Culture 2014 Programme Guide

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Glasgow 2014 XX Commonwealth Games
Your
Official
Guide
glasgow2014.com/culture @culture2014
Culture 2014
Programme Guide
The Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme is a
partnership between the Glasgow 2014
Organising Committee, Glasgow Life, and
Creative Scotland. There are two strands:
a Scotland wide programme called Culture 2014;
and a Games Time celebration in Glasgow
running alongside the sporting action called
Festival 2014.
Activity ranges from the intimate to the epic,
including three groundbreaking projects with a
truly national reach: Big Big Sing; Get Scotland
Dancing; and GENERATION.
This Programme Guide is your introduction
to events and exhibitions taking place across
Scotland, capturing the excitement and scale
of what’s on offer.
Contents
Please check individual project websites for
dates, venues, and ticketing, and for further
access information. Access options include touch
tours, viewing ramps for outdoor performances,
large print and Braille publications, and relaxed
performances.
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Welcome by Fiona Hyslop MSP
5Introduction partner organisations
Chief Executives
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The Journey So Far
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GENERATION
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Get Scotland Dancing
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Big Big Sing
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The Journey to the Games
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During the Games – Festival 2014
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The Journey Beyond the Games
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Appendix / Credits
It tells you about the projects and shows you
where to go for more details of dates, times
and venues. Projects that have also been
supported through National Lottery Celebrate
funding, Homecoming 2014 funding, or Scottish
Government Expo funding are highlighted within
this Guide.
Audio described performance
BSL / sign language interpretation
Captioned performance / film
Wheelchair accessible / mobility options
All information
correct at time of
going to print.
Full listings available at glasgow2014.com/culture
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Accessible performances, exhibitions, and
events, are available throughout Culture 2014.
The following symbols are used in this
Programme Guide for access information:
It gives me great pleasure to introduce this
guide to the wonderful Culture 2014 – the most
ambitious national cultural celebration that has
ever taken place in Scotland.
This is the year when Scotland takes centre
stage; as well as celebrating the second year of
Homecoming and hosting the Ryder Cup, we will
welcome visitors from across the Commonwealth
and wider world to celebrate great sporting
achievement through the XX Commonwealth
Games. As well as celebrating sport and the
gathering of many nations, this is a time for
Scotland and the Commonwealth to reach out
and share our great cultural traditions as well
as our contemporary creativity.
The partnership between the Glasgow 2014
Organising Committee, Glasgow Life, and
Creative Scotland, as well as hundreds of artists,
cultural organisations and communities across
Scotland and beyond is something authentic and
very unique.
The following pages will help guide you
through a programme containing more than
200 projects and exhibitions and more than
1,000 events. In this incredible year for Scotland,
don’t miss out on this once in a lifetime cultural
celebration – share in epic outdoor events, hear
personal stories, dance, sing, tell your own stories
– and however you choose to join in – please be
inspired, enjoy yourself and remember these very
special moments and this very special year.
The aim of the partnership – to develop a
programme of accessible and inspirational
cultural activity that frames and celebrates the
Games – has also been supported by
organisations including BBC Scotland, British
Council, Channel 4, EventScotland, Festivals
Edinburgh, and Scottish Government.
There is much to enjoy.
Còrdaidh gu leòr ruibh.
Fiona Hyslop MSP,
Cabinet Secretary for Culture and
External Affairs
The summer of 2014 offers a once in a lifetime
opportunity for hundreds of thousands of people
across the country to celebrate Scotland’s hosting
of the XX Commonwealth Games through a
programme of extraordinary new work by world
leading and emerging Scottish and international
artists and cultural organisations.
Through dance, song, theatre, literature,
music, visual art, comedy and so much more...
in well loved venues, on riverbanks, in community
centres and parks, and art galleries… even in
squash courts and an ice cream van… there is an
amazing range of activity to choose from – with
a genuine treat around every corner of our
wonderful country!
Hundreds more cultural events then animate
Glasgow during Games Time as part of
Festival 2014.
After the closing ceremony of the Games,
Culture 2014 picks up its journey, taking in
Edinburgh’s world famous summer festivals,
and concluding at the end of August.
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Where the speed, strength, power, agility
and focus of the athletes defines the sporting
programme; the words, movement, song, dance,
music, theatre, designs, films, ideas and art of
Culture 2014 tell a genuine and authentic story
of our past, our present, our potential and our
place in the world.
We will all have had the chance to be part of
something very special; Culture 2014 will resonate
throughout Scotland and the Commonwealth
and will live on – not only in our individual and
collective memories and stories – but also
through the ways in which we all work together.
David Grevemberg,
Chief Executive Glasgow 2014
Dr Bridget McConnell,
Chief Executive Glasgow Life
Janet Archer,
Chief Executive Creative Scotland
Culture 2014 is an exhilarating journey.
We hope you will join us on it!
In the pages of this Guide you’ll discover a
programme of activity that is exciting, diverse and
for us all. Culture 2014 provides a fantastic range
of ways in which everyone can get involved
because everyone’s invited. Culture 2014 has
begun its journey and it’s beating a rhythm that
will resonate through the summer, with hundreds
of events along the route of the Queen’s Baton
Relay when it arrives back in Scotland on 14 June,
reaching a crescendo during the third week of
July when the eyes of the world turn to Glasgow
and the sporting extravaganza begins.
Culture 2014 weaves together vibrant stories
of people and places; it presents spectacular
performances and intimate portraits, puts
communities at the heart of the work, through an
unprecedented range of ways to take part.
The range of opportunities are not only for
the people who attended performances and
visited events or galleries, but also for the people
who created and produced the work. Along the
way unique relationships and networks are being
developed which will bring a lasting legacy for
Scotland’s cultural sector and for audiences
looking to engage with exciting creative work.
This is a great year to be in Scotland. Bliadhna
air leth a bhith an Alba.
Introduction
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Welcome. Fàilte
Audiences have been thrilled and moved
by brilliant work including choreographer
Janice Parker’s ‘Glory’ which celebrated
performers, bodies, and the pursuit of excellence
in movement; and the National Theatre of
Scotland’s re-staging of ‘Glasgow Girls’ the
real life story of the political campaign started
by a group of teenage girls from Drumchapel.
Commissions through the first ever New Music
Biennial led by PRS for Music Foundation have
seen people enjoy fantastic new work including
that by contemporary folk band Lau, and Matheu
Watson and Luke Daniels.
Tens of thousands of people of all ages
are taking part – singing through Big Big Sing
workshops, dancing through Get Scotland
Dancing free taster classes and the Big Dance
Pledge, and enjoying storytelling in schools, with
leading Scottish, UK and Commonwealth authors
and illustrators broadcast online across the
Commonwealth through Authors Live events.
There is animation through ‘McLaren 2014’
which celebrates the life and work of the
pioneering, Scottish-born animator and filmmaker,
Norman McLaren. And the touring project Where
You’re Meant To Be’ sees acclaimed songwriter
and raconteur Aidan Moffat and award winning
filmmaker Paul Fegan celebrating the art of
storytelling and its unique place in Scotland’s
psyche in locations across the country.
In Commonwealth Poets United, the Scottish
Poetry Library has overseen an international
poetry exchange resulting in a series of poetry
readings and schools workshops and establishing
new relationships across Scotland and the
Commonwealth.
For the first time, and in celebration of
Glasgow’s hosting of the Games, the BBC Radio 1
Big Weekend brought this flagship annual
event to the city, with tens of thousands of music
fans revelling in a stellar lineup including Calvin
Harris, Paolo Nutini, and Coldplay.
The launch of a unique partnership with
Channel 4 and Chunk Digital saw the creation
of ‘9.88 Films’ the ultra-short film challenge that
enabled us all – professional and amateur – to
attempt to captivate the Commonwealth in film
or animation in the Commonwealth 100m record
time of under 10 seconds.
The trip so far has been incredibly exciting but
there’s much more to come!
Project title
A Breath of Fresh Air
A Child Like You (Part of New Music Biennial)
The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer
African Children’s Choir – Scottish Tour
All Sided Games
Authors Live
Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival 2014
BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend
BBC SSO India
BBC Young Musician of the Year
The Bell That Never Rang (Part of New Music Biennial)
Below Another Sky
Big Big Sing
Big Dance Pledge
Blue Block Studio
Boomerang
Bronze and Iron (Part of New Music Biennial)
Ceilidh Comhla
Celtic Connections 2014
The Commonwealth: Gifts to The Queen
Commonwealth Poets United
The Commonwealth Stands Up
The Dynamics of Perception (Part of New Music Biennial)
The East End Social
From Scotland with Love
GastroFest – Feast of the Commonwealth
GENERATION
The Girls Who Wished to Marry Stars (Part of New Music Biennial)
Glasgow Girls
Glasgow International 2014
Glasgow Mela 2014
Glasgow Slow Down
Glory
Going For Gold
Green2014: The Environmental Legacy of the
XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
Grind (Part of New Music Biennial)
GRIT – The Martyn Bennett Story
Hogmanayday
Journeys to Glasgow
McLaren 2014
Music in the University
Natural Supernatural (Part of New Music Biennial)
New world Drovers (Part of New Music Biennial)
PULSE (Part of New Music Biennial)
Saltbush – Children’s Cheering Carpet
Scale
Sound Carvings, Strange Tryst (Part of New Music Biennial)
The Spokesmen
Stars Align (Part of New Music Biennial)
Squish Squared
Tales from the Commonwealth (Part of New Music Biennial)
The Tin Forest
Urban Birds (Part of New Music Biennial)
Wee Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival for Children and Young People 2014
Where You’re Meant To Be
White Gold
Yellow Valley
9.88 Films (9point88.com)
Lead Organisation / Artist
Forestry Commission Scotland
Andy Scott and Lemn Sissay commissioned by Foden’s Brass Band
Imaginate
African Children’s Choir
Collective
Scottish Book Trust
Glasgow Life
BBC
BBC
BBC
Lau commissioned by Celtic Connections
Scottish Print Network
Glasgow UNESCO City of Music
Starcatchers
Active Events
David Sawer commissioned by Onyx Brass
Glasgow Life
Glasgow Life
Royal Collection Trust
Scottish Poetry Library
Glasgow International Comedy Festival
Akwasi Mensah commissioned by Jazz re:freshed
Chemikal Underground
Faction North
Edinburgh International Science Festival
GENERATION
Luke Styles commissioned by Juice Vocal Ensemble
National Theatre of Scotland
Glasgow Life
Glasgow Life
Jacqueline Donachie
Janice Parker
Children’s Classic Concerts – supported through the
Celebrate programme
Architecture and Design Scotland
Samuel Bordoli commissioned by Tête à Tête
Pachamama Productions
Glasgow Life
Janey Godley
Centre for Moving image
University of Glasgow
Gwilym Simcock commissioned by City of London Sinfonia
Luke Daniels & Matheu Watson commissioned by Gael Music
Dobrinka Tabakova commissioned by Royal Philharmonic Society
Imaginate
Scottish Dance Theatre
Piers Hellawell with Bourne Davis Kane commissioned by
Moving on Music
Visible Fictions
Shingai Shoniwa and David Okumu commissioned by Serious
Room 2 Manoeuvre
Stephen Montague commissioned by Red Note Ensemble and
Woodend Barn
Arlene Sierra commissioned by INTER/actions Festival of Interactive
Electronic Music
Glasgow Life / Iron-Oxide
Aidan Moffat & Paul Fegan
Iron-Oxide
Starcatchers
Chunk and Channel 4
Bold entries are projects that have more performances
and events to come
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Most Culture 2014 activity will take place during
the summer months, but the journey has already
begun, and there have been some fantastic
performances and events. Here’s just a taste…
Activity that has taken place on the Journey So Far
The Journey So Far
GENERATION
At the heart of GENERATION is a desire to
inspire future generations and to bring to life
the possibilities that contemporary art offers
to engage with the world around us. Extensive
education and participation programmes
have been designed to fuel the imagination
of our children and young people with more
information on these being featured throughout
the summer on the GENERATION website.
