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T U R N E R P R I Z E T R I U M P H F O R D U N C A N C A M P B E L L Glasgow-based visual artist Duncan Campbell (above) has won the 2014 Turner Prize – worth £25,000 – for his video work It for Others, announced in a ceremony at London’s Tate Britain. He’s the fourth graduate from Glasgow School of Art to have won the prize in the last decade, and one of three GSA graduates among this year’s shortlist of four artists.
and TA R TA N C L E F AWA R D W I N S Idlewild Jimmy Somerville (left) were among the winners of Tartan Clef gongs at the 2014 Scottish Music Awards, held to raise money for charity Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy. Idlewild picked up the King Tut’s Songwriting Award, while Bronski Beat and Communards singer Somerville received the People Make Glasgow Special Recognition Award.
L I ST L AT E- N I G H T E R S FO R 20 1 5 The List takes part in curating two late-night events in 2015. Museum Lates: Game Masters (13 Feb) takes over Edinburgh’s National Museum of Scotland with video games old and new, as well as music from Happy Meals and Bdy_Prts, food, drink and a silent disco. And The Lighthouse Late (29 May) at Glasgow’s Lighthouse has a fashion theme, with music, workshops and other events across the design centre’s i ve l oors.
G F F 2 0 1 5 T H E M E S R E V E A L E D Australian cinema and nerd culture are
among the themes announced for next year’s Glasgow Film Festival (18 Feb–1 Mar). Also in the GFF spotlight are Ingrid Bergman and Glasgow’s own cinema history. The Glasgow Short Film Festival (11–15 Mar) moves away from the GFF for the i rst time, with ten large- scale experimental i lms being screened in the Briggait courtyard, and a collaboration with Optimo DJ JD Twitch. More at glasgowi lm.org
25 T H B I R T H DAY F O R K I N G T U T ’S Glasgow venue King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut has announced a starry lineup of acts to celebrate its 25th birthday in February 2015. Among the names appearing are Julian Cope, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Philip Selway, the LaFontaines, the Twilight Sad and Fatherson. More at kingtuts.co.uk
designated City D U N D E E B EC O M E S U N E S C O C I T Y O F D E S I G N Dundee has become the i rst UK city to a be UNESCO of Design, been announced. The award, previously given to just 12 cities including Beijing, Berlin and Montreal, was made in recognition of Dundee’s design- based cultural landscape, from aspirin to The Beano and marmalade to video games.
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U 2 DAT E S I N G L AS G OW U2 are to include two dates in Glasgow’s SSE Hydro (7 and 8 Nov 2015) as part of their iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE tour, which takes in 19 cities in Europe and North America from May to November 2015.
NTS SPRING SEASON REVEALED
‘Tribes, families, clans and gangs’ are the themes behind the National Theatre of Scotland’s Belong season, just announced, which stretches from January to June 2015. The eclectic season brings together a new Gaelic version of Compton Mackenzie’s Whisky Galore, a family comedy set in a i sh and chip shop, a new documentary drama on female genital mutilation, and world premieres of plays by Russian and Ukrainian writers examining the Crimean conl ict. The Crimean-themed plays take
place in March in Glasgow and Edinburgh, as part of Òran Mór and the Traverse Theatre’s A Play, a Pie and a Pint season. Gaelic theatre company Robhanis collaborates with NTS on a Scotland-wide tour of a new adaptation of Whisky Galore by Iain Finlay Macleod, entitled Uisge- Beatha Gu Leòr (April and May). Acclaimed Scottish playwright Douglas Maxwell has transplanted La nona by Argentinian playwright Roberto La Cossa to the setting of a Scots-Italian i sh and chip shop for his new comedy Yer Granny, touring Scotland from May to July. And Scottish theatremaker Cora Bissett collaborates with Manchester performance poet Yusra Warsama on Rites, a documentary drama looking at female genital mutilation.
Elsewhere, NTS artistic director
Sansom unveils his new adaptation of Muriel Spark’s thriller The Driver’s Seat, and Vanishing Point’s Kai Fischer offers an immersive soundscape and live music in Last Dream (On Earth), which promises to take audiences across borders and into space. ‘Most of us want to belong,’ said
NTS artistic director Laurie Sansom. ‘The bosom of the family might make us feel safe, or like running to the hills. Sometimes it’s not always easy to i t in. The embrace of community can protect and it can stil e.’
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