the All the way from Turin are urban brass band Presented in collaboration with Glasgow and BIGGEST MASSAOKE SCOTLAND EVER. Belt it out Bandakadabra, playing everything from swing, Adelaide UNESCO Cities of Music to your favourite tunes including sport and Europe- rocksteady, Balkan, and reggae to drum & bass. themed classics. Have you got the 'Eye of the Tiger'? In collaboration with the Italian Institute of Culture Electric Fields, 15:00 Well it’s 'The Final Countdown'! Glasgow, get ready to in . Multi-award winning Electric Fields create a striking show the world that 'We Are the Champions'! Funky organ-driven movie soundtrack jazz led by and haunting merging of living traditional culture guitarist Allan McKeown, The Dt6 mix funky chicken with electronic music, bringing moments of breath- Colonel Mustard & The Dijon 5 scratch guitar, soulful organ and Jazz horns. A nexus taking beauty and power to the stage. Featuring the of James Brown, Ennio Morricone and Jimmy Smith. rare and beautiful voice of Zaachariaha Fielding, who 18:45 Ali Affleck is equally at home with her beloved often sings in his traditional languages of the Anangu The shiny disco ball hat wearing, ultimate genre New Orleans trad Jazz and Blues as well as with more glasgow2018.com/festival people, Electric Fields' music ranges from soulful pop, hopping, twisted, festival live stage machine that puts contemporary flavors, and with such distinct vocal Electric Fields to epic-scale electronic works, through to intensely the emphasis on music, entertaining and laughter. styling she inevitably draws comparisons to the most intimate story-songs. memorable of Jazz divas such as Dinah Washington, Make a Big Noise Billie Holiday and Peggy Lee. Encontro Street Band Showcase Ukulele Death Squad, 13:30 Sistema Scotland & FF Glasgow’s own Fat-Suit are influenced by Ukulele Death Squad strives to entertain and wow BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra contemporary exponents of jazz, funk and fusion 18:30 their audiences by pushing the boundaries of the such as Snarky Puppy, Vulfpeck and GoGoPenguin are An evening of spectacular carnival stage shows! small four stringed instrument ­ the Ukulele. UDS 17:00 obvious influences, yet are already opening up fresh Featuring inspirational international collaborations, blend their own ukulele style with Flamenco, Mexican, Children and Young People from Big Noise Govanhill lines of enquiry. The approach may appear looser and presentations of new work, original Festival Rap and Folk, with an energetic performance that and Big Noise Raploch join forces with members of the more relaxed, but the aim is to entertain as much as it commissions and some of Europe’s leading artists. goes beyond anything audiences have ever seen. With BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to perform is to dazzle with technical ability! Special guests include Paraiso School of Samba stage craft, mad thumping rhythms and outrageous a special one-off concert in George Square. Compèred (London), led by artists who grew up immersed in solos, they will quite literally blow your minds. Enter by broadcaster and author, Sally Magnusson, the the Rio de Janeiro samba scene. The headline slot is at your own risk. concert includes a programme of family‑friendly music. Talisk reserved for Glasgow’s very own ‑ and internationally acclaimed ‑ SambaYaBamba, who will delight Supported by Glasgow City Council, Stirling Council, 15:00 audiences with their uproarious blend of drums, People Pavilion & Players of People's Postcode Lottery and The Ellen Barely four years since their formation, Talisk have brass, dancers and Glasgow sass. (see p19) the Strength-in-Unity Choir Foundation. already stacked up several major awards for their Ailie Rutherford & Laurence Payot pyrotechnic yet artfully woven sound ‑ including Folk FF União das Ilhas Band of the Year 2017 at the BBC Alba Scots Trad Mass Gaelic Ceilidh Various Times Music Awards, and a 2015 BBC Radio 2 Folk Award. with the Glenfinnan Ceilidh Band Together with local choirs from across Glasgow and 11:30 Mohsen Amini ‑ the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards’ choir leaders Cath Campbell and Harry Campbell, The Encontro Street Band Festival presents a brand Musician of the Year 2018, Hayley Keenan and 16:30–18:00 artist duo Ailie Rutherford and Laurence Payot, new UK-wide samba project. Uniting passionate Graeme Armstrong meld concertina, fiddle and guitar An early summer ceilidh, traditional style with Gaelic together with Duncan Perkins, will surprise players of samba music from all over the UK. seamlessly together, to produce a unique force that song and cracking music with singers Mary Ann audiences in unexpected public spaces with (see p19) has taken them all over the UK, Europe, the USA, Kennedy and Gillebride MacMillan to celebrate the a walking, singing sculpture. Canada and Australia. Gaelic sport of Shinty. See website for further times & dates. Plus: performances from Oshun and The Gold ‑ A New Anansi Tale by Project X and Mischief La Bas Plus: performances throughout the day from Ignite Theatre, Strong Lady & more Supported by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. Plus: music throughout the day from Byres Road Big Band and performances from Surreal McCoy and Indepen‑dance Supported by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. Remember the Women’s Cycling Road Race passes Supported by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. George Square 9 times between 12:30–16:00. George Square 13 Tue 7 Aug Wed 8 Aug Thu 9 Aug Fri 10 Aug

Orbital with support from Plaid

Doors 18:00, £25/12.50 + Booking Fee After a barnstorming live reunion which saw Orbital Peatbog Faeries Güngur Arts play to ecstatic audiences across Europe throughout 2017, Britain’s giants of electronic music are back – with new music and an upgrade of the legendary Glasgow Meets Berlin: Peatbog Faeries Mela at Festival 2018 live show that transformed festivals across the a Gala Celebration with support from The Shee world. Following the release of their new single, ‘Tiny B From 15:00 Foldable Cities’ their first new album in five years - 18:00 19:15 Scotland’s biggest multi-cultural festival, Glasgow ‘Monsters Exist’ – is released in September. Orbital A celebratory gala concert with the Royal Peatbog Faeries create a glorious mixture of Mela, takes to the stage curating a packed programme bring their groundbreaking live show to Festival 2018 glasgow2018.com/festival Conservatoire of Scotland, the National Youth traditional sounds and dance-floor grooves drawing that fuses music and dance from across the world. and George Square as part of a string of high-profile Orchestra of Scotland, and the Universität der Künste upon a dazzling myriad of influences from jigs and Highlights of the day include Güngur Arts from festival dates and headline shows across Europe. in Berlin. Through a live link, audiences in George reels through Dance Music, Jazz, African, and more, Barcelona, Circus Raj, from India the exquisite LOK Plaid sit right at the very heart of global electronica. Square Glasgow and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial bringing the sound of Scotland, fresh-faced and Chhanda, Scotland’s own Desi Bravehearts, Abhinaya In fact there’s a very real sense in which Ed Handley Church on the European Mile in Berlin can experience breathless, to audiences around the world. No-one Dance Group and Hellenic Dance Group, all bringing and Andy Turner are the perfect encapsulation of the excitement and atmosphere of the concerts in can resist moving to their trademark hypnotic colour and energy to George Square. what the electronic music of their generation was all both cities on the stage and big screen. The popular ‘Celtic Dance’ sound. about. As Plaid and as two-thirds of The Black Dog concert programme features famous operatic tunes Joining will be The Shee who bring Electro-harp, alongside their WARP stablemates Autechre and and melodies culminating in a mass singalong of accordion, fiddles, , mandolin and three powerful Oshun and The Gold– Aphex Twin, they brought new rhythmic variation, much‑loved songs from Scotland and Germany, voices together with a range of individual musical A New Anansi Tale emotive melody and sensual textures to electronic audience participation is essential! Hosted by Jamie influences to produce an adventurous brew of Folk, Project X music, creating a warm and welcoming counterpart to MacDougall this promises to be a spectacular evening Gaelic and American music. The Shee are previous FF the white heat of the rave explosion. capturing the energy of the young soloists, singers nominees of Best Live Act at the MG Alba Scots 14:30 Includes extensive strobe-like visual show. and orchestras and celebrating the ideals of European Trad Awards and includes the BBC Radio Folk Award Through ups and downs, highs and lows, trickery and friendship and of an open, fluent European identity. Musician of the Year, Rachel Newton among its ranks. play, we follow Anansi's journey of writing her own Very limited tickets. future. Watch the struggles and fun of relationships Book now at glasgow2018.com/festival. Supported by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. unfold, as Anansi begins to flourish and take off like Plus: music throughout the day from Feis Phasilig, an acrobat. A playful dance production developed Venue closes to general public at 16:00 on 10 Aug. The Sloans Opera, Be Bop Bairns, and with young people from across Glasgow and Gates reopen at 18:00 for Orbital ticket holders. performance by Mischief La Bas Triathlon Opening Ceremony choreographed by Mele Broomes. Supported by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. Supported by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. 18:00 The Triathlon Opening Ceremony will include a Be‑Bop Bairns parade of participating nations' flags and athletes, followed by welcoming speeches and an exciting 10:15 evening of entertainment. Be-Bop Bairns is a fun, family friendly musical extravaganza that helps children express themselves through music, dance, singing, sport and party games. Plus: music throughout the day from Glasgow Jazz Festival Allstars and performance from Mischief La Bas and Strong Lady. Plus: music throughout the day from Children's Classical Concerts, performance by Strong Lady Remember the Women’s Cycling Time Trial passes and more National Youth Orchestra of Scotland George Square between 08:45–11:45 and the Men’s Cycling Time Trial passes between 12:45–15:15. Supported by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. Orbital Sat 11 Aug Sun 12 Aug Festival 2018 15 Carnival Procession Celtic Connections

