WestFest
OUTDOOR CEILIDH AT KELVINGROVE GALLERIES
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Argyle Street, GlasgowCome and join WestFest & Glasgow Folk Music Workshop for the first community event of WestFest 2025 at the steps of Kelvingrove Art Gallery. Led by the talented musicians of Glasgow Folk Music Workshop, come and have a dance to traditional folk music plus a few modern numbers as well. A great event for all […]
TALKS PROGRAMME: GLASGOW FESTIVALS OF NOTE *NEW*
Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United KingdomVeteran festival and events director Michael Dale, who founded the West End Festival in 1996, reviews his experiences of being the boss not just of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the 1980s but also the very successful Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988 and many more besides. Michael left WEF in 2021 to take on other […]
TALKS PROGRAMME: WEBSTERS AT KELVINBRIDGE: WORLD-CLASS STAINED GLASS *NEW*
Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United KingdomWebsters Theatre, formerly Lansdowne Parish Church, is home to stained glass windows by highly acclaimed Glasgow designer Alf Webster. David Robertson, Director of Four Acres Charitable Trust describes this wonderful stained glass, and the massive glass conservation project which the public will be able to visit and observe. Along with the public realm upgrade at […]
TALKS PROGRAMME: NORTH KELVINSIDE
Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United KingdomRowena Statt, local resident and architect, presents old maps and archive images to explain the Victorian evolution of North Kelvinside, when speculative building rapidly consumed the R. Kelvin's beautiful wooded north bank. The tenements, terraces and villas remain, still in demand today, as are churches, shops, schools, bridges and even an industrial relic, the North […]
TALKS PROGRAMME: GLASGOW: A TRANSPORT HISTORY *NEW*
Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United KingdomMichael Meighan, author and historian, remembers riding a trolleybus or tram to visit relatives and taking a steam train and paddle steamer ‘doon the water’ to Dunoon. Since then, trams and trolleybuses have given way to modern buses, the electric ‘Blue Train’ and the diesels arrived, and paddle steamers, ferries, ships and shipyards disappeared from […]
WEST FEST YOUTH ARTS WORKSHOPS – CIRCUS SKILLS
Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United KingdomJoin Halo Arts team of specialist tutors for 4 weeks of multi arts workshops at Kelvin Hall as part of WestFest, for young people aged 6-12. 7th June: 10-11.30am. All other dates: 12.30-2pm All take place in Kelvin Hall’s workshop space. Only £5 + Booking Fee Pre registration required via Eventbrite. FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE […]
VINICOMBE STREET GALA
Vinicombe Street PiazzaJoin us for the return of the fabulous Vinicombe Street Gala. Taking place on the piazza just off Byres Road (opposite Waitrose), you can look forward to an afternoon of live music, circus performers, choirs & community groups. As well as this we will have street theatre, balloon artists, face-painting and lots more. A great […]
TALKS PROGRAMME: THE PRE-VICTORIAN WEST END *NEW*
Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United KingdomGlasgow’s West End is renowned for its glorious Victorian townscape, but there's also a rich legacy from its earlier history. In this talk, historian Gordon R. Urquhart will examine the settlement of the city’s western hinterlands, from the Neolithic period, through the Viking hogback tombs in Govan, to the era of the grand Georgian country […]
TALKS PROGRAMME: THE ARLINGTON BATHS CLUB *NEW*
Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United KingdomWill Jess and Lucy Janes of Arlington Baths History Group will bring to life this Grade 'A' listed Victorian bathing complex designed by John Burnet and other eminent architects. Owned and run by members, the club is the oldest of its kind in the world, and successfully maintains its 154-year old tradition of a relaxed […]
TALKS PROGRAMME: THE WORKERS WHO BUILT THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW *NEW*
Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United KingdomLittle is known about the manual workers who constructed major Victorian buildings, but Joseph Sharples of the Hunterian, University of Glasgow, has researched in detail the lives of about 100 of the 900 masons, joiners, bricklayers, etc., who built the University between 1867 and 1871, under contractor John Thompson of Peterborough. Their recruitment, experiences before […]
WEST FEST YOUTH ARTS WORKSHOPS – MAKE YOUR OWN T-SHIRT
Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United KingdomJoin Halo Arts team of specialist tutors for 4 weeks of multi arts workshops at Kelvin Hall as part of WestFest, for young people aged 6-12. 7th June: 10-11.30am. All other dates: 12.30-2pm All take place in Kelvin Hall’s workshop space. Only £5 + Booking Fee Pre registration required via Eventbrite. FOR MORE INFO, PLEASE […]
TALKS PROGRAMME: THE SWINGING SIXTIES (OR, WHEN LORD ESHER CAME TO TOWN)
Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United KingdomAfter WW2, Glasgow's infamous 'Bruce Plan' proposed motorways encircling a completely remodelled futuristic city centre. So many key assets were demolished for modernisation that by 1964 our Victorian heritage was in mortal danger. This was part of a national problem, and Westminster passed the protective Civic Amenities Act in 1967. Glasgow quickly designated its first […]