Wednesday 21 June

Wed 21 12 Noon Free at Botanic Gardens, 730 Great Western Rd, meeting outside Kibble Palace. Sweat Heart

Sweat Heart is a series of Art created by Transfigured and is part of Scotland's Year of the Artist Residency Programme. Sweat Heart at the Botanics will be a Dance, Music, Poetry Performance designed to celebrate the middle point of the seasons: the shortest night and the longest day. The performance will follow on from the challenging event "In No Mind" which was seen at the Gardens in December of last year and stopped the traffic on Great Western Road.

	1.15 - 2pm Free at Hillhead Baptist Church, 30 Cranworth St, Hillhead Lunchtime talk: Art & Health - Survivors Poetry Scotland
	A series of lunchtime presentations & open discussions on the power of creativity as a tool for personal development.

	Wed 21 7.30pm £6 (£3) Notre Dame High School, 160 Observatory Rd, G12 Notre Dame High School presents Calamity Jane CANCELLED
	Famous musical set in America's Wild West. Whip crack away!

	Wed 21 Night free The Living Room, 5 Byres Rd The Living Room
	Jengaheads: The legendary night with the Jengaheads DJ's.

	8pm £12 (£10) Gilmorehill G12, 9 University Ave tel 330 5522 A Midsummer's Eve Cocktail Concert
	presented by Glasgow Festival Strings A cocktail of new and established pieces by the acclaimed Glasgow Festival Strings. Indulge yourself and your friends in what promises to be a memorable evening. Complimentary cocktails served from 7pm with pre-performance musicians to add to the atmosphere! Dress formal if you dare and celebrate the longest day with Gilmorehill G12

7.30pm £10 (£8) Cottier Theatre 357 3868 Opera on a Shoestring

Scott at the Opera :The Waverley Novels as Tartan Operas Award winning Opera on a Shoestring return to the West End Festival with their latest production, exploring the many 19th-century operas based upon novels and ballad poems of Sir Walter Scott. You may well know Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti, but what about La Jolie Fille de Perth by Bizet, by Rossini and Jeanie Deans from Scott's novels and journals, will be performed by four singers accompanied on piano in a drawing-room setting. "Their entertainment has all the panache of a recreated Edwardian dinner party... Opera on a Shoestring carve a neat peg on which to hang a significant chunk of the world of Opera..." The Scotsman Cottier Theatre Events - tickets hotline: 287 5511

	7.30pm Free at the Kibble Palace Open Air Music on Midsummer's Evening
	A recital of popular music by the clarinet choir 'B Flat Pack'

	9.30pm £5 (£2.50) from John Smiths, Byres Rd 334 2769 Titus Andronicus - Flexible Deadlock, Botanic Gardens
	See Wed 14th for details

	Wed 21 Ashton Lane Events
	Brel 9pm Free Santiago: Cuban stuff with DJ's Marcelo and Manuel Cul-de-Sac 9pm Free Cul-de-Sac DJ's Jinty McGuinty's 9pm - 11pm Free Big George

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