Intermezzo - Kelvingrove Private Tour - Slideshow

Dear All

Follow the attached link and see a slideshow with music of the private tour I arranged at Kelvingrove - you may even spot yourself!

Am organising another "taster" tour at Kelvingrove in April so if you know anyone who organises events and would like to come along, just pass me their details.

Enjoy!



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Ten great reasons to visit Glasgow stay at the argyll hotel Glasgow

Ten great reasons to visit Glasgow

Glasgow has been reborn as a centre of style. Boasting art galleries, top shops and a vibrant nightlife, there is something for everyone. Some of the highlights mentioned include the Glasgow Science Centre, The Burrell Collection and Glasgow’s famous shopping streets.

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Glasgow’s legendary wit showcased on comedy YouTube channel

Glasgow’s legendary wit showcased on comedy YouTube channel

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Get ready to have your ribs tickled by some of the world’s top comedians as Glasgow City Marketing Bureau launches the Glasgow Comedy YouTube channel.

Kicking off with footage from the Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival, running from the 12 - 29 March, the dedicated channel will broadcast shows from major comedy names as well as homegrown talent. The channel will be updated regularly with interviews and comedy clips throughout the course of the festival and beyond, allowing people to sample Glasgow’s comedy highlights throughout the year from the comfort of their armchair.

A YouTube spokesperson said: "YouTube is a great platform for users to find the latest comedy clips from established and new acts. Launching a channel on the site will ensure that the Glasgow Comedy Festival becomes one of the first festivals to go truly global, allowing viewers to watch the upcoming performances wherever they are in the world."

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Sir Sean Connery backs Homecoming Scotland golf promotion

Sir Sean Connery backs Homecoming Scotland golf promotion

Sir Sean Connery is to lend his voice to a new film promoting Scotland's reputation as the home of golf.

"Scotland the Home of Golf" is set to be premiered at this year's Ryder Cup at Valhalla Golf Club in the USA.The film will encourage visitors to come to Scotland in 2009 and join the country's homecoming celebrations at next year's Open Championships at Turnberry.Homecoming 2009 has been organised to coincide with the 250th anniversary of poet Robert Burns' birth and aims to attract the Scots Diaspora around the world to return home.The Hollywood star made the announcement at Peterculter Golf Club in Aberdeen."I've been a lifelong supporter of golf and Burns, so to combine the two next year seems very appropriate," he said. "I look forward enormously to promoting the film, which I'm sure will do justice to Scotland's reputation as the home of golf."First Minister Alex Salmond also used the opportunity to call for golf clubs across Scotland to open their courses up to the 'Drive it Home' initiative, which is set to be promoted as part of Homecoming Scotland 2009.The aim is for hundreds of Scotland's courses to offer a free four ball to overseas visitors during the Year of Homecoming.Mr Salmond said: "It is fantastic that Sir Sean has decided to do the film. Steven Spielberg couldn't lure him out of retirement, but Homecoming obviously has."

Super-college to go ahead despite Stow withdrawal

Super-college to go ahead despite Stow withdrawal

Plans for a multi-million pound super-college serving Scotland's largest city will go ahead despite a decision by one of the key partners to drop out.
The Scottish Funding Council said the £300m project in Glasgow's city centre would proceed with the three remaining colleges after the sudden withdrawal of Stow College.
Officials at Stow said the decision to withdraw from New Campus Glasgow, revealed in The Herald yesterday, came after attempts by the funding council to accelerate a merger of four city centre colleges, rather than pursue the original plan for a co-location, where each college kept its own identity.
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Yesterday, John McClelland, chairman of the funding council, wrote to the three remaining colleges of Central, Metropolitan and Nautical - assuring them of the project's future.
"Given that the boards of the three remaining colleges have agreed to the vision of a single college fit for the 21st century in the centre of Glasgow, we believe that we have the prospect of making rapid progress towards this vision," he said. "We remain enthusiastically committed to working with the three colleges to create the modern, innovative, new city campuses on Cathedral Street and Thistle Street that Glasgow needs.
On Thursday, Bob McGrory, the principal of Stow College, warned that any attempt to speed up the process by the funding council, which is bankrolling the capital cost of the project, could lead to job cuts.
"Gradual co-location would have allowed a transition without immediate job cuts, but it is obvious to anyone that there will be an impact on support-staff jobs and teaching jobs if merger happens more quickly," Mr McGrory said.
He went on to question the affordability of the project in a recession and said the size of the proposed campus was not in the best interests of students, staff or the community.
In May last year, the four colleges of Central, Stow, Metropolitan and Nautical Studies set up a company to deliver New Campus Glasgow, the biggest further education building project in Europe. It was originally proposed that the four colleges were to co-locate to a state-of-the-art campus in Cathedral Street and Thistle Street by 2012, with 50,000 students and 2000 staff.
The move was intended to prevent duplication of courses, save public money and provide modern facilities.
However, little progress has been made in moving towards the co-location and the funding council has been increasingly concerned about the logjam.
A briefing document prepared by the funding council for last month's meeting with Stow officials spoke of the need to provide "urgent signals of real progress if the £300m is to be secured".
For the funding council, co-location would fail to deliver "pace, coherence of vision and external credibility", while an early four-way merger would provide a "clear signal of intent to the Scottish Government and Glasgow City Council".

