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

Billiard Room Session: Ryan Corbett Time: 1pm - 2pm No interval Disabled access available. BBC New Generation artist, Royal Over-Seas League Gold medallist and Classic FM Rising Star, Ryan Corbett is an accordionist hailed by Sir James MacMillan as “one of the most astonishing and surprising newcomers in Scottish music.” A leading exponent of his instrument, he has given over eight hours of radio broadcasts and a televised performance at the Scottish Coronation of HM King Charles III. Corbett has enlarged the repertoire by creating hundreds of new arrangements for accordion, but no matter how strong his passion for the instrument, it is his dedication to music itself that takes precedence. In the 2024–25 season Ryan gives the world premiere of Jay Capperauld’s accordion concerto with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland conducted by Catherine Larsen-Maguire, this will be toured around the UK before appearing at Young Euro Classic in Konzerthaus Berlin. Last-minute engagements have included an album recording with Sally Beaminsh, and a recording of Mikhail Pletnev’s concerto with Andrew Litton and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at two-days’ notice. The season also sees return visits to Cowdray Hall Aberdeen, St George’s Bristol, Concerts at Cratfield, Deal Festival, Howdenshire Music, Lammermuir Festival, Perth Concert Hall, Madrid a Tempo, Stapleford Granary and Westbourne Music, alongside debuts at the Cheltenham Festival, Frankfurt Alte Oper and the Royal Opera House. Collaborations continue with Geneva Lewis and Djordje Gajic, alongside a new duo project with jazz pianist Fergus McCreadie. Information Source: THE GLASGOW BARONS | 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