AroundTown
16 Apr, 3pm–11.30pm. £4.50
(£15 if booked in advance). The fair in aid of Cat Register and Rescue, featuring all your standard craft fair-type wares, plus knitted Daleks. You can also get your caricature drawn, if you dare. 51st Annual GUVMA Rodeo Sat 16 Apr, 11am–5pm. £7 (£3; family ticket £15). University of Glasgow Vet School, Garscube Estate off Switchback Road, 330 2001. Shows and demonstrations to please animal lovers and raise money for animal charities. ✽✽ Thinking Through Cinema Sat (£3.50). Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Performances, projections and discussions. See Hitlist. FREE Meet VSO Tue 19 Apr, 7pm. Venue TBC (Glasgow), www.vso.org.uk/events/meet-vso- registration.asp Get the lowdown on volunteering abroad at this free and informal evening. Booking essential. ✽✽ Nightwalk Fri 22 Apr, 10pm. £16 Arches, 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. A celebration of Glasgow’s night culture and fashion. See picture caption, page 37. Finnieston Crane Charity Abseil Sat 23 Apr, time tbc. £30 registration fee. Finnieston Crane, by SECC, 330 3593. Feeling . . . bouncy? Chuck yourself off one of Scotland’s most famous (and tallest) landmarks in the name of charity. Yorkhill Easter Egg Run Sun 24 Apr, 9am. £5. West End, abigail.stein@ggc.scot.nhs.uk. The annual motorbike run for Yorkhill Hospital, starting on the Kelvin Way. FREE Bank Holiday Easter Extravaganza Sun 24 Apr, noon–midnight. Grosvenor Café, the Grosvenor Theatre, Ashton Lane, 0845 166 6028. An Easter fair on Ashton Lane and in the Grosvenor café, with activities for families earlier in the day, and DJs and live music later on. FREE Family History Advice Thu 28 Apr, 2pm–4pm. Mitchell Library, North Street, 287 2999. Get started on tracing your family tree at these 30-minute help sessions. Booking essential.
PREVIEW EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE FESTIVAL Various venues, Edinburgh, Sat 9–Fri 22 Apr
Ah. Science. No, not the teensy rapper from the 2005 Big Brother house (the Around Town section is nothing if not timely), although perhaps it does suffer from a similar image problem. Organisations such as the Glasgow Science Centre and the Edinburgh International Science Festival – and institutions such as Dr Brian Cox – have been making a concerted effort to reclaim their field from arid mental images of boffins in labcoats, as is aptly demonstrated by the Science Festival’s noisy, smelly, squelchy and kind of exciting programme this month.
Obviously, the festival is held during the Easter holidays for a reason – many of the hands-on experiments are targeted squarely at children, and the whole of the City Art Centre has been turned over to the young ’uns, with a series of areas taking in Lego robotics, mini-safaris, wind turbine workshops, a parent-and-child science-themed gameshow, and chance to hang out in the lab with Nina and her Neurons. The best way to negotiate this is to buy a daypass to the CAC (£6.25 for 3-6 year olds, £8.75 for over-7s) and book in to three of the ongoing events, although there are some smaller drop-in activities too. There are a number of interesting one-off events in other venues, too, most notably Dr Bunhead in Pyromania (Sat 9 Apr, 2pm and 7.30pm), in which ‘TV’s most extreme scientist’ (pictured) explodes things all over the Usher Hall .
However, what of the grown-ups? We don’t just want to have our cerebral cortexes tickled by talks from the likes of starry scientists Cox (see page 26) and Richard Dawkins (George Square Theatre, Fri 16 Apr, 7.30pm). The Science Festival has cleverly put together a programme of interactive after- hours events, too: both the CAC and the major Atomise exhibition celebrating International Year of Chemistry (based out of the Royal Botanic Garden) are open on certain evenings with an adults-only policy – grab a glass of wine and squelch amid the interactive experiments to your heart’s content. (City Art Centre Without The Kids, Thu 14 Apr, £10; Atomise Later, Tue 19 Apr, 7.30pm, £15). ■ For full listings see sciencefestival.co.uk
38 THE LIST 31 Mar–28 Apr 2011
Exhibitions FREE Magic Until Sat 7 May, 10am–5pm. Auld Kirk Museum, Cowgate, Kirkintilloch, 578 0144. Ephemera and memorabilia from the world of Scottish magic.
