What's On in Glasgow: Festivals, Exhibitions and Events
Glasgow Music and Film Fest: Wet Sounds at North Woodside Leisure Centre
Sunday, February 19, 2012
5:30pm until 9:30pm
The ultimate underwater musical experience
After the sell-out success of last year's event, the ultimate underwater musical experience returns to the eerie chambers of Woodside Leisure Centre. With the pool transformed into a darkened listening chamber and radiating soft light, listeners move in and out of the water as two separate soundsystems create an immersive and unforgettable experience both under and over the water.
Live electronics over water come courtesy of Joel Cahen and La Horrox, with a cinematic electro-acoustic set and voice and modulated electronics respectively.
"Astonishingly immediate, inescapable, and faintly perplexing." The Guardian
North Woodside Leisure Centre 5.30pm-7pm // 8pm-9.30pm £9
Online: the arches information and tickets
On the phone: 0141 565 1000
Glasgow Film Festival 2012
16th - 26th February
Your Sister's Sister Is Opening Gala
Glasgow Film Festival 2012 has announced a packed programme of premieres, special guests and unique events. GFF 2012, funded by Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, Creative Scotland and EventScotland, is one of the first major events in the Year of Creative Scotland and runs from 16-26 February in sixteen venues across the city.
Opening
The Festival will open on Thursday 16 February with the UK premiere of Your Sister's Sister, the latest feature from Humpday creator Lynn Shelton who was recently chosen by Variety as one of their '10 Directors to Watch in 2012'. Arriving in Glasgow after its Sundance screening, Your Sister's Sister is a StudioCanal release and stars Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt and Mark Duplass in a painfully funny and utterly captivating tale of bad timing, broken hearts and the healing power of love. Shelton's most impressive work to date has been winning rave reviews and glowing comparisons to the films of Woody Allen and Eric Rohmer.
Margins Book and Music Festival
23rd - 26th February 2012
Festival pass: £55/£45
Margins comes to The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow.
To book your festival pass please call the Arches Box Office on 0141 565 1000 or visit us at 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow. Individual events can be booked separately. Some highlights.
Aye Write, Book Festival 2012
Aye Write's seventh festival will this year explore a range of themes including sectarianism, the economy, phone-hacking, global revolution, middle age and the 100th anniversary of The Titanic. The festival will also see the launch of Scotland's Bookshelf, celebrating Scotland's Literary Heritage.
Aye Write! 2012 tickets will be available to purchase from tomorrow (Saturday 21 January). Saturday's Herald also contains the full free colour brochure so make sure you get a hold of your copy.To find out more or to book your tickets, visit our website or call our booking hotline 0141 353 8000.
GWBP vintage and contempory fashion
.... art, design, craft fairs
February 26th.
Sunday at 12:00pm
Stalls include Squinty Jewellery
The Hillhead Bookclub, 17 Vinicombe street, Westend
Southside Film Festival - February 2012
This February (2012) the Southside Film Festival partners up with Glasgow Short Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival so you will be spoilt for cinematic choice!
First up is the:
High Street Exhibition
The Lighthouse
9/12/2011 - 17/04/2012
Gallery 2
The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, Glasgow G1 3NU
Do we really value our High Streets or are they simply past their sell by date? With vacancies up and shopper numbers down is it time to re-think? In Scotland the High Street began as a market place, a hub of social activity - busy, raucous and messy. This exhibition shows their evolution, our changing shops and shopping habits and the impact this has had today. Specially commissioned films gather people's stories of the High Street, from butchers and bakers to professors and planners. It looks to the future with remedies that make our High Streets good value, vital in creating unique and thriving places.
Lighthouse opening times: Monday – Saturday 10.30 am – 5.00 pm
Ashton Lane Market
Sunday Afternoons = Ashton Lane Transforms
Little Birds Markets
Sloans, Argyle Arcade, Glasgow
Bringing the very best in vintage, craft and design offerings together to create an interesting shopping experience for shoppers and a platform for entrepreneurs, crafters, designers and businesses to meet like minded people. We plan to spread our wings and set up markets further afield however for now we are establishing our base in the grand Sloans, in the heart of Glasgow city centre, running a new monthly indoor Sunday market.
To apply for a space at one of the markets please email
Next Little Birds Market
Sunday 12th February from 12noon!
It's set to be a great market with loads of fantastic vendors lined up! And while your here why not enjoy a delicious Afternoon Tea or slice of cake in Mrs Sloans Cake Salon.
62 Argyll Arcade
108 Argyle Street
Glasgow G2 8BG
Enter Sloans from Buchanan Street lane next to Zara, or Argyle Street entrance.
Ashton Lane Market
Every Sunday from April 24, Ashton Lane goes all Walford (but classier) with our take on a proper market. Every pub on Ashton lane will be getting involved with stalls inside and outside their premises. Local talent and an eclectic mix of stalls will grace the cobbles on Sunday afternoons to supply local people with goods ranging from homemade jam and bread to jewellery and even vintage clothes with local artists thrown in as well. No charge to browse the stalls and pick up your very own homemade and unique item.
The market will run from noon and have stalls braving the elements every Sunday to bring local people a choice of different goods that you can't get anywhere else.
Craft Fair in the GLASGOW BOTANIC GARDENS
Entrance Queen Margaret Drive
and FIRST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH.
On sale you will find high quality and unique items including: Woodturnings by Isaac Curran, designer glass, hand made jewellery, Kendal crystals a huge selection of natural crystals, stunning Fairies and Fairy gardens, Unique hand made greeting cards, hand crafted pottery and more. www.wheelchairwoodturners.org.uk/
All profit from table money goes to Marie Curie.
Hunterian Museum
University Avenue, Tel: 330 4221
9.30-5pm Closed Sundays and Public Holidays
Entrance FREE
Hunterian Art Gallery
82 Hillhead Street, (University of Glasgow Library)
Tel. 0141 330 3618
9.30-5pm closed Sundays and Public Holidays
Entrance FREE
The MacIntosh House
9.30-5pm Closed Sundays and Public Holidays
Entry fee charged except Wed afternoons after 2pm FREE
The Zoology Museum
Mon-Fri 0900-5pm Closed Sats Suns and Public Holidays
Booking required for groups of 8 or more: 0141 330 4772
The Anatomy Museum
By appointment only: 0141 330 5871/4292
Transport Museum
The Museum is FREE
cars* trains* trams* buses*
Open: Monday - Thursday and Sat. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Friday and Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Glasgow Science Centre
fun and information for all ages...simply the best for kids!
Pacific Quay (on foot from the WestEnd across the new Millennium Bridge)
more on the WestEnd Weans page
more info on both Imax and the Centre on 0141 420 5000 or http://www.gsc.org.uk
Tall Ship at Glasgow Harbour
A full programme of childrens activities is usually on offer at the Glenlee
If you're visiting the Transport Museum
there is now pedestrian signage to take you to the Glenlee!
Tickets £4.50/£3.25 child £2.50 with one child FREE per paying adult
The Lighthouse
Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and The City - current exhibitions and future exhibitions. You will enjoy visiting this very interesting modern exhibition centre, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh's 1895 it was originally the Glasgow Herald newspaper office.
Lime Gallery
899 Dumbarton Road
0141 334 6352
Mansfield Park Gallery
5 Hyndland Street
Tel 0141 342 4124
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