✽✽ Scottish Animation Network: Panel 2 Sat 11 Feb, 1pm. £4. CCA,
350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. An expert panel discusses the creative and practical differences between short film and more commercial work. See preview, page 46. Part of Glasgow Film Festival.
✽✽ FREE Film Nation: Shorts presents: Film Director
Masterclass Sat 11 Feb, 2–3.30pm. Free (ticketed). Glasgow Media Access Centre, Fifth Floor Trongate 103, 553 2620. BAFTA-nominated Luke Snellin shares his secrets on filmmaking with 15–25-year-olds. See preview, page 46. Part of Glasgow Film Festival.
✽✽ FREE Films for the Future Sat 11 Feb, 5pm. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall
Street, 352 4900. Find out about a new project offering funding and support to filmmakers looking to make films about possible futures. See preview, page 46. Part of Glasgow Film Festival.
✽✽ Protest/Film: Panel 3 Sun 12 Feb, 1pm. £4. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall
Street, 352 4900. A panel of experts engage in lively debate of a selection of short films dealing with protest, both from the past and from our present turbulent age. See preview, page 46. Part of Glasgow Film Festival.
✽✽ BAFTA in Scotland Event Tue 21 Feb, 6pm. £8 (£6). Glasgow Film
Theatre, 12 Rose Street, 332 6535. A major film personality discusses their career and takes questions from the audience. See preview, page 46. Part of Glasgow Film Festival.
✽✽ Women in Comics Thu 23 Feb, 3.15pm. £5. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall
Street, 352 4900. A panel including Denise Mina, Kate Brown, Penny Sharp
and Gillian Hatcher discusses both the depiction of women in comics and the female experience of the industry. Part of Glasgow Film Festival. Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland Strathclyde Group Lecture Thu 23 Feb, 7–9pm. £4. Adelaides, 209 Bath Street, 339 1205. Historian and author Carole Foreman paints a compelling picture of ‘Lost and Hidden Glasgow’. FREE Laure Provost Thu 23 Feb, 7pm. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. The artist presents a talk on her new film The Wanderer, which was itself developed from a work by artist Rory Macbeth where he translated a Kafka novella from German into English without a dictionary or any knowledge of German – which, unsurprisingly, makes for a fairly bizarre story. FREE Stitches in Time: Victorian Fashion Magazines Fri 24 Feb, 2.30–3.30pm. Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. Find out what would have been on the catwalks of the 19th century, if they’d invented them yet. FREE What Presence! Exhibition Talk 4 Fri 24 Feb, 6–8pm. Street Level Photo Works, Trongate 103, 552 2151. More opinions on Harry Papadopolous’s photography from music industry bods including Stuart Murdoch and Jim Gellatly. Booking essential. The View from Nowhere – part 1 Sat 25 Feb, 2.30pm. Day pass £6; festival pass £14. Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Philosphers Ray Brassier and Thomas Metzinger (via video link) discuss some challenging ideas about the nature of the self. Part of
Glasgow Youth Film Festival workshops
list.co.uk/aroundtown Arena, 1445 Argyle Street, 334 4600. Scotland’s only professional basketball team face their rivals in the British Basketball League, with cheerleaders, games and fun for all at each match. Opponents are Guildford Heat (5 Feb), Essex Pirates (12 Feb) and Cheshire Jets (19 Feb).
Talks FREE The Past in the Present Thursdays, 2–23 Feb, 1–2pm. Glasgow Sculpture Studios, 145 Kelvinhaugh Street, 204 1740. A series of free lunchtime talks about art history, from Dr Dominic Paterson. The Mackintosh Lecture: The Architecture of John McAslan & Partners Thu 2 Feb, 7pm. £5 (students £2.50). The Mackintosh Church, Queen’s Cross, 870 Garscube Road, 946 6600. John McAslan, originally from Dunoon, is one of Britain’s most innovative architects and is responsible for (among other things) the remarkable remodelling of London’s King’s Cross Station. Here he talks about the work of his firm. Solar Maximum 2013 Sat 4 Feb, 11.30am–1pm. £10. Glasgow Science Centre Planetarium, 50 Pacific Quay, 330 1835. Dr Lyndsay Fletcher delivers a talk on the next Solar Maximum – a time when the sun’s flares and sunspots are particularly active. Using images from recent space missions, find out what these phenomena look like, why they are more numerous at certain times, and what effect they have on us here on Earth. Ticket price includes entry to the Science Mall. FREE Scottish Opera: Hansel and Gretel Unwrapped Tue 7 Feb, 6–7pm. Theatre Royal, 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. An hour-long introduction to Humperdinck’s operatic fairy tale. Detours Discussion Wed 8 Feb, 9.30am–6pm. £10 (includes lunch). The Lighthouse, 11 Mitchell Lane, 276 5360. A one-day symposium on context in curating, with a fine programme of speakers including gallery curators and museum directors. Cultures of the Pacific Thu 9 Feb, 2.15pm. £8 (students £2; under 18s, RSGS members free). Renfield St Stephen’s Church, 260 Bath Street, 01738 455050. Illustrated talk on the cultures of Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, The Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Easter Island. The Glasgow Lectures on Culture Thu 9 Feb & 1 Mar, 6pm. £8. Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. Final two installments in a lecture series created to highlight topics relevant to the future of the arts in Scotland and beyond. On Thu 9 Feb, Michael Boyd, formerly of the Tron Theatre and Sheffield’s Crucible and now artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, discusses his experiences of producing theatre on both sides of the Atlantic, while on Thu 1 Mar journalist, presenter and academic Aleks Krotoski discusses the internet and social life in the context of the arts.