17:00 Fèis Phàislig Ceilidh Trail will open the evening’s entertainment and mark their final performance of a two week summer tour especially for Festival 2018. Siobhan Miller Band is a multi-award-winning traditional singer and exceptional talent. Appearing as a winning combination, Galician trio Tanxugueiras comprise of three powerful SUMS voices accompanied by tambourine, creating an overwhelming presence on stage. Ross Ainslie and Jarlath Henderson Band push the New European Music boundaries of what their instruments can achieve and curated by Mogwai’s make music that matches roller-coaster thrills with glasgow2018.com/festival B heart-melting lyricism. 19:00 Shooglenifty have promoted Scottish music all George Square will host three musical acts with over the world for more than 25 years and will links to both Glasgow and Berlin. The event aims to perform with their fusion of traditional melodies with celebrate the importance of European relationships contemporary beats and basslines. and the potential creative possibilities. The event is Hailed as one of the most vital standard-bearers curated by Glasgow's Barry Burns (Mogwai). of modern African music, Malian singer and guitarist SUMS is Barry Burns, celebrated electronic Berlin Fatoumata Diawara takes her artistry to fresh and based producer Kangding Ray and drum wizard thrilling heights by being boldly experimental yet Merlin Ettore. respectful of her roots. Those Fatoumata Diawara has born and Berlin-based DIY phenomenon worked with include some of the biggest names in Molly Nilsson has written, produced and released contemporary music. 5 LPs + 1 EP, most recently on Glasgow’s Night School Records. Konx Om Pax ‑ For Glasgow's Tom Scholefield, Plus: performances throughout the day from the language of design and music production crosses Nevis Ensemble, Mischief La Bas & the Tron Sat 4 Aug, 12:00 over. As a producer, he has released two LPs on Community Choir Join us for an extra special Festival 2018 Carnival Departs George Square, through Planet Mu. Tom now resides in Berlin. Procession and watch the streets of Glasgow come Festival and then along High Street and Saltmarket to Supported by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. alive with local and international performers and GO LIVE! at the Green. community groups. SAY Awards Long List Special Remember the Men’s Cycling Road Race passes A vibrant feast of music, dance and street Are you looking for something fun to do on Thursday George Square 16 times between 10:30–16:30. performance, the colourful celebration and hundreds 2 and Friday 3 August? Would you like to help create 16:30 of revellers will make its way through the city streets artwork that can be waved or displayed along the A rundown of the 20 albums which form the longlist taking in the Festival 2018 sites and finishing at GO Merchant City route as the wonderful Festival 2018 of the coveted Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) LIVE! at the Green. Carnival Procession passes on Saturday 4 August? Award. Featuring a special performance from The procession will be the culmination of months of If so, come along to drop-in workshops between Free Love (formerly Happy Meals). work developed with community groups, schools and 12:00–16:00 at Merchant Square. artists from the four corners of Glasgow and beyond who have been exploring and celebrating our Free and open to all on both days. Plus: music throughout the day from Berrie Big Band, Shared Differences. Esperanza, JR Green, Beth Malcolm & Jumpers This year we also celebrate our European Produced by Bridgeman Arts. for Goalposts Championships connection with Berlin, with a special Supported by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. exchange with artists working on the city’s Karneval Supported by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. der Kulturen. karneval-berlin.de

Fatoumata Diawara Merchant City Festival 17

The centrepiece of Glasgow’s summer events calendar is back for 2018 presenting the best in Scottish and international arts and entertainment, showcasing the unique cultural and creative hub that is Glasgow’s Merchant City. glasgow2018.com/festival

Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair

Markets Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair

4–5 Aug, 9–12 Aug 4–5 Aug, 11:00–16:00 Times and locations vary–check website for details Judy’s Affordable Vintage Fair brings together over Explore eclectic markets offering a range of amazing 40 traders from around the UK to create a wonderful crafts, gifts, and foods from around the globe. Look out vintage marketplace packed with items from the 1940s for our Local Larder food trucks and Scottish Market, onwards. Expect fashion, accessories, jewellery and a showcasing the best in Scottish produce. splash of homeware. Be unique, spend less, buy vintage! The Merchant Square Craft Market takes to the streets on both weekends with unique handmade gift Old Fruitmarket ideas with something for everyone. Candleriggs Square Makers’ Space 4–5 Aug & 9–12 Aug, 10:00–22:00 4–5 Aug, 12:00–18:00 Bring the family and soak up the festival atmosphere A celebration of making led by some of Glasgow’s at Candleriggs Square. Your one-stop-shop finest designers. for delicious Scottish street food with a fully licensed Glasgow is home to a vibrant community of bar, live music and DJs. designer/makers and we want to shout about it! Come along and meet them, get involved, get behind the scenes access and if you fancy it get hands-on designing and making!

Merchant Square

Merchant City Festival is supported by Merchant Square, Clydebuilt and Fraser Suites.

Makers’ Space The Encontro Street Band

Merchant City Festival 19 4–5 Aug

Glasgow Through The Decades: A Photography Walking Tour Street Level Photoworks

4 Aug, 11:00–13:00, Free but ticketed A walking tour of the hidden past and present of the inner east of Glasgow as depicted by leading documentary photographers. Starting off with a guided tour of Steven Berkoff’s glasgow2018.com/festival Gorbals 1966 exhibition at Street Level, it will take in places featured in images over the decades by Thomas Annan, Oscar Marzaroli, David Peat, Hugh Hood, Allan Bovill and Chris Leslie. Credit: Steven Berkoff Street Level Photoworks, Trongate 103, G1 1HD

Run Lola Run Encontro Festival Opening Party The Encontro Street Band Festival ISO 3 Aug, 20:00–24:00, £12/8 4–5 Aug, various times 4 Aug, 19:00, £6 The Encontro Street Band Festival gets underway Now in its second year, The Encontro Street Band Set in Berlin the frenetic thriller Run Lola Run is in fittingly flamboyant style, with a spectacular Festival is a spectacular weekend-long celebration of showing at the ISO studios in the heart of the programme of carnival bands, including Reel Brass street band music. Merchant City. (Edinburgh) - a street-brass ceilidh experience like Bringing 25 UK and international bands to the no other - and the inimitable Rhythms of the City streets of Glasgow, the festival boasts a packed 65 Virginia Street, G1 1TS (London)–who take Samba percussion, vocals & programme–including two days of captivating pop-up guitars to another level entirely! outdoor performances in and around the Merchant City. Featuring all flavours of street drumming, carnival Sharmanka’s St Mungo Walk The Old Fruitmarket brass, marching band, New Orleans jazz, Afro-Brazilian percussion and straight up samba. Add extravagant 4 Aug, 16:30–18:30 costumes, awesome dancers, artistic collaborations Free but ticketed Encontro Festival Club and massed youth bands and the festival brings the A unique musical storytelling walk for all ages spirit of hot dusty streets at carnival time right into bringing to life Sharmanka’s Russian beginnings and 4 Aug, 22:00–02:00 the heart of Glasgow! its presence as part of Glasgow’s rich and diverse £6/8 on the door, Age 18+ culture, interwoven with the city’s St. Mungo legend. After‑hours party for performers and public alike! 4–5 Aug, 12:00–18:00 The walk will culminate at Sharmanka Kinetic Cocktails, carnival DJs and assorted festival bands! Free pop up programme across the Merchant City. Theatre where multilingual performances accompanied by Eduard Bersudsky’s marvellous Classic Grand, G1 4QD Supported by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music. mechanical sculptures will celebrate Glasgow’s present, past, and its welcoming openness to the Various locations world beyond the city.

Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, Trongate 103, G1 1HD Book tickets at glasgow2018.com/festival

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Anti-Apathy Ambassadors A Selection of Short Films Loop Theatre GMAC Film & Scottish Documentary Institute

4–5 Aug, 13:00 & 16:00 9 Aug, 18:00 The Anti-Antipathy Ambassadors have landed from As a homage to the European Championships you another planet! Down in the dumps after a bout of are invited to join us for a GMAC Film and Scottish Apathermia, things changed when they found a disc Documentary Institute free public screening featuring some disco sounds sent from afar. Heeding presenting a programme of rolling sports themed the disco/jazzercise call from across the galaxy short films. they’ve been hurtling through space since 1979 honing their moves to perfection, and they can’t wait Trongate 103 to share them with you…

Walkabout Greyfriars Garden Open Day

9–12 Aug, 12:00–16:00 glasgow2018.com/festival Happy Birthday Mr. Mackintosh Located in the Medieval City on a site adjacent to the Mischief La Bas former Franciscan Friary, step into this magical space, D-Construction delight at the variety of vegetables and flowers 4–5 Aug, 12:00 & 15:00 grown by local gardeners and lose yourself in the Glasgow‑based street theatre company Mischief La wildflower meadow. D-Construction Bas bring Charles Rennie Mackintosh back to life in Haiku poems will be displayed throughout the garden, Compagnie Dyptik this, the year of his 150th birthday. why not create your own? Other activities include a The great man will be visiting his home city Garden Discovery Quiz and Mindfulness colouring in. 4–5 Aug, 14:00 & 18:00 with his wife Margaret Macdonald and some other An ultra-energetic hip-hop dance performance from France with a close associates. Shuttle Street, G1 1QB powerful beat and an oriental twist. Six dancers experience the liberation of the mind through movement. Walkabout Merging into a group, they create a stronger entity; breaking apart, they assert their uniqueness. A metal scaffolding stands in the middle of the space and the dancers Barrowland Ballads: interact with it. It cages, protects and frees them at the very same time. Backstage at the Ballroom D-Construction connects, inspires and destroys to create something new. 7–8 Aug, 17:00 & 19:30 Brunswick Street South Free but ticketed Join the artists of Recollective for an exclusive behind- the-scenes tour of the world-famous Barrowland Get Snapping! Ballroom. Stand in the same spot as your favourite Merchant City & Trongate Community Council acts, hang out in the backstage lounge, and keep an eye out for the alleged ghost. 4–5 Aug, 9–12 Aug, 12:00–18:00 Did you dance there as a youngster? Do you Bring along your favourite Glasgow 2018‑or Festival 2018‑related photo remember your first gig? Recollective would like to to us on a digital camera, phone or tablet. We’ll print it on the spot, free hear about it over refreshments in the backstage of charge, and put it on display. All submitted photos will be judged on 12 lounge. Each participant will receive a special souvenir August and prizes sent to the winners. of their visit.

