A fully funded PhD opportunity to creatively use the latest virtual reality art forms or filmmaking techniques to improve the health and wellbeing of disabled communities.

For more information and application details, please visit the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities website here.

Deadline: Friday 11 August 2017

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Watch Glasgow-set sci-fi film-noir Death Watch in the subterranean screening room of Merchant City’s newly renovated ISO HQ building.

The Merchant city features prominently in this cult classic by Bernard Tavernier. Harvey Keitel plays a reporter with a camera implanted in his brain. He secretly records the final days of a terminally ill writer (Romy Schneider), to be broadcast as a form of twisted entertainment. With its satirical prophecy of reality TV, media paranoia, surveillance and celebrity, this chilling film is more appropriate now than ever.

Part of the Merchant City Festival.
Complimentary drinks provided by Heverlee Beer.

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12A | 128 mins | 1980 | France, Germany | English, French, German

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Call for Artist – live drawing event at National Museum of Scotland
National Museums Scotland is seeking an artist to develop and deliver a live drawing event on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th July.
Deadline: 17 June

Anthology 2016 | Call for applications    
Ten finalists will be exhibited at Charlie Smith London and receive £2,000 cash prize.
Deadline: 18 June

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The RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award 2016
The Barns-Graham Travel Award (£2,000) provides a travel and research opportunity for graduating and postgraduate students.
Deadline: 9 August

The RSA William Littlejohn Award 2016
The RSA William Littlejohn Award (£2,000) is for artists working in water-based media (any pigment mixed with water).
Deadline: 9 August

The RSA Morton Award 2016
The Morton Award (£5,000) is for artists working in a lens-based media in Scotland.
Deadline: 9 August

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 Head of Marketing & Communications | Edinburgh
Collective are seeking an experienced individual to lead the strategic development of marketing, public relations and communications.
Deadline: 20 June

Digital Project Manager: Glasgow
Everyone are seeking an experienced digital project manager to assist with the running of our busy city centre studio.
Deadline: 24 June

Various Jobs at SFMOMA | San Francisco
SFMOMA are looking to recruit for various positions including marketing, communications & digital roles.
Deadline: ongoing

Graphic Designer | Shanghai
Experienced Graphic Designer required for NeochaEDGE, an expanding company based in China.
Deadline: ongoing

Volunteer Correspondents
Tribe magazine are recruiting for both international and UK based correspondents to write articles, interviews & features around the arts.
Deadline: ongoing

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Commission, Galoshans Festival 2016
Awards are available for proposals in any art form and which are inspired by or fit within the festival’s theme: ‘When Two World’s Touch’
Deadline: 20 June

Open Project Funding: Call for Applications
Individuals & organisations can apply for funding from £1,000 to £100,000 to support supports the arts, screen and creative projects.
Deadline: ongoing

Night Shift Residency
A peer group residency focussing on attention economy and the 24/7 sleepless society for artists, art practitioners and writers.
Deadline: ongoing

FUNDING: Go and See Fund – Imaginate
A fund dedicated to helping artists in Scotland access work & shows to help inspire their next project.
Deadline: ongoing

Team Effort! Residencies
Residencies last for a maximum of 3 weeks between September 2013 & August 2014 to fit within Team Effort!’s ethos of exploration, risk-taking & collaboration.
Deadline: ongoing

Open Access Residency | Aberdeenshire
This residency offers artists the time, space, facilities & technical support to realise their work & to develop their practice & research new ideas.
Deadline: ongoing

Mark Devereux Projects Associates Programme
MDP announce their revised Associates programme which supports early-career visual artists through events, opportunities & critical exchange.
Deadline: ongoing

Woodland Project Residency
The Residency takes place in Cyprus and seeks to expand outdoor practice and explore the relationship between woodland & human being.
Deadline: ongoing

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Products Wanted | Glasgow
We are looking for great new designs by current students, practising staff, recent graduates and established alumni of The Glasgow School of Art.
Deadline: 22 June

Spoken Word Submissions Sought
Lies, Dreaming are seeking audio recordings of spoken word pieces on the theme of ‘Do you want fries with that?’ for our bi-monthly podcast.
Deadline: 30 June

Open call: Faraway, So Close
Selected participants will work within teams and exhibit under the main exhibition umbrella accompanied by a dedicated catalogue.
Deadline: 10 July