✽✽ FREE What Presence! Exhibition Talk 3 Fri 10 Feb,
AroundTown
Arika12 Episode 2: A Special Form of Darkness. The View from Nowhere – part 2 Sat 25 Feb, 4.15pm. Day pass £6; festival pass £14. Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Ray Brassier, Alexi Kukuljevic and Mark Fisher discuss the subjugation of individuality and creativity to social and business structures, and how ‘neoliberal capitalism has locked down social experience’. Part of Arika12 Episode 2. All the Colours of the Dark, Except Black Sun 26 Feb, 3.30pm. Day pass £6; festival pass £14. Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Film critic Evan Calder Williams argues that horror cinema draws not on a deep lurking darkness, but simply the fact that there is no depth, only endless layers of surface. Part of Arika12 Episode 2. Cosmic Pessimism Sun 26 Feb, 5pm. Day pass £6; festival pass £14. Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Specialist in the occult, philosopher and occasional noise artist Eugene Thacker thinks aloud about the unthinkable, and confronts the idea that the reality of the world has nothing much to do with humans. Part of Arika12 Episode 2. Write Camera Action! Screening Thu 1 Mar, 7pm. £5 (members £3). CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Screening of the two films produced from last year’s winning scripts in the Write Camera Action! short script (10 min maximum) competition, followed by a Q&A with the writers and producers and the launch of the 2012 competition (submissions open until Mon 30 Apr). Workshops Collars, Cuffs, Cravats and Capes Sun 5 Feb, 10.30am–4pm. £45. Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. Use a variety of materials to create Victorian-themed accessories. Beginners are welcome.
EVENTS CO-PROMOTION
Singles Night in Victoria Get your date sorted for Valentine’s!! Our infamous Singles night is back on Saturday 4th 8pm.
Valentine’s in Victoria with a Latin feel – if you come with your date from Singles night to Victoria we promise a special treat. Tough day at work? in Joseph Pearce’s we have gone back to basic and serving up the Swedish classic Cheese rolls between 3-6pm every Mon-Thurs. Enjoy it with a coffee or a Swedish beer!!
New Camera Club in Sofi’s 16th Feb 7pm
Bake Club in Sofi’s 21st 7pm – this months theme Patisserie
Back room in Boda – available for booking with free buffet for more than 15 people!! www.bodabar.com
2 Feb–1 Mar 2012 THE LIST 47
6–8pm. Street Level Photo Works, Trongate 103, 552 2151. Brian Guthrie, Martin Kielty, Stewart McKee, Bobby Bluebell, Robert H King and Billy Sloan discuss the rock photographs of Harry Papadopolous. Booking essential.
✽✽ FREE Enter the Archive Fri 10 Feb, 11am–5pm. Free (ticketed).
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. A day of discussions and workshops on the purpose and responsibilities of archives in the film world. See preview, page 46. Part of Glasgow Film Festival.
✽✽ Virtuous or Vicious Circle? (Kubrick Never Crowdfunded):
Panel 1 Sat 11 Feb, 11am. £4. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. A panel of film production and social media experts discusses the impact of crowdfunding on filmmaking, and whether it’s a sustainable model for the future. See preview, page 46. Part of Glasgow Film Festival.
Taking place between 5–15 Feb as part of the Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow Youth Film Festival has some exciting hands-on workshops, such as BFI Future Film’s #tweetapitch (the Arches, 12 Feb, 2.30pm). All you have to do is pitch your great idea in 140 words or less – #tricky. There are also workshops about how to adapt film to stage (the Arches, 11 Feb, 11am and 3pm), movie poster design (the Arches, 12 Feb, £5) and a Film Director Masterclass with Luke Snellin, director of Mixtape (pictured, GMAC, 11 Feb, 2pm). The winning films from this event will be screened during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London in 2012. ■ See glasgowfilm.org/festival for more details.