Great Shawlands Republic 3

We have heard great things about the last two Greater Shawlands Repbulic events and are planning to go along to their third one ourselves this week. Here is what they have to say for themselves.

"The organisation dedicated to overthrowing the yolk of Glasgow City Council control and freeing the Southside of Glasgow will be convening on the weekend of Jubilee. The assembly will be a mixture of a comedy, cabaret and heated debate on whether or not Shawlands needs a queen.

The debate over the monarchy has deeply fragmented the party. A recent poll shows that almost half of all GSR party members believe that Michelle McManus has the strongest claim to the throne. There had been a rival movement amongst some other party members who were firmly behind the claim of Stannis Baratheon, however this support fell away when they learned that he was fictional. However, there are still some supporters who refuse to give up and who who claim that it is Stannis Baratheon who is in fact real and Michelle McManus who is fictional.

The monarchy debates comes at a bad time for the party after the recent schism at the General Assembly of the Church of Shawlands. Controversy ensued after delegates voted that marriage should be between a man and a woman or a man and a man or a woman and a woman or a man and many women or a woman and many men, but NEVER AGAIN should it be between a man and a potato. A number of party members decided to jacket in.

The whole debacle comes after the launch of their 'why not' campaign failed to make much impact. The poorly attended event only attracted five people including celebrities PC Tony Stamp from The Bill and Alan Cumming.

The assembly will start at 8pm on June 3rd at the Bungo, 17 Nithsdale Road and is open to all. Southsiders can get in for 5 pollocks and 99 shields which at the current exchange rate is £5.99. As per usual West Enders will have to pay 6 pollocks. 

Light relief on the night will be provided by evangelist Reverend Obadiah Steppnwolf III and leader of the fledgling People’s Republic of Paisley Scott Gibson. 

Il Presidente of the Republic Bruce Morton and his first deputy Andrew Learmonth will oversee proceedings."

Southside Festival 2012 weekend

SOUTHSIDE FESTIVAL
The Southside Festival have just released information on the 2012 Festival which is taking place this coming weekend. Lots of events on in the recreation grounds for a family day out with music and comedy elsewhere too, here's what they have to say about it all.
"The big day this year is on the 26th of May and and will be followed on the 27th with "Picnic in the park".

Festivities will kick of on the 26th at 11am with the procession leaving from Newlandsfield Road and for the first time passes through Shawlands before making its way down Pollokshaws road to Alison Street and then right onto Victoria Road and entering the Recreation Grounds from the Queens Drive entrance. From this point on the main stage bursts into life with tunes from the St Francis Pipe Band followed by a full ten hours of music from up and coming Scottish Bands who regularly perform at the Mod as well as indie clubs throughout Glasgow.
For Picnic in the Park, the Southside Festival managed to secure an extensive line up of local bands form secondary schools from all over the Southside as a way of providing a platform where they can gain experience of playing in a large event and the opportunity to share their tunes."
You can read the whole programme of events here.

AFTERNOON TWEE and LANGSIDE PRIMARY
As well as all the Festival fun and games that weekend there are lots of other events on - Langside Primary have a fair on Saturday 26 May 11am - 1:30pm and the Afternoon Twee folks are celebrating their first birthday at Tusk on Sunday 27 May from 12:30.

READY STEADY GROW
There is also the rather lovely little event Ready Steady Grow from 1pm-4pm Sunday 27 May so that looks like its the weekend sorted then.

HIMP EXHIBITION
Its also the last weekend for you to see our very own HIMP's Glasgow International Exhibition at The Arches which will be coming to an end next week.

As always, let us know in the comments below about any events that we've missed.

Ready Steady Grow Festival: Sunday 27 May

The inaugural Ready Steady Grow festival returns this Sunday from 1pm - 4.30pm at venues throughout Pollokshields. At Maxwell Park there will be tea and baking, Kid's Crafts and the community plant nursery will be opening at 3pm (bring plants to exchange). The New Victoria Gardens will be hosting their open day, pick up some plants at their plant sale, go on a guided tour of the allotments, stop for some tea and cake or take part in their Scarecrow making workshop.

