The most-viewed links from the last Glasgow Culture Wrap:
🍌 An exhibition celebrating the life and career of Sir Billy Connolly will be held at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in June 2027. Tickets go on sale in early 2027. - Jody Harrison, The Herald.
↳ The Big Yin shared a rare video message announcing the exhibition.
🏛️ Glasgow City Heritage Trust has launched the Brutal Glasgow Trail, inviting people to explore some of the city’s most iconic Brutalist buildings through art, running until August 28. - Glasgow City Heritage Trust.
📚 Aye Write will only hold four one-off events later this year. The literature festival’s running time will also be cut from its usual 11 days to five when it returns in March 2027. - Brian Ferguson, The Herald.
🎬 The Scottish Queer International Film Festival is returning to Glasgow Film Theatre this year from October 19 to 24. - SQIFF.
👂 Listen Gallery, a new community arts & listening space, is being built in the city centre and will be open “soon”. - Listen Gallery, Instagram.
🚇 The Clockwork Orange Project will launch their anthology of collaborative writing produced on the Subway at SWG3 Poetry Club on August 26. - Clockwork Orange Project, Instagram.
🎞️ The Talbot Association will show Matt Talbot: Urban Mystic at Glasgow Film Theatre on September 16. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
🦓 American superstar Jack White from The White Stripes will host a series of intimate gigs at Monorail Music from September 18 to 20. - Amy Myles, Glasgow Times.
🏳️⚧️ Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum are holding a trans history display dedicated to Chevalière d’Eon, a French soldier who lived the first half of her life as a man, and the second half as a woman, in the Fragile Art Gallery. - Glasgow Life.
👍 Young Glasgow Museums are opening their new exhibition Ye’ll Be Awright Pal in the COMMONSpace Gallery in GoMA on August 14, running until September 27. - Young Glasgow Museums, Instagram.
🎼 Our Song for Glasgow has been reimagined in Scottish Gaelic, Ar n-Òran do Ghlaschu, ahead of the Royal National Mòd’s return to the city this autumn. - Thanks for sharing this release with the Wrap Mòd Glaschu!
↳ The song will be available to download and stream from August 13.
✍️ Agora Studios is doing Agora Sketch Club on August 27 from 6.30pm - 8.30pm. - Agora, Instagram.
💰 The Creative Scotland Forward Fund worth £67.5k has been launched for Scotland-based creators’ live Kickstarter campaigns across film, comic, music, radio and podcasts, games, publishing and design. - Creative Scotland.
🤖 Fusion Fest, which blends technology and creativity, will debut at The Briggait on September 10 as part of Glasgow Tech Week. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.
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