GENERATION is being enabled to achieve
its ambitions with the support and assistance
of partners including VisitScotland and
EventScotland, British Council Scotland, Museums
Galleries Scotland, Education Scotland, Young
Scot, Children in Scotland and the BBC.
generationartscotland.org
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GENERATION is being delivered through
a partnership between the National Galleries
of Scotland and Glasgow Life, supported by
Creative Scotland. Together these partners
have worked with a range of associate venues
and arts organisations across the country to
ensure a truly national reach for the project.
The programme aims to shine a light on the
past 25 years, a period which has seen Scotland
develop an international reputation as a
distinguished centre for contemporary art,
produce a disproportionate amount of awardwinning artists, host a number of groundbreaking exhibitions and foster an infrastructure
which has enabled contemporary art to flourish.
The scale, ambition and geographical reach
of GENERATION make it the first project of its
kind. It is one of the most ambitious celebrations
of contemporary art ever held by a single nation
and seeks to engage local audiences and to
reach out to national and international visitors.
All the exhibitions are free and everybody is
welcome. Don’t miss this remarkable opportunity
to experience some of the very best art to have
been made in Scotland by some of the most
imaginative artists working in our times.
GENERATION is a landmark series of
exhibitions tracing the remarkable development
of contemporary art in Scotland over the last
25 years. It brings an ambitious and extensive
programme of works by over 100 artists to over
60 galleries, exhibition spaces and venues the
length and breadth of the nation between
March – November 2014, with the majority of
exhibitions taking place over the summer of 2014,
as part of Culture 2014.
Get Dancin’
Dance Trails
Big Big Sing
Get Scotland Dancing aims
to get more people dancing
in Scotland than ever before.
The project is a unique
partnership of hundreds of
dance organisations and
groups across Scotland
who all believe that dance
is creative, healthy and fun.
You can dance, yes you can!
Dance is for everyone, no
matter whether you’ve never
tried, are a little rusty or want
to get back into the groove.
To prove it, you can try a taster
class for free at venues around
Scotland. If you haven’t danced
there before, or not for a few
years, then sign up today to
Get Dancin’.
Dance to interrupt, surprise
and inspire in real life settings.
Maybe you need to follow clues,
hunt it out, take a special route
or it might just creep up on you.
Dance Trails take dance
out into streets and unusual
locations. Expect to find dance
in parks, town squares, shopping
centres, graveyards and even
online. Watch, join in and be
inspired to try for yourself.
‘Really really brilliant’
‘Really lively… so inspiring’
getdancin.org
getscotlanddancing.org/trails
The Commonwealth
Ceilidh
Wherever you are in the world,
the Commonwealth Ceilidh
begins at 19.30 on Saturday
21 June, and then follows the
time zones to create a 24 hour
global ceilidh event to celebrate
the 2014 Commonwealth
Games. 15 dances, including
three specially devised ones,
can be enjoyed by everyone
and learned beforehand in a
free download. The interval is
your chance to showcase your
local or national dance style.
Dance-along Movies
With your host
Chris Stuart-Wilson
An outdoor screen in a special
location will present your
Dance-along Movie. Everyone
joins in with a warm-up led by
your host and learns some
moves from key moments in the
film. The screening begins and
you join in at the right points,
breaking into a huge shakedown
for the finale.
Bring a picnic and dress up
in the style of the film if you like.
Big Big Sing is a UK-wide celebration of singing
produced by Glasgow UNESCO City of Music.
Inspiring thousands of people to sign up and
get singing in the lead up to and during Games
Time, Big Big Sing provides a huge range of
opportunities to take part. With Big Big Sing
Days, workshops, flashmob choirs, brilliant free
online resources – including the Big Big
Commonwealth Songbook – and live Song
Stages in and around Glasgow during Games
Time, there’s every reason to join in, get singing
and enjoy yourself.
As part of Big Big Sing, Hands up for Trad
is coordinating a national song relay, linking
communities across Scotland and creating a
network of performances at locations along
the route of the Queen’s Baton Relay. The
specially commissioned song ‘Here’s To All Our
Common Wealth’, written by Phil Cunningham,
Alison Burns and Findlay Napier, will be sung
all over Scotland, passed like a baton between
choirs along the route, uniting communities and
celebrating the excitement of the day.
On 27 July, Glasgow Green will be host to
the Big Big BIG Sing, a unique massed singing
event. Whatever your taste in music, there’s
something for you – from Pied Pipers to enchant
the kids with tuneful tales, to a tea song and
dance for those who prefer a more sedate
tempo. The Big Big BIG sing massed voices
(that’s you and a few thousand friends) will get
a massive Glasgow Green groove going, belting
out songs from around the Commonwealth in
a singing celebration of the Commonwealth
Games. The brilliant Big Big Sing Band will be
on stage, but the lead vocalist will be you, a choir
of thousands, travelling the globe through music
on a journey of classic tracks, African grooves
and Scottish favourites. Come along and sing up,
the party lasts all day! Everyone is welcome – no
experience necessary.
bigbigsing.org
getscotlanddancing.org/movies
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commonwealthceilidh.org
getscotlanddancing.org
Big Big Sing Participants
As the Queen’s Baton Relay arrives back into Scotland on 14 June,
and as the baton continues its journey through every local authority
in Scotland, performances and celebrations will take place in
communities across the land.
Culture 2014 will add to the vibrancy, fun and anticipation,
connecting communities and visitors to people, places, and ideas
inspired by the Commonwealth.
Stories will be told, performances will enthral, and memories
will be made.
The
Journey
to the
Games
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Here’s what’s happening near you…
The East End Social
GENERATION is a landmark
series of exhibitions tracing
the remarkable development
of contemporary art in
Scotland over the last 25 years.
For details of exhibitions
and events taking place across
Scotland visit:
The Spokesmen
Visible Fictions
Until 19 July, across Scotland
Get on your bike for
a theatre experience with a
difference which will celebrate
the great outdoors in your local
park. Performing in green
spaces across Scotland, this
hilariously heart-warming tale
will take you on a whirlwind
tour of discovery.
visiblefictions.co.uk
How Glasgow Flourished
1714 – 1837
Glasgow Life
Until 17 August, Glasgow
Discover how Glasgow grew
into a city of global importance
throughout the 1700’s right up
until the start of Queen Victoria’s
reign. An exhibition based on
Glasgow’s civic collections
and selected loans explores
the legacy of Glasgow in the
18th century.
glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/
kelvingrove
The Tin Forest
National Theatre
of Scotland
eastendsocial.com
McLaren 2014
Centre for the
Moving Image
Until September, across
Scotland and the rest of the UK
A celebration of the
centenary of pioneering
Scottish artist, filmmaker and
musician, Norman McLaren.
Produced by Centre for the
Moving Image, in partnership
with the National Film Board
of Canada, this programme
of events explores McLaren’s
life and work with special
exhibitions, screenings,
workshops and performances
in Stirling, Glasgow, Edinburgh
and in the rest of the UK.
Supported by Homecoming
Scotland 2014.
mclaren2014.com
Green2014:
The Environmental Legacy
of the XX Commonwealth
Games in Glasgow
Architecture and Design
Scotland
Until 24 October, Glasgow
Celebrating and showcasing
the various sustainability
related projects that are being
delivered by a diverse range
of organisations bringing the
Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth
Games to life. It demonstrates
how these projects are
contributing to the event’s
success, while at the same time
creating a legacy that will
benefit the citizens of Glasgow,
the people of Scotland and
visitors for years to come.
ads.org.uk
The Commonwealth:
Gifts to The Queen
Until 2 November, Edinburgh
A new display at the Palace
of Holyroodhouse marks
The Queen’s role as Head of
the Commonwealth through
gifts presented to Her Majesty
by Commonwealth countries
around the world.
royalcollection.org.uk
7 June – 3 August, Glasgow
A celebration of Glasgow’s
industrial past and creative
future, taking place at the South
Rotunda, across Glasgow, and
the Commonwealth, based on
the children’s book of the same
name by Helen Ward.
The Tin Forest has taken
root across four of the city’s
ex-industrial communities –
Springburn, the East End,
Govan, and Southwest
Glasgow – and across the
Commonwealth. All branches
lead to the South Rotunda
for Festival 2014. Having lain
derelict for 25 years, the iconic
building will be re-imagined
and transformed into a magical
puppet labyrinth, a cavernous
art and performance space
and a home for a ten day
festival of the stories, dreams
and wishes, drawn from
Glasgow and around the world.
Supported by Homecoming
Scotland 2014.
thetinforest.com
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bigbigsing.org
Big Big Sing is a nationwide
celebration of singing. For
details of how to take part –
Big Big Sing Days, workshops,
flashmob choirs, live Song
Stages and online resources
including the Big Big
Commonwealth Songbook visit:
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Until 31 August, Glasgow
Part music programme,
part community-engagement
project, The East End Social
brings music to locations and
venues throughout the east of
Glasgow, from tea dances and
beat-box workshops to major
outdoor concerts and intimate
café performances. Libraries,
care homes, primary schools,
cinemas, parks and community
centres all feature in the
programme, taking in areas like
Calton, Bridgeton, Easterhouse,
Dennistoun, Dalmarnock and
Rutherglen. Supported by
Homecoming Scotland 2014.
For detailed listings including
Dance Trails, Dance-along
Movies and free Get Dancin’
taster classes visit:
Until 27 November, Glasgow
Scottish Book Trust in
collaboration with BBC
Scotland present a programme
of events featuring an exciting
range of leading Scottish,
UK and Commonwealthbased authors and illustrators
for children, broadcast live for
free over the internet to schools
across the Commonwealth.
There will also be an
educational programme
working directly with teachers
from local authorities across
Scotland. All events are
available to watch again on
the Scottish Book Trust website.
Scotland and the
Commonwealth:
400 Years in the Making
The Mitchell Library
Guide Gods
Claire Cunningham
10 – 11 June, Glasgow
Children in Glasgow will
create a physical and audio
message using dance,
beatboxing and music to
express who they are and
what being part of the
Commonwealth community
means to them. YDance will
work with 120 young people
from four primary schools
across Glasgow supported by a
Glaswegian beatbox artist and
arts project based musicians.
