Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival is back next month, offering visitors the perfect excuse once again to uncover hidden secrets of the city.
Through a series of heritage talks, exhibitions and open buildings, the festival will consider the theme “City In Flux”, which harks back to the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust’s origins as a campaign to save the old fish market at the Briggait in 1982.
This year's festival, which takes place between September 12 and 18, also forms part of the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust’s 40th anniversary celebrations.
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Stephen Sheriff, Festival Coordinator, said: "We are looking forward to sharing a full programme of open buildings, guided trails and events. Excited to be returning to our regular festival format, complete with festival hub, participants have been working harder than ever - from a Wall of Death to an outdoor ceilidh, this programme has something for everyone. Also look out for a very special talk by Professor Jack Halberstam at the ARC building, and tours of Govanhill Baths!”
Highlights include: an exhibition depicting the construction of B-listed building The Pyramid; an event sponsored by and in partnership with the Glasgow Gifford Lectures, Gender Studies and English Professor Jack Halberstam exploring the relationship between queer art and architecture in portrayals of Glasgow. Along with that, local band The Tennementals will be performing the history of Glasgow in song at Trades House.
Documentarian Chris Leslie will also be sharing how his time in post-conflict Croatia and Bosnia influenced his later work and Lost Glasgow’s Norry Wilson will dive into the Gotham-like square mile that was lost to the construction of Enoch train station. Meanwhile, Civic House will present their ongoing redevelopment to become Scotland’s first retrofit passivhaus, and Garnethill Refugee Trail will reveal some of the places around the Garnethill area that are connected with Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe.
This year for the first time, Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival’s hub will be held in the University of Glasgow’s new flagship research building the Advanced Research Centre (the ARC), a £116.5 million building which hosts over 500 researchers.
The ground floor of the ARC will showcase the university’s research to the public, while providing a venue for talks, activities and an exhibition throughout the festival.
For more info, visit the Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival website here
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