There's a whole range of events happening at East Pollokshields Quad, Nan Mackay Memorial Hall, Leslie Street Green Spaces and the Hidden Gardens. Click here for more info

Sherlock @ Southside Film Festival

On Saturday evening there will be a full night of Sherlock Holmes organised by the 'Sherlock Holmes Society of Scotland' (who are Southsiders). It's a really good line up and with the recent movies and tv series, here's great chance to see three further alternate presentations of the consulting detective.

Part one will screen Reichenbach Falls including an introduction and Q&A with writer James Mavor and actor Alec Newman. Followed by two Sherlock Silents, The Mystery of Leaping Fish and Sherlock Jr

Runs from 7pm - 10pm at The Shed on Langside Avenue and shaping up to be a pretty good evening of entertainment for just £6.

"Reichenbach Falls is an action-packed psychological thriller examining the complex relationship between character and creator. DI Jim Buchan is a cop on the edge, Jack Harvey is a successful crime writer with the world at his feet. In Reichenbach Falls, these two former friends are thrown together when a 100-year-old body is discovered beneath the streets of Edinburgh.

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (25mins) stars Douglas Fairbanks as Coke Ennyday, a scientific detective, loosely based on Holmes, who discovers a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported with “Leaping Fishes”... You get the idea, this is a bizarre viewing experience and not what you normally expect from Douglas Fairbanks!

Sherlock Junior (45mins), written, directed, produced and starring Buster Keaton as a love struck detective/projectionist, is not to be missed! This version of this silent comedy classic has a jazzy score from Carl Davis."

The Improvdogs @ The Bungo

The Improvedogs present The Show a night of improvised comedy sketches and music. The Show takes place on Sunday 20th May at the Bungo. Tickets £5 and doors open 7.30pm.

Red Exhibition: 18th May 2012

Local Southside digital artist Stephen O'Neil is hosting a one night exhibition celebrating five years of work. The exhibition 'Red' takes place on Queens Drive between 6.30 - 9.30 on Friday night.   The event is free but a ticket is required. Contact Stephen stephen@art-glasgow.co.uk or 07708464696.

Class Struggle: Film from the Clyde: Saturday 19th May

As part of the Southside Festival, The Pearce Institute in Govan will be screening the Class Struggle: Film from the Clyde, which records the dramatic events of the UCS work-in of 1971-2 inside the shipyards. Film collective, Cinema Action, were the only film crew allowed access to the shipyards by the Shop Stewards’ Committee during the work-in. It was one of the most exciting and powerful struggles against unemployment in Britain.

The shipyard work-in - organised by Jimmy Reid, Jimmy Airlie, Sammy Barr and Sammy Gilmore - was an alternative to a strike. It came after the new Conservative government insisted that shipbuilding should not rely on government subsidies, and refused to hand over more money to keep the UCS yards open. The decision meant at least 6,000 of the 8,500 shipyard workers employed by UCS would have to be made redundant.

The work-in saw workers manage and operate the UCS shipyards until the government changed its policy. It was intended to prove that the yards were viable. The UK government, led by Ted Heath, finally relented in February 1972 and announced a £35m injection of cash into the yards.

Film Screening Saturday 19th May: 3pm - 5pm: Tickets Free (But Donation Welcome)

Southside Fim Festival Quiz Night - 17th May 2012

On Thursday night there are two pre-festival events taking place. The Bungo are hosting the first ever Southside Film Festival  film quiz at 8pm, hosted by locals Barry Young and Noelle Carroll from Young's Interesting Books. It's £5 per team and starts at 8pm. 

Over on Westmoreland Street, the Southside Studios will be opening an exhibition of selected artists films from 7pm - 9pm. more info www.southsidefestival.net

*Lovely poster designed by Southsider Paul of Navarone

Southside Film Festival 2012

The Southside Film Festival takes place next weekend at venues throughout the Southside including The Shed, The Bungo, The Pearce Institute, Govanhill Baths, The Chalet, Film City and Kinning Park Complex.
On Thursday night there are two  pre-festival events taking place. The Bungo are hosting a film quiz night at 8pm, hosted by the wonderful Barry Young and Noelle Carroll from Youngs Interesting Books, it's sure to be an entertaining evening. Over on Westmoreland Street, the Southside Studios will be opening an exhibition of selected artists films (7pm - 9pm)
The Festival opens with the film Neds on Friday night at the Shed (8pm - 10pm). The Bungo plays host to Underwire a film festival for shorts by women. There will be a  special screening of their 2011 award winning films and then the second half will showcase work by local female filmmakers. (9pm - 11pm)