Call out, Creative Workshop Facilitators / Makers
Kalopsia are seeking proposals from Creative Workshop Facilitators / Makers for participatory workshops and activities.
Deadline: 1 September

Tin Roof ϟ Zine Fair
Tin Roof invites submissions from artists, collectives, publishers and presses to sell, network and enjoy print.
Deadline: TBC

The Glasgow Photography Gallery: Call for Submissions
See your photography showcased on one of The Glasgow Photography Gallery’s online spaces.
Deadline: ongoing

Peep Show Coffee: Call for Proposals
Peep Show Coffee are looking for proposals & ideas for short-term and long-term use of their project space.
Deadline: ongoing

Callout to Artists Looking for a Venue | London
Ziferblat is a social experiment. The space is ours & yours. To use to create, collaborate, experiment and play; what would you do with the space?
Deadline: ongoing

Hold Me Dear: Call for Submissions
Send a photograph of the place you personally treasure and include a 50 words caption explaining the story behind why this place is important to you.
Deadline: ongoing

Gallery Unit Open Call
Open call for exhibition proposals for new artist exhibition/event space at The Savoy Centre in Glasgow.
Deadline: ongoing

The Facility Makers Call Out
The Facility shop seeks products made in Britain including jewellery, textiles, prints, glass, furniture & ceramics to sell in the Facility shop.
Deadline: ongoing

Exhibit your artwork at Tchai-Ovna
Open call for exhibitors: proposals wanted for monthly solo exhibition at Tchai-Ovna, House of Tea.
Deadline: ongoing

Write Shoot Cut: Call for submissions
Write Shoot Cut is a monthly short film night. They are currently seeking submissions for various programmes.
Deadline: ongoing

Open Submissions for Moving Image Makers
An unconscious & uncurated stream of work will be displayed at Summerhall, Edinburgh for the indefinite future.
Deadline: ongoing

A.L.L. Seaweed
An Lucht Lonrach is searching for articles & artworks on the uses of seaweed.
Deadline: ongoing

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Six Foot Gallery Jewellery Benches for Hire
Six Foot Gallery would like to offer jewellers the opportunity to rent our jeweller’s benches.
Deadline: Ongoing

WASPS Studios: Creative Office Space Available | Nairn
WASPS Studios have one creative industry/enterprise space to rent at Links Studios in Nairn please click link for further details.
Deadline: Ongoing

Open Studio Club: Rent, swap & collaborate studio spaces around the world.
Free Event/Urban/Unusual/Studio/Rehearsal Spaces: 16–25 with an idea, creative project or business? Need a space to help make it happen? We’ll find a space to help you — for free!

Glasgow:

SWG3 Desk hire in Design Studio
Full and Half Desk spaces available in Design Studio 223
Ongoing

Studio Spaces and Co-working desks Available
Two studio spaces available, a space for 1 person or for 2/3 people, and co-working opportunities too.
Deadline: Ongoing

Workspace available for fashion project | Glasgow
Do you have a fashion related project and need space or equipment to develop it? The Fashion Foundry studio is opening its doors.
Deadline: Ongoing

Modern Office Spaces: Spaces available include; a coworking desk space, an office for 3/4 people & an unfurnished whole floor for up to 15 people.
Titan Props: Multi-use spaces for film & photographic shoots.
South Block: Creative space in Merchant City.
MAKLAB: A digital fabrication studio offering use of machines for engraving, embroidery, cutting shapes and making 3d objects.
Studio/Office desk space: Three spaces are available in a bright, secure shared office/desk space five minutes from Central Station.
Shapes Of Things Studio Available for Hire : Studio hire is aimed at those with a fair amount of silk screen printing experience.
The Distillery: Creative freelancer looking for a place to work? The Distillery at The Whisky Bond offers open plan space, quiet areas & meeting rooms.
Toad’s Caravan: Collaborative, creative working space based in the west end with desk space available to rent.
De Anderen Studios: Three spaces are available within the studio in addition to hot-desking facilities
Desks to rent in Creative co-working office space Flexible desk rental from hot desking to permanent available now in Glasgow’s West End with relaxed meeting room available for separate hire.

Edinburgh:

Whitespace: A space for classes and exhibitions.
Media Education: A desk space for hire close to Haymarket station.
Rhubaba Studios Available: Any artist can apply for studios at Rhubaba. All studio artists have access to the gallery space between exhibitions.
The Facility Studios: Involved in textiles, fashion or design? Studios now available to rent at The Facility, Edinburgh.