Bazaar Bar, City Halls The Barrowland Ballroom, 244 Gallowgate, G4 0TT

Happy Birthday Mr. Mackintosh Book tickets at glasgow2018.com/festival Merchant City Festival 23 9–12 Aug POP-UP Duets (fragments of love) Brunswick Stage Janis Claxton Dance 9 Aug, 17:00–22:00 9–10 Aug, 14:30 & 17:00 10–12 Aug, 11:00–22:00 Award-winning choreographer Janis Claxton Live music and emerging talent including Electronic and composer Pippa Murphy join forces with a Glasgow’s takeover on Saturday 11 August, team of world-class dancers for a series of short featuring sets from the best of Glasgow’s performances in public spaces. Based around love, electronic music scene. duets will ‘pop-up’ at Merchant City Festival this August delighting its 'accidental audience’. Brunswick Street

Supported by Creative Scotland. Family Afternoon Fun Urban Astronaut Walkabout Merchant City Festival & Edinburgh International Children’s Festival glasgow2018.com/festival

When we cried confetti 9–10 Aug, 12:00–16:00 The Kit Kat Club Cabaret Urban Astronaut MAN || CO MCF teams up with Edinburgh International Children’s Highly Sprung Performance Festival to present performances and hands-on arts 9–12 Aug, 19:30 & 22:00, Age 18+ 15:00 Hutchinson St at Wilson St (9 & 10 Aug) activities. Two afternoons of free events and activities 9 & 12 Aug, £12/£10, 10 & 11 Aug, £15/£10 9–10 Aug, 13:00 & 16:00 19:15 Merchant Square (9 Aug) for all the family including performances, live music, Think Moulin Rouge meets Cabaret. An immersive, Urban Astronaut provides a glimpse of a future that 21:15 Merchant Square (10 Aug) and interactive fun. No need to book, just come along exciting atmosphere where anything can happen. might be, where the problem of air pollution has A dance performance about the fear of being to Merchant Square and join in. Hosted by the effervescent force of nature that is reached crisis point. Is there any way back? forgotten, the fun we’re obliged to have and the Billy Kirkwood, the Kit Kat will bring the best in local Combining stunning design and a unique flying awkwardness we should try to conceal at parties. Merchant Square and international comedy, magic, burlesque and some machine with simple storytelling and a moving dance MAN || CO, a young Amsterdam-based collective very special surprises! performance, Urban Astronaut searches for a solution create theatrical dance performances using a fresh With a different bill every night, you can see the to the looming environmental disaster. and dynamic movement style. The Sedate fabulous Susie McCabe, the surreal Nick Revell and Stasis downright funny Raymond Mearns to name a few. Walkabout and Brunswick Street South After the late show, join us to dance your way into Dance Stage @ MCF 10 Aug, 20:45 the wee small hours. It’s the best party in town. Witness the hypnotic distortions from female Baba Yaga’s House 9 Aug, 17:00–20:00 quartet, Stasis. They carried their dancing shoes in Blackfriars, G1 1LG Dizzy O’Dare 10 Aug, 17:00–22:00 their handbags and caught each other on the floor. MCF continues its commitment to develop dance in They took pleasure in style, disruption, and fantasy. Book tickets at glasgow2018.com/festival 9–10 Aug, 12:00, 14:00, 16:30 non-traditional places and spaces. Merchant Square They didn’t know how to stop so they reckoned they Are you brave enough to find Baga Yaga’s House? becomes a focus for showcasing exciting work from might as well keep going. She’s a fearsome character from Russian folklore, Scottish and international companies, including Blown out basslines, pure expression and messing flying across the landscape in her giant mortar using Scottish Ballet, Y Dance, Paragon, Project X and MAN with the status quo. Featuring electronic mix by artist the pestle for a rudder, while her ramshackle house || CO from the Netherlands. Ailie Ormston. roams the land on chicken legs. She might tell your You can also see the best of the Glasgow Mela fortune in exchange for a day of your life…then again… performances here including the stunning Lok Brunswick Street South she might just eat you. Chhanda company from India. Look out for other dance events throughout the festival. Walkabout Merchant Square

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When we cried confetti 25 Konx-Om-Pax Exhibition Music Moments Festival Dance Along Trolls ISO B Glasgow Music Studios Stage FF 11 Aug, 11:00 & 14:00, BSL Signed 10 Aug, 18:00–21:00 11–12 Aug, 12:00–20:00 Individual £6, Family of four £18, Under 2s free 11 & 12 Aug, 12:00–18:00 An exciting weekend of music run by young people Join Dance HQ for a family-friendly screening of Trolls ISO are pleased to welcome Konx-Om-Pax, Berlin- who have been working towards this event with that will have you dancing in the aisles‑literally! Learn based audio-visual artist Tom Scholefield, for an workshops and training at Glasgow Music Studios all of the key dance moves before the movie begins exhibition of film and graphic artwork. Tom takes throughout 2018. Local bands from folk, ceilidh, rock then show them off in our ‘Can’t Stop the Feeling’ soul classic ’80s sci-fi and modernist cues to create a vivid and blues. McLaren’s Bar will soothe your soul train finale. Poppy & Branch will be dancing with you aesthetic that has shaped the looks of musicians with wonderful piano, from jazz to classical while every step of the way. including Hudson Mohawke, Oneohtrix Point Never you enjoy a glass of something delicious and some and Kuedo. great food – a truly eclectic couple of days. PLUS SOLD OUT performances from Carla J. Easton and psychedelic 65 Virginia Street, G1 1TS sounds from Medicine Men. Old Fruitmarket

Glasgow Music Studios Stage, Osborne Street Hip Replacement Big Top Circus Mask Making glasgow2018.com/festival Glasgow Print Studio 10 Aug, 19:30–00:00 Belhaven Stage at the Tron £10, Age 18+ 11 Aug, 12:00–16:00, Age 5+ Too old to go out clubbing but too young to go to bed? 11 Aug, 12:00–22:00 & 12 Aug, 12:00–20:00 Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Soundcycle We’ve got this, the club where middle age and cutting Soak up the sounds of the Seven Song Club this circus, come along and participate in this fun drop-in edge collide. summer as Fox Star Records programme the Tron’s mask-making workshop. Since 2010 Hip Replacement has been filling the outdoor stage. disco void, running a monthly club where those in the With their finger on the pulse of Glasgow’s new Glasgow Print Studio, Trongate 103, G1 1HD know can dance themselves dizzy. music scene, enjoy a truly acoustic affair on the One of the sell-out hits of the Merchant City Trongate, with the coolest of cool summer vibes. Festival 2017, earning the nickname The Big One, we Provand’s Lordship Family Fun Day Soundcycle are delighted to return in 2018 with The Big One Two. Chisholm Street Children’s Classic Concerts A night where you are absolutely guaranteed disco 11 Aug, 12:00–16:00 FF fun on a grand scale. Strictly for the middle edge! Spend the afternoon exploring the history of 10 Aug, 12:00 & 14:30, £8/£5 Glasgow’s oldest house and discover how it, and the Children’s Classic Concerts’ Essential Orchestra Old Fruitmarket Virginia Street Glastival Festival local area, has changed over the centuries. The stories and presenter Owen Gunnell are stepping up to the Tent and Stage With G1 of previous inhabitants will be brought to life through podium for a celebration of top tunes, sporting fun music and promenade theatre performances. Get and medal-winning performances. Hear Our Voice 11–12 Aug, 12:00–21:00 in character with an array of dressing-up costumes Cheer on sections of the orchestra as they go for Scottish-Asian Creative The Glastival Festival Tent makes its first appearance before designing your own family crest. gold in a musical relay race, experience a synchronised Artists Network FF at Merchant City Festival. Expect DJ sets featuring Learn how the garden has been used for food and swimming routine that’s a stroke of genius and show tracks from all the biggest artists from this summer’s medicine, and while you’re there meet a carthorse or off your freestyle moves in a game of musical statues Check website for performance details music festivals, an outdoor dancefloor, pop-up bars hold an owl! – a CCC concert isn’t just a spectator sport! A new ensemble of Scottish-Asian musicians will and food stalls. And you won’t want to miss the highlight - the come together to create a new piece of music Meanwhile on the stage it’s cabaret all day long with Castle Street, G4 0RB premiere of Soundcycle, a piece for bicycle and exploring a theme of acceptance. They will draw acts including CJ Banks, Bella Houston and Mr. Paul orchestra, by Tom Harrold, performed by world ‑ on creative writing, sound art and visual art Puppet providing comedy, magic, music and lots more. champion percussionist, Colin Currie. output created through workshops held in East Dunbartonshire, where young people explored their Virginia Street City Halls own stories of seeking acceptance. The music will be showcased alongside footage of the workshops.

Book tickets at glasgow2018.com/festival Osadia 27 11–12 Aug, 13:00–16:00 Surge Festival The sculptural quality of hairdressing becomes theatre in Osadia’s barber’s chairs. In this show an 11–12 Aug audience member becomes the central performer, transformed on stage, as styling becomes the showpiece. Osadia create original and provocative exhibitions of sophisticated make-up and hair art, Surge descends on the Osadia set to fantastic music mixes. Merchant City with a

Merchant Square line up of superbly Hidden Footprints singular acts. A Moment’s Peace Theatre Company Lids Open Day at City Halls 11 Aug, 12:00, 14:30 & 16:30 Glasgow Piano City 12 Aug, 12:00 & 14:30, £6/3 Join us for a promenade performance through 12 Aug, 11:00–18:00 the Merchant City inspired by the historical and Fancy the opportunity to play two beautiful Steinway Beautiful Bones contemporary voices of women in our city. concert grand on stage in the Grand Hall and Combining historical fact with personal reflections, the Recital Room? Why not bring your friends and we follow in the footsteps of the women who went family along to listen. Book your slot online. Beautiful Bones Born before us. All ages and abilities welcome. Gaun Yersel! Love Music Productions and Surge Ramblers Teatro Featuring Metropolitan Brass Band Departs from City Halls. City Halls 12:30 & 15:00 15:00 A poetic performance transports the audience to a Supported by Glasgow Life & Glasgow City Council. Beautiful Bones honours human passing with pre-Hispanic Mayan world, where people are born irreverence and black humour ‑ greeting death as a from corn and jaguar gods roam the ancient lands Merchant City Festival‑ friend to be made welcome. When the Four Horsemen of Yucatan. Ceilidh and Family Ceilidh Family Workshops of the Apocalypse attempt to spread doom, a massed Through movement, masks, marionettes and Project Ability trombone orchestra and a street party, the likes music, Ramblers Teatro create dreamlike imagery 11–12 Aug, 17:00–18:30 (Family Ceilidh) of which have never been seen on the streets of to explore Mayan origins and folklore. 11–12 Aug, 20:00 –21:30 12 Aug, 11:00–13:00 & 14:00–16:00, Age 5+ Glasgow, will confront them. The tale follows K’iin, son of the goddess Ixchel, Limber up for 2 nights of Celtic Connections Ceilidhs. Children and families are invited to join Project Ability whose life journey takes him through jungles, Take your partner by the hand and spin across the for a drop-in art workshop in the T103 foyer inspired Walkabout and Brunswick St South pueblos and cenotes to realise his destiny and floor to your favourite tunes. by the Glasgow 2018 UEC Road Cycling European protect his homeland. Hop, twirl, leap and jump at our Family Ceilidh Championships. led by musicians from the award-winning Celtic Big Rory and Ochie the Dog Born was developed with Surge as part of the Street Connections Participation Programme. Featuring Project Ability, Trongate 103, G1 5HD Surreal McCoy Theatre Bursary Programme for the Surge Festival. the Celine Donoghue Band. 13:30 & 16:00 Hutcheson St North Merchant Square Merchant City Festival Big Rory and Ochie the Dog are no ordinary street Tea Dance 2018 theatre act. A giant Scotsman and his endearing giant dog explode onto Surge Festival. Enormous in Bug n’ Buzz SLAM 88 12 Aug, 14:00–17:00, £15/13 + Booking Fee size and character, people (and dogs) fall in love with Concordance That Swing Sensation - the band that got Glasgow Ochie and can’t help cuddling the huge pup, who is 11 Aug, 22:00–03:00, £20/18/15 + Booking Fee dancing into The Guinness Book of World Records - full of surprises. 14:30 & 17:00 A special celebration of 30 years of Acid House with return to the Old Fruitmarket with more than enough (12:30 & 16:30 inside, if wet) the scene’s originator, Chicago’s DJ Pierre & Glasgow quicksteps, foxtrots, waltzes, and maybe even a wee Walkabout Bug n’ Buzz make up new rules, break all the codes protagonists Slam. slosh or two, to satisfy first-timers and veterans alike. and embrace the unexpected. Their ability to turn Includes strobe lighting and sub-bass. Ticket includes tea, coffee & cake. everything into an instrument and perform the most unique dance wraps you in a sensitive collective Old Fruitmarket Old Fruitmarket experience, distorting space and time.

