SWG3, one of Glasgow's leading arts venues, has unveiled a new exterior light installation as part of the venue’s festive programme, which runs until mid-January.
The venue's festive line up includes a gig by the veteran rock band Slade on 6 December.
The installation, called ‘New Glasgow’, is the creation of Glasgow-based artist Patrick Jameson and is on the gable-end façade of SWG3.
The installation can be observed from the street, Eastvale Place, as well as from the train line.
SWG3 will play host to more than 65 events and live gigs from now until Hogmanay - including Slade, the House Gospel Choir, ‘I love the 80’s’ Xmas Party and Frozen Snow Ball: Family Sing-a-long Experience.
The venue’s Acid Bar space will also have Ox and Finch in its kitchens for the entire month of December.
Meryl Gilbert, SWG3 Commercial Manager, said: “2018 has been a record year for SWG3 – from the exciting building developments to the numerous events we’ve held spanning live music, art, food and family."
The venue will also host a New Year’s Eve party - SWG3 Presents NYE, featuring Optimo and The Black Madonna.
https://swg3.tv/events.
THE MATRIX and Alien are to be celebrated as part of this year's Glasgow Film Festival.
The films will be part of the 2019 festival to make the former's 20th birthday and the latter's 40th.
Belgian film making will also be a theme at the festival, which will run from February 20 to March 3.
Glasgow Central Station will be the venue for the first official 20th Anniversary screening of The Matrix (22 and 23 Feb), in the Argyle Street Arches.
A "vast warehouse in North Glasgow" will be the venue for Alien on 28 February.
1969: End Of Innocence is a retrospective devoted to American cinema, with films featuring Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacLaine and Dustin Hoffman.
These 10 films, which will be free to view, "reflect a time when censorship laws were relaxed and American filmmakers and studios struggled to grapple with the social changes and political upheavals in a country that saw protests on the street, fierce opposition to the war in Vietnam, Nixon in the White House, the Manson killings, the Stonewall riots and the growing mobilisation of groups pursuing black power and feminism."
Belgian Cinema : Both Sides Now will be a look at contemporary Belgian filmmaking.
Highlights include the Scottish premiere of Lukas Dhont’s award-winning Girl, Marta Bergman’s feature debit about a Romani woman who becomes a mail-order bride Alone At My Wedding / Seule à mon mariage and stop-motion animated feature This Magnificent Cake!, telling colonial stories from across the Belgian Empire.
The festival will be welcoming Belgian directors and actors and screening Belgian movies in partnership with Flanders in the UK and Wallonie-Bruxelles International.
Tickets for Alien and The Matrix go on sale on 26 November.
The full programme for Glasgow Film Festival 2019 will be announced on 23 January.
www.glasgowfilm.org
THE Holy Week Festival in 2019, which will run from April 14 to April 20, is to mark Sir James MacMillan's 60th birthday.
The festival, in London's St John's Smith Square, is returning for a third year and is curated by Nigel Short and the choir Tenebrae.
Sir James MacMillan said: "With the growing interest in, and popularity for sacred music this is an event which is making a timely appearance, especially at a liturgically charged time of year.
"It appeals to the religious and non-religious alike, in that its cherished repertoire is central to our great classical musical culture, which is now a universal language and heritage.
Headline performers in the festival include the Brodsky Quartet, Ex Cathedra, The Marian Consort, Polyphony and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and The Tallis Scholars.
Alongside this are leading amateur (Etcetera Choir), collegiate (Choir of Clare College, Cambridge) and young professional ensembles (SANSARA and Siglo de Oro).
Tenebrae will collaborate with the Britten Sinfonia for MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross and the BBC Singers, conducted by Sir James MacMillan, will perform a selection of the composer’s a cappella works including movements from The Strathclyde Motets and A Choral Sequence from the St John Passion.
www.tenebrae-choir.com
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