London:
Project space available at Enclave: A long-term project space will be available from October for individuals/groups of artists/curators running contemporary art programmes.

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Writers:
Pinso | Our Penniless Write | Product Magazine | Fractured West | Colossal

Moving Image:
Write Shoot Cut | Pluspace | The Cutting Room | Soundry

Members:
Fleet Collective, Dundee | Project Slogan Consortium, Aberdeen |
Just Us Collective | Make Works Directory | VAU: Membership Scheme

Artwork:
tribe magazine | artpistol | Product Magazine | Moray Art Centre | Editions | a secret.

Jewellery graduates:
Vanilla Ink

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Trust This Journey, oil on canvas, 120 x 110cm, 2015-16

I paint with intent, with a working theme in mind that expands and evolves as the work continues.  When mark-making I use memory and feeling merged and fused with conscious forms.  I usually work on a few pieces at any one time in a variety of scale, oscillating between canvas on the wall or easel, pieces on the floor and sketchbooks on the table.  I like the physicality of painting, of mark-making.  I enjoy the dialogue between pieces when placed next to each other by accident or intentionally and the thoughts and ideas that protrude from this.

This Island This Edge, ink & gouache on paper, 74 x 57cm, 2015

My recent work focuses on death, loss and transition.  I have been exploring this by creating something that I destroy to then create something new.  This could be a painting that I cut up to use the pieces as stencils on another painting, creating sections within it that are ‘missing’ but are making up a whole.  I am exhibiting a piece from this body of work at the international festival of contemporary art, Cupar Arts Festival, as an invited artist for the LIMINAL group exhibition from 18th – 25th June.

Missing 2, ink on canvas, 120 x 100cm, 2016

In my solo exhibition “Interconnections” at the Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries in 2015 I was exploring human relationship to nature through childhood memory, our desire to reconnect coupled with our distance from it.  For the exhibition I undertook a residency on the Isle of Eigg with The Bothy Project for which I am doing a talk at The Stove, the artist-led organisation and multi-purpose arts venue, in Dumfries on 23rd June.

Installation views of “Interconnections” 2015

Other exhibitions include “Inscapes”, a solo exhibition at &Collective Gallery in Bridge of Allen earlier this year,  “Detritus & Other Stories” solo exhibition at Iota Gallery in Glasgow in 2014, D&G Out group exhibition at James Harvey Gallery in London 2014, Visual Arts Award Restrospective Exhibition at the John Gray Centre in Haddington 2013.   I am also currently Chair of Upland, a new and ambitious visual art and craft development organisation in Dumfries & Galloway.

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Joe’s hyper-stylised computer art is going on exhibit alongside Saran Glöbel at the Glasgow School of Art from the 9th of June. Read more about Superzone here.

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ROLE
We  have an opportunity for experienced Producers to join our successful team in delivering a series of large media projects and interactive installations across the UK and internationally.

Working from our production studio in Glasgow you will be helping us to deliver content-rich digital experiences that include animation, live action filming, AR / VR, motion graphics and bespoke software development.

The role is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidates to become key members of our studio. You will benefit from the support of a strong creative and technical team and experience on a range of diverse, industry-leading projects.

You will have been involved in animation, games, television or film production or your background will be in digital production in either a design, advertising, online or software development studio.

You will have a  broad interest in culture, technology and the arts and be equally comfortable with creative or technical challenges.

Responsibilties
- Delivering high quality projects across a range of media and platforms, with the skills required to deliver on budget and on schedule.
- A great communicator who will organise and motivate their team and work alongside directors and creative leads to ensure their vision is realised.
- Liaising with clients to determine the aims of their projects and ensuring their requirements are delivered on time and on budget.
- Producing cost breakdowns and schedules and oversee projects from initial briefing to final delivery.
- Managing internal design and production team resources and co-ordinating external freelance associates or suppliers
- On larger projects leading a team of producers, production assistants and project managers
- Excellent reporting skills
- The majority of work will be studio-based with opportunities to work off-site at workshops, presentations, filming or post-production. Some international travel is also required.

Requirements
- 5 years+ professional experience within a media or software related environment.
- Demonstrable experience in handing budgets of £250k+ and the proven ability to work on complex multi-part projects across mixed media and different formats.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to deal directly with directors, designers, developers, production support and freelance associates
- Excellent client management skills
- The ability to quickly determine creative and technical requirements of projects and to put programme and resource planning into place
- Excellent reporting skills especially across budget management and scheduling.
- Attention to detail and a sense of ownership on projects is essential.

