Byres Hub Community Day 2024

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Saturday 8^th June 2024, 11am – 3pm

Byres Road Community Hub, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow G12 8TB

Just drop into the Hub and enjoy all that’s going on including music, poetry, art, exhibitions and refreshments.

The event is a collaboration between researchers in the School of Health and Wellbeing and some of the community groups who use the Hub and community partners.

Journey through the escape room style fun challenges using your talents or some new skills you will learn along the way to ‘Transform Glasgow’s Health’ in less than one hour! Staff and students from the School of Health and Wellbeing and volunteers from some of the Hub groups such as Sight Scotland, Weekday WOW Factor, Differabled, Deaf Services Lanarkshire and Scribble Creative Writing Group and community partners, Scottish Ambulance Service, Halo Arts and The Ideas Club will be on hand to share their knowledge and maybe even some clues! Then design headlines you want to see about Glasgow’s Health in ten years from now.

Before or after taking part in the Transform Glasgow’s Health challenge, please visit the Hub to view the Scottish Learning Disability Observatory’s ‘This is Me’, ‘Drumming up Change’ and ‘Research for Everyone’ exhibitions, The Healthy Working Lives Group’s display tower exhibition, Human Georgraphy’s ‘Art in the Box’ exhibition where you can have go at producing some art yourself, Maryhill Intergration Network’s ‘Monument for Equality’ exhibition, our School’s ‘Glasgow’s Health’ exhibition, music, and free refreshments.

Come along yourself or with friends or family. The first hour of opening (11am – 12noon) will be a more sensory friendly, quiet hour and a wellbeing room will be available throughout the afternoon. Other public facilities in our Clarice Pears Building include a Changing Places toilet, accessible toilet, faith room and baby changing facilities. Everyone is welcome in Byres Community Hub.

This event is part of three of Glasgow’s largest festivals: Glasgow Science Festival, WestFest Cultural and Community Festival and Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art. (such as Art Outside of the Box ).

Thank you to The Ideas Club and The School of Health and Wellbeing for supporting our community day.

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