AroundTown
HITLIST RATS, RAGS AND REDS
Events are listed by city, then type. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to sport@list.co.uk for sport or aroundtown@list.co.uk for all other events. Listings compiled by Laura Ennor. ✽✽ Indicates Hitlist entry GLASGOW
Activities & Events FREE British Art Show 7 Drop-in Tours Thu 18 Aug, 1pm, 3pm & 6pm. CCA, 352 4900; Tramway, 0845 330 3501; Gallery of Modern Art, 287 3050. Your very last chance to get an expertly guided tour around this world collection of contemporary art, before the whole travelling circus moves on to its next stop in Plymouth. And that’s a lot farther away than the Tramway.
✽✽ Women Make History Film Night Thu 18 Aug, 6pm. £3 (free).
Glasgow Women’s Library, Mitchell Library, 15 Berkeley Street, 248 9969. See Hitlist. FREE George Mackay Brown Biography Launch Thu 18 Aug, 6.30pm. Waterstone’s, 153–157 Sauchiehall Street, 332 9105. Ron Ferguson reads from and discusses George MacKay Brown – the Wound and the Gift. Kelvingrove Dancers Thu 18 Aug, 7–8.30pm. £5. SDTA Studio (1st Floor), 101 Park Rd Kelvinbridge, 564 4824. Learn traditional Scottish step dance at this toe-tapping weekly class with live music. All levels welcome. FREE Pilot Thu 18 Aug, 8pm. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Open mic night-cum-live radio show, which you can either come along and be part of, or download as a podcast afterwards. Organised by interesting young theatre company Flatrate, it involves instant broadcasting, interviews and all manner of opinionated discussion. Titan Crane Abseil Sat 20 Aug, 9am. £120 minimum sponsorship including £20 deposit. Titan Clydebank, Garth Drive, off Cart Street, Queen’s Quays, Clydebank, 226 4541, titanabseil.org.uk Abseil 150ft down the Titan Crane and catch some amazing views of Glasgow while you’re at it, all in aid of charity.
✽✽ Glad Rags Sat 20 Aug, 11am. £5 if you donate clothes; £8 if not.
Glasgow Riverside Rat Race A new 10k ‘urban adventure’ walk or run, with activities and obstacles along the way, beside, across and occasionally in the river. The event begins at the new Riverside Museum on Pointside Place. Riverside Musuem, Sun 21 Aug.
Women Make History Film Night As part of the Glasgow Women’s Library’s series of history workshops, they’re screening two shorts based on the Govan rent strikes of 1915–16, Red Skirts on Clydeside and You Play Your Part, followed by a discussion with women involved in the making of the latter. Book your place via the GWL website. Glasgow Women’s Library, Thu 18 Aug, 6pm.
Glad Rags Clothes- swapping day run by the folk behind the soon-to-open Glad Café, a new space for eating, drinking and merry grassroots culture-making that is set to open in Pollokshields later this year. Contact the organisers in advance to donate items (between one and ten) and pay your money on the day to gain access to a cornucopia of old-new threads. See picture, right. Pollokshields Church Hall, Sat 20 Aug.
The Arches Emporium Carnival-style arts market selling quality handmade goods, fashion, art, accessories, cards and homewares, with food, decor and entertainment. See picture, right. The Arches, Sat 20 Aug, 12.30–5.30pm.
Granny Would Be Proud Retro vintage market featuring fashion, jewellery, crafts and more. Warning: readers may be dazzled by the sheer art- school sheepskin-lined trendiness of other attendees. See picture, right. Hillhead Bookclub, Sun 21 Aug.
Mono Sunday Social Weekly event for those who like to do their chillaxing outside the home. There’s papers, a brunch menu, coffee, tea and beer, table football and DJs to help with your pursuit of Sunday bliss. Mono, Sun 21 Aug.
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Tue–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, 2 Castle Street, 553 2557. Various community groups tell the personal stories behind some of the many and varied objects in Glasgow Museums’ vast collection.
Fairs & Markets Queen’s Park Farmers’ Market Sat 20 Aug, 10am–2pm. Queen’s Park, 520 Langside Road, 287 2500. Local produce, from local people. FREE Merchant Square Craft Fair Sat 20 Aug, 11am–4pm; Sun 21 Aug, noon–4pm. Merchant Square, 71–73 Albion Street, 552 5908. Crafters and designers showcase their wares.
✽✽ FREE The Arches Emporium Sat 20 Aug, 12.30–5.30pm. The
Arches, 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. See Hitlist and picture, below. FREE Summer Fair Sat 20 Aug, 2–4pm. Summerfield Centre, 21 Smith Street, wgnc.org.uk Summer Fair with a variety of stalls and activities for young and old. FREE Blochairn Car Boot Sale Sun 21 Aug, 6am. Wholesale Fruit, Veg, Flower and Fish Market, 130 Blochairn Road. One of the UK’s largest weekly car boot sales, attracting over 500 sellers, with just about anything you could think of on sale, from curtains to cakes.
