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HITLIST THE BEST SHOWS, SAND AND SCONES
✽ International Tartan Festival Whether you’re a Ramsay, a Campbell
or a MacDonald (or none of the above), everyone can enjoy a good tartan. Luckily there’s plenty of it at this fashion fest. Glasgow Central Station, Fri 16–Sat 17 Aug.
✽ Vintage Glasgow See preview, left. The Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs,
Glasgow, Sat 27–Sun 28 Jul.
✽ Bumblebee Ball What will you wear to the Bumblebee Ball? Your thinking cap, that’s what. There’s plenty of apiology to learn. Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Sat 20–Sun 21 Jul.
✽ Glasgow 2014 Come and Try
Session You probably have enough time to get good at shooting or lawn bowls before next year’s Commonwealth Games if you put your mind to it, so come and have a go at some of the sports that’ll be taking over the city next year. People’s Palace & Winter Gardens, Glasgow Green, Sat 27–Sun 28 Jul.
✽ Bikes and Scones Cycling and baked goods: a match made in heaven. See preview, page 48. Bridgeton Library and Learning Centre, Glasgow, Sat 20 Jul.
✽ Sand Zoo This is the chance we’ve been waiting for to marvel at artful sand
sculpture versions of our favourite critters. And before you ask, yes, Umfolozi the white rhino will be included. Edinburgh Zoo, until Fri 30 Aug.
VINTAGE GLASGOW Out with the new, in with the old: a weekend to party like it’s 1939
F estivals? They’re so last century. No, really. Scotland’s first Vintage Festival (Glasgow, Sat 27–Sun 28 Jul), run by Red or Dead’s Wayne Hemingway, takes a quickstep back in time to somewhere between the 1920s and the 1980s and revels in the fashion, music, food, beauty and film of a bygone age. Go full flapper with the help of some 1920s scran and authentic dance instruction at the Charleston Brunch (Old Fruitmarket, Sat 27 Jul), continuing the theme with the Great Gatsby 1920s Fashion Show (City Halls, Sun 28 Jul). If you still can’t get enough of drop waists and beaded headwear (other decades are available), try the Vintage Marketplace (Candleriggs, Sat 27–Sun 28 Jul) for some top browsing and rummaging.
Jump forward a fashion moment or two and attract the attention of a GI at the 1940s Torch Club (Old Fruitmarket, Sun 28 Jul), where you can blow a few ration coupons on getting your hair done like a member of La Résistance and dance the foxtrot with the help of an 18-piece swing orchestra. There’s no focus on one particular period; instead, the weekend time travels from inter- war through to 50s rock’n’roll, 70s soul and 80s disco. Basically it’s a chance get togged to the bricks without being a stool pigeon, ya dig? Well, you might as well enter properly into the spirit of the thing. (Charlotte Runcie)
Various venues, Merchant City, Glasgow, Sat 27–Sun 28 Jul.
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