With all good tidings for a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year, this bulletin also brings exciting news of forthcoming events and additions to the regular GAC diary.
This Friday, 20th sees the welcome return of Celtic Connections to the Club with eight fantastic performances over the following two weeks.
From Wednesday 22nd February, there will be a fortnightly morning kids movie showing on the big screen in the Billiard Room. Art Cubs will be a family orientated morning for pre-school kids, where mums and dads can escape the house and make a social event of it. There will be a brunch/lunch menu available and please feel free to bring along friends; real or imaginary, grannies, grandpas and babysitters! On the same Wednesdays, there will be a Midweek Matinee screening later on in the afternoon for the grownups. Why not pop in for lunch first or enjoy an afternoon tea afterwards. Listings will be published in advance of each screening and there may be the opportunity for regular comers to vote for their favourites. From Golden oldies to modern cinema and foreign language, there will be something to suit all tastes.
It is anticipated that from February we will see the return of Live Jazz on Thursday nights with a taster this Thursday 19th January from New York based David Berkman Trio, and the GAC is delighted to announce the appointment of our very own house band in the Edington Ensemble. The Edington will be playing regularly at the Club during lunchtimes and afternoons purely for fun; catch them next at the Club on Friday 10th February from 12.30pm. The Edington Ensemble are also available to hire for private parties.
Finally, for those of you who prefer to drive into town be it for business, pleasure or madness, please take advantage of the Club’s arrangement with the NCP on Cambridge Street next to the Thistle Hotel, where you can now park for £4.50 per day. Just ask at the bar for a pre-validated ticket.
Forthcoming events for January & February
Please note events ma ked * are exclusively Glasgow Art Club member’s events . Concessions on non-exclusive events are noted for Glasgow Art Club members where applicable. See page 2 for full details on any of these events.
January
Fri 20th
Sat 21st
Tue 24th
Wed 25th
Tue 31st
Tue 31st | | Celtic Connections—Steve Tilston 8pm £10/£12
Celtic Connections—Sheena Wellington 8pm £10/£12
Celtic Connections—Sisters Unite 8pm £10/12
Celtic Connections—Gaelic Song Circle 8pm £10/12
*Glasgow Art Club Artist Meeting 6.30pm followed by supper at 7.30 £12 per person for two courses please book by Monday 30th
Celtic Connections—Eilean Mo Ghail 8pm £10/£12 |
February
Thu 2nd
Fri 3rd
Sat 4th
Thu 9th
Fri 10th
Sun 12th
Wed 15th
Wed 22nd | | Celtic Connections—Andy White 8pm £10/£12
Celtic Connections—Voices In Scotland 8pm £10/£12
Celtic Connections—Voices In Scotland 8pm £10/£12
Saint Mungo’s Mirrorball 6.30pm
*Glasgow Art Club Burns Supper 7pm £35 booking essential
Tom Poster Sunday Lunch & Recital 1pm £25/£30 booking essential
*Glasgow Art Club AGM 6.30pm
*Art Cubs in the Billiard Room 10.30am
*Midweek Matinee from 2pm
*Smiley Pete’s Tour de France 5pm £10 booking essential |
Events in Detail
If you don’t find the information you need on this page about any of the listed events, please just call the Club and speak to a member of staff.
Celtic Connections 2012
Friday 20th January — Steve Tilston
Steve Tilston celebrates 40 years in the business and the release of his latest recording The Reckoning. The writer of the classics The Slipjigs and Reels, The Naked Highwayman and A Pretty Penny tonight he is joined by Keith Warmington (harmonica) and Stuart Gordon (violin) performing beautiful arrangements of songs old and new. “…songs of great heart, delivered with authority and instrumental panache.” (The Scotsman).
Saturday 21st January — Sheena Wellington
Opened by Dr. Sheena Wellington in 2003, Dundee’s Wighton Collection is one of the world’s finest repositories of Scottish music. It performs a vital role in furthering the study and development of music in Scotland and tonight, with the help of special guests, she performs some of its hidden gems.
Tuesday 24th January — Sisters Unite
An evening of the very finest in Scots song, featuring three outstanding doyennes of the tradition: ex-Seannachie and Chantan mainstay Elspeth Cowie, and fellow one-time Palaver members Gordeanna McCulloch (also of The Clutha fame) and Aileen Carr – all riveting performers, as well as inspirational role-models to their successors.
Wednesday 25th January — Gaelic Song Circle
A triumvirate of Gaeldom’s younger male champions from around the Hebrides, including South Uist’s Gillebrìde MacIllemhaoil – ―a voice that wine writers would love to set their vocabularies loose on‖ (Herald) – and fellow Mod Gold Medallist (at 19!) Alasdair Whyte, from Mull. Leòdhasach Norrie MacIver, of Bodega and Mànran, completes the circle.
Tuesday 31st January — Eilean Mo Ghail Performing a selection of the beautiful island of Arran’s best music from the album of the same name, are some of Scotland’s leading traditional musicians: Angus Lyon (accordion, piano), Ali Hutton (pipes, whistle, guitar), Innes Watson (guitar, fiddle), Deirdre Graham (Gaelic song) and Ross Kennedy (vocals), all directed and ar-ranged by Arran native, Gillian Frame (fiddle, viola, vocals).