There are a whole host of great events and films taking place on Saturday including Kids movie club, a surprise screening at Pollokshaws library at 1pm. The boat shed in Queens Park will be screening Shipyard Parks and Greek Thomson, films will be shown at 2pm, 3pm and 4pm. Over at the Pearce Institute in Govan they'll be screening the Class Struggle: Film from the Clyde, which records the dramatic events of the UCS work-in of 1971-2 inside the shipyards. It was one of the most exciting and powerful struggles against unemployment in Britain. (3pm - 5pm)

The Shed will be screening Green Screen Double Bill: Troubled Stories from Derry and Belfast - Bernadette: Notes from a Political Journey 3PM - 4.30pm and then A Million Bricks at 5pm.

Later in the evening there will be a full evening of Shelock Holmes. Part one will screen Reichenbach Falls with an introduction and Question and Answer session with writer James Mavor and actor Alec Newman. Followed by two Sherlock Silents, The Mystery of Leaping Fish and Sherlock Jr 7pm - 10pm. Alternatively There are Short Films taking place from 7.30 till 9.30 at the artist run studio, workshop and gallery The Chalet and then from 9.30 Govanhill Baths screens a selection of short films about swimming including  Jean Virgis' 1931 Swimming Champion.

On Sunday there will be a number of workshops and talks taking place at Tusk throughout the day. An illustrated talk by Gary Painter on the development of Scottish Cinema Architecture, with a special look at the Southside cinemas. (2pm - 3pm) A drop in Screenplay workshop 2-4pm and We Are Northern Lights Workshop 3.30pm - 5.30pm.

The Shed will screen Silver Tongues, written and directed by Simon Arthur, who grew up in Pollokshields. 4pm -5.30pm. Also screening at the Shed is the 1984 classic Comfort and Joy. Allan 'Dicky' Bird a radio DJ is heartbroken when his girlfriend leaves him and his life takes a bizarre twist - he witnesses an attack on an ice cream van which leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the ice cream market in Glasgow. 4pm
At 6pm, the Southside Filmmakers Award Screening will take place, followed by  Fast Romance, a film about seven very different people who go looking for love and end up getting more than they bargained for. Shot in the Southside and written and directed by Southside Carter Ferguson.

Buster Keaton's The General, accompanied by David Gray on the mighty Wurlitzer Cinema Organ, will close the festival. This is one you do not want to miss. Buster Keaton at his best. 8pm - Pollokshaws Burgh Hall -£6
We've given an overview of what's on over the weekend, so do check the programme  and the SSFF Website for the full line up, times and ticket information.

www.southsidefestival.net

The Great Disappointment of Santa Muerta

The Great Disappointment of Santa Muerta is a one woman show ‘work-in-progress’ by Amanda Monfrooe. Part of NTS Reveal.
Just when she was about to throw in the towel Amanda was handed the role of a lifetime. She was hired to play the patron saint of death, live on Mexican Public Television for Dia De Los Muertos, the Latin American celebration death and the dead. Amanda was more surprised than anybody as she wasn’t aware she even spoke Spanish till someone asked. She also didn’t know that she was, actually, Santa Muerta.

Citizens Theatre

10 May 2012 to 12 May 2012

7.30pm Tickets £2.50

Southside Film Festival: Neds - 18th May 2012

The opening film of this years Southside Film Festival is Neds, Southside Glasgow’s most prolific and talented filmmaker, Peter Mullan, recreates 1970s Glasgow for his most recent feature film NEDS (124 mins). The film tells the story of Catholic teenager John McGill, played by Conor McCarron in his first ever acting role. Despite showing promise John becomes involved in ‘NED’ culture and has to deal, and live with, the consequences. NEDS won Best Film at the San Sebastian Film Festival and was released last year to positive acclaim from critics and audiences alike. For those of you who missed it, come along, for those of you who saw it, come along to watch it again. And as NEDS was mostly shot in the Southside, it's the perfect opening film for Southside Film Festival!
8pm-10pm
the Shed, Main hall
£6/£5
Cert 15

For more info on the Southside Film Festival Click here

Get ready for the art

This weekend is a great chance to see some art with the Glasgow International drawing to a close and the annual Streetland festival kicking off. Here's a little guide to the Southside Art Scene this weekend. Spread the word to your art loving geographically challenge friends over the river and get them to come see some culture.

GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL 2012

Main event 4th/ 5th May times vary
The biennial Contemporary Arts Festival which is really starting to make a name for itself. A host of art is happening throughout Glasgow but lots of it is in the Southside or involves Southside Artists stepping over the river ie our very own HIMP, one half of Southside Happenings, who has an exhibition on At The Arches (*).

STREETLAND
Main event 4th/ 5th May times varyGovanhill's very own festival of creativity, community & the street, Streetland returns for a third year, with a packed programme with a little something for everyone.  Its a kind of art exhibition meets performance meets community day extravaganza and it aims to "liven up the streets and back lanes of Govanhill while striving to celebrate the many diverse cultures that exist in the area and make up the community as a whole."
The last two years have been a lot of fun and they have always made the sunshine so fingers crossed for tomorrow. This year the festival's themes are focused on the universal appeal of music, food & cinema. There will be an opening event at Westmoreland St Gardens (Fri 6:30pm) in conjunction with the fabulous Glad Café, a Baby Disco party and a grand finale cinema event, Govanhillywood!

You can download the full programme here Streetland programme 2012

THE CHALET
Streetland - Opening event 4may 7pm/ prize giving 5 May 5pm

Celebrating excellence in fine art, The Chalet, a premier Govanhill contemporary art space, hosts this year's juried competition known for high-quality, poignant, yet vastly eclectic works from local and international artists.

See more info here The Chalet Prize 2012

SOUTHSIDE STUDIOSStreetland/ GI2012 - 5th May 11am-6pm / 8pm - 12pmThe south side studio is also getting involved and will have a naming ceremony for their new art gallery. I vote they call it Steve. They also have a workshop called Animate: Dance an exhibition called Familiar which is part of the GI2012 and a temporary installation/structure which is "placed at the heart of an urban block in response to its immediate context, and the pattern of tenements that define the streets, movement, and the character of Govanhill. The new structure invites people to explore the shared external space of the South Side Studio. Clad in stretch wrap the surfaces reflect light, changing in response to the weather and time of day, and at night the object glows revealing the structure within. The project was inspired by the aims of the Streetland festival ‘to engage and inspire the community in a creative exploration of streets and communal spaces."

See more info here Southside Studios

TRAMWAYGI2012 - Majority end on Sunday 6 May/ Monday 7 MayThe Tramway  is one of our favourite venues in the City and it has four different events on during the GI2012 festival. One "The Making of Us' is a collaboration in which a film was performed and recorded within a series of installation/ sets with the audience viewing the performance becoming 'extras' in the background. The resulting raw footage can be viewed on loop in the remains of the installation/ sets and an edited version will appear later as a film.

The other works on display and an installation/ dance "Black Forest" by Kelly Nipper and sets of films by Moyra Favey and Redmond Entwistle. I found the "Making of Us" to be the most interesting piece.

See more info here Tramway

EVERYTHING FLOWSGI2012 - 5/6 May 2:30 - 6pm Quenns Park Train StationPatricia Fleming Projects launch Everything Flows, a limited edition EP bringing together a selection of tracks and artwork from the experimental art into music scene emerging from the Glasgow visual art sector over the last twenty years. There is an accompanying exhibition at the artist-run Queen’s Park Railway Club where artists James Thomas and Solina Hi-Fi present a new installation transforming the space into an experimental workshop and listening booth.

See more info here Everything Flows

THE GLASGOW SCHOOLS
GI2012 - Sat 6th May, 2pm-4pm, Scotland Street School Museum
The Glasgow Schools is a project by artist Ruth Ewan. It maps out the city’s Proletarian, Socialist Sunday and Socialist Fellowship Schools, part of a network of alternative educational organisations that once spread across the UK, of which Glasgow was a particular centre. The schools explored a spectrum of left-wing ideologies with children and young adults.

