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Activities & Events FREE The Bad Boy Pub Quiz Thursdays, 6pm. Sloan’s, 62 Argyll Arcade, 229 5270. Win bar tab prizes. Women of the Necropolis History Walk Sat 5 Mar, 1pm. £7.50. Glasgow Women’s Library, 15 Berkeley Street, 248 9969. Learn about the achievements of some of the women buried on the Necropolis. Contact the library to find out where to meet.
✽✽ Bold Souls Sat 5 Mar, 1pm–6pm. £3 (£2). The Sub Club, 22 Jamaica Street,
248 4600. Support your local designers! Turn up to this pop-up styling event run by Chouchou Couture and fashion bloggers Les Garcons de Glasgow, and you could pick up a unique new piece, adapt an old one or take a new style direction, darling. FREE Bird Ringing Demonstration Sun 6 Mar, 10.30am. Mugdock Country Park, Craigallian Road, Milngavie, 956 6100. With the British Trust for Ornithology. FREE International Women’s Day Celebration Mon 7 Mar, 10am–noon. Textile messaging
Mitchell Library, North Street, 353 8000. Celebrate the achievements of women as artistic directors/managers in the Glasgow and Scottish arts community. Part of Aye Write! FREE Themed Tour: Living in the Tudor and Stuart Styles Mon 7 Mar, 2pm. Burrell Collection, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 287 2550. Tour of the museum. Behind the Scenes of Human Planet Mon 7 Mar, 6pm. £8 (£6). Mitchell Library, North Street, 353 8000. Producer Dale Templar and stills photographer Timothy Allen discuss making the BBC series. Part of Aye Write!
✽✽ FREE Loop Tue 8 Mar, 10am–11pm. Tramway, 25 Albert
Drive, 0845 330 3501. A day of events to mark International Women’s Day and round off the worldwide ‘sitandknitabit’ campaign, which encouraged people to knit small squares to be stitched together into a giant blanket of 100 million stitches, representing the 100 million women missing from the world as a result of gender discrimination in all its forms. As well as the display of Glasgow’s contributions to this project, the day includes performances from women whose activities reach across all art forms. See picture caption, page 40. Glasgow School of Art Fashion Show Tue 8 & Wed 9 Mar, 7pm & 9pm. £7 (£5). The Vic Cafe Bar, Glasgow School of Art, 168 Renfrew Street, gsafashionshow.blogspot.com The annual GSA Fashion Show has been around since the 1940s. The work on show this year is designed and made by third-year textiles
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students, who have this year taken inspiration from the Newbery Tower, the now-condemned home of their department. See feature, page 34. FREE The King Tuts Wah Wah Hut Quiz Wednesdays, 6pm. King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, 272a St Vincent Street, 221 5279. Music quiz at the legendary venue. Prizes in March include tickets to see Elbow, The Phantom Band and Two Door Cinema Club. Kelvingrove Dancers Wednesdays, 7pm. £5. SDTA Studio (first floor), 101 Park Rd Kelvinbrige, 564 4824. Learn traditional Scottish step dance at these toe-tapping classes. With live music. All levels welcome. FREE Highlights of the Arts Collection Thu 10 & 31 Mar, 2.30pm. Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, 200 Woodhead Road, Nitshill, 276 9300. See some of the works of art not currently on display in Glasgow’s museums and galleries. Big Women’s Quiz of the Century Thu 10 Mar, 7pm. £6 (£3). CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 248 9969. Celebrate thousands of years of ladies being awesome. Teams of six welcome. BYOB. See picture caption, page 40. OxFem Presents . . . Fri 11 Mar, 7pm. £10. St Aloysius College, 45 Hill Street, tinyurl.com/oxfempresents Celebrate International Women’s Day with comedy, dance, fire-breathing, juggling, burlesque, magic and more. Proceeds to Oxfam. See picture, page 40. Stars Over the Botanics Tue 15 Mar, 7.30pm. £4 (children £2). Glasgow Botanic Gardens, 730 Great Western Road, 334 2422. Star-gazing session with the Astronomical Society of Glasgow. The Not So Secret Society Tue 15 Mar, 8pm. £6. The Glasgow Art Club, 185 Bath Street, 248 5210. This ‘secret’ meeting features San Fran and the Siscos, Frank’s Wild Band, The Creative Martyrs, The Redettes, and Miss Leggy Pee.
FREE Visions of Global Justice Sat 19 Mar, 10am. (£4 donation for lunch). Renfield St Stephen’s Church, 260 Bath Street, 243 2730. A day of information and inspiration with talks and workshops from writers and campaigners. FREE Curator’s Tour: Wheels in Motion Tue 22 Mar, 2.30pm. Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, 200 Woodhead Road, Nitshill, 276 9300. The fascinating story of cycling in Glasgow, from the man who arrived from Dumfries on a wooden prototype bicycle and was arrested for disturbance of the peace, to today’s sleeker models. FREE Govanhill Swimmers Swimming Gala Sat 26 Mar, noon. Govanhill Baths, Calder Street, 433 2999. A demonstration of the unique art of ‘dry swimming’ by the Govanhill Swimmers. It’s spectacular enough now – just wait until they actually have water . . . Adrenaline Drop Sun 27 Mar, 8am–4pm. £120 minimum fundraising commitment; £10 registration fee. Xscape Braehead, Kings Inch Road, Braehead, 885 7051. The UK’s very first Adrenaline Drop experience is taking place to raise funds for various charities, including Sense Scotland and Alzheimer Scotland. It involves a giant fan and a 100ft freefall, and that’s all we’re saying. Fairs & Markets Creative Stitches & Hobbycrafts Show Thu 3–Sun 6 Mar, 9.30am–5pm. £5.50–£7 (seniors £4–£6). SECC, Finnieston Quay, 01425 272711. Finished gifts and crafty kits and supplies. Music Fair Sat 5 & Sun 6 Mar, 10am–3.30pm. £2. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. Huge sale of music. The Main Event Thu 10 Mar, 10am–5.30pm. £15. SECC, Finnieston Quay, 0844 395 4000. Event organisation help and advice for those hoping to make a mark with any kind of event.
A century ago, the first edition of the revolutionary Scottish publication Educational Needlecraft was published. It might not sound very impressive by today’s standards, but this little publication revolutionised the way a great many Scots, and their industries, lived and worked. To mark the moment, Glasgow Museums is putting on Textilefest, a celebration of the city’s creative contributions to textiles. There are specially-textured events at the Burrell Collection, Kelvingrove Museum and Scotland Street School Museum until Wednesday 23 March, including talks, screenprinting and jewellery workshops, and a chance to learn from award-winning milliner William Chambers (work pictured, Sat 5 & Sun 6 Mar). See http://tiny.cc/textilefest for full info. ■ Textilefest, various venues, Glasgow, until Wed 23 Mar. 3–31 March 2011 THE LIST 39