SUBMISSIONS
• Cover letter introducing yourself, your work experience and professional  interests. Please make sure if demonstrates the minimum requirements above.
• CV with two industry references
• An indication of salary expectations

The initial contract will be for 12 months full time though we would consider flexible or part-time working for the right candidates. Please indicate if this is a preference.

Please forward to opportunities@isodesign.co.uk

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VIDEO TEASER:

The founders and directors Estela Oliva and Carmen Salas tell us about the ideas behind the exhibition and the criteria they’ve used for choosing the work of arts.

Presented in collaboration with Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Lima, New Realities is a project that aims to explores the implications of technology on human behaviour and identity, and how the ever ­changing nature of the Internet and use of new technologies are bringing about new avenues for creative expression. The exhibition runs until Friday 17 June 2016, free access, all ages.

“It’s been an amazing experience to present the exhibition at Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Lima. They’re doing such a great job, and we found many synergies with what we do here. We’ve worked very closely with them for over a year to adapt the project to their spaces and audiences.” says Carmen Salas.

Photo credit: LaTurbo Avedon.

Through this journey of art, technology and digital creativity, we seek to provide new perspectives on the reality we live, and anticipate the future we are all heading to. A future in which we can decide what role to adopt in order to make a more harmonious place for future generations. The exhibition illustrates a culture of continuous change and complex transformation in which the digital tools we once created are now acting as important agents of change.

Photo credit: Espacio Fundación Telefónica.

New Realities includes the works of 12 contemporary artists and designers featured across three thematic areas. The criteria for selecting the works has been to choose projects that significantly deal with defining questions of this new reality in which we live; artworks that blend artistic research with innovative practices to break boundaries, and foster the development of new disciplines. The artists featured in the exhibition include: Karolina Sobecka, LIA, LaTurbo Avedon, Jan de Coster, Lawrence Lek, Mark Dorf, Quayola, Universal Everything, Ustwo, FIELD, Fabrica and Realität.

Photo credit: Energy Flow by FIELD.

For Alpha-ville, it is essential that all technological developments go hand in hand with a critical reflection through research and artistic creation, so that we can deepen the impact and possibilities that these new technologies have on society and culture. This is the message we wanted to convey with New Realities, a concept that is also explained in the Marshall McLuhan’s quote we’ve used in the exhibition text: “artists are always ahead of technology offering us clues to understand the impact these technologies will have later on. “

Photo credit (left to right)
First: Ustwo.
Second:Espacio Fundación Telefónica
Third: gEOF by Jan de Coster.

More details about the exhibition can be found here.

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Wandering around the work of this year’s DJCAD graduates before the award plaques go up is a new and somewhat freeing experience. A dauntless spectator may attempt at a few guesses, but this year the work is so varied in media and approach that it’s even difficult to label it under course names; deep reverberating sounds and extensive processes radiate from the Art Philosophy and Contemporary Practice students whilst the Fine Art students’ work oozes complex ideologies. The Time Based Art & Digital Film work is sprinkled throughout the building, granting this year’s Degree Show a cohesive feel that fits well with showcasing such a close knit, collaborative year.

Helen King

In one of the Crawford building’s bright, open rooms, Helen King’s (APCP) immaculate blueprints peek out from behind the massive concrete slab that both greets and blocks you upon entering. Coming to notice how precariously the piece balances causes a tinge of doubt towards the supposedly stable walls around you. Combat this doubt against the blueprints, and they begin to act as a warrant for the Brutal Modernist architecture tropes; old-school, time consuming processes take precedence over new technologies and a long spent thought becomes the documentation and justification of one side of a polarized opinion. The concrete proves itself, standing tall in the foreground.

Sandra Schneider

Juxtapose King’s solid concrete slab with Sandra Schneider’s (Fine Art) evocative study on language; Schneider’s clicking tongue and slow, purposeful poetry fill the room as much as any matter, concrete or human. The vibe is more like a 70s living room and feels like a living, tactile set of a Svankmajer film. Tongues burgeon from the unassuming, floral wallpaper like moulding mushrooms and, although the soft light from the lamp and dark wood may make you feel at home, illusions of puddles and wet patches deter you from taking a seat. The subtly dominating sound of a trickling leak (or ‘bubbly saliva’) give the feel that this room, a metaphor for language itself, is weakened and weakening and the voice plays the part of the foundations and the leak causing all the destruction.