Each school will develop their
own short piece of music after
which they will form a relay and
share their pieces as they
journey to each others schools.
The project will culminate in one
joint performance to mark the
return of the Queen’s Baton
Relay to Scotland. Also
supported through Celebrate.
Claire is disabled. Is it
God’s will? Karma? Genetics?
What do you believe? Using
dance, live music, humour
and interviews with religious
leaders, academics and
deaf and disabled people,
acclaimed performer Claire
Cunningham goes on a
perilous quest to explore
the intricacies of the major
world faiths and their views
on deafness and disability in
this witty and illuminating
new show.
clairecunningham.co.uk
13 June – 4 October, Glasgow
An exhibition which uses
Scotland’s archives to highlight
the nation’s historic links with
the Commonwealth and to give
a snapshot of a history we
share with much of the world.
collectivegallery.net
Corroboree
Royal Botanic Garden
Edinburgh
glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/
the-mitchell-library
Squish Squared
Room 2 Manoeuvre
13 – 23 June, across Scotland
Squash merges with dance
in Squish Squared, a
performance and education
project which will be presented
in squash courts across
Scotland. This dynamic and
humorous duet will explore the
competitive streak that lies
within and between individuals,
and the costs of achieving
success in its different forms.
Audiences will be invited to
view the action through glass
fronted squash courts.
r-2-m.net
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YDance
scottishbooktrust.com/authors-live
ydance.org
14 June, Edinburgh
Join Collective’s All Sided
Games as they celebrate the
Queen’s Baton Relay visiting
Meadowbank Sports Centre.
An exciting opportunity to view
Jacob Dahlgren’s ‘no conflict,
no irony (I love the whole
world), 2013’, a 100 metre
banner made in collaboration
with families from across
Edinburgh at Meadowbank in
October 2013, alongside Mitch
Miller’s two large scale, highly
annotated, drawings called
‘dialectograms’, of Piershill
Community Flat and
Meadowbank. Both projects
have been realised through
commissions which places
artists in and around the former
1970 and 1986 Commonwealth
Games venue, Meadowbank
Sports Centre, Edinburgh.
June, locations across Scotland
Corroboree will animate
five of Scotland’s botanic
gardens by celebrating people,
indigenous culture and
ecological diversity among
the Commonwealth of Nations.
There will be lots of ways to
participate, with public events,
demonstrations and workshops.
Music will be unplugged, food
will be local and healthy,
transport will be sustainable
and the plants and natural
features of the garden will
be a prominent part of the
celebrations.
rbge.org.uk
Gift
Jez Colborne
commissioned by
Mind the Gap
The Marathon Storytelling
Cycle Challenge
Tam Dean Burn
14 June – 22 July, across
Scotland
Travelling the route of the
Queen’s Baton Relay across
Scotland by bicycle, Tam Dean
Burn endeavours to read all
195 books and plays, and sing
all the published songs written
by former Children’s Laureate
Julia Donaldson (‘The Gruffalo’).
booksonabike.com
The Big Song Relay
Hands up for Trad
Scotland
As part of Big Big Sing,
Hands Up for Trad is
coordinating a national song
relay, linking communities
across Scotland and creating
an extensive network of choir
performances at locations
along the route of the Queen’s
Baton Relay.
A specially commissioned
song will be sung all over
Scotland, passed like a baton
between choirs along the route,
uniting communities and
celebrating the excitement of
the occasion. ‘Here’s to All Our
Common Wealth’ is written by
Phil Cunningham, Alison Burns
and Findlay Napier with
translations in Scots and Gaelic.
projects.scottishcultureonline.com/
handsupfortrad
bigbigsing.org
14 – 15 June, Bradford
4 – 6 July, London as part of
New Music Biennial Weekend
Celebration
1 – 2 August, Glasgow as part
of New Music Biennial
Weekend Celebration
A gift arrives. What’s inside?
Curious? Then follow talented
learning-disabled composer Jez
Colborne on a musical odyssey
to discover what it means to
be gifted. Accompany Jez to
the very heart of music-making
within a shipping container.
A Trojan gift, a makeshift
musical instrument. Guaranteed
to make your senses tingle.
Part of New Music Biennial.
newmusicbiennial.com
University of Glasgow
A series of concerts
celebrating the Games and the
values of the Commonwealth
as part of the University of
Glasgow’s Music in the
University programme.
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All Sided Games
Collective
gla.ac.uk/events/musicintheuniversity
Authors Live
Scottish Book Trust
Scotland
A series of readings and
literary events at venues across
Scotland, along the route of the
Queen’s Baton Relay. The events
will feature writers, poets and
publishers from Scotland and
across the Commonwealth and
each will look at a specific
movement from Commonwealth
history, with the writers putting
things into context, and reading
from their work. Also supported
by Celebrate
scottishpen.org
africa-in-motion.org.uk
Welcome:
Common Ground
Scottish Refugee Council
14 – 28 June, across Scotland
As part of Refugee Week
Scotland’s Community
Celebrations programme,
Welcome: Common Ground
sees the Scottish Refugee
Council working in partnership
with 12 refugee community
groups across Scotland to
celebrate the Commonwealth
Games and the eclectic
diversity of Scotland’s
communities. Events will be
held across Glasgow and in
Clydebank, Motherwell,
Paisley and the Isle of Arran.
Also supported by Celebrate.
scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk
15 June – 3 July, Glasgow
Hot is a season of some of
the most exciting, spectacular,
moving and downright clever
contemporary dance and
performance from Australia.
tramway.org
Go Dance 2014
Ambassadors
Theatre Group
17 – 21 June Glasgow
The 7th annual Go Dance
festival celebrating excellence
in community dance, returns
to the Theatre Royal with an
explosive array of thrilling new
work from dance groups across
Scotland. With a different
programme over five nights,
more than 1,000 dancers of
all ages perform a rich mix of
hip-hop to ballet, contemporary
to jazz. Guaranteed to wow
audiences with energetic and
inspiring new work – if you love
dance, then Go Dance!
edfilmfest.org.uk
On the Shore of the Mind
Gabriel Jackson
commissioned by
Mr McFall’s Chamber
18 June, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
19 June, Brodick, Isle of Arran
22 June, Edinburgh
Celebration
atgtickets.com
Weekend Celebration
Mr McFall’s Chamber is
celebrating historic links by
commissioning Bermuda-born
composer Gabriel Jackson to
write a setting of poems about
island life by both Scottish
and Caribbean poets.
Also in the programme will
be chamber music from Cuba
and songs by Purcell. Part of
New Music Biennial.
GRIT:
The Martyn Bennett Story
19 June – 22 June, Tobermory,
Isle of Mull
An ambitious new cross-form
Scots-Canadian collaborative
project based on the inspiring
life and music of one of
Scotland’s most innovative,
pioneering and influential
musicians; the tragically late
Martyn Bennett. Directed by
multi-award winning director
Cora Bissett and written by
Kieran Hurley, the production
features cutting-edge
choreography from Montreal’s
Dana Gingras, and acrobatic
choreography from Andrew
Watson (Cirque Du Soleil).
Having premiered in
Glasgow at the start of June,
GRIT will be presented at
Druimfin on Mull from 20 – 22
June and will be complemented
by a mini-music festival of
artists inspired by Martyn’s
work, including Lau, Mr McFall’s
Chamber and Sorren Maclean
from 19 – 22 June.
corabissett.co.uk/grit
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Scottish PEN
Literary Events
Scottish PEN
18 – 29 June, Edinburgh
Animated in 2014 is an
exciting new project including
a two day Animation Lab
held during the Edinburgh
International Film Festival,
giving emerging animation
filmmakers the opportunity
to be inspired by and network
with key industry professionals.
The festival will also showcase a
programme of short animation
films from Commonwealth
countries before travelling
internationally around the
Commonwealth.
Scotland
This touring festival will
explore African sports and
14 June – 3 August, across
culture through film, taking
Scotland
viewers on a journey through
The Pokey Hat is a new
the African Commonwealth
family show, performed outside highlighting triumphs and key
in an ice cream van, celebrating challenges through sports.
stories from the East End of
The tour will take place right
Glasgow. Audiences will be
across Scotland and include
treated to an ice cream at
pop-up screenings through the
each performance!
‘AiM Shebeen Screen’, bikegrinagog.co.uk
powered screenings, dine and
view evenings and much more.
Animated in 2014
Edinburgh International
Film Festival
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The Pokey Hat
Grinagog
Theatre Company
Hot: New Dance
and Performance
from Australia
Tramway
Sports Stories from
around the African
Commonwealth
Africa in Motion
Glasgow East End
Legacy and
Engagement Events
Glasgow Life
21 June, Glasgow
20 July, Glasgow
A series of one-day festivals
in the North East of Glasgow.
These events are the culmination
of years of engagement and
legacy activity involving key arts
organisations in the North East
of the city, led by Glasgow East
Arts Company. The final event
will form part of the Queen’s
Baton Relay celebrations in
Glasgow. These are large scale
collaborative events, the scale
and ambition of which is unlike
anything normally undertaken
in the area.
platform-online.co.uk
commonwealthceilidh.org
(i)land
Marc Brew Company
21 June – 21 September,
across the UK
Three people find
themselves abandoned on a
deserted island with only each
other for support. As they
explore they gradually start to
discover the pieces of a vehicle
– buried in the sand – that can
take them off the island. They
work together to build the craft,
only to discover that it won’t
carry all of them. This new
integrated dance performance
explores isolation, humanity,
ingenuity and invention and
a big pile of sand!
marcbrew.com
26 July – 1 August,
The Briggait, Glasgow
6 – 9 August, Glasgow
6 August – 14 September,
One disabled athlete and
The Lighthouse, Glasgow
one disabled artist – tell you
A new film inspired by
the stories of how they became
historical aerial photography
the people they are, with the
of Commonwealth countries
careers they have. Robert
gathered throughout the
Softley and disabled athlete
second half of the twentieth
Joe Brown will put their
century by the Directorate of
‘sporting’ skills to the test.
Overseas Survey. The film will
be screened on continuous loop Who will win? What does
within a purpose built pavilion
winning mean? And tell me
at Edinburgh College of Art,
what giving up looks like.
The Lighthouse and The Briggait
as part of The Empire Café.
22 June, Glasgow
Big Big Sing joins forces
with Choir of the Year for a
90-minute workshop to get
you singing and dancing in the
aisles! Discover the music of
the Commonwealth as
inspirational choir leaders lead
you through an action-packed
workshop that reminds us all
how great singing can make us
feel. Your ticket grants you free
entry to see the UK’s best choirs
compete for the title of Choir
of the Year.
thearches.co.uk
rcahms.gov.uk
The Falkirk Pot
Falkirk Community Trust
bigbigsing.org
Panning for Gold
Alistair Anderson
commissioned by Sage
Gateshead
22 June, Gateshead
Celebration
1 – 2 August, Glasgow as
part of New Music Biennial
Weekend Celebration
A unique musical
collaboration between one of
the UK’s most talented Steel Pan
musicians, the world’s most
respected English concertina
player, a DJ, clog dancer and
youth steel bands from the UK
and the West Indies. Part of
New Music Biennial.