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Civic Canteen 31 and provocative programme 9–12 Aug exploring food and nourishment as one of the uniting forces in 40 John St, G1 1JQ (behind City Chambers) life. Regardless of how old we are or where we are from, the universal truth is that everyone needs to eat!

The Civic Canteen tent will host a series of special workshops and events, all of which have the shared goal of using delicious food as a vehicle to promote cultural exchange. Different workshops take place each day and all events are free to attend, so come along, join the discussion, challenge your glasgow2018.com/festival preconceptions, and leave knowing how to make delicious food from all corners of the globe! Credit: Gavin Duncan Civic Canteen is proudly supported by Fáilte Foods. Soul Food Sisters

While Having Soup Tomorrow’s Kitchen Tontine Lane ATSA Küche

2–12 Aug 9-12 Aug, 12:00–15:00 9-12 Aug, 17:00–18:00 While Having Soup is a free 'three course dialogue'. Küche is a social start-up that involves people and Artists and local volunteers play the role of Maître communities in creating a programme of one-off d’ at this special restaurant, welcoming the public to food-led events and community dinners. Hidden within plain sight in the heart of the savour a thought-provoking, confidential conversation Tomorrow’s Kitchen is both a celebration of Merchant City, a unique and normally secret with a stranger over a bowl of soup. traditional Scottish dishes and an exploration of how Together they will create their poetic portrait, multicultural Glasgow creates exciting new culinary space opens its gates to host a series of which will be recorded and will join thousands of fusions. Posing the question, “What might we make in extraordinary interventions. others from around the world. With a conversation our kitchens in the future?" menu crafted just for Glasgow, we invite you to participate in feeding the encounter and adding to the 11:00–late King Putt’s: Putting Holes In Happiness conversation. Perhaps if we talk more, listen better, Soul Food Sisters Tontine Lane will be transformed into an animated Rob Kennedy then necessary change can happen. environment, offering the very best in Scottish street FF 9-12 Aug, 15:30–16:30 food and pop-up dining, alongside art installations 11:00–21:00 ATSA, When Art Takes Action is supported by Soul Food Sisters is a vibrant female-led social and cinematic projection. Music and performance A free, public, crazy golf course, designed in Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec. enterprise who believe in improving skills and self- will enhance this singularly urban environment, with collaboration with a number of local artists and esteem through cooking. Turner Prize winner Douglas Gordon’s iconic ‘Empire’ community groups across Glasgow, and constructed They use food as a force for nourishment, for better sign just one of the neon artworks located in Tontine from the city’s recycled rubbish. Seasonal Food with Gary Maclean understanding, respect and inclusion. Lane to be re-illuminated during the event. Confronting issues of access, exclusion, value Join their free, fast-paced workshops and learn how and commodity the golf course is best understood 9-12 Aug, 18:30–19:30 to make Bavarian Semmelknoedel bread dumplings, through social, sporting and competitive use, Join Gary Maclean’s celebration of national produce Spanish Churros and Flores Frittas, Polish Pierogi, and provoking questions about how the competition, and learn how to make the most of locally sourced, Injera pancakes from Eritrea. collaboration and sociability of playing games can help healthy and affordable food. us to understand and think about the consequences of our actions on the wider world. See glasgow2018.com/festival for full programme and to book your free tickets. 33

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Toilets T e Accessible toilet m p le to Changing places n S t Large Screen Main Stage & Screen Spectator Entry Ferris Wheel Celebrate The Big Top^ Autism Friendly Zone Festival 2018 ^Performances at The Big Top are free to attend but Glasgow Museums ticketed. Tickets/wristbands are available from 2–12 See glasgow2018.com/go-live for more details Aug. Collect from Big Top ticket booth on the day of Finish line for cycling events the performance. *extended opening times on 8 and 12 August during the Glasgow 2018 UEC Road Cycling European Championships. Festival 2018 at GO LIVE! 37 2–12 Aug

Festival 2018 Big Top

To celebrate Circus 250, the UK-wide anniversary of the first circus ring established 250 years ago in London, Bring your appetite to The Kitchen Garden a beautiful Big Top on Glasgow Green is hosting the best in contemporary circus. To whet appetites further there will also be the All shows are free, suitable for all ages and glasgow2018.com/festival Kitchen Garden Food Village, with a blend of fresh, guaranteed to surprise and delight! local delicacies, live cooking demonstrations from top Free tickets for all shows can be collected from the Scottish chefs, tasting sessions and healthy eating Big Top ticket booth on the day of the performance guidance throughout. on a first come, first served basis.

Check out the website to find out what’s on and drop in to the free daily cooking demos for delicious healthy The Crow House meal time inspiration. Circo Rum Ba Ba

2 Aug, 13:00 & 17:00 Action-packed every day A silent movie inspired show using an eclectic mix of circus, puppetry, • Have-a-go sports, fitness classes and nature zones musical saw, harp playing and • Watch the Championship action live on the large screens audience participation featuring a • Meet the athletes The Crow House frenzy of acrobatics, silks trapeze, • Delicious foods and live cooking demonstrations at The Kitchen Garden Food Village hat juggling and slap stick. • Bodyworks exhibitions from The • Jaw-dropping cycling shows from The Clan ‑ Scotland’s Cycle Stunt Team • Capital FM will host the stage and provide daily prize giveaways What Am I Worth? Extraordinary Bodies Glasgow Green will also be a key sport venue during the Championships as it hosts three days of elite cycling events as follows: 4–5 Aug, 14:00 & 17:00 Extraordinary Bodies create circus like no-one else. Women’s Cycling Road Race: Sun 5 August In this groundbreaking new show instant judgement Men’s and Women’s Cycling Time Trials: Wed 8 August matters and survival hangs in the balance as the Men’s Cycling Road Race: Sun 12 August performers dance, fly, catch, play and sing on a stage that flies, tips and spins. Who will be left when the world stops spinning in this groundbreaking physical performance? This show includes integrated audio description and sign language interpretation (BSL). Touch tours are Celebrate glasgow2018.com/go-live available before each show.

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7–8 Aug, 17:00 Award winning show from Catalan company eia. Breath-taking, poetic, funny and heart-warming, a stunning contemporary circus show, inspiring tenderness for the strange beast that is the human being. Four acrobats watch each other, gauge, run into, carry, throw each other and sweep us along in their physical and metaphorical dance: a glimpse into The Exploded Circus the kaleidoscope of human relationships.

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10 Aug, 17:00 & 11–12 Aug, 12:00 & 17:00 Step into the moment where an explosion has been frozen in time, the remnants of a big top caught mid- air – with everything from circus ring, sequins and fairground horses suspended above ground. Featuring Also at GO LIVE! a breathtaking mix of acrobatics, surprising aerial feats and masterful juggling, The Exploded Circus weaves a Between the Lines story told without words, where six female performers Celebrating Glasgow's Gardens Go For Gold Aerial Edge Artists have to come together to seek order in the chaos and Velocity East End Residency create a new normal. With striking imagery and subtle 2–12 Aug, 10.00–19.00 6 Aug, 16:00 humour, the show explores themes around change, Marking the 30th anniversary of Glasgow’s Garden 2–12 Aug Between the Lines combines dance and physical hope and belonging. Festival in 1988, we’re looking back and looking Various times and dates. See website for details. performance with jaw-dropping circus skills and forward. Share your memories of 1988 and tell Playful street theatre performance by young people explores the performer’s relationship with risk. us what you think about the future of Glasgow’s and their families from Glasgow’s East End & Directed by Brazilian director Adilso Machado and gardens. From window sills to allotments and bugs to Rutherglen. Directed by Velocity East End Artist in featuring performance from Scottish circus artists bees, join in the fun and start your own green space Residence. (see p45) Mark Gibson, Adam Wright and Stewart Watts. journey with a bit of help from us. The People Unite Aerial Edge Youth Circus The People’s Pianos Olivier Grossetête & UZ Arts B FF Tom Binns 7-8 Aug, 12:00 3 Aug, 12.00–17.00, 4 Aug, Topple 16:00 approx Participants from Aerial Edge Youth Programme 2–12 Aug, 10.00–19.00 The people of Glasgow celebrate and honour the showcase their skills, from death-defying feats such The Festival 2018 People’s Pianos are there for you people of Berlin by building a cardboard structure as silks, trapeze and aerial hoop to ground-based to play. All ages welcome to help decorate the piano inspired by the city’s Brandenburg Gate, with a acrobatics, flips and tricks! or play a tune. Gaun Yersel! Watch out for the special Mackintosh twist. Volunteers will build the cardboard 'High Noon' performance each day. (See also p45) ‘bricks’ in advance and then we need you to help bring Look out for walkabout performances from Aerial the building to life on 3 August. On 4 August gather to including stilt walkers, jugglers, hula hoopers celebrate the achievement and see it ceremoniously and more! topple.

The Sportables Supported by Insitu ‑ with thanks to Smurfit Kappa. Pop-up Opera Roadshow Strong Lady Scottish Opera FF 7–10 Aug 2 & 9 Aug, 11:00,13:00,15:00 Various times. See website for details Scottish Opera is packing up its theatre on wheels and taking The Pop-up Opera Roadshow to Festival A genuine strong woman, Betty Brawn presents an 2018. Two brilliant 25-minute shows for audiences elegant array of feats of strength: she breaks things, of all ages are brought to life by a storyteller, singers, lifts men overhead as if they were feathers and musicians and a series of colourful illustrations, gives your laughing muscles a workout. You will walk offering a fantastic introduction to opera. Both shows away smiling from this wholehearted celebration of are performed in a specially-adapted, fully-accessible femininity and strength. trailer, recreating Glasgow’s Theatre Royal. Join us for a version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic A Little Bit of Also appearing at George Square. HMS Pinafore and Be a Sport, Spike!, a new work for kids aged 4–7. Beyond Boundaries Also apperaing in locations across Scotland – see website for full details. 3 Aug Festival 2018 ran an open call for poems responding to ‘Beyond Boundaries’. These could be inspired by the The Sportables idea of overcoming obstacles and striving towards a Mischief La Bas goal, or by the concept of uniting in our differences and celebrating our diversity. 2 & 4–6 Aug FF In this event, hosted by Glasgow’s Poet Laureate, Various times. See website for details Jim Carruth new and established poets will perform A comical collection of outdoor performances that some of the work from the collection. (see p45) showcase three unique sports and celebrate the maverick athletes at their heart. The streets and parks will become the arena for these unconventional Four Go Wild in Wellies games: Sponge Wrestling, Inner City Twitching and Indepen-dance The Great Space Hopping Selfie Challenge. FF You are invited to participate, cheer and watch in 9-12 Aug, 10:30 wonder as the ‘hotshots’ from each sport show you A brand new show for audiences aged 3–5 years exactly how it’s done. from Indepen-dance 4, Scotland’s inclusive professional dance company. Four Go Wild In Wellies Popping up across our live sites & venues ‑ see is a whimsical adventure featuring bobble hats, webstie for details. scarves, tents that have a life of their own and, of course, lots of fun in wellies!

