Blythswood Festival 2025 – at The Glasgow Art Club
Reading the Tea Leaves – Miss Cranston and Glasgow’s café culture
Talk by Norry Wilson, journalist
Thursday 1st May
7.30pm
How one woman’s drive and determination turned Glasgow into a ‘very Tokyo of tea rooms.’ In Britain, Glasgow created tea rooms, and London followed. LOST GLASGOW’s Norry Wilson tells everyone about it.
(Part of Glasgow Blythswood Festival 2025)
Doors open at 6.30pm.
£15 including glass of wine or soft refreshment on arrival.
Please be aware this event will take place on our first floor.
Art Deco Scotland
Talk by Professor Bruce Peter, design historian
Tuesday 6th May 2025
7.30pm
Join Glasgow School of Art’s Professor of Design History, Bruce Peter, in a centenary celebration of Art Deco in Scotland with a focus on Glasgow. Following the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris in 1925, decorative arts traditions and Beaux Arts approaches to architectural composition were adapted. Major outputs of Glasgow architects, sculptors and designers who worked in emerging Art Deco and moderne styles will be considered. Glasgow expressed the new confidence and knew how to do it. Could we see a resurgence of flowing lines and dramatic curves today?
(Part of Glasgow Blythswood Festival 2025)
‘Art Deco Scotland: Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age’ authored by Bruce Peter, and published by Historic Environment Scotland in March 2025
Doors open at 6.30pm.
£15 including glass of wine or soft refreshment on arrival.
Please be aware this event will take place on our first floor.
The Lady Artists Club
Talk by Hildegarde Berwick, art curator
Friday 9th May
2.30pm
Eight young lady students at Glasgow School of Art got together in 1882 and started the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists, the first such major female grouping in Britain. By the 1890s a permanent home was found and developed – the Lady Artists Club at 5 Blythswood Square, also being the first residential club for women in the country. Disinterest from the Scottish Arts Council caused the building to close in the 1970s, but the artists and lay members re-formed and flourish today as the Glasgow Society of Women Artists. Hildegarde Berwick shares and intrigues us with the life and growth of their initiatives and wide scope of creativity.
(Part of Glasgow Blythswood Festival 2025)
Doors open at 1.30pm.
£15 including glass of wine or soft refreshment on arrival.
Please be aware this event takes place on our first floor.
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Oscar, bravo! – Marzaroli’s magic eye in the Gorbals
Talk by Norry Wilson, journalist
Thursday 15th May
7.30pm
Framing the past, and the future, how Oscar captured a community. Oscar Marzaroli came as a child from Northern Italy to Garnethill, later going to Stockholm and London and then returning to his adopted city of Glasgow. His photojournalism and filming skills across the city show lives and times at a moment of change. LOST GLASGOW’s Norry Wilson guides our eyes to what Oscar found and wanted to tell.
(Part of Glasgow Blythswood Festival 2025)
Doors open at 6.30 pm.
£15 including a glass of wine or soft refreshment on arrival.
Please be aware this event takes place on our first floor.
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS VIA EVENTBRITE