Tell Me What
Giving Up Looks Like
Robert Softley
24 June, Falkirk
A traditional music project
that celebrates Falkirk’s rich
tradition of industry, trade
and cultural exchange.
Internationally respected
musician and composer,
Brian McNeill returns to his
hometown to work with local
schools and community groups
on a creative engagement
that will culminate in a
performance at the Helix as
part of the Queen’s Baton
Relay celebrations.
falkirkcommunitytrust.org
Journeys to Glasgow
Janey Godley
28 June, Stranraer
12 July, Greenock
19 July – 3 August, Glasgow
A Commonwealth
celebration of the Glaswegian
art of speaking. Having toured
the country gathering people’s
stories of their journeys to
Glasgow, Janey Godley and
Ashley Storrie return to the city
for Festival 2014 with a series
of stand-up shows and comedy
bus tours. A dedicated YouTube
channel, sound slides and film
document Janey and Ashely’s
own journey across Scotland
and the stories they heard
along the way.
journeystoglasgow.com
28 June, London
20 – 21 July, Glasgow
This is the story of flow and
memories told through dance,
live music and song. The 150
strong cast take you on an
emotional journey, the
excitement of starting a new
life, tinged with the pain of
goodbyes. Just as a river
replenishes itself, so does
the culture of the city built
alongside it. The River celebrates
the creation of this vibrant
community. Join us as we
journey alongside the Clyde
celebrating the River’s stories.
barrowlandballet.co.uk
You Run on Tracks,
Not Roads
Niraj Chag commissioned
by artsdepot
29 June, London
Celebration
Weekend Celebration
In East Africa the building
of the rail road by the
British Empire sent thousands
on a journey across continents.
Niraj will explore his own
cultural heritage from India
through Uganda to the streets
of the UK, playing with the
musical language of three
diverse cultures. Part of New
Music Biennial.
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dundeerep.co.uk
23 – 27 June,
Edinburgh College of Art
Big Big Sing at
Choir of the Year
Glasgow UNESCO
City of Music
The River
Barrowland Ballet
21 June, across the
Commonwealth
Wherever you are in the
world, The Commonwealth
Ceilidh begins at 19.30 on
Saturday 21 June, and then
follows the time zones to create
a 24 hour global ceilidh event
to celebrate the Glasgow 2014
Commonwealth Games.
Dancing in the
Commonwealth Ceilidh is an
easy, enjoyable and sociable
way to share in the celebrations
of Scotland’s culture and
heritage. 15 dances, including
three specially devised ones,
can be enjoyed by everyone
and learned beforehand in a
free download. The interval is
your chance to showcase your
local or national dance style.
Sightlines
RCAHMS and Scottish
Documentary Institute
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Scotland
A ground breaking
collaboration between Justin
Young and Iain F Macleod
about the Scottish emigrant
experience in Canada, telling
the profoundly moving story
of a father and son, and the
recovery of language and
identity. Produced by Dundee
Rep Theatre, with Justin Young
as the primary playwright,
and Iain F MacLeod as
co-writer and author of the
play’s Gaelic text.
Commonwealth Ceilidh
Royal Scottish Country
Dance Society
In My Fathers Words
Dundee Rep
Baltic Street Adventure
Playground
Create London
From July, Glasgow
From July 2014, a new
adventure playground for
children from 6 to 12 years
will open in Dalmarnock. It is
free to enter, children are free
to come and go, and free to
play as they choose. Favourite
activities include shouting
down plastic pipes, mud
fighting and jumping off the
tree house! Baltic Street
Adventure Playground is a
VELOCITY project delivered
collaboratively by Assemble
and Create London. Initiated by
Glasgow Life, Creative
Scotland, Glasgow City Council,
Creative Scotland and Clyde
Gateway, VELOCITY seeks to
reimagine, repair and
reconnect the physical and
social fabric of the city, using
the unique context of the
hosting of the Games
balticstreetadventureplay.co.uk
6 August, Edinburgh Art
Festival, Edinburgh
9 – 10, 16 – 17 August, Out of
the Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh
A multi-artform familyfriendly project celebrating
the National Birds of the
Commonwealth Nations and
Territories. Created by Eilidh
MacAskill of Fish & Game it
explores ideas of representation
and imagines what would
happen if the birds had been
invited to the city rather than
athletes and politicians.
fishandgame.org.uk
conferencecallofthebirds.co.uk
Sporting Heads
Glasgay!
1 July – 31 December, Glasgow
A photographic exhibition
of LGBT sportspeople who
have recently ‘come out of
the closet’ and announced
their sexuality. This exhibition
celebrates the increasing
visibility of LGBT people in
sport. The exhibition will
feature, amongst others, Tom
Daley, Billie Jean King, Justin
Fashanu, Matthew Micham,
and Gareth Thomas. Funded
by the National Lottery through
the Celebrate Programme.
glasgay.co.uk
3 July, Isle of Skye
1 August, Inverness
4 – 6 July, London
Southbank Centre
An exciting programme
of brand new music created
by imaginative composers and
performers from across the
UK. All 20 commissions will be
performed at two special
weekend events in the summer
of 2014.
New Music Biennial is a PRS
for Music Foundation initiative,
in partnership with Arts Council
England, Creative Scotland and
the British Council. It is presented
in collaboration with BBC Radio 3,
NMC Recordings, Southbank
Centre and Glasgow UNESCO
City of Music.
Additional support has been
given by John S. Cohen
Foundation, Arts Council of
Wales, Arts Council of Northern
Ireland, Incorporated Society of
Musicians, The Bliss Trust, The
Finzi Trust and Hope Scott Trust.
Weekend Celebration
Aiseag (The Ferryboat) is
connection. A lifelong
fascination creates a journey
between the Highlands and
Canada’s Gaelic diaspora.
Electronica and found sound,
Cape Breton and Scottish
Highland musicians, a Gaelic
choir and a Glasgow section
are all aboard with composers
Mary Ann Kennedy and
Scott Macmillan, audio
designer Nick Turner and poet,
Aonghas MacNeacail.
44 Stories
Drew Taylor
70 countries are competing
in the 2014 Commonwealth
Games. 44 of these countries
declare homosexuality as
illegal; in some places
punishable by death. Collating
LGBT stories from these 44
countries, this is an athletic,
poetic exploration of visibility
and activism. Love is love.
drewmakestheatre.com
thearches.co.uk
Blood Lines
Lou Prendergast
A new play, written, directed
and performed by Lou
Prendergast, Blood Lines draws
upon the Scots-Caribbean
experience to raise questions
about Scotland’s entanglement
in the slave trade and explore
how the Commonwealth’s
themes of humanity, equality
and destiny interact within the
contemporary realities of
racism, capitalism, feminism
and homophobia.
thearches.co.uk
4 – 23 July, across Scotland
High octane, spectacular
performances showcase
contemporary circus, including
the specialist artforms of stiltacrobalance and acrobatic
parkour. This new company
features specially recruited
young performers between
15 and 24 years old, from
Scotland and Commonwealth
countries. Having trained for
9 months, they join the Queen’s
Baton Relay celebrations for a
number of pop-up performances
at locations across Scotland.
brightnightinternational.com
Scale
4 – 6 July, Dundee
Transforming Dundee into
an art canvas, world-renowned
artists from the visual arts,
music, fashion, film, and dance
unite to play with the city...and
your mind. HUMAN SCALE
sees the premiere collaboration
between choreographer Fleur
Darkin and designer Alexander
Ruth, with original music by The
One Ensemble. SCALE: Park
invites everyone aged 0 – 99
to join the party for a one-day
festival in a pop-up park in
Dundee’s city square.
scaledance.com
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tolbooth.stirling.gov.uk
The Conference
Call Of The Birds
Eilidh MacAskill
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glasgowconcerthalls.com
New Music Biennial
Commonwealth
Weekend Celebration
Youth Circus
– London
Bright Night International
PRS for Music Foundation
Celebration
29 June, Glasgow
30 June, Stirling
A 90 minute world premier
of an international sextet
featuring musicians from the
Commonwealth inspired by
traditional folk melodies of
Commonwealth countries.
Aiseag
Mary Ann Kennedy
commissioned by
Watercolour Music
International Sextet
Laura Macdonald
Portrait of Home
Arpita Shah
tramway.org
Our Big Gig Scotland
Superact
11 July – 13 July, across Scotland
A weekend of live local
music in communities across
Scotland. Our Big Gig
celebrates local music at
community events, showcases
new and existing talent and
gives people the opportunity to
have a go at making music.
ourbiggig.co.uk
12 July – 2 August, Wasps
Studios Hanson St., Glasgow
20 July – 9 August Govanhill
Baths, Glasgow
An exhibition and
participatory project by artist
Rachel Barron which invites
people of all ages, backgrounds
and abilities to take part by
printing their own flag.
Specially made ink stamps
and tools will form part of an
interactive print workshop at
Wasps Studios, Hanson Street.
These individual contributions
will gradually assemble to form
a large-scale installation at
Govanhill Baths.
assemble2014.co.uk
arpitashah.com
Home Nations
Programme
Tron Theatre
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YDance brings together
36 of the best youth dance
companies from across the
Commonwealth for three
fantastic evenings of dance – the
first ever Commonwealth Youth
Dance Festival. Audiences of all
ages have the chance to
experience an exciting and
entertaining programme by a
wealth of young dance talent
including the National Youth
Dance Companies of Scotland,
England & Wales. Also
supported by Celebrate.
Assemble:
An International Print
Workshop
Rachel Barron
The HA Orchestra
Pan African Arts Scotland
The HA Orchestra is a
melting pot of African music
from all the different regions of
Africa and its diaspora brought
together by Pan African Arts
Scotland which aims to tap into
a vast unexplored treasure of
musical cultural experiences
and values.
panafricanartsscotland.org.uk
Tron Theatre presents a
celebratory Home Nations
Programme curated by Liz
Lochhead. The programme will
include dramatic interpretations
of work from some of the UK
and Northern Ireland’s finest
poets including Dylan Thomas,
Seamus Heaney, Carol-Anne
Duffy and Edwin Morgan.
tron.co.uk
Commonwealth
Youth Dance Festival
YDance
17 July, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis
Boomerang is a celebration
of the indigenous cultures of
Scotland, Australia and New
Zealand. Premiered at Womad
New Zealand, it was performed
at Sydney Opera House
Homeground Festival before
being presented as a highlight
during Festival 2014. Featuring
21 artists including Breabach
(Scotland), Moana and the
Tribe, and Horomona Horo
(New Zealand), Shellie Morris,
Casey Donovan, Aaron
Burarrwanga, and Djakapurra
Munyarryun (Australia) the
show features vocalists,
musicians and dancers who
mix the pipes with Haka dance,
Maori vocals with Step dance
and Aboriginal dance with
Gaelic song. A spectacular
show that fuses traditions and
celebrates cultures.
Below Another Sky
7 June – 19 July, Edinburgh
An international residency
programme to support new
work in print by leading
artists from Scotland and
Commonwealth countries.