The exhibition brings together, for the first time, archive material relating to the schools from a number of public and private collections. This is accompanied by an events programme of talks and discussion, song, performance and magic. Ewan presents a series of poster works, pamphlet, and a new documentary, made using archival footage and first hand accounts of the movements, exploring the affect they had on the lives of those involved. The project’s chosen exhibition space, Scotland Street School Museum, purposefully brings this influential and largely hidden movement into the wider context of Glasgow’s educational history.

See more info here Glasgow International

I AM THE ARCHITECT, THIS IS NOT HAPPENING, THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE

GI2012 - Until Mon 7 May daily at 10am and 5pmNew film and paintings by Henry Coombes exploring ideas of relationships, hierarchies and rules. The work is a response to Bellahouston Park by the artist while on residency.

See more info here House for an Art Lover

APOCALYPSE NOW NOW

SGI2012 - at 5th May, 8pm - 2am. Kinning Park Complex, £5 (Tickets available from Mono).
An event to mark the end of the world as we know it and see in the bells of the new dawn on the 5th of may 2012. Bar on site.

NOW NOW are newly set up at the Kinning Park Complex across from Kinning Park tube. The complex is a community interest company and houses 12 studios for creative stuff, artists and musicians. We are trying to rally up some support for the complex and advertise the hall spaces here. There are two hall spaces that can be rented out (for a good cheap price), KPC is non profit so all cash raised goes back into the building (and our mammoth repairs list).

See more info here Now Now on Facebook

THE UNIVERSE IS VERY BIG, YOU ARE VERY SMALL, ACT ACCORDINGLYGI2012 - The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow / 02 April - 31 May 2012 (Noon - 11pm)

Taking direction from the GI's programme "Real Time" Hole in my Pocket explore the experience of time from a macro/micro view point. Trying to understand the concept of "the moment"/ "the present" when viewed against the enormous background history of the Universe.

Taking the theories of Hugh Everett III the duo explore ideas of multi-verses, alternate realities and the pressure and resulting action of Choice.

"An exhibition of astro-geek-brilliance, a splendid meeting of Science and Art for all budding Brian Coxs or Stephen Hawkins'." 

See more info here Hole in my Pocket  (**)

Right I think that's it. If I've missed anyone or anything out then very sorry. Please add your events in the comments below.

(*) First Blatant Plug

(**) Second Blatant Plug

The Glad Cafe at Streetland

The Glad Cafe will be at Streetland Festival again this year, but this time their event will be a little bit different. Their last two Streetlands events have been showcasing the local talent of Govanhill at the Pandora Bar. However this year, they have a varied line up highlighting the vast musical talent from different cultures based in the area from Scots/Irish traditional to Zimbabwean mbira playing to Roma music all condensed into an hour. The event is completely free and will take place in Westmoreland Street Gardens on Friday the 4th May at 6.30.

GI Festival Southside: Nothing About Us Without Us Is For Us

Nothing About Us Without Us Is For Us, is a series of events taking place in and around Govan as part of the Gi Festival. The public art event on 28 April, will use  obsolete technology to hurl language across Glasgow’s River Clyde. Led by artists Matt Baker & t s Beall, as part of Glasgow International Festival Visual Art 2012.

Back in the day folk were forced to communicate in the most modest of means; messages in bottles would carry sacred messages over the rocky seas, in the hope of finding the intended recipient, without falling into the wrong hands. Today, we enjoy communication at our finger tips but have technological innovations and design killed the true art of communication? On the 28^th April the River Clyde will be transformed into a mini-festival of activity, where messages will be wafted, shouted, hurled, and whispered across the water using obsolete technology including marine signal flags, string-and-cup telephones, lost languages, siege engines and more.

Precious boats encasing private tokens, made with ‘redeveloped rubbish’ from the Clyde itself, will take voyage across the river whilst trebuchets (medieval catapults) hurl bespoke, hand crafted charms carrying their own special meaning, overhead.

A whole afternoon of planned activities will be taking place on both sides of the river. So get along to the Govan Waterfront and enjoy an afternoon of choral serenades on the water, catapult launching and rekindling the lost art of communication. For more information about the event and activities leading up to the big day visit the website at: http://www.aboutuswithoutus.com.