Veera Krouglov

Fulfilling Dundee’s recent appetite for graphic, psychedelic murals, Veera Krouglov’s fun-filled room contains all the characters you would want to meet on a dark night. The life-size doodles and miniature ceramic creatures invoke a childishly mature personality, as though Krouglov has managed to embody the exact behind-the-scenes sensibility of concealed adult humour in a kids TV show.

Sean Forsyth and Ewan T Gibson

Hazel Holloway deploys the term ‘physical empathy’, exploring her bodily self-awareness in restricted material work, and Eve Kerr’s filmed performance ‘Clay Kavala Graha’  displays a metaphoric extraction of artistic intuition through pure material. Shifting from materiality to the screen, ‘Elsewhere’, a beautiful short film by Sean Forsyth (Fine Art) and Ewan T Gibson (TBA), brings forth a celebration of the landscape on our doorstep through the ingenuity of unexpected interaction between a Fox and a Crow. The strong array of films this year is not to be missed on the big screen, showcasing on Wednesday the 25th of May at the DCA.

Kieran Milne and Thomas Stephenson

As far as guessing games go, the RSA Awards are a tough one to call. One room stands out as a tough competitor, housing the work of Kieran Milne and Thomas Stephenson (both Fine Art). On Milne’s side of the room, light streams in from the big old windows into a space as sleek and calm as an office in the Netherlands. Serene tones of Riso green prevail throughout the publications, houseplants and wall pieces, and exit signs act as an invitation for escape through the black kissing gate in the foreground. In Thomas Stephenson’s work, the name ‘wood burning stove’ manifests literally, at first glance beautifully and traditionally constructed, yet a strong satirical warning emanates from within; an uncompromising illustration of the destructive passivity we undertake in the daily living of our lives.

One thing that shines throughout this years’ Degree Show is an unwavering awareness of the artists’ surroundings, into which each work proclaims a corner of it’s own. An undoubtedly outstanding show from the graduates, Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art and Design will keep you roaming for hours. It’s open until the 29th of May and the work’s above are just a small selection from the many, many memorable works on show from the emerging talent that is the class of 2016.

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design continues until  29 May in Dundee. Find out more information online here.

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SCOTLAND

 /// ABERDEENSHIRE

until 28 May | Seventeen
Under New Moons, We Stand Strong
Under New Moons, We Stand Strong sculptural exhibition comes to Seventeen in Aberdeen, with a special edition of Urban Knights.

until 29 May | Peacock Visual Arts
The Brutalist Playground, Assemble and Simon Terrill 
Exhibit exploring post-war design for play, as part of Look Again Visual Art & Design Festival.

until 25 June | Grey’s School of Art
Degree Show at Gray’s School of Art
Exhibition of Painting, Contemporary Art Practice, Three Dimensional Design, Fashion & Textiles, Communication Design and Commercial Photography.

21 May – 14 June | Newave Gallery
Ade Adesina ‘Awake’ Solo Exhibition
Bespoke limited edition prints by a multi-award winning artist.

18 June | Peacock Visual Arts
PMC Silver Jewellery Making Workshop
Led by our resident jewellery expert Renee, this workshop lets users experiment with Precious Metal Clay.

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28 – 30 May | Various
Spring Fling
Scotland’s premier open studios contemporary visual art and craft event – this year featuring 94 artists, makers and designers.

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until Autumn 2016 | The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum
Draw the Line: Old Masters to The Beano  
The exhibition shows the vast and all encompassing range of creativity expressed in drawing from Dundee’s nationally significant fine art collection.

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until 21 May | Ingleby Gallery
Kevin Harman: No Man’s Land
Positioned somewhere between painting and sculpture these large format abstractions are at once seductively beautiful and challengingly physical.

until 31 May | Arusha Gallery
Ilona Szalay – Queen of Swords
Ilona Szalay’s oil and resin on wood paintings trace a path through a world of conflict and power play, a place of rigid hierarchy and fierce competition.

25 May – 13 July | Summerhall
Statussignal
Hamish Chapman, Jordan Munro and Jordan Pilling present an exhibition acting as a level playing field upon which three boys come out to play.