The 20 participating artists
will produce new work with the
Scottish Print Network studios
across Scotland and take part
in a related programme of
public exhibitions, events and
workshops.
Glasgow Print Studio will
present an exhibition of work
commissioned by all 20 artists
participating in the programme.
belowanothersky.org
Nelson Mandela
International Day
ACTSA Scotland
18 July, Glasgow
Supported by Glasgow
Life, in association with the
South Africa-United Kingdom
Seasons 2014 & 2015 and
the Connect ZA Season
A day of South African
themed community voluntary
activity with a cultural
programme at its heart
involving South African and
Scottish artists to mark Nelson
Mandela’s birth date,
culminating in a late-night
event at The Arches featuring
contemporary music from South
African and Scottish musicians.
actsascotland.org.uk
The Four Seasons
Aberdeen International
Youth Festival,
Royston Maldoom and
Tamara McLorg
20 July, Aberdeen
Marrying the North-East’s
reputation for ‘four seasons in
one day’ with Vivaldi’s most
famous score, internationally
renowned choreographers and
community dance artists
Royston Maldoom and Tamara
McLorg will join young people
from Aberdeenshire to create
a new dance performance,
The Four Seasons.
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Boomerang
Active Events
A series of photographic
portraits of families in Scotland
who are also culturally rooted
to other Commonwealth
countries. The work will
explore Scotland’s links to
the Commonwealth countries
through intimate family portraits
that share stories of migration
and the meaning of home.
The portraits will celebrate the
cultural diversity in Scotland
and also visually represent how
migration has shaped the
culture and national identity
of Scotland.
During
the
Games –
Festival
2014
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Festival 2014 will offer amazing experiences for everyone who
wants to soak up the atmosphere of the city. There will be site
specific surprises which will use Glasgow landmarks and the River
Clyde as their stage and spectacular performances at existing
cultural venues, including a satire of the Games. The four big
festival sites at Glasgow Green Live Zone, Merchant City Festival,
Kelvingrove Bandstand and BBC at the Quay will be a great day
out for everyone with family friendly activities, big screens, some
of the best produce Scotland has to offer and performances from
artists from around the world plus some of Glasgow and Scotland’s
world renowned talent.
Commonwealth Games
Visiting Artist
Roger Palmer
Scotland visit:
Recoat will bring five
Internationally renowned artists
to Glasgow to paint large-scale
murals on key sites around
Glasgow. The murals will
celebrate the people of the
Commonwealth by exploring the
theme of ‘identity’. The artists
will make works informed by
local community engagement.
recoatdesign.com
Dancing City
Dance House Glasgow
Celebrating a city that is
constantly in motion, Dancing
City will bring together
professional artists and
communities of people to create
an exciting film and series of
‘happenings’. It will capture the
city of Glasgow in motion
through its infrastructure and its
people at work, play and going
about their everyday business.
The film will be screened
extensively across Glasgow
during Festival 2014 so look out
for it in unexpected places.
dancehouse.org
PERCH Carnival:
A Festival of Flying
and Falling
Conflux
In partnership with
Legs on the Wall (Australia),
LUME Teatro (Brazil) and
composer Stephen Deazley
rogerpalmer.info
Mandela Celebration
The Hidden Gardens
Event: 19 July, Glasgow
Time Bank:
Following International
Mandela Day (18 July),
The Hidden Gardens hosts a
vibrant day of community, unity
and change in celebration of
the rich cultural heritage and
traditions of the Commonwealth.
Inspired by the life and work
of Nelson Mandela, the event
shines a light on volunteering
in the local community,
showcasing the many brilliant
ways people can contribute to
a thriving neighbourhood.
Featuring food, performances,
activities and a creative Time
Bank, where people can pledge
their time in service to others,
all offered in the inclusive spirit
of the Gardens. Also supported
by Celebrate.
thehiddengardens.org.uk
High above the city streets
a figure looks down, a set of
magnificent wings upon its
back. On the ground below
a menagerie of strange and
spectacular creatures call to
the figure. Will it fly or will it fall?
Welcome to Perch, a carnival
that celebrates our dreams
and fears of flying… and falling.
Involving spectacular
aerial sequences and over
200 performers, including
Scotland’s leading street and
circus artists and aerialists,
a mass community choir,
emerging and local performers
and a live video link-up to
Brazil and Australia, Perch is
a once in a lifetime experience.
The 86-piece Senior Orchestra
of The National Youth
Orchestras of Scotland will be
playing a new score composed
by Stephen Deazley.
perchcarnival.com
Scotland Can Make It!
Panel
Scotland Can Make It! is
an independent project to
commisisons six unique souvenirs
responding to Scotland’s
hosting of the Commonwealth
Games in 2014. The souvenirs
are designed by leading
Scottish artists / designers
and produced by Scottish
manufacturers. A public
exhibition, film, talks and other
events will be delivered as
part of Festival 2014.
scotlandcanmakeit.com
International
Artist Initiated
David Dale Gallery
and Studios
Working with artist initiated
organisations from across the
six Commonwealth territories,
a series of projects responds
to the context of the
Commonwealth Games in
Glasgow and is representative
or indicative of their country’s
contemporary culture through
the lens of an artist-led
organisation. Taking place over
multiple venues in Glasgow’s
east end International Artist
Initiated will incorporate visual
art exhibitions, public art,
events, and publications as a
celebration of the diversity of
self-organised cultural practice
internationally.
daviddalegallery.co.uk
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bigbigsing.org
In Common
Recoat
celebration of singing. For
details of how to take part –
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23 July – 3 August, Nauru
Visual artist Roger Palmer
will be an overseas visiting
artist and correspondent based
on Nauru in the South Pacific,
the world’s smallest republic
with a population of fewer than
10,000. Phosphates mined from
seabird guano once provided
Nauru with one of the world’s
highest standards of living.
The island now receives aid
from Australia in return for
hosting an offshore migrant
detention centre. Athletes from
Nauru have won medals at
every Commonwealth Games
since first taking part in 1990.
Tomorrow Is
Always Too Long
The Common Guild
Salt
Sophie Cooke and
Anne Milne
A long poem in a short film:
Salt will follow Glasgow and
the Commonwealth’s journey
with the river as its guiding light.
The film will be shown in
Glasgow as part of Ebb Tide at
the Tall Ship during Festival
2014, and at other venues.
Ebb Tide
Shetland Moving Image
Archive
In Ebb Tide, film makers
and musicians in Shetland are
working with the Shetland
Moving Image Archive to
create new films inspired by the
stories, journeys, imagery and
artefacts of Shetlanders who
voyaged overseas on ships
made on the Clyde. Those films
will be toured around Shetland
and screened on the Tall Ship in
Glasgow in July.
shetlandmovingimage.co.uk
28 July, Glasgow Green
A River of Stories is a
collection of tales and poems
from across the Commonwealth
on the theme of water,
celebrating the capacity of
stories to unite and inspire
children of different cultures.
Visual Statement accompanied
by east end school children
will perform ‘The March Of
The Hermit Crabs In The Rain’
(Bahamas), ‘Rain Maker’
(Botswana), and ‘Womans
World’ (Tuvalu). Visual
Statement will delight and
inspire you by blending the
book’s audio track with
traditional Celtic and Gaelic
melodies. Supported
by The Commonwealth
Education Trust.
Songs of Emigration
and the Goldrush:
Maryhill’s Trade Legacy
Maryhill Burgh Halls
20, 22 July, Glasgow
Working with a local choir
and schools, traditional song
specialist Maeve Mackinnon
explores, in song, the trade links
between Maryhill, Australia
and Canada. There will be a
free outdoor performance at
Maryhill Locks on 20 July and
at Maryhill Burgh Halls on
22 July. Funded by the National
Lottery through the Celebrate
Programme. Also supported
by Celebrate.
vstate.co.uk
The Games
Dick Lee
19 & 20 July, Open
Rehearsals, Glasgow
maryhillburghhalls.org.uk
clydefilmpoem.wordpress.com
26 July, 24 August Edinburgh
A celebration of the
Commonwealth Games through
a fusion of music, poetry and
dance. At the heart of this
exciting event is new music from
Dick Lee for his group Dr. Lee’s
Prescription, combined with new
poetry from Edinburgh Makar
(2008 – 2014) Ron Butlin and new
dance from renowned dancer
and choreographer Alex Rigg.
dicklee.org.uk
24 July, Glasgow
Blue Block Studio
Starcatchers
Other dates across Scotland
Blue Block Studio is a space
specially designed for babies
under 24 months. It offers the
opportunity for adult and baby
to interact in a friendly, inspiring
and beautiful environment.
It is a creative space to listen,
to explore, to build, to watch,
to lie down, to look and touch
for the adult and baby.
starcatchers.org.uk
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thecommonguild.org.uk
27 – 29 August, Platform
Theatre, Glasgow
20 July, The Bridge and
Springburn Park, Glasgow
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19 July, Glasgow
A new project by artist
Phil Collins conjuring up a
distinctive vision of Glasgow
from the perspective of
institutions that describe the
scope of human experience
and define us as social beings.
The film will be presented on
19 July in Queen’s Park as a
one-night-only free event.
Centred around an installation
of multiple LED screens set up in
the old rose garden, an open
terrace with views over the city
and the hillside beyond.
A River of Stories
Visual Statement
Future News 2014
Glasgow Life
Yellow Valley
Starcatchers
Endurance
A Moment’s Peace
News Just In
Random Accomplice
During the Commonwealth
Games the Mitchell Library
will be the base for a Live
Games Newsroom, which will
see 40 aspiring journalists from
Glasgow working on Gamesrelated stories and compiling
and editing reports. Their work
will be uploaded and accessed
by young people from across
the Commonwealth who will
edit, interpret and produce
content for their local audiences.
Other dates across Scotland
A loveable, contemporary,
musical-storytelling performance,
created especially for children
aged two to four years old,
inspired by Kenyan children’s
book ‘Who’s Calling’ by Charity
Waciuma. Join us as we recreate
this quirky story with live African
music, electronic vocal effects
and energetic performances to
tell the tale of a feisty little girl
and her animal friends who strike
up a disagreement with another,
cheekier, little girl (and all her
animal friends) across the valley.
A co-production with
The Women’s Creative
Company and The Arches,
Endurance is a striking new
theatre production imagining
and recreating the historical
and personal stories of
Commonwealth sportswomen.
Performed by over 20 women
living in Glasgow, Endurance
considers the changing role of
women in competitive sport,
examining what it takes to be
the best and why ‘what’ you
represent matters. Also
supported by Celebrate.
A nightly round up of the
Commonwealth Games on all
things Tom Daley, Tom-Foolery
and with the views of Tom,
Dick and Harry! Featuring a
brand new story at every
performance, six of Scotland’s
top comedy actors, a team
of award-winning writers, and
a script finished only minutes
before opening, anything can
– and probably will – happen!
Q Poetics
Skye Loneragan
Q-POETICS installs the poet
& poetry in places & spaces of
waiting – in those lines in which
we so often lose the will to live.