Velophonic Orchestra Jane Bentley FF 12 Aug, 17:30 The Velophonic Orchestra is a spontaneous bicycle orchestra that anyone can join ‑ just bring your bike! Over the period of an hour, we’ll explore the possibilities of using bicycles as instruments: playing on bells, spokes, frames, saddles - you name it! No previous bicycle-playing experience necessary - just follow the conductors and experience being part of the band as we create and perform a piece of music to celebrate each of the four cycling disciplines of the European Championships. Four Go Wild in Wellies Glasgow Wide 43 2–12 Aug

Tell Us Who We Are 1,210km B NYCoS, NYOS, SYT & YDance Junction 25 and Theater an der Parkaue

7 Aug 20:00, 8 Aug 12:00, 9 Aug 15:00 & 20:00 10–11 Aug, 19:30 Super Night Shot £5 + Booking Fee £12.50/9 For the first time, the National Youth Choir of Scotland, An explosive new show that will inspire, question and National Youth Orchestras of Scotland, Scottish Youth provoke. 1,210km features award-winning young Theatre and YDance (Scottish Youth Dance) collaborate performance companies Junction 25 from Glasgow glasgow2018.com/festival to present this new commission for Festival 2018. and Theater an der Parkaue from Berlin who explore In Tell Us Who We Are, the young collective asks, ideas of cross-cultural identity, connection and Super Night Shot Fotografische Parallelen/ what can we, the liberal snowflakes of today, tell you belonging as they ask the question ‘what is the space National Theatre of Scotland and Gob Squad Photographic Parallels about war? What can we, the mollycoddled millennials between us?’ Street Level Photoworks with our safe spaces tell you about anything? The work will premiere at Tramway as part of 9 Aug, 22:00, Age 18+ B B We have all of the information we could ever need Festival 2018 before touring to Theater an der Free but ticketed 2 Aug–30 Sep at the touch of a button. We never had to fight to Parkaue in Berlin. Super Night Shot is a magical journey through the An artistic photographic exchange between Street have it. We have a voice: we want to use it. But are we night-time streets of Glasgow. Full of surprises, the Level in Glasgow and OSTKREUZ Association in Berlin, willing to fight to be heard? Junction 25 is co-produced by Glas(s) Performance Glasgow public become co-stars in a movie that in which eight members of the aff Galerie collective and Tramway, and 1,210km is supported by Festival celebrates unplanned meetings with strangers and will be shown at Trongate 103. Totally East by Old Fruitmarket 2018 and The Goethe Institute. delights in the randomness of urban existence. Harald Hauswald will show at Goethe Institute Both comical and moving, Super Night Shot and Hillhead Library. Tramway, Albert Drive, Glasgow attempts to elevate the banality of everyday life into Trongate 103 will screen Maik Reichert’s film Foto: the glamour and glitz of a big-screen blockbuster. OSTKREUZ and host talks by the two residency artists Letters to my Shadow Completely unpredictable, the result is an experience and four of the exhibiting artists. Generation Dance Festival Rotate Generate halfway between theatre and film, elevating the In a reciprocal event in Berlin in October during FF Paragon Ensemble FF everyday into the epic and playing with your Monat der Fotografie OFF, an exhibition of 2–3 Aug, 19:30, £6/5 perceptions of the familiar. Anything can happen, contemporary Glaswegian photographers takes place Generation Dance Festival is an exciting triple bill 7–9 Aug and usually does. at aff Galerie. Das Giftraum will feature work by Harry involving Scottish Ballet Elders Company performing Rotate Generate is Paragon’s inclusive music and The film begins exactly one hour before you come Papadopoulos and there will be a screening of the ‘Faith’, choreographed by Lewis Normand; the National dance project linking art, sport and science, using the to watch it when the four performer/activists meet, acclaimed film Big Gold Dream on the history of Scottish Youth Dance Company of Scotland performing principles of renewable energy, health and wellbeing arm themselves with their video cameras and post-punk and indie music. Talks and performances will ‘Di-ver-gent’, choregraphed by Anna Kenrick; to create a brand new dance piece. start them simultaneously. Embarking on a “war also feature in this reciprocal element. and the Generation Performance Company, an Performances throughout Glasgow will involve on anonymity”, they set off into the night on an intergenerational group brought together for Festival young disabled people from diverse communities. adventure where only one thing is certain: 60 minutes Supported by the Goethe Institute, Glasgow & 2018, performing the premiere of ‘Letters to my later they will meet again and present what they have British Council Berlin. Shadow’, choreographed by Lorraine Jamison and Anna Supported by Creative Scotland and filmed to the waiting audience. Kenrick. This work brings together six intergenerational Big Lottery Changing Lives. Trongate 103, G1 5HD groups from across Scotland to reflect and celebrate in Argyle Street Arches, G2 8DL Goethe Institute, G3 6AX this poignant, humorous, and uplifting new piece. 7 Aug, 12:30: Pollok Health Centre Hillhead Library, G12 8 Aug, 12:30: Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity Supported by Creative Scotland, 9 Aug, 17.00–18.00: Merchant City Festival Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council.

Tramway, Albert Drive, Glasgow Book tickets at glasgow2018.com/festival 45

Sunny G Radio 103.5 FM Beyond Boundaries FF 2–12 Aug 3 Aug, 17:30 Sunny Govan Community Media will provide a Festival 2018 ran an open call for poems responding platform for local voices throughout Festival 2018 to ‘Beyond Boundaries’. These could be inspired by the and the Glasgow 2018 European Championships. idea of overcoming obstacles and striving towards a Look out for Sunny G Radio staff and volunteers who goal, or by the concept of uniting in our differences Credit: Marvin Gaye Chetwynd courtesy of Sadie Coles will deliver a series of radio roadshow events and will and celebrating our diversity. broadcast live performances. A team of young people In this event, hosted by Glasgow’s Poet Laureate, have been trained as radio journalists to document Jim Carruthers new and established poets will perform glasgow2018.com/festival the summer’s activities and will work with Sunny some of the work from the collection. Turn the Ordinary into Adventure Govan Community Media to give a platform to local GoMA, Platform & Monster Chetwynd artists, local people with links to sport, and anyone Various Locations (see p40) who wants to celebrate the Championships. Mon–Thu, 13:30–16:00 Turn it up, Govan! Mon–Thu Workshops: 2–9 Aug, 13:30–16:00 Confortáveis (Comfortables) by Melissa Stabile Velocity East End Residency This summer, as part of the Glasgow 2018 European Sports venues throughout Glasgow. Championships, GoMA will be collaborating with Turner 2–12 Aug prize nominated Monster Chetwynd. She will be working Velocity is a year-long artist residency programme with adult and youth groups from GoMA and Platform Tramway The People’s Pianos where young people, their families and friends to create a short film inspired by the novel The Master B Tom Binns from the East End of the city and the Rutherglen and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. This subversive and 2–12 Aug participated in dance, drama and performance magical film will see people transform through organic Tramway presents an eclectic visual arts programme 2–12 Aug workshops in the local areas. It will cumulate in face creams and potions ‑ a portal to the supernatural. for Festival 2018 including a unique and engaging The Festival 2018 People’s Pianos are there for you to playful, street performances to be showcased each The UK premiere of this short film will be screened exhibition for children that presents new commissions play. Come and help us decorate ‘Daisy’ on Glasgow day at GO LIVE! At The Green. in George Square on 9 August between 12:00–13:00. by Richy Carey, James McLardy, Anne Seseke, Melissa Green, play ‘Hen’ in the Merchant City and find more The aim is to support young people from these Taking inspiration from the project, GoMA will also Stabile, and Oliver Pitt. The exhibition features soft and popping up around town at surprise locations during areas in the city to stay socially engaged in arts have a summer of magic with FREE family workshops malleable sculptures, an interactive sound and visual the Festival. Watch out for 'High Noon' every day for a practice and be encouraged to undertake further with a supernatural theme. Come along to make installation and colourful wall murals and projections. special performance at each piano. training, be signposted to local delivery partners or powerful potions, create creepy creatures, potty Samara Scott’s immersive installation fills Get yourself down to City Halls for a special ‘Lids routes into involvement with the arts. Look out for plants and even make things fly or transform. Tramway’s main gallery with large suspended and Open Day’ on Sat 12 August. emerging artists in the coming months! translucent sculptures. Body gel, glitter, toilet paper, There are loads of ‘Pianos in Public Places’ out Gallery of Modern Art, G1 3AH sponges, milk, nail varnish and food dyes are just there to play, so what are you waiting for? A co-commission between Festival 2018, some of the many substances that make up her 11 Days, 22 Pianos, 88 Keys… 1 Glasgow Piano City. Clyde Gateway, Creative Scotland and Glasgow. sumptuous forms. This is Scott’s most ambitious New Order, Other Spaces exhibition in a public institution to date. Various Locations - check website for details. Various Locations. Jo Longhurst In Tramway’s theatre Rustic Prologue organised by FF Glasgow‑based artist Jamie Crewe features a wide 2–12 Aug, 10:00–17:00 range of inspirational material and experimental Opening Preview 2 Aug, 18:00–21:00 animation. The event introduces their upcoming Multi-site solo presentation from Jo Longhurst exhibition Pastoral Drama, a new commission which exploring the gymnastic body across photography, reflects on Queer legacies, realised in partnership with moving image and installation. (See p59) KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin.