GI Festival Southside: The Glasgow Schools Exhibition

Scotland Street School plays host to the 'The Glasgow Schools Exhibition' a project by artist Ruth Ewan. The exhibition opens on Friday 20th April and runs until 6th May 2012.

The project maps out the city’s Proletarian, Socialist Sunday and Socialist Fellowship Schools, part of a network of alternative educational organisations that once spread across the UK, of which Glasgow was a particular centre. The schools explored a spectrum of left-wing ideologies with children and young adults, from the Marxist revolutionary zeal of Tom Anderson’s Proletarian Schools (1918 – c1939) to the Christian leaning ethics of the early Socialist Sunday Schools (1896 – 1965), which later evolved into the Socialist Fellowship (1965 – 1980).

The exhibition brings together, for the first time, archive material relating to the schools from a number of public and private collections. This is accompanied by an events programme of talks and discussion, song, performance and magic. Ewan presents a series of poster works, this artist’s pamphlet, and a new documentary, made using archival footage and first hand accounts of the movements, exploring the affect they had on the lives of those involved. The project’s chosen exhibition space, Scotland Street School Museum, purposefully brings this influential and largely hidden movement into the wider context of Glasgow’s educational history.

The project has been curated by Kitty Anderson and Siobhan Carroll in association with The Common Guild as part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art

Opening times:

Tuesday to Thursday and Saturday 10am–5pm, Friday and Sunday 11am–5pm

Events will take place each Sunday of the exhibition between 2 – 4pm. For more details please click here.

GI Festival Southside: Everything Flows

For Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012 Patricia Fleming Projects launch Everything Flows, a limited edition EP of nine tracks and artwork from the experimental art into music scene, emerging from the Glasgow visual art sector over the last fifteen years. Tracks from established visual artists including Ross Sinclair (ex The Soup Dragons) and Turner Prize winner Douglas Gordon (in collaboration with Chicks on Speed) sit alongside well-known artist's bands. Timeless tracks and the voice of Sue Tompkins ensure bands like Life Without Buildings, who have not recorded together since 2002, maintain a strong underground fanbase across the globe. Almost all of the artists on the album write and perform their work solo or as part of a band, a few like Douglas Morland (Older Lover, to name just one incarnation) play in other bands across the city. Everything Flows brings together art sector favourites Muscles of Joy, Gummy Stumps, Hassle Hound and Tut Vu Vu who are popular with art and music audiences alike. Everything Flows delivers many unreleased tracks and special live performances including 'Cars' by David Sherry. Together with artwork Everything Flows is an invitation to a scene shaped by Glasgow artists who use sound and music as part of their arts practice.

"There's probably not a band in Glasgow that doesn't have at least one member who studied at Glasgow Art School" Jim Lambie (ex The Boy Hairdressers).

In collaboration with London-based arts organisation Volume, Everything Flows continues throughout the festival at the Queens Park Railway Club. Artists James Thomas and Solina Hi-Fi present a new sonic and visual installation GRAPHODER transforming the gallery into an experimental workshop and listening booth.

Everything Flows - Opening Night in collaboration with Volume Sat 21 April 6.30 - 8.30 Queens Park Railway Club (Public Welcome).

Everything Flows - An evening of music and performance at Queens Park Cafe Sat 21 April 8 - late, performances by Sue Tompkins, David Sherry, Solina Hi-Fi.

Everything Flows - Installation GRAPHODER at Queens Park Railway Club runs throughout the festival. Open Sun 22 April - Sat 5th May daily 2.30 - 6.30 (closed Mon).

Queens Park Railway Club

492 Victoria Road

Glasgow

G42 8PQ

GI Festival: Familiar Exhibition at Southside Studios

As part of the Gi Festival, Southside Studio's presents Familiar, an exhibition of work by Erica Eyres, Michelle Hannah, Rose Ruane and Tanna Tanner.

An interdisciplinary show taking in video, photography, drawings, painting sculptural dioramas and performance. The exhibition will attempt to examine the role of witness, shared memory and collective consciousness in defining the unstable relationship between magical and mortals, where the transgressive is gifted the status of transcendence by shared belief.

