Featured Events in Glasgow in February, 2025 (July Updated)

World Gaelic Week (24th February - 2nd March) celebrates Scottish Gaelic across the globe. To mark World Gaelic Week 2025 we welcome author Shelagh Chaimbeul, winner of the Gaelic New Writers Award 2023, to the Mitchell Library on Thursday 27th February to discuss her Scots Gaelic crime novel Far na Slighe, shortlisted for The Highland Society of London Prize for Best Fiction Book 2024. A summer's day in June 2004. Four teenagers are walking on the Fife Coastal Path near St Andrews when one of them, Amy, finds an unusual bracelet. 20 years later a new true crime series begins, Fuasgladh Cheist, which investigates suspicious and unexplained deaths. In the first program, Art Dawson is trying to find answers about the death of his sister, Joni, who fell while walking the Fife Coastal Path in June 2004. He has never believed the official verdict that it was an accident – what happened to her, and where is the priceless bracelet she was wearing? As soon as Amy sees a picture of the bracelet on Fuasgladh Cheist, she recognises it. She had no idea that the jewellery was connected to the death of a young girl, and has no idea what to do with it now, especially with so many people looking for it. Do the three others that were with Amy in 2004 know what happened to Joni? Why are they so reluctant to speak to her about their trip? And why is someone trying to make sure that the bracelet will never be found? Samhraidh san Ògmhios, 2004. Tha ceathrar deugairean a’ coiseachd air Slighe Chladach Fìobha faisg air Cill Rìmhinn nuair a gheibh tè dhiubh, Amy, lorg ai bann-làimhe eireachdail. 20 bliadhna an dèidh sin tha sreath ùr a’ nochdadh, Fuasgladh Cheist, anns am bithear a’ dèanamh sgrùdadh air bàsan amharasach. Sa chiad phrògram, tha Art Dawson a’ feuchainn ri freagairtean a lorg mu bàs a pheathar, Joni, a thuit far Slighe Chladach Fìobha san Ògmhios 2004. Cha robh esan a-riamh a’ creidsinn gum b’ e tubaist a bh’ ann: dè thachair dhi, agus càit an deach am bann-làimhe prìseil a bh’ oirre? Cho luath ’s a chì Amy dealbh den bhann-làimhe air Fuasgladh Cheist, tha i ga aithneachadh. Cha robh for aice gum b’ ann ceangailte ri bàs nighinn òig a bha am pìos seudraidh, agus chan eil for aice dè nì e leis a-nis, is daoine a’ coimhead air a shon. A bheil fios aig na triùir eile a bha còmhla ri Amy ann an 2004 dè thachair do Joni? Carson nach eil iad airson bruidhinn rithe mu dheidhinn an turais aca? Agus carson a tha cuideigin airson dèanamh cinnteach nach tèid am bann-làimhe a lorg idir? Information Source: Glasgow Libraries | eventbrite

CPW presents "The French Ravie-loution" at Fairfield (Working Men's) Club in Glasgow. The event is scheduled for February 28, 2025. Attendees can expect an evening filled with riveting wrestling matches featuring top talent in the industry. Ticket prices range from £8.30 to £33.22, offering options for every budget. Join wrestling enthusiasts in experiencing the thrill and excitement of live professional wrestling at this highly anticipated event.