Record ticket sales for book festival

Record ticket sales for book festival

Glasgow's biggest literary event, the Aye Write! Bank of Scotland Book Festival, has sold a record amount of tickets going into its opening weekend.
More than 10,000 tickets have been bought for the festival, which began last night and runs to March 14, based around the Mitchell Library in the city.
The programme of the festival, in its fourth year, is full of well known literary names including Booker Prize-winner Graham Swift and the broadcaster Joan Bakewell, who will launch her first novel, the wartime romance All the Nice Girls, at the age of 75.
Last night Alan Bennett, the much-loved author and playwright, kicked off the festival with a sold-out event at the library. The writer read from his popular diaries and then answered questions from the capacity audience.
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When he was asked whether he had ever considered blogging instead of writing his diary, he answered: "I am not even sure what blogs are.
"I don't even have a computer so I read about them, but don't know how people have the time to do it.
"I have always written in pen and ink and then onto the typewriter, so my grasp of technology is very small.
"We were thinking about getting a computer but I didn't want e-mails and all that. People write to me by hand and that's good, because it does filter people out." Bennett spoke about his favourite performance of one of his Talking Heads monologues, Penelope Wilton's Nights in the Gardens of Spain, and also revealed he had never met the Queen, who he has written about successfully in his latest book, The Uncommon Reader.
He also had a few words to say about education.
Bennett attended a state school in his youth, Leeds Modern, and he said: "I am one of the few people left in England who don't believe in private education.
"I went to a state school and I think we should have evolved a system where the upper reaches of private schooling were merged within the upper reaches of state schools. You mention it and people are embarrassed, because it's old-fashioned socialism."
Authors such as Robert Fisk and AL Kennedy will also be present at the festival, which will feature more than 200 authors, writers and thinkers, including Gavin Esler, Julian Baggini and Lorraine Kelly. Ten new short stories by leading writers, including Val McDermid and Jackie Kay, have also been commissioned to celebrate Homecoming on the theme of whisky.
The festival will also celebrate the newest "city read", or mass reading project, with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Ticket sales have been brisk and are ahead of what they were this time last year, a spokesman for the festival, for which The Herald is media partner, said. Last year the festival sold more than 25,000 tickets. "The figures so far are the best ever, with more than 10,000 sold already," he said.
"It is an improvement on last year and if you put it in context with what else is happening in Glasgow, a good year for Celtic Connections in particular, it is great news for the city.
"So far it is very encouraging, as these are sales before the festival has even started. Many events are already sold out." The festival also includes the Aye Write! Bank of Scotland prize for Scottish Fiction, which returns for the second year.

The Mail on Sunday – John Michie (8 March)

The Mail on Sunday carries a three-page feature in its Travel section on Taggart star John Michie’s favourite places in Glasgow and its environs. He talks about the city’s reputation for shopping – endorsed by his daughters – Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and the close proximity of the city to spectacular countryside. He said: “In my experience, Glasgow has always been an incredibly warm and hospitable place and Glaswegians have a wonderful sense of humour.”

The pleasure of made-to measure

Gillian Bowditch interviews Camille Lorigo, the entrepreneur behind new boutique, Che Camille, on the sixth floor of the Argyll Arcade in Glasgow. She is championing 10 Scottish designers including Rabii Denim, the bespoke jeans label, the milliner William Chambers and Helen Finlayson, who works in tweed. Glasgow City Marketing Bureau last week announced it was backing the project. The ‘Glasgow 10’ will replace the Scotland with style Design Collective, which had its final outing at London Fashion Week last September

The pleasure of made-to measure

Gillian Bowditch interviews Camille Lorigo, the entrepreneur behind new boutique, Che Camille, on the sixth floor of the Argyll Arcade in Glasgow. She is championing 10 Scottish designers including Rabii Denim, the bespoke jeans label, the milliner William Chambers and Helen Finlayson, who works in tweed. Glasgow City Marketing Bureau last week announced it was backing the project. The ‘Glasgow 10’ will replace the Scotland with style Design Collective, which had its final outing at London Fashion Week last September

Hot spots go solo in fight for tourists

Gillian Harris reports that Across Scotland the outlook for tourism is bleak. The industry is braced for tough times, yet amid the gloom one man remains resolutely upbeat. Tomorrow (sic) Steven Purcell, the leader of Glasgow City Council, will unveil plans to expand tourism in Scotland’s largest city by 60% over the next seven years and increase the number of jobs in the hospitality industry from 31,000 to 40,000. It is ambitious move at any time, let alone in the depths of recession

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