Thursday 2nd February — Andy White
Belfast born and raised, Andy White has earned a global following for blending folk and pop stylings with a poet’s sensibility. Working with the greats of Irish music – Sinead O’Connor, Van Morrison – and writing with Peter Gabriel and Neil and Tim Finn, Andy has won Ireland’s top songwriting awards and toured the world many times over.
Friday 3rd & Saturday 4th February — Voices In Scotland
Experience a collection of stories from around the world, complete with musical accompaniment, told by storytellers from Scotland, England, Ireland, Japan, Africa, America and Canada, all of whom now reside in Scotland.
Fri 3rd - Mara Menzies, Marion Kenny and Lawrence Tulloch (storytellers), Mairi Campbell, Jamie Kenny, Joel Sanderson, Sarah McFadyen, Sandy Wright, Dougie Hudson, Andy Cooke, Stuart Dinwoodie and Pete Vilk (musicians)
Sat 4th - Claire McNicoll, Mio Shapely and Chuck Warren (storytellers), Donald Hay, Jamie Kenny, Mary Macmaster, Leo McCann, Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers, Marion Kenny, Dougie Hudson and Eddie McGuire (musicians).
Thursday 9th February - The Poetry Club at St Mungo’s Mirrorball
Déjà Vu - Peter McCarey, Sophie Cooke, Alexander Hutchison
These three scintillating poets gave a great reading at the Edinburgh Book Fringe Festival last summer, and St Mungo’s Mirrorball thought it would be a good idea to offer it again in Glasgow. Free and all welcome!
Peter McCarey, from Glasgow, lives in Geneva. His poetry consists of "Collected Contraptions" (Carcanet, 2011), reviewed in the TLS and Edinburgh Review, and "The Syllabary" which attracts almost a quarter of a million hits in a good month, partly from puzzled Japanese and Cherokee linguists. He has published one book of critical prose: Hugh MacDiarmid and the Russians (Scottish Academic Press, 1987) and is completing another: Find an Angel and Pick a Fight, on language, philosophy and poetry.www.knot.ch
Sophie Cooke won the Genomics Forum Poetry Prize in 2011 with 'Forward Deck', a poem set on a yacht populated by genetically perfect clones; and was long-listed for the Montreal International Poetry Prize with 'Some Things Have Hardened Which We Did Not Wish To Go Hard'. Her poems are in Product, Gutter, and the Istanbul Review, and her novels, The Glass House and Under The Mountain, are published by Random House. Sophie is also a short story writer, and her travel writing ap-pears in The Guardian. Working on a full length poetry collection, she lives in Edinburgh and likes boats, maths, guitar, astronomy, jazz, funk, and Buckfast.
Alexander Hutchison is currently RLF Writing Fellow at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and also the mentor for Clydebuilt 5. He recently shed his clothes for an image in a calendar from Wild Women Press to raise funds for type 1 diabetes; the best shots being taken in a bracken patch near Grasmere where Wordsworth com-posed The Prelude. He also had a full page spread of poems in Scottish Review of Books at the end of last year, and his poem ―Deil Tak the Hinmaist‖ was more than a token Scots language entry in Best British Poetry 2011 from Salt.
www.alexanderhutchison.comhttps://twitter.com/misssophiecooke
Friday 10th February — Glasgow Art Club Burns Supper
Numbers are creeping towards capacity for this year’s Burns Supper with an impressive line up of speakers and performers, all taking place around a delicious menu so please don’t delay and get your name in the book for this year’s staple event.
Presiding: Raymond Williamson
Address to Haggis : Efric McNeil
Immortal Memory: Dr James Macaulay
Toast to Lassies: Rab Wilson
Reply: Annabel Goldie
Recitations: John Hamilton
Singer: Daisy Henderson accompanied by Derek Clark (piano)
Piper: Fraser Porteous
Sunday 12th February — Tom Poster
Tom Poster is internationally recognised as a pianist of outstanding artistry and versatility. He has been described as "a marvel, [who] can play anything in any style" (The Herald), "an unparalleled sound-magician" (General-Anzeiger), a "young lion" (The Guardian), and as possessing "great authority and astounding virtuos-ity" (Est Républicain). He won First Prize at the Scottish International Piano Competition 2007, the Ensemble Prize at the Honens International Piano Competition 2009, and the keyboard sections of the Royal Over-Seas League and BBC Young Musician of the Year Competitions in 2000. A set lunch menu will be served in the Dining Room and Billiard Room before the recital so please do advise if you have any special dietary requirements.
Wednesday 22nd February — Smiley Pete’s Classic Tour de France
Inverarity One to One’s staple smile merchant will be locking up shop and bringing up a box of French treats for sampling along with a good bit of banter—educational, entertaining, fun and relaxation in equal measures will ensure the perfect mix for a laid back evening of wine tasting. Pete may even unlock the shop again afterwards for some cut price bargains!