Curated by Professor Sarah Smith with Kelly Rappleye, the third episode of Moving Images Within Precarious Structures explores artistic approaches to the archive as engaging with precarious memory through moving image practice. How does artists’ moving image address archival gaps, exclusions, erasures and absences to evoke and create space for diasporic, exilic, migratory and displaced memory? This screening event features work by Kamal Aljafari, Morgan Quaintance, Suneil Sanzgiri, and Maryam Tafakory. Episode 3: Precarious Memory considers the role of moving image in mediating and producing cultural memory, exploring how artistic methods of sampling, imitation, fragmentation and aurality can activate the archive as a site of negotiation between the individual and the collective, the intimate and the political, history and memory, representation and exclusion. The screening programme reflects on how artists engage the precarity of memory itself across political contexts of displacement, exile, and repression, and between generations and geographies, using film as a tool to gather fragments of social and individual remembrance, redress misrepresentations, gaps and exclusions, and construct personal archives of living histories. _____ Programme Introduction – 10 mins ‘Another Decade’, Morgan Quaintance (2018) – 26 mins ‘Nazarbazi نظربازی’, Maryam Tafakory (2022) – 19 mins, 14 sec ‘UNDR’, Kamal Aljafari (2024) – 15 mins ‘Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)’, Suneil Sanzgiri (2024) – 35 mins, 46 sec Comfort break – 10 mins Discussion and Q&A – 45 mins Total running time: 160 mins (2 hrs, 40 mins) Free refreshments will be provided. _____ Moving Images Within Precarious Structures Delivered in partnership with Fine Art Research (School of Fine Art) at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), and LUX Scotland, Moving Images Within Precarious Structures is a year-long programme of episodes that start from the proposition that precarity is a condition of artist moving image practice. Through screenings, talks, workshops, and publishing, Moving Images Within Precarious Structures examines the ways precarity structures the aesthetics and politics of artist moving image, and how new ways of making, materialising and thinking the moving image can work in opposition to the conditions, effects and affects of precarity. _____ Access If you have any questions about access at this event, please contact Project Manager Annie Crabtree on scotland@lux.org.uk or text /​call 07394 042 450. Tickets This event is free to attend, but ticketed. Captions All works in the programme will be captioned and/​or subtitled. Live Captions The introduction and post-screening conversation will be live captioned, and speakers will be using microphones. Access&Travel Fund A small access fund is available to support you to attend this event, which you could use to cover the cost of local transport to Civic House, the cost of childcare/​babysitters, carers, or support workers for the duration of the evening. We will pay you £15 per hour for childcare/​babysitters, carers, and support workers, and we can cover the costs of local travel. The money will be paid directly into your bank account (alternative arrangements can be made if required). To access the fund, please email Project Manager Annie Crabtree on scotland@lux.org.uk and tell us the amount of money you require. Please note, no proof of need is required, unless you wish to inform us about your access requirements in order to attend the event. Venue Access This event will take place in the venue space on the ground floor of Civic House. Enter through the double doors to the right hand side of the main entrance and then proceed through the Canteen to the venue at the back. Members of the LUX Scotland team will be available to direct you. There are 4 steps up to the main entrance. For step-free access to the building, there is a platform lift adjacent to the main entrance. Accessible and gender neutral toilets are located on the ground floor. For more information about access at Civic House, please see their website (scroll down for Civic House floor plans and building information). For questions about venue access, please contact Civic House on hello@agile-city.com. Travel to Civic House Civic House is located on Civic Street. Public transport links include Cowcaddens subway station and the 7, 68, 71A, 72, 75 and M3 bus routes (Garscube Road bus stop). There is limited street parking outside Civic House. _____ Image credit: Suneil Sanzgiri, ‘Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?)’, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and LUX. Image description: a colour still of large boulders covered in dark green moss in a forest. The boulders take up most of the frame, and scattered across them are black and white prints in varying positions as though they have been blown by the wind before settling. Information Source: LUX Scotland | eventbrite

Please note: this event will be held in person at Glasgow Zine Library. Join us for the launch of Decolonising The Outdoors, a zine by Aileen Angsutorn Lees. The UK’s legacy of exploring and dominating for the purpose of creating wealth for the few still permeates our society and ideologies today. This zine explores food, farming and seed culture with communities in Scotland who are working towards a decolonial future. It also examines conservation, colonialism and how queer ecologies can change the way we look at the natural world. Through interviews, features, photography, poetry and artwork, Decolonising The Outdoors is a zine of resistance — but also, hope. At the launch there will be readings from the zine and an exhibition of the artwork, as well as an opportunity for attendees to participate in a collaborative creative piece. Zines will be available to buy on the night. This zine was commissioned by Glasgow Zine Library for ESEA Heritage Month 2024 as part of our Made to Last: Connecting Communities Through Collection programme, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. About Aileen :Aileen Angsutorn Lees is a Thai-British interdisciplinary artist and organiser based in Perthshire. She is the founder of Decolonising The Outdoors — a creative and community project which dismantles narratives of dominating land and extracting nature. Decolonising The Outdoors holds events and workshops aimed at rebuilding relationships with our natural environment and imagining anti-imperial, anti-capitalist and queer futures. Learn more about Decolonising The Outdoors. Access information for this event:There will be 25 attendees maximum, and the event will feature comfort breaks. During this event, attendees will participate in: Hands on activities, Reading, Sharing work that has been created, Eating/drink, Exhibition of artwork This event will take place at Glasgow Zine Library's space on Albert Road. You can find directions here. Masks are encouraged at this event. We can provide one for your if you do not have one. If you have any questions or access requirements, please get in touch with us via events@glasgowzinelibrary.com Find out more about access at GZL events and how to make an access request here. All events will adhere to our safer spaces policy, which you can learn about here. GZL pledges to support The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. As part of this pledge we may participate in strikes called in response to the ongoing genocide in Palestine. If this event falls on a strike day and is cancelled, we will work with event leaders to reschedule the event asap. Participants will also have the option of receiving an immediate refund for any ticket purchases and travel booked to attend. How to access the event:After booking a ticket, you will be sent several reminder emails from Eventbrite leading up to the event. We will also send emails that share any resources that attendees will need access to, including any required materials. Please email events@glasgowzinelibrary.com with any queries or issues. Support GZL:Join the GZL Patreon and support the library on a monthly basis. Information Source: Glasgow Zine Library | eventbrite