 Ballroom, 1445 Argyle St, G3 8AW See website for dates & times. Book tickets at glasgow2018.com/festival 47

What Gives Me Strength Ignite Theatre FF

3 Aug & 6 Aug, 14.00–15.00 Ignite Theatre presents What Gives Me Strength. This piece brings together an incredible cast mixing experienced performers with inspiring young people from challenging backgrounds who have made Glasgow their home. glasgow2018.com/festival 3 Aug: Knightswood Community Centre, G13 3DD 6 Aug: Community Central Halls, G20 7YE Cryptic - Credit: Robbie Thomson

Supported by Gordon Fraser Charitable Trust, BBC What Gives Me Strength Children in Need, The Robertson Trust, Lloyds TSB Foundation and Bank of Scotland Foundation. Portal Glasgow Film Festival Charles Rennie Mackintosh– Wild City Sonica B Making the Glasgow Style The Walking Library & Alec Finlay FF FF £10.50/7.50, children: £5.50 2–12 Aug, 11.00–19.00 At GFT we are diving into the cinematic history of 30 Mar–14 Aug, £7/£5, under 16s FREE 3 Aug & 10–11 Aug, Free but ticketed Free but ticketed Berlin, showing 5 films that give a sense of the Enjoy the celebrated work of the renowned Glasgow The Walking Library brings walking and books Embark on an audiovisual adventure as multimedia changing face of this incredible city. Watch Berlin architect, designer and artist as we mark his 150th together. Join us on a place-aware wander through the artist Robbie Thomson and composer Alex Menzies onscreen from the turbulent war years, through the anniversary. Discover his influences and inspirations wild city, as we carry our library on a slow walk. Select transform the 762 metre-long walkway of the divided late-20th century, to the vibrant present. and understand the work of his contemporaries, a book to share and help create a map of wild nature. into a sensory subterranean spectacle. particularly those working in the Glasgow Style, Inspired by marine mythology and science fiction, Cabaret ‑ Tue 31 Jul, 20:10 (15) leading to the birth of the only Art Nouveau movement 3 Aug, 11.00–13.00: George Sq to Glasgow Green this otherworldly odyssey reveals robotic sculptures The Lives of Others ‑ Sun 5 Aug, 16:30 (15) in UK which impacted internationally on the art world. 10 Aug, 11.00–15.00: George Sq to the West End and electronic sounds which lead you through a Wings of Desire ‑ Mon 6 Aug, 20:15 (12) The exhibition will combine highlights of 11 Aug, 14.30–16.00: Children’s Wood and North series of close encounters. Immersive and intriguing, Victoria ‑ Sat 11 Aug, 15:30 (15) Mackintosh’s work and the wider Glasgow Style Kelvin Meadows to the Portal presents a rare opportunity to re-discover this Symphony of Now ‑ Sun 12 Aug, 13:00 and will include a number of objects which have remarkable Glasgow landmark which celebrates its never been on public display. The full spectrum of Supported by Glasgow Life and the 55th anniversary year. Glasgow Film Theatre, G3 6RB Mackintosh’s work will be covered including stained . glass, ceramics, mosaic, metalwork, furniture, Supported by Creative Scotland, PRS for Music stenciling interiors and architecture. Foundation and Talent Development. In partnership To find out more about the exhibition and the with Glasgow City Council and The Robertson Trust. Mackintosh events programme pick up a leaflet in venue or visit glasgowmuseums.com. Southbound Pedestrian & Cycle path, The Clyde Tunnel (meeting at 911‑919 Dumbarton Road, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, G3 8AG G11 6NA)

Also performing at George Square. Wings of Desire at GFT Book tickets at glasgow2018.com/festival 49

The Sloans Opera ‑ Glasgow 2018 Edition NOISE presents The Sloans Opera plus two new operas specially commissioned for Festival 2018. Janice Kerbel 'Sink' The Common Guild FF 6–8 Aug, 10.00, 14.00 & 18.00, 12 Aug, 15:00, £15/12 FF The Sloans Opera, Gareth Williams and David Brock 3 Aug, 18:00, 18.45, 19.30 & 20.15, £5 D fie foe Travelling through the three floors of the incredibly beautiful Sloans Bar ‘Sink’ is a new artwork by artist Janice Kerbel. It and Restaurant, the opera brings to life characters past and present who takes the form of a synchronised swimming routine, have visited this famous Glasgow landmark. to be performed for the first time in the unique surroundings of The Western Baths Club, Glasgow. Love Speaks, Jenny Knotts and Kevan O’Reilly Synchronised swimming is marked by a unique This opera was commissioned to celebrate Scotland's powerful and glasgow2018.com/festival history infused with the magic of cinema, the progressive decision to make PrEP available on the Scottish NHS. PrEP discipline of dance, and the precision and athleticism protects men and women from contracting the HIV virus. of contemporary competitive sport. ‘Sink’ explores those contradictions to imagine a compositional Ceilidh, Scott Gilmour and Claire McKenzie choreography that is both austere and extravagant, From award-winning writing partnership Noisemaker, comes this unique performed by specialist, elite female swimmers. Orographic opera packed with singing, dancing and immersive storytelling. Oceanallover in association with Feral The Western Baths Club, Cranworth Street, G12 8BZ FF Sloans Bar and Restaurant, 108 Argyle St, G2 8BG 3–4 Aug & 10–12 Aug Book now at glasgow2018.com/festival Orographic is a new outdoor performance from visual Also performing in George Square. performance company Oceanallover, fusing otherworldly choreography, live music and sculptural costume Glasgow Pixillated inspired by the position and form of landscape, with Deepening The River D fie foe FF particular reference to the paintings made by Charles Paul Towndrow and The Keywork Orchestra Rennie Mackintosh in France towards the end of his life. FF 2–12 Aug, 10:00–18:00 2018 marks the 150 year anniversary of the 10–11 Aug, 20.00, £16 Glasgow Pixillated: A dynamic D fie foe Film, featuring founding father of the ‘Glasgow’ style. Orographic Jazz saxophonist and composer Paul Towndrow leads a new and exciting pixillated young performers against a backdrop of takes direct inspiration from his abstract lines, multi-genre Big Band in his newly composed suite of music celebrating iconic Glasgow architecture and landscapes. The shapes and cartography looking at the mountains and our city, its people, its culture and its potential. beautiful technique of 'pixillation’, (animation of the hillsides of Scotland and Southern France. The Keywork Orchestra is a custom-built large ensemble comprising human form), was made famous by Scottish-born Join Oceanallover for a mesmerising promenade top international talent across a number of disciplines from jazz, to Norman McLaren in the 1950s. It's a style halfway performance that blends surreal choreography, sonic traditional folk and Indian classical music. The concert features the between drama and stop-frame animation, which invention and carnival couture design. premier of a brand new work commissioned by Festival 2018, entitled is then combined with sequences of time-lapse and ‘Deepening The River’. slow-motion to express certain moods. 4 Aug: Strathclyde Country Park The music explores a multitude of themes based around Glasgow’s 10 Aug: Merchant City Festival people, communities, history, and culture, specifically the role in the 17th The film will be presented throughout the Festival 11 Aug: Balloch Century of The Merchants House of Glasgow in campaigning for the in George Square. deepening of the Clyde to enable the passage of ships, and facilitate trade. See glasgow2018.com/festival for times Supported by Glasgow Film Theatre. & additional dates. The Merchants House, 7 West George St, G2 1BA

Deepening The River Book tickets at glasgow2018.com/festival Gaelic Events Tachartasan Gàidhlig 51

Cèilidh Mòr Gàidhlig Mass Gaelic Ceilidh

4 Lùn, 16:00 4 Aug, 16:00 Cèilidh tràth samhraidh, anns an t-seann dòigh le òrain An early summer ceilidh, traditional style with Ghàidhlig agus ceòl beòthail bho chòmhlan chliùiteach, Gaelic song and cracking music form the acclaimed Pride House Glasgow Còmhlan Cèilidh Ghleann Fhionnain agus le Màiri Anna Glenfinnan Ceilidh Band with singers Mary Ann FF NicUalraig agus Gillebrìde Mac ’IlleMhaoil a’ seinn. Kennedy & Gillebride MacMillan. 1–12 Aug, 12:00–23:45 Ceàrnag Sheòrais George Square Located in the heart of the Merchant City, Pride House Glasgow will play host to a range of sports, Latha Mòr na Camanachd The Big Day of Shinty arts and cultural events breaking down the social and Project Ability personal barriers which prevent lesbian, gay, bisexual, 5 Lùn, Bho 11:00 ( iomadh uair) 5 Aug, From 11:00 (various times) transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people from Le dlùth cheangal eadar cultar agus dualchas na Intrinsically linked to Gaelic Culture and folklore, Shinty participating in sports. Gàidhlig, ’s e gèam luath, clis agus sgileil a th’ ann, le is fast, frantic and skilful, giving an unrivalled spectator A mix of workshops, performances and exhibitions, seallaidhean air leth dhan luchd-amhairc – feumaidh experience ‑ a must see for any sports fan. Experience glasgow2018.com/festival the programme features theatre, literature, art, music, duine sam bith aig a bheil ùidh ann an spòrs seo come & try sessions, a one-off shinty tournament dance and cabaret in a wide-ranging, eclectic mix fhaicinn dhaibh fhèin. with Scotland’s best players, demonstrations and a which showcases Scotland’s LGBTI community whilst Tha cothroman ann tighinn agus fheuchainn dhuibh celebratory ceilidh. See website for full details. highlighting the continued fight for LGBTI liberation, fhèin, bidh gèam cùpa Glaschu 2018 sònraichte ann, GO LIVE! at the Green & Greenfield Football Centre, equality and human rights. taisbeanaidhean bho na cluicheadairean as fheàrr ann G32 6TP an Alba agus cèilidh comharrachaidh. Faic an làrach- 17 Trongate, G1 5EZ lìn airson fiosrachadh iomlan. GO LIVE! at the Green agus Ionad Ball-coise Greenfield, G32 6TP Neu Begegnung Haud the Bus! Project Ability Citizens Theatre Cuairt Òrain Ghlaschu Gàidhlig Glaschu Gaelic Song Trail FF FF 2–4 Aug & 7–12 Aug, 10:00–17:00 11 Aug, 13:00–16:00 11 Lùn, 14:00–16:00, £13.20/£11 11 Aug, 14:00–16:00, £13.20/£11 Project Ability welcomes artists from Berlin’s St. A family day out in the heart of Gorbals with Slighe air leth anns a’ bhaile a’ leantainn sgeul A unique city trail following the story of Glasgow Hedwig-Krankenhaus hospital to our Glasgow gallery for wonderful events and free refreshments. Ghlaschu Gàidhlig a tha agus a bha, tro òrain, fuaim Gaelic present and past through song, sound and a collaborative exhibition along with artists working in Hop on board this walking tour and experience agus stàladh. Coinnich ri fìorachd nan cruthan-fuaime installation. Encounter the gritty reality of industrial our ReConnect studios. a wonderful array of things to do including: a gnìomhachasail; cuir eòlas air oiteag fionnar bho soundscapes; experience the fresh breeze along the With a focus on artists who’ve experienced mental therapeutic garden, fascinating Glasgow history, Abhainn Chluaidh agus gabh tlachd às na sgeulachdan ’s underbelly and enjoy the surviving stories ill health, this exhibition will show artworks from over a hysterical tour of the Southern Necropolis, a tha air fhàgail mu Ghlaschu Gàidhlig tro òrain, of Gaelic Glasgow through songs, performance, poetry 40 artists. Project Ability will also be hosting a seminar stalls, exhibitions, installations, Citizens Theatre’s gnìomhadh, bàrdachd agus beul-aithris. Le Màiri Anna and folklore. Followed by an indoor music session at with a focus on visual art and mental ill health. Four Community Collective performances, singing NicUalraig agus Alasdair Whyte. Bidh an tachartas Blackfriars pub, Merchant City (16:30) artists and two support workers have been invited over workshops, games, sports, children’s storytelling, seo air a leantainn le seisean ciùil aig taigh-seinne Departs , G1 3SL from Berlin to enjoy the Festival events and link up with locally picked fruit, pressed juice, jam to take away Blackfriars, Baile nam Marsantan (16:30). Project Ability artists. The Berlin artists will be invited and live music from the Saint Francis Pipe Band. A’ fàgail Stèisean a’ Mheadhan, Glaschu, G1 3SL to work in our studios and explore the city over six Haud the Bus! is a terrific way to see the famous nights. Project Ability looks to establish a new working Glasgow Gorbals district. An area steeped in history Gàidhlig mun Cuairt a’ bhaile Gaelic around the City relationship with St. Hedwig-Krakenhaus hospital for and filled with friendly faces. future collaboration in both Berlin and Glasgow. 3 Lùn, 16:30f 3 Aug, 18:30 Various venues in the Gorbals. ...ach iadsan a bha ‘n Glaschu/ Ag ainmeachadh na Croaibh/ Trongate 103, 1st Floor, G1 5HD …but they who were in Glasgow Naming the Tree Gàrradh Ròsan Pàirc na Bànrigh/ Gàrraidhean Falaichte, Tramway, G41 2PE/ Queen’s Park Rose Garden, G42 8QR Hidden Gardens, Tramway, G41 2PE