Preview: Saturday 21st April 7pm - 9pm

Exhibition open  20th April - 7th May (11am - 6pm)

Click here for more info on the exhibition

Click here for more information on the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 

The Greater Shawlands Republic

The first event to take place in The Bungo Bar Basement will be  The Greater Shawlands Republic on Sunday, 1 April with an evening of comedy, music and satire.

Acts include the award winning comedian and generalissimo of the Greater Shawlands Republic Bruce Morton, the Southside scribe and satirist Phil Differ, glorious music from tales of jake and comedian and true believer Andrew Learmonth.

Discounted tickets priced at £4.99 are available for Southsiders but those from the city’s West End wishing to come along will be charged the full price of £5. Tickets are available from The Bungo Bar. Keep up to date on our Facebook Event page here:

Doors open at 8pm

Arika 12 Episode 3 Copying Without Copying - This Weekend

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  Arika 12 Episode Three: Copying with out Copying  will be taking place at the Tramway weekend. included in the events will be:
  
  
  Friday 23 March starting at 7.30pm – FREE, just turn up

Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb - A performed installation by Andrea Geyer, one of Germany’s most interesting visual artists, based on edited transcripts of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem and the writings of Hannah Arendt. She will also be discussing her work with Mike Sperlinger from the Lux

and Notes on the Emptying of a City - A dismantled, performed film, where filmmaker and activist Ashley Hunt pieces together the sounds, images and storytelling of a documentary about Hurricane Katrina before a live audience.

Saturday 24 March starting at 7.00pm - FREE, just turn up

Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954–003064: A Public Reading -  Somewhere between performance, stripped down theatre and an intense kind of public learning or maybe even: a public hearing.  A four-hour public reading of unedited transcripts from 18 Combatant Status Review Tribunals held at the U.S. military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Nine local people have been invited to read the transcripts, rotating through eight juridical positions during the evening. The piece was conceived by David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes and Andrea Geyer

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  Sunday 25 March starting at 7.30pm - FREE, just turn up

The Russian Woods - a new learning play on myth construction and its reproduction by Chto Delat? with twenty local participants; a spectacular musical show (complete with chorus) which discusses the representation of a nation state, its characters and history.

For loads more information and the full schedule please go to www.arika.org.uk

Shawlands Mela

Now that Spring’s almost here, do you fancy something different, something that celebrates the South Side’s cultural diversity – well Shawlands Mela is just the place for you – and yours. Organised by Shawlands Academy PTC, this first-ever Shawlands Mela has all the fun of the fair: from henna hand-painting to bouncy castles, from Asian (and other) food stalls to live entertainment and lots else besides including local coffee and bakehouse, Tapa. So why don’t you come along to Shawlands Academy for a fun day “in”.

Entrance is £1 per adult and 50p per child, open: 10 am to 3 pm.

Glad Cafe Gig at Kinning Park Complex - March 16th 2012

Another great Glad Cafe gig coming up at Kinning Park Complex on Friday March 16th featuring well known folk musician, song writer and southsider Alasdair Roberts  and psych, folk pop(ish) outfit Adam Stearns and the Glass Animals  - also southsiders.

Tickets at £7 available from The Glad Cafe's Website

Bar will be open from 7 pm.

Tramway Family Day: Sunday 11 March

Tramway Family Day: Impossible Bodies aims to introduce children to contemporary performance through a fun, hands-on workshop and short performance presentation. Based on Colette Sadler’s performance, We Are the Monsters, the workshops will lead participants through an exploration of movement and transformation, facilitated by Colette Sadler and members of stammer productions.

Across the building a range of drop-in, free activities suitable for ages 0-12 plus parents and carers will take place offering the opportunity to make puppets, create mobiles and streamers, and play with live visual projections.

Performance tickets cost £2 each and are available in advance from Tramway box office.

All other activities are free, drop-in and places will be allocated on a first come first served basis

This Weekend - 2-4 March 2012

It's the first weekend of March and the days are becoming lighter and warmer - we can all start coming out of hibernation now.

Since it's the first Saturday of the month, the Queens Park Farmers market will be taking place between 10am - 2pm.