Fairs & Markets FREE Sloans Market Saturdays & Sundays, 11am–5pm. Argyll Arcade, Buchanan Street/Argyll Street, www.sloansglasgow.com/market Well- heeled weekly outdoor shopping market. Blochairn Car Boot Sale Sundays, 6am. Wholesale Fruit, Veg, Flower and Fish Market, 130 Blochairn Road. One of the UK’s largest weekly car boot sales. ✽✽ Say No To Plastic Spring noon–5pm. £1. Òran Mór, 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. Ethical, and probably recyclable bargains. See Hitlist. Vintage Sale Sun 3 Apr,
Sport Zumba Mondays, 6pm. £4. Sloans, 62 Argyll Arcade, City Centre, 229 5270. Dance/fitness class that burns mega calories to Latin and international music. Scottish Golf Show Fri 8–Sun 10 Apr, 9.30am–5pm. £10. SECC, Finnieston Quay, 0844 395 4000. A huge shop, driving range, indoor putting, fashion and trick-shot shows. Glasgow World Cup Gymnastics Sat 16 Apr, noon–4pm (men’s) & 6pm–8.30pm (women’s). Prices vary. Kelvin Hall International Sports Arena, 1445 Argyle Street, 0141 353 8000. The first time Glasgow and the UK have hosted the artistic gymnastics World Cup. Marvel at the bendiness. The Scottish Bike Show Sat 16 & Sun 17 Apr, 10am–5pm. £7.50. SECC, Finnieston Quay, 0844 395 4000. Exhibitors include bike manufacturers and retailers, accessory providers and cycling holiday organisers. Just
remember – two wheels good, four wheels bad. Deafblind Scotland Canal Run Sat 16 Apr, 1.15pm. £8–£10 for 10k; £6–£8 for 5k. Bishopbriggs Leisuredrome, 147 Balmuildy Road, Bishopbriggs, 776 7895. Starting out from the Leisuredrome and winding along the leafy canalside paths of East Dunbartonshire, these two runs – 10k canal race and 5k fun run – are as pleasant a way as there is to raise funds for Deafblind Scotland. Glasgow Warriors vs. Scarlets Fri 22 Apr, 8.05pm. £20 (£10; under 18s £5). Firhill Stadium, 80 Firhill Road. Glasgow Warriors end the season by taking on Wales’ Scarlets.
Talks FREE Christine Borland’s Lunchtime Talks Programme Thu 31 Mar, 7 Apr & 14 Apr, 1pm. Glasgow Sculpture Studios, 145 Kelvinhaugh Street, 204 1740. A series of talks programmed by sculptor Christine Borland to accompany her exhibition at the studios, featuring Borland herself on 31 Mar, arts scholars Dr Karen Lury and Dr Simon Murray on 7 Apr and art historian Jon Wood on 14 Apr. Brian Jones Fri 1 Apr, 7.30pm. £10. University of Strathclyde, James Weir Building, 75 Montrose Street, Glasgow, 07713 068291. One half of the team that completed the first circumnavigation of the globe by balloon gives an illustrated talk entitled ‘What if the world is flat?’ We reckon he’s full of hot air. Fundraiser for Walking on Air, a charity that offers disabled people the chance to fly a glider. The Art of the Master Printmaker Mon 4 Apr, 10am. £6 or two for £10. RGI Kelly Gallery, 118 Douglas Street, 248 6386. Stuart Duffin talks about his work as a master printmaker. FREE Exhibition Talk with Dr Dominic Paterson Wed 6 Apr, 7pm. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Paterson explores the work of German- born writer WG Sebald and its influence on artists, including Jeremy Millar. FREE Trongate: Heart of a City Thu 7 Apr, 6.30pm. Mitchell Library, North Street, 287 2999. A talk on the secrets of the Merchant City’s buzzing thoroughfare. FREE Scottish Writers’ Centre Discussion Series Thu 7 Apr, 7pm. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Discussion on creative writing in education. Psychic Detection – Solving Crimes with PSI Thu 7 Apr, 7.30pm. £5. Boyd Orr Building, University Gardens, 956 4516. Writer Roy Stemman discusses the role of psychic detection in the fight against crime. John Beatty: Wild Vision Fri 8 Apr, 7.30pm. £13. Mitchell Theatre, 6 Granville Street, 0114 250 8048. John Beatty gives a lavishly illustrated talk on his life as a wildlife, travel and adventure photographer. FREE Ragged University Tue 12 Apr, 7pm, venue tbc; Thu 14 Apr, 6.30pm at Hillhead Library; Tue 26 Apr 7pm at the Blind Pig. See raggeduniversity.com for details. A fun and democratic way to learn stuff over a pint or two. See picture, page 40. FREE Jeremy Millar in Discussion with Benjamin Noys Tue 12 Apr, 7pm. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. The artist behind CCA’s current exhibition discusses his work with academic Noys. FREE GSA Pecha Kucha V Wed 20 Apr, 6pm. The Art School, 168 Renfrew Street, 353 4690. ‘Pecha Kucha’ is the Japanese term for chit-chat, and, in this interesting talk format, speakers have 20 images and 20 seconds to speak about each one (that’s 6 minutes and 40 seconds in total.) ✽✽ FREE Yuri Gagarin and the 21 Apr, 7.30pm. University of Strathclyde, Royal College Building, 204 George Street, 950 3000. Fact fans: did you know Gagarin has a street named Soviet Space Programme Thu