Tha barrachd thachartasan Gàidhlig aig Fèis2018, There are more Gaelic events during Festival 2018. sgrùdaich ‘Gaelic’aig glasgow2018.com/festival. Serach ‘Gaelic’ at glasgow2018/festival. Our Place 53 Aye 2 Music @ Our Place Changing Faces July & August Eiger Music ENABLE Glasgow/Fortune Works

Tue & Thu from 21 Jun–9 Aug 9 Aug, 13:00–20:00 Have you ever wanted to learn to play a musical 10–11 Aug, 10:00–17:00 The Festival 2018 Our Place Fund has supported instrument? Aye 2 Music @ Our Place are offering Collaborative portrait project led by Resident Artist communities in Glasgow and across Scotland to design taster sessions in guitar, drums, fiddle, piano and Sarah Leonard, carer and volunteer at Fortune Works, keyboard at two locations in the Woodside area from who work to empower people of all ages with a their own exciting, free programme of cultural activity. 21 June 2018. Local musicians will also perform at a learning disability. Each portrait will be personalised to These projects have been developed and chosen by Music Café event each Thursday. Free to take part – express individuality and those involved will be invited just drop in. (Note: Under 16s must be accompanied at to talk about their experience. local people. Get yourself along to events near you and the workshops by an adult. Music Café event 18+ only). soak up the festival atmosphere. Trongate 103, G1 5HD Windsor Community Hall, G20 7NA (Thurs) Wintersgills G4 9EJ (Tues) For further details on Our Place Projects throughout Yorkhill Gala Day 2018 Yokecoco Scotland see glasgow2018.com/festival Beatroute’s Roots glasgow2018.com/festival Beatroute 12 Aug, 11:00–16:00 What would make your ideal Sunday? Yorkhill Gala 9 Aug, 14:00 Day 2018 promises a Sunday filled with live music and A series of artistic performances written/composed entertainment for all the family. The event supports and performed by young people from the local local performers, artists, community groups and 3D Family Sports/Fun Day Big Summer Get Together community, bringing to life the historical and cultural independent businesses in the area, and has the aim of 3D Drumchapel The Hidden Gardens heritage of Balornock and Barmulloch through encouraging local children to get more involved in their their eyes, celebrating the area’s rich history and community greenspaces. 27 Jul, 11:00–14:00 11 Aug, 12:00–16:00 tremendous cultural diversity in the modern day. Over the summer 3D offers a variety of family- Join us for a very special summer afternoon celebrating Overnewton Square, Yorkhill friendly activities, including a multi-sports day. 15 years of the Hidden Gardens. It will feature a launch Beatroute Arts Centre, 285 Wallacewell Rd, G21 3RP Families will receive a sports/activities passport of celebratory artwork, a tasty picnic feast prepared by on arrival, which will be stamped for each of the the Hidden Gardens Cultural Cookery group, a dynamic Community Engagement Day events they take part in. The sports day will include 40-piece orchestral performance by Nevis Ensemble Big Angie's Big Day Townhead Village Hall traditional races and a buggy walk in the park for and a scavenger hunt. Chips & Cheese Productions families with babies and children in prams ‑ there’s 6 Aug, 10:00–16:00 the option to stay for a picnic too. Tramway, G41 2PE 28 Jul, 19.30–22:00 A community get-together to actively promote and At long last a handsome man has popped the foster relationships between the rapidly changing Drumchapel Community Centre question, Big Angie has said yes to the dress and the community of Townhead and beyond, with a range of 320 Kinfauns Drive, G15 7HA AfriCeilidh day she’s dreamed of all her life is finally here… her multicultural and multi-generational activities. African Arts Centre wedding day! Dig out your frock coats and fascinators and dress to impress for the wedding of the year. Townhead Village Hall, 60 St Mungo Ave, G4 0PL An Untold Story 3–5 Aug, 12:00–23:00 Big Angie’s Big Day is a hilarious walk down the aisle, Govan and Linthouse Parish Church A multimedia all-day arts festival spanning three as special, as touching and as full of surprises as days, showcasing films, music, dance and visual arts any Glasgow wedding. (A stage show for over 18s. Community Recovery Fayre 2–3 Aug & 6–11 Aug, 11:00–15:00 in an open and inclusive environment at The African Adult humour). GEEAP/NERC A celebration of the history, heritage and future of Arts Centre, Ibrox. There will be a seated dinner on Govan and Linthouse through a multi-art exhibition the Saturday. Saint Lukes, Bain St, G40 2JZ 5 Aug, 11:00–15:00 featuring watercolour paintings, murals, dance, Raising awareness, celebrating and showcasing costumes, stories, and stained-glass panels produced The African Arts Centre, 286 Broomloan Rd, G51 2JQ recovery therapies, arts and crafts available in by local people supported by artist Veronica Jane Lynch. North East Glasgow.

Former RBS, 788 Govan Rd, G51 2IL Sunday Social Recovery Café, Kelvin College, G34 9HZ Craft Café Impact Arts

9 Aug, 10:00–16:00 Members will combine multiple art forms and living history to create a short animation, creative writing and mixed media collages on sporting and Scotland. They will reflect on games they played as children, their sporting heroes, the events that resonated with them and sporting and cultural landmarks that reflect their heritage.

Elderpark Community Centre, 82 Elderpark St, G51 3SS Craft Café

Cultural Food Festival Fun Day Glasgow Kite Festival Reidvale Adventure Play Association Ricefield Arts and Cultural Centre

10 Aug, 13:00:16:30 22 Jul, 12:00–16:00 Promoting and celebrating the Glasgow 2018 Let’s fill the Glasgow sky with kites! This will be a European Championships by offering children, fun day filled with interactive activities, including kite young people and their families the opportunity exhibition, craft fair, kite quiz, games, drop-in kite to take part in food tasting sessions. We will raise making workshops, and kite flying. awareness of culture and food dishes from various European countries. Park ( Boulevard)

Reidvale Adventure Play Association Ltd 62 Garfield Street, Dennistoun, G31 1DW Seven Days for Seven Lochs Urban Fox

6–8 Jul & 9–12 Aug Dennistoun Carnival A seven-day activity programme using the Seven Workshops and Parade Lochs venues, and a great way to explore the natural Dennistoun Community Council environment of Scotland’s biggest wetland park. The activities include cycling, kayaking, bushcraft, archery 28 Jul, 12:00 –16:00 and creating a mural. Carnival workshops for local groups in six venues Activities will be led by trained local young people in July, leading up to the Alexandra Park Festival on and will be aimed at connecting young people and Saturday 28 July. Community artists will work with communities to outdoor areas. each group to identify a theme and provide materials to make costumes and props for the Carnival Parade Helenslea Community Hall, 48 Methven St, Glasgow in the Alexandra Park Festival.

Alexandra Park, Dennistoun Winning for Women Thriving Places ‑ SEAL

Flowering, Greening Garnethill Tue 19 Jun–7 Aug, 13:00–15:00, Age 16+ Friends of Garnethill Green Spaces The Winning for Women programme for women and girls focuses on re-engaging communities in new 11 Aug, 12:00–16:00, Wheelchair access limited and creative ways. Workshops will be hosted in the Have fun, create, make art and garden on the hill. Gorbals designated Thriving Places area to build on Make Garnethill greener and brighter. the skills base of those taking part. The workshops will include arts and environmental skills‑sharing sessions. Garnethill Park, Hill St/Rose St, Garnethill Garnethill Community Garden, Garnethill St St Francis Centre, 405 Cumberland St, Gorbals, G5 OSE Beyond Glasgow 57 East Dunbartonshire Join in the Festival 2018 celebrations across Nevis Ensemble Celebration Hub Scotland in our partner venue areas which FF FF 1–13 Aug 8 Aug, 09:00–17:00 are also hosting sport: Loch Lomond & Nevis Ensemble is a brand new Street Orchestra for A day of celebration at EDC Bishopbriggs Community The Trossachs National Park, Strathclyde Scotland, bringing 70 performances to communities Hub with lots of family-friendly activities including across the country during Glasgow 2018. a young people’s exhibition, showcase of animation Country Park, Perth & Kinross, Stirling, We will take our energetic 40-piece orchestra shorts, street theatre, music and lots of fun for all the Edinburgh and East Dunbartonshire. Join us to pop‑up and surprise commuters first thing in family. Come along and try out our creative tasters the morning, make guerrilla-style appearances in throughout the day. in the celebrations and immerse yourself in swimming pools, and even perform at the summit It’s a great place to view the Time Trial Cycle Road the Festival 2018 atmosphere. of Ben Nevis. Race and cheer the elite athletes as they pass. Let’s With the theme of Movement, and conducted by give them a final supportive push over the boundary Holly Mathieson and Jon Hargreaves, the orchestra into Glasgow and onto the finish line! See website for will draw musicians from Scotland, London, details of other events across East Dunbartonshire. glasgow2018.com/festival Amsterdam and Berlin, performing everything from Rachmaninov, to Radiohead, a few Reels thrown in, Bishopbriggs Hub & Library, 170 Kirkintilloch Road and a brand new commission from award-winning Bishopbriggs, G64 2LX composer Matthew Grouse. See website for full detials. Supported by Creative Scotland.

