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Soul Supper Club Tuesdays, 7pm. Prices vary. The Art School, The Beresford Building, 468 Sauchiehall Street, 353 4410. Food for the soul and the stomach, with traditional tunes from the likes of Marvin Gaye and Al Green and scran from the good ol’ south. Creole gumbo anyone? Food is served until 10pm, with music continuing until midnight. See preview below.
✽✽ Love Club Tue 6 Mar, 7.30pm. £4. The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. Infamous New York performance artist Markus Makavellian (OK, he’s just too outrageous to be real, it’s actually performance poet Drew Taylor) presents a relaxed evening of spoken word, music, knitting, tea and cake. This month’s theme is inspired by the fact that it’s International Unemployment Day . . . FREE National Library of Scotland Annual Roadshow Sun 11 Mar, 10am. Free (booking required). Eastwood Park Theatre, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4970. A talk on the NLS’s map library, a screening of films from the Scottish Screen Archive, and workshops on family history and remote resources. FREE Themed Tour: Iconography – Meanings in Art Tue 13 Mar, 12.30pm. Burrell Collection, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 287 2550. What does it all mean? Drop in and find out.
✽✽ Glasgow School of Art Fashion Show Tue 13 Mar, 7pm & 9pm, Wed 14 Mar, 5pm, 7pm & 9pm. £7 (£5). SWG3, Studio Warehouse, 100 Eastvale Place, 357 7246. The annual Glasgow School of Art Fashion show is an event that has been around since the 1940s and previous years have spawned some top designing talent. The work on show is designed and made by second and third year textiles students. FREE Highlights of the Transport and Technology Collection Thu 15 Mar, 2.30–3.30pm. Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, 200 Woodhead Road, 276 9300. A themed tour of all that goes brum brum. FREE Power and Play the Science Way Sat 17 & Sun 18 Mar, 1.30–4pm. Riverside Museum, 100 Pointhouse Place, 287 2660. Find out how science drives the machines in the transport collection. Part of National Science Week.
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Some Like It Hot Sun 18 Mar, 7.30pm–midnight. £7. Brunswick Cellars, 239 Sauchiehall Street, 332 9329. Speed dating event with retro tunes, a Sinatra tribute act and Hollywood greats dress code. Stars Over the Botanics Tue 20 Mar, 7.30–9pm. £4 (children £2). Glasgow Botanic Gardens, 730 Great Western Road, 276 1614. A stargazing session with the Astronomical Society of Glasgow. Zipslide across the Clyde Sat 24 Mar, 10am. £25 registration fee. Pacific Quay, next to Glasgow Science Centre, scotland@actionforchildren.org.uk. Get from one side of the Clyde to the other in record time whilst raising money for charity. And if you haven’t got enough adrenaline pumping after that . . . Pirate Plummet Abseil Sun 25 Mar, time tbc. £10 registration fee. Finnieston Crane, by SECC, pirateplummetabseil@stroke.org.uk. Charity abseil from the top of Glasgow’s Finnieston Crane, with pirate costumes for added lunacy. FREE Auditions Tue 27 Mar, 7.30–10pm. Croftfoot Parish Church Hall, 318 Croftpark Avenue, Croftfoot, theatreguild.uktheatre.net Auditions to join the Theatre Guild for their next production, Footloose, which will be performed in October at Eastwood Park Theatre. Ages 16+. FREE Creative Loop Student Media Festival & Awards Wed 28 Mar, 10am–5pm, Thu 29 Mar, 10am–8pm. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Mini-festival for students including presentations, masterclasses with industry figures, plus plenty of those all-important networking opportunities. The best student work will be honoured with awards, presented on the evening of Thu 29 Mar. Fairs & Markets FREE Gin in Teacups Sat 3 Mar, noon–6pm. Chambre 69, Stock Exchange House, 69 Nelson Mandela Place, 248 6447. An eclectic emporium of crafts, vintage jewellery and clothing. Creative Stitches & Hobbycrafts Show Thu 8–Sun 11 Mar, 9.30am–5pm (Sat until 5.30pm). £6 in advance/£7.50 on the day (seniors £5/£6.50;
accompanied children free). SECC, Finnieston Quay, 01425 272711. Find finished gifts and crafty kits and supplies. FREE Little Birds Market Sun 11 Mar, noon–5pm. Sloans, 62 Argyll Arcade, City Centre, 07946 715204. Wares including clothes, jewellery, handmade, up-cycled furniture, accessories, homewares, food, cakes, millinery and stationery. FREE Merchants Market Sun 18 Mar, 11am–5pm. Merchant Square, 71–73 Albion Street, 552 5908. Produce, arts and crafts market. FREE The National Piping Centre Wedding Show 2012 Sun 25 Mar, noon–5pm. The National Piping Centre, 30–34 McPhater Street, Cowcaddens, 353 5551. Explore the potential of the Piping Centre as a wedding venue, and meet loads of suppliers. Booking essential. Sport FREE Rollapaluza Glasgow Thu 1 Mar, 6pm. Dales Cycles, 150 Dobbies Loan, 0330 440 4080. Spectate or participate as two cyclists go head-to- head in this static race over 500m. As well as £240 in prizes up for grabs, the fastest riders will represent Glasgow in the London finals on Fri 6 Apr. Premier British Wrestling Sun 4 Mar, 2pm. £12 (children £10). Pavilion Theatre, 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. Testosterone overdrive as some of UK wrestling’s major talents ply their crowd- pleasing moves. Glasgow Rocks Home Games Sun 4, 18 & 25 Mar, 5pm. £9–£11 (children £6–£7). Kelvin Hall International Sports 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. Glasgow Roller Derby vs Bear City Rollergirls Sat 10 Mar, 1pm. £5 in advance; £6 on the door. The Arc, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, 331 8633. Glasgow Roller Derby’s Irn Bruisers take on the Berlin Bombshells’ all-star team. Resolution Run 5k Sun 11 Mar, 9am–12.30pm. £10. Bellahouston Park, 16 Dumbreck Road, 555 7245. Charity 5k race organised by the Stroke Association.
