WestFest Glasgow’s Cultural and Community Festival 2024
WestFest Community Festival 2024
WestFest will take place from 1 – 30 june, 2024
WestFest, Glasgow’s biggest community and cultural festival today launches the full programme for its 2024 festival, taking place from 1st to 30th June. Bursting with an eclectic array of events, performances, and activities- WestFest has something for everyone.
WestFest 2024 will take place in Glasgow’s West End across the full month of June
and this years’ programme offers a wide variety of content with a smorgasbord of community
events, concerts, theatre, comedy, exhibitions and more… 2024 Programme at West Fest
The festival will deliver a colourful array of high quality, accessible and inclusive events to the West End of Glasgow.
It is anticipated that over 200 events will take place across 60 venues, featuring a colourful mix of concerts, performances, recitals, galas and exhibitions; across music, theatre, comedy and visual art. Expect lots of special highlights such as a talks, authors’ programme and the Make Music Day programme on 21st June.
Free Programme of Community Events
The jewel in the festival’s crown will be the free programme of community events across the West End, such as The Big Sunday at Kelvingrove Bandstand, Vinicombe Street Gala, Bard in the Yard in Kelvingrove Park and Queen Margaret Drive Festival.
In addition look out for fire shows, outdoor ceilidhs, choral events, brass band concerts and lots more free events.
WestFest’s Director is Brendon McIlroy who founded the festival in response to ‘overwhelming demand’ for community and cultural events in the West End, in the absence of former festivals
As well as their events programme, WestFest has a commitment to outreach and education with a range of workshops and projects planned with community groups and a schools book programme which has been ongoing since October last year.
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