With so much going on in the
host city, queues are a sign of
success and Q-POETICS installs
the artist in these queues during
Festival 2014. Easing wait-times
through the arousal of curiosity,
poet and performer Skye
Loneragan joins those lining up
to pay, purchase or pass –
exchanging ideas about winning
and what we are waiting for,
sharing performances and
q-free online poetry pieces.
qpoetics.com
thearches.co.uk
Seventy SAFAS Flower Clubs
from all over Scotland are
coming together to depict in
flowers the stories of our culture
and roots. This Flower Festival,
held in Glasgow Cathedral,
will celebrate our heritage
(Roots), where we have gone
out in the world (Shoots) and
our achievements (Fruits).
Hosts and Champions
Glasgow Life in
association with
the University of Stirling
and Commonwealth
Games Scotland
safas.org.uk
The Scokendia Ensemble
Jamie Munn
The Scokendia Ensemble will
bring together young musicians
and composers from Scotland,
Kenya and India to form a
unique chamber orchestra
that will connect, collaborate
and perform during Festival
2014, with performances taking
place in an exciting variety of
spaces, settings and venues
across Glasgow.
scokendia.com
Celebrating for the first
time 80 years of sport from
the Commonwealth Games
Scotland Archive.
Hosts and Champions
celebrates 80 years of
participation and achievements
by Scotland in the Commonwealth
Games from its origin in 1930
through to the 2010 Games in
Delhi. Drawn from the
Commonwealth Games Scotland
Archive held by the University of
Stirling, the exhibition will display
for the first time photographs
and artefacts which tell a rich
story of Scotland’s involvement
in the Games, including as hosts
in 1970 and 1986.
sportheritage.wordpress.com
The Empire Café
Collective Architecture
and Louise Welsh
An exploration of Scotland’s
relationship with the North
Atlantic slave trade through
coffee, sugar, tea, cotton, music,
visual art, academic lectures,
poetry, debate, workshops,
historical walks, film and
literature. The Empire Café
will be based in the Briggait,
home of the Merchant’s
Steeple, in Glasgow’s Merchant
City and will also present work
as 14–18 NOW.
empire-cafe.org
Scotch Hoppers
Stillmotion
Come and play! Who?
You – little ones, and you, the
big ones with them!
Parnie Street, in the heart
of Glasgow’s Merchant City,
will become an outdoor play
area with totally new games
designed especially for the
festival – and for all ages.
Made by some of the UK’s
most talented outdoor game
designers, Scotch Hoppers has
been inspired by traditional
street games, and is an exciting
and original re-discovery of
what it is really like to play in
the city, in the Summer… so
come with friends, family, or
just you.
stillmotion.co.uk
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glasgowdoorsopenday.com
leapsports.org/pride-house
starcatchers.org.uk
randomaccomplice.com
23 July, Glasgow
A special Doors Open Day
to take place during Games
Time. Around 20 landmark
buildings across the city will
open their doors for a free
showcase of their hidden
heritage. Also supported
by Celebrate.
A safe and welcoming LGBT
space (designed by Do
Architecture) in the Merchant
City offering the full Games
experience of Sport and
Culture. Also supported
by Celebrate.
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Glasgow’s Wee Doors
Open Day
Glasgow Building
Preservation Trust
Roots, Shoots and Fruits
Scottish Association of
Flower Arrangement
Societies (SAFAS)
britishcouncil.my/future-news-2014
Pride House
LEAP Sports
Anamchara –
Songs of Friendship
Scottish Opera
Classics Marathon Day
Glasgow Life
25 July, Glasgow
Marking the musical decade
since Aidan O’Rourke first
performed his ambitious debut
Sirius as part of Celtic
Connections, Year X finds
Aidan revisiting the Scottish
themes and aesthetics of that
much loved 2004 piece. Year X
is a musical meditation on the
last ten years spent performing
and travelling the world.
scottishopera.org.uk
On Common Ground
Citizens Theatre
A major outdoor event by
Debajehmujig Storytellers and
Citizens Theatre, taking place
in the Gorbals Rose Garden.
First Nation Storytellers from
Manitoulin Island, Canada, will
come together with a cast of
Glaswegians to tell a story of
community, family and the
natural world.
aidanorourke.net
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Cargo, Camera... Action!
Glasgow Film
oncommonground2014.co.uk
26 July, Glasgow
An outdoor celebration of
moving image and Glasgow’s
history. Glasgow Film takes
over the banks of the River
Clyde for a day-long cinematic
spectacular by the water,
created with artists, performers
and filmmakers who embody
the exciting creative ethos that
underpins Glasgow’s grassroots
arts scenes. Cargo Camera...
Action! features newly
commissioned work by leading
filmmakers and artists including
85A, Torsten Lauschmann,
Chris Leslie, Eilidh MacAskill,
Minty Donald and Nick Millar.
glasgowfilm.org
27 July, Glasgow
During the Commonwealth
Games, Big Big Sing will host
Scotland’s biggest ever singing
event. And everyone is invited.
Whether you’re new to singing
or a seasoned pro, you can
join a choir of thousands at
Glasgow Green on 27 July.
With special guests and songs
from around the Commonwealth,
this unique performance is a
great way to get singing and
be part of Festival 2014.
bigbigsing.org
Commonwealth Flotilla
Royal Yachting
Association
26 July, Glasgow
250 boats – the largest
flotilla in the Clyde’s history –
will sail from Greenock to
Glasgow’s Pacific Quay on
26 July to mark the
Commonwealth Games.
ryascotland.org.uk
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Year X
Aidan O’Rourke
26 July, Glasgow
Nicola Benedetti leads the
cream of Scotland’s orchestras,
classical musicians and
ensembles in one amazing
marathon day of music at the
heart of the Commonwealth
Games, produced by Glasgow
UNESCO City of Music. There
has never been a day like this
in Glasgow – it is a feast of
many flavours: from Baroque
to Tango, Scottish to Indian,
solo to mega-orchestra. Nicola
Benedetti herself undertakes a
personal marathon for the day,
rehearsing and performing
three concerts with different
orchestras: a challenge every bit
as extreme as running 26 miles.
The Big Big BIG Sing
Glasgow UNESCO
City of Music
A new family opera based
on themes of friendship and
the ties that bind people
together, whatever their age
and wherever they make their
home. Anamchara – Songs of
Friendship is written by
acclaimed Scottish novelist
Alexander McCall Smith and
composer Pippa Murphy, and
has a multi-cultural cast of over
120 performers from Scotland,
India, Canada, New Zealand,
South Africa and Botswana.
WWMirrorball
Commonwealth
Poetry Project
St Mungo’s Mirrorball
Currents
Yann Seznec
commissioned by
Edinburgh Art Festival
28 July, Glasgow
17 poets, 17 poems,
17 sports. 17 Glasgow poets
have been commissioned
to respond to each of the
sports represented at the
Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth
Games. Poems will be
displayed in the lead up to the
Games, during Festival 2014
and in a free pamphlet.
31 July – 30 August, Edinburgh
Celebration
Weekend Celebration
Exploring the many drove
roads or tracks set deeply into
the Scottish countryside and
the long-vanished trade of
Scottish cattle-droving through
its hardy highland cattle drovers
and their wider connections to
the New World. Features
musicians Ceri Owen Jones and
Ceri Rhys Matthews. Part of
New Music Biennial.
to the traditions of a Gaelic
ceilidh: a gathering of friends
with storytelling, song and
dance. Working with a range of
artists from different disciplines
and cultural backgrounds,
the Cèilidh Còmhla team
re-imagines the traditional
ceilidh for new audiences and
events. Each Cèilidh Còmhla is
unique and each encourages
new sharings and experiences
for artists and participants
alike. A special Cèilidh Còmhla
event will be held at Glasgow
Green as part of Festival 2014
glasgowlife.org.uk/gaelic-arts/
CeilidhComhlacometogether
An inaugural Scottish
celebration of Emancipation
Day, with site-specific
performances in Glasgow’s
Merchant City exploring the
city’s role in Caribbean slavery
and the abolition movement.
Directed by Alan McKendrick,
inspired by an original
idea from African Caribbean
Cultures Glasgow and historian
Stephen Mullen’s book
‘It Wisnae Us’.
emancipationacts.com
27 – 30 July, Highlands
and Islands
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New World Drovers
Cèilidh Còmhla
Luke Daniels and Matheu Glasgow Life
Watson commissioned
28 July, Glasgow
by Gael Music
Cèilidh Còmhla returns
An International
collaboration between three
classical Pakistani musicians,
Chand and Suraj Khan and
Tabla player Dani ‘Kashif Ali’,
and award-winning Gaelic
band, The Mischa McPherson
Trio. The newly created music
will be performed across
Glasgow on 30 and 31 July
as part of Festival 2014.
mischamacphersontrio.com
Talking Heads
Glasgay!
A rare chance to see four
of the original Talking Heads
– Alan Bennett’s wonderful,
legendary 80’s television
monologues which held the
seeds of discomfort of a Britain
(and a world) changing beyond
recognition. Four individuals
trapped behind the net curtains
of a fast disappearing society.
Directed by Liz Carruthers.
Funded by the National Lottery
through the Celebrate
Programme. Also supported
by Celebrate.
glasgay.co.uk
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Emancipation Acts
Glasgow Life in
association with African
Caribbean Cultures
Glasgow
Lahore – Ceól Mhór
Glasgow Life
Weekend Celebration
Created from hundreds of
fans controlled by real-time
weather data, and drawing
on wind conditions across the
Commonwealth, Seznec’s
installation and composition
offers a portrait, at once
accurate and abstract, of the
Commonwealth, exploring
ideas of distance, data, modern
convenience and memory.
Currents will be installed in a
police box on Edinburgh’s
Easter Road throughout August,
with two performances during
Edinburgh Art Festival. Part of
New Music Biennial.
stmungosmirrorball.wordpress.com
Celebration
From Scotland With Love
Faction North
PRO–AM
Paul Towndrow
31 July, Glasgow
A musical project exploring
synergy between the
professional and amateur
worlds. The project combines
the forces of two Glasgow
based big bands, one
professional and one amateur,
in the performance of a
brand new suite of music by
saxophonist and composer,
Paul Towndrow. The music
itself is inspired by sporting
greatness, often found in the
least likely places.
New Music Biennial 2014
Weekend Celebration –
PRS for Music Foundation
31 July – 25 August, Edinburgh
The NZ at Edinburgh 2014
Fringe season features over 100
New Zealand artists offering
outstanding theatre, music,
dance, Maori performing
artists, comedy and site specific
performances. This is an
unprecedented opportunity
for New Zealand artists to
perform on the world stage
and to share the rich stories
and talents of the South Pacific.
Supported by Creative New
Zealand, Arts Council of New
Zealand. The NZ at Edinburgh
2014 Fringe season is part of
a wider presence of NZ work
across Edinburgh’s Festivals.
Activity will also be presented
at Summerhall, the Edinburgh
International Festival, the
Edinburgh International Book
Festival, and the Edinburgh
Military Tattoo.
Royal Concert Hall
An exciting programme of
brand new music created by
imaginative composers and
performers from across the UK.
