RECOAT, a Scottish arts organisation that specialises in contemporary urban art, will celebrate a decade of exhibitions, mural projects, and education programmes with an exhibition – This Will Ruin Everything – at The Lighthouse in Glasgow.
Running from July 14 to 30, This Will Ruin Everything features forty Scottish and international artists and designers exhibiting architecture, digital art and painting. The show will also feature the Lighthouse’s first mural.
Exhibiting practitioners include Kidacne, Sheone, Matt. W. Moore, Maya Wild, Will Barras, Kirsty Whiten, Mark Lyken, Elph, Fraser Gray and Susie Wright.
The exhibition and programme of workshops, panel discussions and screenings aim to "encourage dialogue around the distinctions between design and art in contemporary creative practice."
A series of events will run during the exhibition’s run, including a panel discussion on its themes and screening of films about Recoat projects.
This Will Ruin Everything events programme is supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
thelighthouse.co.uk
GLASGOW jazz combo Spark Trio continue their monthly series of gigs at Swing in Hope Street on Monday 10. Each month the trio invite a guest to explore original material and new interpretations of jazz standards, and their latest guest is pianist and keyboards player Alan Benzie, pictured, the first winner of the Scottish Young Jazz Musician of the Year title when he was seventeen in 2007. A graduate of Berklee School of Music in Boston, where he won the prestigious Billboard Award, Benzie has since recorded his debut album, Traveller’s Tales, with his own trio and currently appears with Glasgow collective Fat-Suit. The gig begins at 8:00pm.
swingltd.co.uk
THE BLOODY Scotland festival of crime writing in Stirling is heading for its best year in ticket sales.
At the end of June, a month after the programme for the festival was launched, ticket sales were up 50% compared to the same time last year.
The appearances of Ann Cleeves and Douglas Henshall look close to selling out the 700 seater Albert Halls, as do those by Ian Rankin and Val McDermid.
The Crime at the Coo cabaret night sold out on the day tickets went on sale.
The crime writing festival takes place from September 8 to 10 and tickets for the opening reception at Stirling Castle, where the winner of the McIlvanney Prize for 2017, are also selling fast.
Director Bob McDevitt said the festival looks like it will be celebrating a record-breaking year.
bloodyscotland.com
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