🕺 The Glasgow Culture Wrap: 18 - 25 August 2026

The most-viewed links from the last Glasgow Culture Wrap:

1. 🎸 American superstar Jack White holding intimate gigs at Monorail Music

2. 🏛️ Glasgow City Heritage Trust launches Brutal Glasgow Trail

3. 🎭 A Play A Pie and A Pint’s autumn season

💃 More than 10,000 people attended this year’s Govanhill International Festival and Carnival, with 70 events held across 27 venues in the Southside. - Donald Erskine, Glasgow Times.

🦄 Sporting memorabilia from the Commonwealth Games, including a giant teacake and illuminated unicorn heads, will be sold at Great Western Auctions on August 20. - Rose Moncur, The Herald.

🎞️ The Fall and Rise of the Barras will be screening at Mono on September 16. - Ossian Scotland, Instagram.

☕ The Glasgow Art Cafe on Bath Street is closing permanently; its last day open will be August 22. - Glasgow Art Cafe, Instagram.

⛪ Glasgow Cathedral Festival has launched its 10th-anniversary programme, which runs from September 17 to 20. - Creative Scotland.

🌱 Tron Theatre Ltd has received £57,871 in Young Start funding from The National Lottery Community Fund to facilitate a nine-month work programme. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.

🖼️ New exhibition Every Picture Tells a Story is now open at Maryhill Burgh Halls and explores more than two centuries of history along the Forth & Clyde Canal. - Rose Moncur, The Herald.

🏙️ Artist Mark Herald has reimagined Glasgow in a new collage commissioned by E.ON as part of its ReIndustrial Revolution project. - Rose Moncur, The Herald.

🌿 A new contemporary printmaking exhibition, Branching, has opened at Glasgow Print Studio and will run until October 3. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.

🧵 Celebrating Global Stories and Textiles, organised by the charity SCIAF, will be held at St Paul’s Church Hall in Shettleston on August 22, bringing together Scottish and Zambian textiles through film, conversation, and hands-on activities. - Beth Oliver, Glasgow Times.

🎶 Sofar Sounds are heading to a secret location in Maryhill for their third edition of First Language on August 22, with an evening of “music, stories, and connection.” - Sofar Sounds, Instagram.

🏠 Agora Studios are opening the Flatmates exhibition on September 3. - Agora, Instagram.

🎨 The first-ever Girls Who Come Alone event is happening at Bunker Bar with a paint and sip night on August 21. - Girls Who Come Alone, Instagram.

🛳️ Glasgow local Lewis is starring in E4’s Cruising Paradise: Above & Below Deck, giving viewers an inside look at life on board one of the world’s newest cruise ships. - Thanks for sharing this release with us, Stir!