70 venues across Glasgow and the rest of Scotland. See website for full detials.

Tetra-Decathlon Nevis Ensemble Showroom by Lauren Hendry FF Across Scotland 27 Jul–26 Aug Various dates & times. See website for full details The Tetra-Decathlon is a gruelling 14-event track and Ceilidh Trail Pop-up Opera Roadshow field competition, requiring a unique combination of Fèis Phàislig FF Scottish Opera FF skills to complete. Having never set foot on a running track in her life, Lauren Hendry decided to sign up for 2–12 Aug Various dates & times. See website for full detials the event, joining only a dozen other women in the Fèis Phàislig will programme their first ever Ceilidh Scottish Opera is packing up its theatre on wheels World Championships. This amusingly‑audacious solo Trail as part of Festival 2018. An opportunity for young and taking The Pop-up Opera Roadshow to Festival show charts Lauren’s journey as she trains for and musicians who are considering a career in traditional 2018. Two brilliant 25-minute shows for audiences competes in this most taxing of sporting events, whilst music, they will tour across Scotland this summer. of all ages are brought to life by a storyteller, singers, asking pertinent questions about the psychology of Come along to enjoy top quality music and see the next musicians and a series of colourful illustrations, sport and what drives us to compete. Tetra-Decathlon generation of traditional musicians live. offering a fantastic introduction to opera. Both shows is a celebration of coming last, and then coming back are performed in a specially-adapted, fully-accessible for more… Various locations ‑ check glasgow2018.com/festival trailer, re-creating Glasgow’s Theatre Royal. Join us for full details. for a version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic A Little In association with Macrobert Arts Centre. Bit of HMS Pinafore and Be a Sport, Spike!, a new Supported by Tron Theatre. commission for kids aged 4 to 7.

Apperaing in locations across Scotland ‑ see Tetra–Decathlon glasgow2018.com/festival for full details. Reflections From Past Light 59 Edinburgh North Lanarkshire Perth

Bonnie and Her Splashmob Festival 2018: GO LIVE! in the Park New Order, Other Spaces Dance Base Jo Longhurst FF 2–5 Aug, 10:00–16:00, 9 Aug, 12.30–16:00 FF 6, 10 & 11 Aug 10 Aug, 15:00–19:00, 11–12 Aug, 10:00–17:00 2 Aug–22 Nov Dance Base’s synchronised swimming-inspired Eight days of fantastic free activity. Aerial Edge will Presented in Glasgow and Perth, the multi-site splashy flashmob will be bobbing and bubbling up run circus-based workshops and the chance to try out exhibition New Order, Other Spaces explores the around Edinburgh. This delightful multi-generational the largest trapeze in Scotland! To add to the festival gymnastic body across photography, moving image Splashmob celebrates unity, diversity, and floral atmosphere roaming performers will entertain you. and installation. This solo presentation from artist bathing hats! It’s huge fun for all the family! There will be music, visual art, drama and comedy Jo Longhurst features new commissions produced A riot of flippers, goggles, nose-plugs and bubbles, performances from North Lanarkshire and beyond. in collaboration with gymnasts of all ages and inspired by Glasgow 2018 European Championships Sports enthusiasts will have the opportunity to try out responding to archival research. mascot Bonnie the Seal. their skills with a range of activity including Tri-Golf Curated by Tiffany Boyle and Iliyana Nedkova, this athletics, soccer arena and static rowing. research is made manifest through Longhurst’s new Various Locations. moving image work, and responses to the life and glasgow2018.com/festival Strathclyde Country Park, Hamilton Rd work of dancer, choreographer and teacher Margaret Motherwell, ML1 3ED Morris. New Order, Other Spaces engages with ideas A Wall is a Screen: Leith of perfection, gender, gesture, and intergenerational Leith Creative understandings of movement. Please see website for FF Reflections From Past Light events programme. (See also page 44) 10–11 Aug, 21:30 Kenny Bean Leith Creative are delighted to be presenting a series of FF Supported by Glasgow Life & The Zone Leotards. themed film events this summer in association with 11–12 Aug Festival 2018, including Hamburg-based outdoor Working alongside several local community groups, Threshold Artspace, Perth Concert Hall screening collective A Wall Is A Screen for a very special artist Kenny Bean has created a series of interactive and Perth Theatre Leith edition of their famous promenade film nights. art installations using mirrors, lenses and projections. Part guided walk and part themed film night, A Wall Using photography and video the project looks at the Is A Screen will take you on a magical mystery tour of Loch Lomond & natural history of Strathclyde Park and the quality the Leith area of Edinburgh, with site-specific short The Trossachs National Park of light landing on the loch. We will investigate the Stirling films projected onto the exterior of a series of local sunken village of Bothwellhaugh using archive film landmarks as part of the event. and photographs and create an ultra-violet village Festival 2018: Balloch Loch Lomond and ceramic photo-tiles, which will be permanently Cycle Cinema Depart from the Newkirkgate Shopping Centre. installed in the park after the project. Macrobert Arts Centre 11 Aug, 10:30–17.00 Loch Lomond has inspired artists, poets and Strathclyde Country Park, Hamilton Rd 12 Aug, 15:00–19:00, Daytime: FREE The Night With… songwriters through the ages and in 2018 we’re Motherwell, ML1 3ED Evening Film: £8/7, Students: £6 Wooden Elephant bringing together an eclectic mix of today’s best Macrobert Arts Centre is bringing Cycle Cinema to the talent to celebrate this iconic landscape. Local young heart of Stirling this summer. In an off-grid, tented 7 Aug, 20.00, The Hug & Pint people have helped create a day packed with music cinema you can be entertained from your seat or join 8 Aug, 20.00, The Fruitmarket Gallery and entertainment, arts and activities and all within a in the pedalling to power the projector! This fun- £10/6, Age 14+ world-class setting. With a direct train link every 30 filled, family event will feature a great programme of The Night With… Wooden Elephant presents minutes from the centre of Glasgow, visitors to the big-screen entertainment for film and sports lovers totally acoustic versions of Björk’s Homogenic and European Championships can spend the day exploring alike. Drop-in during the day to enjoy live coverage Radiohead’s Kid A. Both reimagined for string quintet Scotland’s first National Park and be entertained by the of European Championships events, sports-themed and a variety of miscellaneous objects. people that make it a must-visit destination. documentaries and short films and book tickets for a cycle-themed feature film at 18:00. Keep an eye out The Hug & Pint, 171 Great Western Road, G4 9AW Festival parade departs Loch Lomond Shores at for more information in the run-up to the event. The Fruitmarket Gallery, EH1 1DF 11.15 and arrives at Moss O’ Balloch at 12:00. Marquee at The Courtyard next to The Engine Shed Moss O’ Balloch, Balloch, G83 Forthside Way, Stirling, FK8 1QZ

Bonnie and Her Splashmob UNESCO Cities Festival of Cycling Visting Festival 2018 61 The Festival of Cycling connects Scotland’s three UNESCO Creative Cities and will explore Information point Ticket box office Located in George Square and on the corner of Wilson Located within George Square from 27 July – 12 the crossover between design, music and Street and Brunswick Street in the Merchant City. August, from 12.00 daily. The majority of our events literature in relation to bicycles and cycling. Support available includes: are free but check glasgow2018.com/festival for • Championships and venue information further information. Tickets for Merchant City Festival • Travel information events are available from the box office in City Halls, Dundee Glasgow • Lost and found items Candleriggs. UNESCO City of Design will take part in a discussion on UNESCO City of Music brings music to the party with • Welfare point for lost and found persons how we design our cities, our transport and our lives. celebratory community events which promote cycling • Distribution of ‘young visitor wristbands’ First Aid to children and families and include guided cycle rides • Language assistance where available Located on the north west corner of George Square Edinburgh which visit music and heritage sites. and North end of Brunswick Street in Merchant City. UNESCO City of Literature brings its literacy expertise Accessible services Mobile first aiders are available. Ask a member of with book and author events and a new writing Visit edfoc.org.uk for more information. Accessible toilets are located on Hanover Street and staff for support. competition encouraging short fiction and poetry the north corner of George Square. On Hutcheson about cycling. Street, Brunswick Street, Civic Canteen on John Street Baby Changing glasgow2018.com/festival and Merchant Square in the Merchant City and at GO Located inside accessible toilets on Hanover Street LIVE! at Glasgow Green. and at the North East corner of George Square. In Local Changing Places toilets, with a hoist and adult Merchant City Hutcheson Street, Brunswick Street Festival 2018 would like to thank: sized changing bench, are located at St Enoch Centre and at Civic Canteen on John Street. and Glasgow Central Station. Further information changing-places.org. A Mobiloo, with hoist and ATMs BoConcept National Youth Arts Advisory Group changing table is available. Please bring your own Located on Queen Street and , Bòrd na Gàidhlig North Lanarkshire Council sling if you wish to use the hoist. Located beside the a short walk from George Square. Also in Merchant British Council Outset Scotland Nelson Monument. Further information available at Square and around the city centre. City of Edinburgh Council Perth & Kinross Council mobiloo.org.uk. Clyde Gateway Universität der Künste Berlin A number of autism friendly spaces are located Water Refill Clydebuilt Scottish Government across . Further information at Located in George Square and north end of Creative Scotland Senatsverwaltung für Inneres und Sport glasgowcitystrategy.com. An Autism Aware quiet Candleriggs in Merchant City. East Dunbartonshire Council Stirling Council zone is located at GO LIVE! at the Green (see map on EventScotland The Democratic Society p35) Travel information Fàilte Foods West Dunbartonshire Council Only assistance dogs are allowed in George Square Please check getreadyglasgow.com Fraser Suites Youth Theatre Arts Scotland and GO LIVE! at the Green. Dog spend areas will be Gaelic Books Council available. GCAN (Glasgow Community Arts Network) And finally, to all the artists, performers, cultural A viewing platform will be available in George This publication is available in large print at Glasgow City Council organisations, communities and volunteers. Square for ticketed events on a first-come, first- glasgow2018.com. Glasgow Life served basis. Glasgow UNESCO City of Music Artwork by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan Hidden Gardens Design by Tangent. Karneval der Kulturen Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority Merchant Square MG ALBA

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