If you're in the park, take a walk up to Langside place to the wonderful Langside Cafe - perhaps it's even warm enough for ice cream? There's a new Boutique and Gallery opened at 36 Langside place called Unique Boutique.

Why not take a wander down to Albert Drive, in Polloksheilds. Take in the Mathew Darbyshires new exhibition - T Rooms - his largest public exhibition to date. There will be an exhibition tour by the artist at 2pm on Saturday and at 3pm The Tramway are hosting an afternoon discussion with the artist about the work.

Continue along Albert Drive, until you reach 334, where you will find an exhibition of still life, portrait and landscape paintings by artist Kevin McFall. The exhibition Fragments is being hosted by Albert Drive Studios and is open from 10am - 4pm on Saturday and Sunday.

On Sunday the Church on the Hill are hosting the Whims-icle Fashion and Arts and Craft Fair from 12pm - 5pm

If we've missed anything let us know - or leave details of your event in the comments section below.

Fragments Exhibition at Albert Drive Studios

Albert Drive Studios present Fragments,  an exhibition of a collection of still life, portrait and landscape paintings by artist Kevin McFall. The exhibition is open every weekend from Saturday 25th February till Sunday 11th March 2012, 10am- 4pm.

An Afternoon Seminar with Matthew Darbyshire, Owen Hatherly and Rupert Ackroyd.

This Saturday the Tramway are hosting, an afternoon discussion focusing on issues which arise from Matthew Darbyshire’s new commission for Tramway, ‘T Rooms’. The artist will discuss issues which arise from his commission for Tramway, alongside his collaborators on the exhibition Rupert Ackroyd, Jacob Farrell, and Owen Hatherley.

Matthew Darbyshire’s installation T Rooms is a trompe l’oeil style architectural render of a proposed development, although owing to the eerie silence of it all, Tramway’s visitors may suspect that they’ll have to make do with the virtual rendition "until the market picks up". With its computer generated geometry, pixelated curves and uniform proportions, T Rooms suggests an abject, homogenised developers vernacular in which the Mackintosh-style has reduced to a series of bland and generic motifs – is it a bar, spa, bank or boutique? Is it for eating, sleeping, praying or a meeting?

Sat 3 March, 3-5pm

£3 / £2

Tramway 4

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Streetland Fundraising Party - 10 March 2012

On Saturday 10th March, there will be a fundraising party, for the Streetland Festival, at the Chalet. Party starts at 4pm. They'll be DJ's, face painting, games, quiz and treats and eats.
Suggested Donation £3

The Phantom of the Opera

Southside Film Festival have teamed up with Glasgow Film Festival to present The Phantom of the Opera, the 1925 Lon Chaney silent classic, with live Wurlitzer Organ accompaniment by David Gray in the beautifully atmospheric surroundings of Pollokshaws Burgh Hall on Sunday evening at 7.30pm.

"We are all getting very excited about the screening, even the Phantom, who you will see from this photo on our blog, is even getting some practice in on the might Wurtlizer in preparation: http://southsidefilmfest.blogspot.com/ Expect to see him haunt the hall on Sunday evening! "

They have also teamed up with Nom Nom Popcorn to sell fresh popcorn.

Tickets will be available on the door but at the minute are selling fast so if you want to be sure of a ticket you can still get one from the Glasgow Film Festival box office or online here:

http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on/3643_the_phantom_of_the_opera

For the Love of Food - 18th February

‘For the Love of Food’..  

Albert Drive Studio's are hosting a Come Dine With Us event at the studios on the 18th February. For an evening of beautiful food, wines and music hosted by Hilary and Eta, seasoned homemade cooks.

The menu is:

Welcome fizz on arrival with canapes

Chicken patties with rosemary pancetta

Slow cooked lamb with saffron chickpea puree and hot mint sauce served with a side of baked fennel and dill

Yoghurt ice cream served with poached cherries and toppings of crushed sweet almonds, walnuts and honey.

Coffee and Chocolate

The four course menu costs £35 and includes wine from Alberts Kitchen, coffee, petit fours and liquours. A vegetarian option is available on request.

The evening is not a Valentines evening, but couples are of course, more than welcome.

Places are limited to 16 diners so book now by emailing albertdrivestudios@googlemail.com or by phoning Hilary on 07805 346 314.