✽✽ FREE Granny Would Be Proud Sun 21 Aug, noon–5pm. Hillhead
Bookclub, 17 Vinicombe Street, 576 1700. See Hitlist, and picture, below. Sport Gay 5K Fri 19 Aug, 7pm. £10. Kelvingrove Park, Otago Street, gay5k.co.uk Community 5k running event open to anyone in favour of a free and open society, whatever their sexual orientation. Glasgow Bikeathon Sun 21 Aug, 9.30am. £10 in advance/£20 on the day (children £5/£15; family team £25). Drumpellier Country Park, Townhead Road, Coatbridge, 669 7862. Family- friendly charity bike ride. Choose from two routes – a full or half marathon – starting and finishing at Drumpellier
Garbing up
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Country Park, in aid of Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.
✽✽ Glasgow Riverside Rat Race Sun 21 Aug, 2–6pm. £29–£35.
Riverside Museum, 100 Pointhouse Place. Tickets available online only via ratraceadventure.com/glasgow See Hitlist. Glasgow Tigers Speedway Sun 21 Aug, 4pm. £15.50 (£12; under 16s £7; under 12s free). Ashfield Stadium, 404 Hawthorn Street, 336 4800.
Watch fast-paced motorbike action, on bikes that have no brakes.
Talks FREE Themed Tours at the Burrell Thu 18 & 25 Aug, 2.30–3.30pm. Glasgow Museums
Resource Centre, 200 Woodhead Road, Nitshill, 276 9300. Tour highlights of the human history (18 Aug) and transport and technology collections (25 Aug). FREE Spark Your Creativity Thu 18 Aug, 7pm. Inner Space, Glasgow Meditation Centre, 277 High Street, 552 7446. Find out how to maintain creative thought. FREE Curator’s Favourites Wed 24 Aug, 12.30–1pm. Burrell Collection, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 287 2550. As part of the series of regular talks on museum staff’s favourite objects from the collection, learn about a Ming dynasty ceramic figure. FREE Anger Management Thu 25 Aug, 7pm. Inner Space, Glasgow Meditation Centre, 277 High Street, 552 7446. Learn to control your impulses, you little hothead, you.
OUTSIDE THE CITIES Scotland’s Festival of History Sat 20 & Sun 21 Aug, 10am–4.30pm. £6 (£5; under 16s £1; family ticket £14). Lanark Racecourse, Hyndford Road, Lanark, lanarkmedievalfestival.co.uk It’s history, and it’s alive. Sorta. This is Scotland’s largest re-enactment event, and it’s extraordinarily popular. Hundreds of specialists provide a colourful and authentic look at 2000 years of history from the Romans to WW2, from juggling to weaponry, with food and craft stalls, kids’ circus workshops and a real ale tent in between.
Pollokshields Church Hall, 525 Shields Road, thegladcafe@gmail.com. See Hitlist, and picture, right. FREE Knit Tech Saturdays Sat 20 Aug, 3–5pm. Make It Glasgow, 3 Osborne Street, 07597 122809. Free drop- in sessions (you only pay for the tea and cakes) with help on offer from Make It Glasgow’s experienced owner for all your knitting knarly bits. The Glitter Beach Ball Sat 20 Aug, 6.30pm. £65. Grand Central Hotel, 99 Gordon Street, 240 3700. Charity ball in aid of the Glitter Beach Foundation. The Itch Sat 20 Aug, 7.30pm. £3. Old Hairdressers, Opposite Stereo, Renfield Lane. A sharing of brand new, original work by artists from the worlds of theatre, animation, film and music.
✽✽ FREE Mono Sunday Social Sun 21 Aug, noon. Mono, 12 Kings
Court, King Street, 553 2400. See Hitlist. FREE Blochestra Mon 22 Aug, 9pm. Bloc+, 117 Bath Street, 574 6066. Bring along any instrument you might have (from tubas to triangles) for a workshop/jam session with the ad hoc (but surprisingly tuneful) orchestra. Exhibitions FREE Sadako and the Paper Cranes – A Girl from Hiroshima Until Fri 26 Aug. Mon–Thu 9am–8pm; Fri & Sat 9am–5pm. Mitchell Library, North Street, 287 2999. An exhibition of posters borrowed from the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum and relating to the story of Hiroshima victim Sadako. FREE Curious Until Aug 2012,
Loads of excellent ways to refresh your wardrobe this weekend without going anywhere near the high street (probably best that way). First up, the Arches Emporium is a brand new venture for the venue: a carnival-style arts market bringing a little Coney Island kitsch to the underground. Stalls will sell fashion, accessories and homewares; there will be food and entertainment too. If you prefer your markets with a little more daylight, hipstergasm Granny Would Be Proud is back in the Hillhead Book Club with its usual range of gorgeous vintage and classy crafting. Really watching the pennies? Glad Rags Clothes Swap at Pollokshields Church Hall is the one for you: bring last season’s frocks and your £5 entry fee goes to support soon-to- open community venture The Glad Café. ■ Arches Emporium, The Arches, Sat 20 Aug, 12.30–5.30pm. Granny Would Be Proud, Hillhead Bookclub, Sun 21 Aug, noon–5pm. Glad Rags, Sat 20 Aug, Pollokshields Church Hall,11am.