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  • GIO Fest 2025

    GIO Fest 2025

    The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Festival 2025 held at the Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow was a three day music extravaganza with the central focus on artists from Indonesia, Japan, and Sri Lanka, with an additional performance of Gamelan music. We had the privilege to attend a few of the events during the festival – evening Read more

  • Walk Write Blether: Pilot

    Walk Write Blether: Pilot

    I am delighted to write a review revolving around my creative colleague and co-GalBagger, Eliza Coulson, and her most recent launch of Walk Write Blether (also known as Write Walk Blether) on Saturday 15th of November. It was great seeing new and familiar faces at this crisp outdoor event and, were pleasantly surprised by blue Read more

  • ellen crofton: iterations

    ellen crofton: iterations

    The congruence within/from chaos – ‘the repetition of a process or utterance’. Iterations is a performance piece using contemporary dance produced by experimental multidisciplinary artist and choreographer Ellen Crofton. Having previously shown this work as a solo performance at Strangefield, Glasgow, this is the first time Crofton has developed this piece with two joining dancers, Read more

  • Pepita Mwanga: Critical Review

    Pepita Mwanga: Critical Review

    We find ourselves visiting Inside Voices, a collaborative poetry night with Anoraq and Glasgow Review of Books, housed in King Tuts. On this night we hone in on poet and writer Pepita Mwanga who shared her words alongside other performers; all accompanied by live impromptu music. The music from Anoraq was improvised based on the Read more

  • Rosebank’s Spirits and Derks’ Canvas: Review

    Rosebank’s Spirits and Derks’ Canvas: Review

    In childhood, I passed its brick carcass. Subconsciously noting its strange presence with its still standing stature — an unusual phenomenon. It was as if the building knew it would return, it was not destined for demolition like many other unfortunate buildings in Falkirk. I would walk past it without much thought, it wasn’t even Read more

  • [synonym] session: My fierce aunt bianca

    [synonym] session: My fierce aunt bianca

    Curator of FEMME, Brooke Hailey Hoffert, welcomed us to an exhibition forged through collaborative efforts with artist and filmmaker María José Maldonado presenting ‘My Fierce Aunt Bianca’, at Strangefield, Glasgow.   Housed behind a black curtain, Hoffert starts the session off with advising us to first watch the incredibly informative short documentary aptly titled ‘My Read more