This sustainability-themed exhibition showcases photos taken by 37 local residents, capturing Glasgow’s through an environmental and community lens.
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Hosted by the New Glasgow Society, After the Garden Festival and the Glasgow Urban Lab, the Glasgow Garden Festival 35th Anniversary Exhibition provides the opportunity to relive past memories and learn little known facts of the Glasgow Garden Festival 1988, the event that transformed the way Glasgow is seen, and how it sees itself. Browse the first-of-its-kind archival exhibits provided by collaborators including the After the Garden Festival Project Team and Professor Brian & Sue Evans who were both involved in the planning and delivery of the festival in 1988. Please also take the opportunity to share your own thoughts in our interactive gallery installation. Enjoy a multi-faceted celebration of the noteworthy event that was the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival!
The exhibition has been travelling to different venues around Glasgow and will be displayed at Maryhill Burgh Halls from the 16th – 29th September.
No booking necessary
The New Glasgow Society is a civic society promoting, protecting and raising interest in the City of Glasgow, through campaigning, discussion, projects, talks and exhibitions.
After the Garden Festival began in an attempt to track down the surviving physical legacy of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival – via research, communications and general detective work as well as the archaeological investigation.
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This sustainability-themed exhibition showcases photos taken by 37 local residents, capturing Glasgow’s through an environmental and community lens.
Join us for a building tour culminating in the heart of our home – Parveen’s Canteen- to share food and learn about Civic House’s award-winning transformation into Scotland’s first ‘PassiveWareHaus’.
This half hour or so talk with questions at the end will focus on online records unique to the Trades House of Glasgow and how to search for Burgesses in Glasgow up to around 1950.
An improvised performance responding to Edwin Morgan’s scrapbooks through sound and spoken word. Part of Doors Open Day.
Join us at the ARC for the first screening event in our CinemARC series. We’re thrilled to present this special screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film, Rear Window.
“It Was The Loom That Broke My Heart” is a interactive multimedia installation informed by the social heritage of the French Street building, originally a weaving and dyeworks.
SKETCHES Film Project is a series of short dance duets by choreographer Katie Armstrong. The films were captured in 3 iconic locations across Govanhill and Pollokshields in 2019.
If these walls could talk, what would they say? What kind of voice would the Hydro have? If Maryhill Museum was a character who would they be?
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Organised by Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, Glasgow Doors Open Days is part of a family of Doors Open Days events taking place across Scotland throughout September, coordinated nationally by the Scottish Civic Trust.
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