26 May – 31 July | Summerhall
Imagining Faith by Isabel Rocamora
This work centres on her 22 minute film triptych Faith: an intimate observation of the act of worship of the three monotheistic religions in Jerusalem.

7 June | Summerhall
Cultures of Prayer: Faith to Faith in Conversation
Panel discussion to coincide with Isabel Rocamora’s exhibition ‘Imaging Faith’, with Rev. Dr Harriet Harris, Rabbi David Rose and Sohaib Saeed.

throughout the year | Various
Screen Academy Scotland Courses
Professional short course training (screenwriting, cinematography, film, TV & cross-platform production & image & sound editing).

throughout the year | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centre
Writing Courses
Courses in Novel Writing, Poetry, Short Story Writing, and Screenwriting.

/// GLASGOW

until 29 May | Street Level Photoworks
Catrine Val: Political Letters
New collection of staged photoworks around the neglected canon of women in philosophy, including some new work specific to Scotland and the theme.

until 20 May | Many Studios / Project Space
Fátima Rodrigo, UNAP
A piece of video/sculptural work that examines the problematic socio-political relationship between higher education and the Peruvian government

until – 29 May | Street Level Photoworks
Mari Hokkanen: Set & Setting
Every image in Set & Setting is a scene on its own presenting a story of different allegories and world phenomenon.

until 22 May | MANY Studios
The Heart of the City
A solo exhibition by Fatima Rodrigo (Peru) as part of Glasgow International Festival 2016.

until 5 June | CCA
Intermedia, The Women’s Unit
Outcome of a year long residency at Glasgow Women’s Library by Mandy McIntosh, influenced by projects like Judy Chicago’s Womanhouse.

until 22 June | Tramway
The Net Effect
Thinking about a future in making, curating or teaching Art? Discover this new visual arts group for ages 16-25.

until 10 July | CCA
Jerwood/FVU Awards: ‘Borrowed Time’
Two moving-image works by selected artists Karen Kramer and Alice May Williams.

until 14 May | Cyril Gerber Fine Art
Scottish Horizons
A new exhibition of watercolours and drawings by well-known artist Tom H. Shanks RSW RGI PAI.

until 31 May | Glasgow Women’s Library
Palestinian Embroidery
Exhibition of workshops by Claire Anderson and documentation of Palestian women’s embroidery co-operative ‘Women in Hebron’.

21 – 22 May | Street Level Photoworks
Photobook Design Weekend
Turn your photographic project into a high quality 8×10 photobook.

25 May – 5 June | MANY Studios
Trading Stories
Poet Tawona Sitholé harnesses a breadth of stories from The Barras from yesteryear to the present day.

23 June | CCA
Eavesdropper: Hanna Tuulikki performance
Artist, composer and performer Hanna Tuulikki works with voice and gesture to create immersive spaces that unearth relationships with places

28 May – 9 July | Hillhead Library
Departures
The nine participating artists responded in disparate ways to the broad theme of migration.

29 May | Who Art Thou
Drypoint Etching Workshop – with Mobile Print Studio
In this workshop you will learn the art of Drypoint Etching and create an edition of your own. Materials included & all levels of experience welcome.

2 – 4 June | CCA
Cryptic Nights: Therefore 2 – Anna Lucia Nissen
Enter an immersive audio-visual experience combining sculpture, video projection and live music devised by artist Anna Lucia Nissen.

3 June | CCA
SWOU: What do sex workers want?
Screening of three short movies exploring the diverse realities of sex workers around the world, followed by a Q&A with sex workers and allies.

4 June – 31 July | Street Level Photoworks
Govan/Gdansk
New exhibition linking the shipyards of Govan in Glasgow and Gdansk in Poland and their post-industrial decline and resilience.

7 June | The Butterfly and the Pig
Quotidian Issue 2 Launch
celebrate the success of Quotidian: a literary magazine’s Issue 2 and… *drum-roll* the launch of our second print edition! How exciting!

9 June – 2 July | Compass Gallery
The Golden Age: 90 Years of International Film Posters
Planned to coincide with the Edinburgh Film Festival 2016, this exhibition will include many rare, collectible and international original film posters.

21 – 23 June | Tramway
A Bit of Bite
A brand new show about the role of young people in contemporary politics.

25 June | The Glasgow School of Art
Transitions Out of Fine Art Education
Fine art staff from across the UK will come together with students, graduates, academics, and industry professionals to share practice.

