Literary Archive

  • Are you trying to find something to do with your kids during the long 9 weeks of summer holidays?  Well Glasgow's Zest Summer Holiday Programme is just the thing, with hundreds of events planned for kids throughout the summer.

    Zest: Glasgow’s Kids Summer Holiday Programme

    Are you trying to find something to do with your kids during the long 9 weeks of summer holidays? Well Glasgow's Zest Summer Holiday Programme is just the thing, with hundreds of events planned for kids throughout the summer.

    Read More

  • 22nd - 25th July 2010: The Merchant City Festival presents a cutting-edge programme featuring the best of Scotland’s theatre, music, visual arts, comedy, dance, film, literature and fashion scene.

    Merchant City Festival 2010

    22nd - 25th July 2010: The Merchant City Festival presents a cutting-edge programme featuring the best of Scotland’s theatre, music, visual arts, comedy, dance, film, literature and fashion scene.

    Read More

  • Glasgow's beautiful Botanic Gardens provide the perfect backdrop for a Shakespeare play or two this summer...

    Bard in the Botanics

    Glasgow's beautiful Botanic Gardens provide the perfect backdrop for a Shakespeare play or two this summer...

    Read More

  • 7th - 27th June:  This year, Glasgow's West End Festival will present 2 weeks packed full of more than 300 events including street parties, comedy, film, theatre, dance, music and family fun.

    West End Festival 2010

    7th - 27th June: This year, Glasgow's West End Festival will present 2 weeks packed full of more than 300 events including street parties, comedy, film, theatre, dance, music and family fun.

    Read More

  • 2nd December 2009 - 3rd January 2010:  The Arches is transformed into a woodland haven for this magical re-telling of the classic Brothers Grimm story, Little Red Riding Hood.

    Little Red Riding Hood

    2nd December 2009 - 3rd January 2010: The Arches is transformed into a woodland haven for this magical re-telling of the classic Brothers Grimm story, Little Red Riding Hood.

    Read More

  • 12th October 2009:  Award winning screenwriter and director, as well as a comic book writer, author, actor and cult figure Kevin Smith is coming to Glasgow for his first ever live appearance in Scotland.

    An Evening with Kevin Smith

    12th October 2009: Award winning screenwriter and director, as well as a comic book writer, author, actor and cult figure Kevin Smith is coming to Glasgow for his first ever live appearance in Scotland.

    Read More

  • 6th – 14th March 2009  The Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival returns in 2009 with a scintillating mix of fiction and non-fiction, poetry and prose, crime, comedy, politics and debate. Aye Write! is Glasgow’s annual literature festival which in 2009 will celebrate the best of...

    Aye Write! Book Festival

    6th – 14th March 2009  The Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival returns in 2009 with a scintillating mix of fiction and non-fiction, poetry and prose, crime, comedy, politics and debate. Aye Write! is Glasgow’s annual literature festival which in 2009 will celebrate the best of...

    Read More

  • 23rd – 25th January Glasgow’s City Chambers will be illuminated with the story of Scotland’s favourite poet, Robert Burns, told in sound and light from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th January.  Over the weekend, artist Ross Ashton, famed for his outdoor building illumination, will tell...

    Burns Illuminated

    23rd – 25th January Glasgow’s City Chambers will be illuminated with the story of Scotland’s favourite poet, Robert Burns, told in sound and light from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th January.  Over the weekend, artist Ross Ashton, famed for his outdoor building illumination, will tell...

    Read More

  • Throughout 2009 In 2009, Scotland will host its first homecoming year in order to celebrate Scotland’s great contributions to the world. Such contributions include golf, whisky, technological and medical innovations, a rich ancestry and culture, and the work of Robert Burns whose 250th anniversary is...

    Homecoming Scotland 2009

    Throughout 2009 In 2009, Scotland will host its first homecoming year in order to celebrate Scotland’s great contributions to the world. Such contributions include golf, whisky, technological and medical innovations, a rich ancestry and culture, and the work of Robert Burns whose 250th anniversary is...

    Read More