All 20 commissions will be
performed at two special
weekend events in the summer
of 2014. New Music Biennial is
a PRS for Music Foundation
initiative, in partnership with
Arts Council England, Creative
Scotland and the British Council.
It is presented in collaboration
with BBC Radio 3, NMC
Recordings, Southbank Centre
and Glasgow UNESCO City of
Music. Additional support has
been given by John S. Cohen
Foundation, Arts Council of
Wales, Arts Council of Northern
Ireland, Incorporated Society of
Musicians, The Bliss Trust, The
Finzi Trust and Hope Scott Trust.
summerhall.co.uk
eif.co.uk
edbookfest.co.uk
edintattoo.co.uk
nzatedinburgh.com
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fromscotlandwithlovethefilm.com
NZ Season
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Society
31 July, Glasgow
A documentary film and
live music performance with a
contemporary music score by
one of Scotland’s leading
musicians, King Creosote a.k.a.
Kenny Anderson. Produced by
Faction North Ltd, this is a
moving, emotional, musical and
visual poem from Scotland to
the world. Directed by Virginia
Heath, and constructed from
archive material from the Scottish
Screen Archive. Having toured
across Scotland the completed
film will be presented with a live
musical performance as part of
Festival 2014.
cryptic.org.uk
Commonwealth
Carnival
Club Noir
2 August, Glasgow
Celebrate the Games with
Club Noir’s Commonwealth
Carnival – fusing Pacific Tiki
style, the Notting Hill Carnival
vibe, Glasgow glamour, vintage
burlesque, African beat and
much more.
clubnoir.co.uk
1 – 25 August, Edinburgh
Assembly present their third
South African Season as part
of the 2014 Edinburgh Festival
Fringe, made up of ‘Silent Voice’
from the South African State
Theatre, ‘Hayani’ (winner of
Best New South African Script
2013), Durban Playhouse’s
production of ‘Race’ by David
Mamet, the hilarious ‘Sunday
Morning and The Zulu’ from
Tony nominee Mbongeni
Ngema. In 2014 the Assembly
Season is part of a wider
presence of South African work
across Edinburgh’s Festivals
supported by the Department of
Arts and Culture, South Africa.
Activity will also be presented at
Summerhall, the Edinburgh
International Book Festival, and
the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
assemblyfestival.com
summerhall.co.uk
edbookfest.co.uk
edintattoo.co.uk
Fèis Rois
Fèis Rois
Glasgow
Composer and musician,
John Somerville, has written
new music inspired by the
journey of The Hector, a ship
that left Ullapool during the
Highland Clearances. The ship
sailed to Nova Scotia where
many people settled while
others travelled on to Australia.
The music will be performed by
a group of outstanding young
musicians aged 16 – 25 years.
feisrois.org.uk
Grind
Samuel Bordoli
commissioned by
Tête à Tête
Celebration
26 July, Dumbarton
Weekend Celebration
2 August, Dumbarton
Blending skateboarding,
choral singing and the unique
acoustic of skate parks,
Tête à Tête and composer
Samuel Bordoli team up with
skaters and community choirs
to make a real noise in London
and Glasgow. Part of New
Music Biennial.
Commonwealth SR:D:
Scotland Re: Designed
2 August, Glasgow
(SR:D) presents a bespoke
production of leading Scottish
fashion designers and
contemporary and classical
musical performances. Hosted
within the city’s dramatic City
Halls, SR:D promises a visually
and sonically captivating
performance blending the
multitude of creative talent that
Scotland has on offer.
scotlandredesigned.com
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Cryptic, in partnership with
the Glasgow Science Centre,
presents Sound to Sea, a
night-time nautical outdoor
extravaganza with live music,
aerial dance, fireworks,
boats and spectacular visuals
culminating at the Canting
Basin of the River Clyde.
Offering an unforgettable
evening of entertainment,
the event features a diverse
selection of some of Scotland’s
best loved musical talent:
Frightened Rabbit, Treacherous
Orchestra, Rachel Sermanni,
Miaoux Miaoux, Tiger Style,
Bigg Taj, Model Aeroplanes,
Oliver Coates, Marie Claire
Breen and the Glasgow
Phoenix Choir.
Set on the dynamic and
inspiring waters of the River
Clyde, this stunning backdrop is
brought to life in a triumphant
celebration of Scotland’s talent
and innovation.
SA Season
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Society
Sound to Sea
Cryptic
The
Journey
Beyond
the
Games
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As the Games draw to a close and we reflect on the 100 years
since WWI began Culture 2014 picks up the final leg of its journey,
heading to Edinburgh and the August Festivals, and to a special
closing weekend. From the intimacy of ‘Away With The Birds’ on
the Isle of Canna to the fantastic final East End Social line up in
Glasgow, and the vibrancy of the Edinburgh Mela, the final
weekend captures the spirit, excitement and mix of Culture 2014.
celebration of singing.
For details of how to take part –
bigbigsing.org
Scotland visit:
Letters Home
Grid Iron and Edinburgh International Book
Festival
26 July, Edinburgh
The Edinburgh Jazz & Blues
Festival will present the
Commonwealth Jazz Orchestra,
where Commonwealth
musicians will come together
with Scottish artists to
collaborate. The Edinburgh
Festival Carnival will have a
strong Commonwealth flavour
and will feature performers
from around the globe,
including South Africa, Trinidad,
The Bahamas, and Zambia.
Supported through Scottish
Government Expo Fund.
What does home mean to
us, especially when we are
away from it? Edinburgh
International Book Festival
team up with award-winning
Scottish theatre company
Grid Iron to bring together
international authors and some
of Scotland’s finest theatre
artists to create a verbal, visual
and musical journey around
Charlotte Square Gardens.
Government Expo Fund
edinburghjazzfestival.com
Where do I end
and you begin
1 August – 19 October,
Edinburgh
A major international
exhibition of contemporary
art selected by five curators
from Commonwealth countries.
Taking its title from a work
by Indian artist Shilpa Gupta,
the exhibition invites
perspectives from across the
Commonwealth to explore and
interrogate the ideas, ideals
and myths which underpin
notions of community, commonwealth, and the commons.
edinburghartfestival.com
The Bridge
Annie George
edbookfest.co.uk
South African Season
Edinburgh International
Festival
eif.co.uk
A season of work celebrating
the 20th anniversary of
democracy in South Africa,
opening with the world premiere
of a new ballet, ‘Inala’. Composer
Ella Spira has collaborated
with Ladysmith Black Mambazo,
whose live performance will
create the soundscape for
dancers from Rambert and
The Royal Ballet, choreographed
by Mark Baldwin.
Brett Bailey’s provocative and
widely acclaimed live installation
‘Exhibit B’ and a remounting of
Handspring Puppet Company’s
acclaimed ‘Ubu and the Truth
Commission’, based on the text
by Alfred Jarry and
transcriptions of South Africa’s
Truth and Reconciliation
Committee are also part of
the South African Season.
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A new theatrical
performance work, blending
text, sound and visual design,
framed by a remarkable story,
traced back through a family’s
memories, from present day,
to a young writer and scholar
in pre-Independence Kerala,
India. Defying convention and
poverty to realise his dreams,
the fortunes of the generations
that followed are shaped.
The Bridge considers how
our histories are told and who
tells them, and the silences in
between which gives rise to myth
or invention. It reflects on identity
and a sense of belonging, the
struggle for meaning and the
power of the pen.
anniegeorge.wordpress.com
edfringe.com
World Fringe Congress
Edinburgh Festival
Fringe Society
The World Fringe Congress
brings together directors
and organisers of Fringes
from across the globe to
share ideas, experiences and
inspirations. The Congress
fosters international
collaboration and strengthens
the World Fringe community.
The 2014 Congress takes
place in Edinburgh from
15 – 17 August during the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the
world’s largest arts festival and
birthplace of the original Fringe.
worldfringe.com/congress
Gathered Together
Indepen-dance
Indepen-dance will host
Scotland’s first International
inclusive Dance Festival.
The festival’s aims include
developing and sharing
knowledge and expertise with
festival delegates, forging new
artistic partnerships in the
world of dance and disability.
indepen-dance.org.uk
Air falbh leis na h-eòin |
Away with the Birds
Hanna Tuulikki
29 – 30 August, Isle of Canna
Hanna Tuulikki’s Air falbh
leis na h-eòin is a body of work
exploring the mimesis of birds
in Gaelic song. On 29 and
30 of August it becomes a sited
performance set in the Isle of
Canna’s historic harbour.
Tuulikki’s vocal composition,
Guth an Eòin | Voice of the
Bird is the heart of the project.
Written for a female vocal
ensemble, it reinterprets
archival material, fragmenting
and re-weaving extracts of
Gaelic songs into an extended
soundscape. The music
emerges from, and responds
to, island landscapes and lives.
It explores the delicate
equilibrium of Hebridean life,
the co-existence of tradition
and innovation, and suggests
the ever-present interrelationship between bird,
human, and ecology.
awaywiththebirds.co.uk
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Commonwealth
Jazz Orchestra
Edinburgh Jazz and
Blues Festival
edinburgh-mela.co.uk
October
The Kildas highlights the
contemporary St Kildans of
Scotland, New Zealand and
Australia through a series of
crafted awards for individuals
of merit. During 2014 Deirdre
Nelson will research the history
of all St Kildas, celebrate
contemporary ‘Saint’ Kildans
and create a series of crafted
awards for the people / ‘saints’
she meets along the way.
The work will be presented in
Scotland later in the year.
stephenhodsdenmurray.com
Lady Fingers and
Empire Biscuits
Rosana Cade
20 Pianos
Matthew Herbert
commissioned by
Third Ear
11 October, Falmouth
October, Glasgow
An intimate, creative family
response to a big awe inspiring
event. 3, 6 and 36 is a piece
of theatre that shares thoughts,
feelings and personal legacy
of the games coming to town.
1 – 2 August, Glasgow as
part of New Music Biennial
Weekend Celebration
Celebration
This piece will tell the stories
of twenty unique pianos from
around the world – from
Steinways at famous locations
to forgotten out-of-tune family
pianos. The composition, for
solo pianist, will be played on
a simple table, turned into a
virtual piano through bespoke
soft/hardware created by
the Radiophonic Workshop.
23 – 25 October, Glasgow
In 1860 the British ruling
force in India instated the
Indian Penal Code, enforcing
a unifying law across the whole
country for the first time. Section
377 of this stated that carnal
intercourse against the order
of nature was illegal. Since
then, this law has been used to
persecute people who engage
in homosexual acts. In this new
piece of theatre, Rosana Cade
explores this export of British
Victorian ideas about sex and
how they have permeated
through time; the confusion
between modern and traditional
notions of identity in each
country; and the impact of the
English language on sexual
discourse in India.
rosanacadedotcom.wordpress.com
thearches.co.uk
converse
Kate V Robertson
November, Glasgow
A series of audio
installations in public consisting
of different spoken dialogues,
broadcast from horn speakers
hanging across telegraph
wires – echoing the urban
gesture of shoes hanging over
streets. The works will be
scripted from audio recordings
taken at events during the
games, but will be installed
after the Games have finished.
