What could we have as our Facebook, Google+ & Twitter cover images? How could we possibly come up with something as good as any of the work produced by the brilliantly talented community of creatives we have at Central Station? Hang on a minute…

We’re giving you the opportunity to be Central Station’s ambassador, with the unmissable top spot on all of our social pages. Every month we’ll change the image and choose from a previously featured work to find the next “face” of Central Station. All images will be credited to the artist and there’ll be a link to the original featured work spot on our website.

To be considered, just follow us on Behance, Cargo Collective, Flickr and/or Vimeo. We’ll follow you back so that when we choose featured work we can browse your portfolio. It also means that we’ll get updates whenever you upload new work.

Email us if you have any concerns or aren’t sure how to join us.

Previous social cover images:
1. Cities by Atelier Olschinsky [winner of the Central Station 50x50 project]
2. Leg Bound by Sam Spreckley
3. Postcards For Fernando by Alan Wilson
4. COOKIES n BOOBIES by Conzo Throb
5. Optical Nerve by Natalie Kenna
6. Untitled by Lesley Ann Ercolano
7. Bend, Oregon by Sam Brewster
8. Mon Oncle by Andrew Lyons
9. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by Lesley Barnes
10. Christian by Martin D Barker
11. Transition Collective #002 by Luna Jungeun Lee
12. Negative Experiment by Abdul Hye
13. Norway Infographic by Connor Campbell
14. Untitled by Jim Cowan
15. North by Stephen Edwards
16. Thorn by Ben Risk
17. Table Top Goniometer by Jack Sawbridge
18. Never Seen Burnham by Richard Broomhall
19. Morning in the city by Mika Kuusela
20. Behold! The earth giant has risen by Matthew Carey Simos
21. Theatres on the Bay, Singapore by Stuart D. Maitland
22. Roam & Seek t-shirts by Caroline Tomlinson
23. Venice Double, 2013 by Jonny Lyons
24. Illustration by Cosmic Nuggets
25. Paper Sculpture by Sara Cunha
26. Concealment film still by Josh Murfitt
27. Ghost Web by Ben Bainbridge
28. The Flight by Gemma Cotterell
29. She wears a lion on her heart by Karine Fortier
30. Incredible Places by Matteo Romellini
31. Tristag by Peter Carrington
32. K A L E I D O S C O P E by Sylvie McGowan
33. Sarah by Christopher Fernandez
34. Untitled by Samantha Wilson
35. The Saddle by Richard Gaston
36. Untitled by Joe Crogan
37. Dowel Repeat by Kirsty Macleod
38. Composition K12 by Jen Devonshire
39. Portrait by Amy D’Agorne Craghill
40. Photograph by David Dear
41. Paper Collage Illustration by Isen Aliji
42. Androgyny by Samuel Jones

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See more opportunities here.

Dark Days is an event by artist Ellie Harrison offering participants a unique opportunity to stay the night in Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art.

Taking place from 13 – 14 February, Dark Days aims to hint towards a time in the future when our large municipal buildings may need to be re-imagined / re-used for alternative purposes.

The event coincides with the gallery’s participation in Harrison’s Early Warning Signs project.

Book your space at Dark Days here.

Read about Ellie’s previous Scottish Independence Referendum exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh here.

More: Website | Facebook | Twitter

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Find more events in our weekly bulletin here.

What:
The Burning House is a website documenting what creatives would save if their home was on fire. Will you grab practical, valuable and/or sentimental items? Whatever you decide to take shows your interests and priorities.

Why we like it:
The Burning House asks you to “Think of it as an interview condensed into one question.” The website is full of instruments, cameras, computers, food, books and much more. Go have a gander to see what’s most important to others and contribute your own post here.

There will also be a book launching in the near future which will include over 200 entries. For more information, go here.

Find out more:
Website | Facebook | Twitter

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For more creative delights we’ve Spotted on the web take a look here.

What:
Albert Drive Project aims to creatively engage with the residents, communities, businesses and families living on the drive in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow. The project is all about participation and actively getting to know each other. It will culminate in an event in July 2013. The project is led by Pollokshields based theatre company Glas(s) Performance in partnership with Tramway.

They will also work with artists in residence and are currently looking for applications for 2013. See more information about the available residencies here.

Why we like it:
Each week, Albert Drive will profile one of their neighbours. This is a unique and fun way to get to know people in the area.

Find out more:
Website | Facebook | Twitter

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For more creative delights we’ve Spotted on the web take a look here.

What:
Tate Collectives is an online community for young creatives where you can upload your work, collaborate with artists and get involved in Tate’s activities.

Why we like it:
With student resources including exam help, advice about applying to Art School and regular workshops at Tate Britain & TateModern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives, this is an invaluable resource for the next generation of artists.

Find out more:
Website | Facebook | Twitter

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For more creative delights we’ve Spotted on the web take a look here.

Our third issue, which was out 16 April, celebrates something we feel especially strongly about – our home towns and habitats. Our home helps to define who we are; it’s the centre of our world. More than just where we lay our heads at night, home is where we feel safe, and is a place that – to a certain extent, at least – can offer us happiness. When comfort and peace is found in our environment, it provides the perfect conditions to make and create.