28 June – 3 July | Various
Glasgow Comic Festival
A week-long festival of talks, screenings, performance and exhibitions at CCA and across the city, and Comic Con at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

31 July | CCA
MAP: Voicing the Archive
Audio recordings of past MAP contributions, voiced by their authors and installed at a listening station in the CCA and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

12 – 18 September | various
Illustrious Glasgow
Glasgow Doors Open Days is working with illustrator Rosemary Cunningham to share 10 stunning illustrations of Glasgow buildings.

First Saturday of the month | The Lighthouse
Repair Cafe
On the first Saturday of every month our team of fixers will be on hand to help you fix your broken items, in MAKLab, Gallery One.

ongoing | Crownpoint Studio
Corridor Exhibition
Exhibition by VAU Members, view by appointment only.

ongoing | The Botanics
Art Classes in the Botanics
Weekly tutored classes in Glasgow Botanic Gardens, for anyone wishing to develop their artistic abilities.

ongoing | The Hidden Lane Gallery
Margaret Watkins: The Kitchen Sink (And other classics)
A major retrospective selection of some of the classic images which established Margaret Watkins as one of the most innovative artists of the 1910s & ’20s.

ongoing | 306 White Studios
Silk Screen Printing Workshops
Be your own designer for the day, learn silk-screen printing here at Shapes Of Things Ltd & create your own bespoke product every Wednesday & Saturday.

///HELMSDALE

until 19 June | Timespan
VIK PRJÓNSDÓTTIR
Icelandic design collective showcase their textile work in an exhibition that brings together contemporary design and traditional craft.

///HUNTLY

26 – 28 May | TBC
White Wood Forum: Art and Sustainability
Discussions centre on social and cultural perspectives of sustainability: local and global understandings and lived practices around the world.

///KIRKALDY

until 5 June | Kirkcaldy Galleries
Shelters
Festival of Architecture exhibition examining ‘shelters’ using examples from Lloyd Kahn’s US Shelter Publications to contemporary Scottish.

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///BIRMINGHAM

11 June | St Barnabas Church
Clipping the Church by Tereza Buskova
Sign up to be involved in an art piece adorning a Birmingham church with ornate baked bread and encircle it with a living garland of 100 people.

///LINCOLNSHIRE

14 May – 25 June | 20-21 Visual Arts Centre
Liz West: Our Colour Reflection
The installation will transform the interior of the former St John’s Church building housing the gallery by using over 700 mirrors.

/// MANCHESTER

19 May – 18 November | MadLab
WordPress courses
Beginner, Intermediate, and advanced wordpress courses led by co-founder Mike Little.

25 – 26 June | MadLab
Hands-on with the Internet of Things
Everything from picking the right prototyping platform and means of device-device communication, through to different network protocols.

/// OXFORDSHIRE

5 – 7 August | Braziers Park
Supernormal 2016
Supernormal is a three-day, experimental arts and music festival taking place at Braziers Park in Oxfordshire.

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I’m giving it my best go in a tough industry. Been supporting other Scottish brands for the past year as part of our relocation to the Barrowlands for the regeneration of the area.

Getting ready to launch my new label at the end of this year, most of my inspiration comes from Glasgow, taking hard lines of the tower blocks currently being brought down all over the city and turning them into something soft and feminine.

1. Event: Shoot Your Shot – HI-NRG/Italo-Disco/TAKING YOU HIGHER!
One of my favourite club nights, the promoter Bonner is insane in all the good ways. Next party is 27th of May at The Art School.

2. Music: Sofar sounds: While they haven’t happened too often in Glasgow, these secret intimate gigs are pretty relaxed, the extensive acoustic playlists on youtube lets you really explore and discover new artists.

3. Music: Bigg Taj – Superstar Sardar – Spoken word artist, singer and beat boxer extraordinaire kills it again with his latest EP. Genuinely one of the coolest guys around.

Bigg Taj, Superstar Sarwar

4. Music: Etta Bond – I’ll try not to gush, but I am in love with her sound and attitude. Soulful spoken word and sing speak with a feminist edge, she is out of this world and HAS to be checked out.

5. Website: Braw Wee Emporium – Our neighbour in Barras Art and Design in the Barrowlands, packed full of excellent music and gifts from exciting artists and designers. Definitely worth a visit, especially during the Braw Wee Fair, on the 1st Saturday of the month.

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