Installed across various
locations, the audio pieces will
be then be translated into
Commonwealth languages and
archived in libraries and online.
katevrobertson.com
Toby Paterson
October – November, Glasgow
Toby Paterson will produce
a visual exploration of the
changing urban environment
of the City of Glasgow as it
prepares for the 2014
Commonwealth Games. The
resulting series of paintings will
be exhibited at an exciting and
unconventional venue within the
heart of the city later this year.
themoderninstitute.com
Bystander
Stephen Blake
November, Glasgow
Presentation
A ‘fly-on-the-wall’
observation of the impact the
2014 Commonwealth Games
across the country, before,
during and after the event,
culminating in an album of
new folk music that captures
this. The album will be released
and performed live in Glasgow
in late November.
stevenblakemusic.com/Bystander
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thekildas.com
3, 6 and 36
Sarah Longfield
sarahlongfield.co.uk
11 October – 1 November,
Glasgow
In the spirit of the
Commonwealth Games and
harking back to Greco-Roman
ideals of sport, competition
and culture, Stephen Hodsden
Murray will build, install and
manage a sculptural velodrome
/ amphitheatre, with a twist at
The Briggait in Glasgow.
29 August, Edinburgh
5 September, Glasgow
6 September, Perth
7 September, Inverness
A breathtaking cinematic
collaboration between Scottish
Chamber Orchestra, the
Edinburgh Mela, and rising
world music star Soumik Datta.
The King of Ghosts is a brand
new score inspired by the
classic Indian art house film
’Gupi Gayen, Baghi Bayen’, by
Oscar-winning director Satyajit
Ray. The King Of Ghosts
weaves Indian folk, rich
orchestral textures and funktipped electronica into a
gorgeous, atmospheric
experience, as live scenes from
the film are projected above the
musicians and the audience is
transported into a fairytale.
This tour is the world premiere of
this exciting new piece of work.
Government Expo Fund, and
Homecoming Scotland 2014.
aidanmoffat.co.uk
The Comedown,
the dream is over
now the work begins
Stephen Hodsden Murray
44
The King of Ghosts
Edinburgh Mela
31 August, Glasgow
In a celebration of
Scotland’s musical and oral
traditions, critically acclaimed
songwriter and raconteur
Aidan Moffat has been busy
touring the country with awardwinning filmmaker Paul Fegan,
an all-star band and a brand
new set featuring folk sagas,
drinking songs, bawdy ballads
and bruised laments. Footage
from the shows, the trips, and
the characters they met en route
provides the groundwork for
a feature-length film, directed
by Fegan, to be premiered in
Glasgow in late August.
The Kildas
Deirdre Nelson
Where You’re
Meant To Be
Aidan Moffat and
Paul Fegan
Appendix
Sarah Longfield
3, 6 and 36
44
Matthew Herbert commissioned by
Third Ear
20 Pianos
44
Drew Taylor
44 Stories 22
Visual Statement
A River of Stories
30
Hannah Tuulikki
Air falbh leis na h-eòin /
Away with the Birds
43
Mary Ann Kennedy commissioned by
Watercolour Music
Aiseag23
Create London / Collective Gallery
All Sided Games
17
Scottish Opera
Anamchara –
Songs of Friendship
34
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Animated in 2014
19
Rachel Barron
Assemble: An International
Print Workshop
24
Scottish Book Trust
Authors Live – Commonwealth 16
Create London
Baltic Street Adventure
Playground22
below another sky
25
The Big Big BIG Sing
35
Big Big Sing 11
Big Big Sing at
Choir or the Year
20
Hands up for Trad
The Big Song Relay
17
Lou Prendergast
Blood Lines
22
Starcatchers
Blue Block Studio
31
Active Events
Boomerang24
Annie George
The Bridge
43
Steven Blake
Bystander45
Glasgow Film
Cargo, Camera... Action!
35
Glasgow Life/ Glasgow Arts
Cèilidh Còmhla
36
Glasgow Life
Classics Marathon Day
35
Stephen Hodsden Murray
The Comedown, the dream
is over now the work begins
45
Club Noir
Commonwealth Carnival
39
Royal Scottish Country
Dance Society
Commonwealth Ceilidh
20
Royal Yachting Association
Commonwealth Flotilla
35
Roger Palmer
Commonwealth Games
Visiting Artist: Nauru.
28
The Commonwealth:
Gifts to The Queen
15
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival
Commonwealth Jazz Orchestra 42
Bright Night International
Commonwealth Youth Circus
23
YDance
Commonwealth Youth
Dance Festival
24
Eilidh MacAskill
The Conference Call Of
The Birds
22
Kate V Robertson
converse45
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Corroboree17
Yann Seznec commissioned by
Currents37
Dance Trails
10
Dance-along movies
10
Dance House
Dancing City
28
East End Social
14
Shetland Moving Image Archive
Ebb Tide
30
Glasgow Life in association
with African Caribbean
Cultures Glasgow
Emancipation Acts
37
Collective Architecture
and Louise Welsh
Empire Café
33
A Moment’s Peace Theatre Company
Endurance33
Falkirk community Trust
The Falkirk Pot
21
Fèis Rois
Fèis Rois
39
Aberdeen International Youth
Festival / Royston Maldoom &
Tamara McLorg
Four Seasons
25
Faction North
From Scotland with Love
38
Glasgow Life
Future News 2014
32
Dick Lee
The Games 30
Indepen-dance
Gathered Togethered
43
Get Dancin’
10
Jez Colbourne commissioned
by Mind the Gap
Gift17
Glasgow Life
Glasgow East End Legacy
and Engagement Events 20
Glasgow Building Preservation Trust
Glasgow’s Wee Doors
Open Day
32
Ambassadors Theatre Group
Go Dance 2014
18
Architecture and Design Scotland
Green2014: The Environmental
Legacy of the XX Commonwealth
Games in Glasgow
15
Samuel Bordoli commissioned
by Tête à Tête
Grind39
GRIT – The Martyn Bennett
Story19
Claire Cunningham
Guide Gods
16
Pan African Arts Scotland
The HA Orchestra
24
Tron Theatre
Home Nations Programme
25
Glasgow Life in association
with the University of Stirling
and Commonwealth Games
Hosts and Champions
33
Glasgow Life
1714 – 1837
14
Tramway
Hot: New Dance and
Performance from Australia
18
Glasgow Life
1714 – 1837
14
Marc Brew
(i)land20
Recoat
In Common
28
Dundee Rep
In My Fathers Words
20
David Dale Gallery and Studios
International Artist Initiated
29
Laura Macdonald
International Sextet 22
Janey Godley
Journeys to Glasgow
21
Deirdre Nelson
The Kildas 44
Edinburgh Mela
The King of Ghosts 44
Rosana Cade
Lady Fingers and Empire Biscuits45
Glasgow Life
Lahore – Ceòl Mhór
37
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Letters Home
42
The Hidden Gardens
Mandela Celebrations
28
Tam Dean Burn
The Marathon Storytelling
Cycle Challenge
17
Centre for Moving Image
McLaren 2014
14
YDance
Message Unknown
16
Glasgow Music
17
ACTSA Scotland
Nelson Mandela
International Day
25
PRS Foundation
Weekend Celebration
Glasgow38
PRS Foundation
Weekend Celebration London 23
Luke Daniels & Matheu Watson
commissioned by Gael Music
New World Drovers
36
Random Accomplice
News Just In
33
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society
NZ Season
38
Citizens Theatre
On Common Ground
34
Gabriel Jackson commissioned
by Mr McFall’s Chamber
On the Shore of the Mind
19
Superact
Our Big Gig Scotland
24
Alistair Anderson commissioned
by Sage Gateshead
Panning For Gold
20
Conflux
Perch Carnival: A Festival
of Flying and Falling
29
Clare McGarry
Pokey Hat
18
Arpita Shah
Portrait of Home
25
LEAP Sports
Pride House
32
Paul Towndrow
PRO-AM38
Skye Loneragan
Q Poetics
32
Barrowland Ballet
The River
21
Scottish Association of Flower
Arrangement Societies (SAFAS)
Roots, Shoots and Fruits 32
SA Season
39
Sophie Cooke & Anne Milne
Salt30
Scale23
Jamie Munn
Scokendia32
Stillmotion
Scotch Hoppers
33
The Mitchell Library
Scotland and the Commonwealth:
400 years in the Making
16
Panel
Scotland Can Make It!
29
39
Scottish PEN
Scottish PEN Literary Events
18
RCAHMS & Scottish Documentary
Institute
Sightlines 21
Maryhill Burgh Halls
Songs of Emigration and the
Goldrush: Maryhill’s
Trade Legacy
31
Cryptic
Sound to Sea
39
Edinburgh International Festival
South Africa Season
42
Visible Fictions
The Spokesmen
14
Glasgay!
Sporting Heads
22
Africa in Motion
Sports Stories from around the
African Commonwealth
18
Room 2 Manoeuvre
Squish Squared
16
Glasgay!
Talking Heads
37
Robert Softley
Tell Me What Giving
Up Looks Like
21
The Tin Forest
15
Toby Paterson
Toby Paterson
45
The Common Guild
Tomorrow is Always Too Long 30
Glasgow Life
Tramway Australian Season
18
Scottish Refugee Council
Welcome: Common Ground
18
Where do I end and you begin 43
Aidan Moffat & Paul Fegan
Where You’re Meant To Be
44
World Fringe Congress
43
St Mungo’s Mirrorball
WWMirrorball Commonwealth
Poetry Project
37
Aidan O’Rourke
Year X
35
Starcatchers
Yellow Valley 33
Niraj Chag commissioned by
Artsdepot
You run on tracks, not roads
21
Image Credits:
ir falbh leis na h-eòin | Away with
A
the Birds (Photo: Alex Boyd)
3
Glasgow Girls
(Photo: Robert Day)
7
Dance Trails
(Photo: Nicole Guarino)
10
Big Big Sing
(Photo: Belinda Lawley)
9
All Sided Games : Jacob Dahlgren,
No Conflict, No Irony (I love the
whole world), Courtesy the artist.
(Upper Right)
16
Guide Gods
(lower left) (Photo: Eoin 19Carey)
16
GRIT
(Photo: Richard Kellett)
19
44 Stories
(Photo James Wilson)
22
Scale Dance (Courtesy of Scottish
Dance Theatre)
23
Boomerang
(Photo: Toby Mills)
24
Perch
(Photo: Anna Robertson)
29
Commonwealth Youth Dance
(Photo: YDance/Paul Watt) 31
Scotch Hoppers
(Photo: Brian Hartley) 33
Skokendia Ensemble
(Photo: Julian Njoroge) 33
On Common Ground
(lower left) (Photo:
Courtesy of Citizens Theatre) 34
Ceilidh Comhla
(Photo: Ian Watson) 36
Club Noir:
(Photo: Bart Photo) 38
Gathered Together
(Photo: Brian Hartley) 42
Ubu and the Truth Commission
(Photo courtesy of Handspring
Puppet Company) 43
Toby Paterson Hypothetical Relief
(Photo: Ruth Clark) 45
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