Encouraging interaction as a whole, the magazine’s publishing house – The Flamingo Arts Project – encompasses a diverse range of projects including art curation, workshops and publishing. This gives us a chance to get away from our computer screens and get into the real world, which is nice.

Visit Flamingo here.
Find the on Facebook here.
Follow them on Twitter here.

Grab your calendar and take notes as we bring you our Top 5 Central Station during GI2012:

Everything Flows
Patricial Fleming Projects
Patricia Fleming Projects presents ‘Everything Flows‘ Glasgow Artists/Musicians. Their Art and Recordings 1990 – 2010. This limited edition EP will comprise a selection of the outstanding ‘experimental art into music and performance’ scene growing from the Glasgow visual art sector over the last twenty years. The EP will present artists, their music and musical influences together for the first time.
20 Apr – 5 May | Tue – Sun, 2.30 – 6.30pm | Queens Park Railway Club

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The Mutual Charter
A campaign-style build up of events and online content as marked the progress of 14 simultaneous international projects created by members of The Mutual: an artists’ co-operative comprised of more than 150 early career creative practitioners. These projects will surface throughout the festival at various public and private venues and will be united in a publication launched at the end of the festival.
20 Apr – 7 May | see site for details

Keep an eye out for Packing And Mourning, a project by Penny Anderson, Eija Hirvonen, Shelton Walker and Youngjoo Yoo, previously featured on the site. You can see it at St Judes Hotel. Here’s the listing.

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RECORD STORE
For World Record Store Day 2012 (21st April) and to coincide with GI (Glasgow International Festival of Visual Arts), Monorail Records will be hosting an exhibition curated by visual artists Chris Biddlecombe and Janie Nicoll. This installation is the result of a collaborative project involving the creation of approximately twenty record cover artworks created by a wide range of Scottish artists, each of whom have a strong interest in or connection to music making; artists who have been in bands, who DJ, or who use music as a theme in their art making practice.
20 Apr -  May | Monorail Records
[Preview: 19 April | 6 - 8pm | Monorail Records]

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Field Office
An exhibition by first year Masters students from Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg, Sweden. Field Office combines a space for showing work and a place for doing work. With an understanding of a field office functioning as an outpost for a series of explorations, conducted as fieldwork within the city, it serves as platform for a series of individual and collaborative art works and events, surveying, passing through and engaging with Glasgow. Coinciding with the Glasgow International Festival, the project connects with this event while also extending into Glasgow’s local art scene.
26th Apr – 7 May | see site for times | Repositioned
[Opening night 25 April - DJ set from Belle and Sebastian]

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Nothing About Us Without Us Is For Us
A public art event using obsolete technology to hurl language across Glasgow’s river Clyde. Led by Matt Baker & t s Beall, as part of Glasgow International Festival Visual Art 2012. It’s described as a sort of action / happening / community celebration / anti-festival. It is preceded by lots of workshops and tours that involve different groups of folk and institutions in and around Govan. There are around 20 workshops and events in total – some of which are organised for specific groups, and others which are open to the public. See the individual event listings here.
20 Apr – 1 May | See site for specific events | Around Govan

Tell us about any shows, exhibitions, gigs, things of interest that you have on during GI 2012. It doesn’t have to be on the “official” GI2012 programme to grab our attention.

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See more Top 5′s selected from the network here.

To celebrate our first 50 days of the new-look Central Station, we showcased an artists a day. Here are our selected 50 artists in 50 days:

Woke up to perfect weather, that rare moment in Glasgow where it is just what you wanted, odd patches of cloud and sun and a gentle breeze. Spring has well and truly sprung. Down to Kelvingrove Park and all the white bikes are arrayed in a perfect circle round the fountain. It’s a stunning opening image, without anyone there. As we approach the set off point there are more and more cyclists turning up, with all sorts of ingenious systems to film the ride out. One woman has ten cameras strapped to the front of her bike, people have head cams and mobile phones. There will be a huge amount of footage…I’m fascinated to see how it will all cut together.

The ride out starts up Sauchiehall St and the pace is perfect, leisurely and slow and 200 odd bikes fill most of the road, so you can do that thing you never normally do in the city, have a conversation. It is incredibly relaxed. The only sound is the ringing of different bells on each bike, a tinkling backdrop. We arrive at George Square too quickly. I really wanted the pleasure of riding on mass through the city to last forever, it was tantalisingly short.

In the square, there is an old abandoned Peugot bike hanging ready to be painted white, I go for it with a vengeance and the original Provo anarchist white bikes manifesto is read out in dutch by Alexandros (brilliant gutteral voice) and the english translation by Peter McCaughey in his best Omagh accent. There is a great atmosphere and at one point as we present the white bike plan, people lift their bikes above their heads. It felt like a genuine homage to the original and I look forward to some of the original Dutch anarchists seeing footage and pictures and how they will feel to see their visionary ideas take flight again nearly half a century on.

It’s been a strong start to Glasgow International Festival and particularily the prominence given to non-gallery based contemporary practice that works with event, performative action, site-response, evocation and re-enactment. Its also been two years since we made a live work and this was a great way to start again.