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 The Bad Boy Pub Quiz Thursdays, 7pm. Sloans, 62 Argyll Arcade, City Centre, 229 5270. Weekly pub quiz with a bar tab prize. FREE Swishing Shop Fridays, 11am–3pm. Simply Swap, 937 Tollcross Road, Tollcross, 551 0071. Clothes- swapping events as part of a wider project aiming to make Glasgow’s East End more green and sustainable. Sound Thought Fri 2 Mar, noon–10.30pm, Sat 3 Mar, noon–9pm. Day pass £9 (£6); festival pass £15 (£10). The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. A two-day musical event by postgraduate music students at Glasgow University featuring original compositions, sound installations and talks. El Abrazo Tango Club Fri 2 Mar, 7.30pm. £5 for milonga only; £7 for class only; £10 for both. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Tango milonga from Glasgow Tango Studio with a range of music for social dancing. Preceded by a tango class. FREE A Curious Celebration of Music and Song Sat 3 Mar, 1–4pm. St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, 2 Castle Street, 276 1625. A celebration of music from cultures around the world. FREE Drawing In Saturdays, 3–5pm. CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. A space to draw, create and exchange ideas in the foyer of the cultural melting pot that is the CCA. Open to all ages, including kids; materials not supplied. FREE The Victorians Rediscovered: A Very Grand Day Out Sat 3 & Sun 4 Mar, 11am–4pm. Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. Meet Victorian characters, dress up in period costume, brave a spooky ghost tour, mind your Ps and Qs at an etiquette class or witness a ‘steampunk tea-duel’ (nope, us neither) at this weekend of 19th-century fun and games.
✽✽ The Victorians After Dark Sat 3 Mar, 8pm. £8 plus booking fee. Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. The Victorian- themed fun extends into the evening. Featuring Thomas Truax and his self- made instruments, contortionist Iona Kewney with Joseph Quimby and paper cinema, all accompanied by traditional vaudevillian splendour.
✽✽ Bicycle Boom: Kelvingrove to Riverside Sun 4 & Sat 10 Mar,
times vary. £8 (£6). Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Argyle Street, 276 9599. Fish & Game presents a cycle tour from Kelvingrove Museum to the Riverside Museum exploring the development of the bicycle and its influence on the lives of women over the past 100 years. Part of Kelvingrove’s Very Grand Day Out. Tickets available from the Arches, 565 1000. FREE Label Sundays, 2–7pm. Stairway Club, 95 Union Street, 221 1009. Bring, buy or just listen at this celebration of vinyl, with a vinyl DJ and mini record fair. FREE Themed Tour: Stained Glass at the Burrell Tue 6 Mar, 12.30pm. Burrell Collection, 2060 Pollokshaws Road, 287 2550. Themed drop-in museum tour. FREE Specialist Tour: Little Marvels Tue 6 Mar, 2.30–3.30pm. Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, 200 Woodhead Road, South Nitshill Industrial Estate, 276 9300. Meet the museum’s 200,000 insects. 40 THE LIST 1–29 Mar 2012
Sometimes the simple pleasures are the best, as shown by this new night at the ad hoc Art School union premises. Soul greats like Marvin Gaye, Al Green and Nina Simone provide the soundtrack to your dinner of traditional North American Soul Food, featuring everything from cornbread and fried chicken to slow cooked pulled pork, deep fried dill pickles and fruit cobbler, followed by DJs until late. ■ The Art School, Glasgow, Tuesdays.