20,000 tickets sold for Dr Who exhibition

20,000 tickets sold for Dr Who exhibition

More than 20,000 tickets have been sold for the Dr Who exhibition at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, its organisers said yesterday. The Doctor Who Exhibition features props, costumes and monster characters from the long-running television series. The show has proved to be popular. By Monday this week it had sold more than 21,000 tickets and is on target to beat its target audience of 100,000 visitors

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Warehouse is work of art – Maureen Ellis, Evening Times, (13 April)

A rundown warehouse is being transformed into a cutting-edge £8.5million arts centre in an ambitious project described as being “like nothing else in Europe”. Trongate 103, the B-listed red sandstone Edwardian building in the Merchant City, will open in the autumn as the home for eight artist collectives. It will also have a bohemian café – Café Cossachok – which will move from its old Albion Street site. Architect Paul Mohan, of Elder and Cannon said: “It is a one off…One of the council chaps said there’s nothing in Europe like it in the way that it has gallery and workshop space together with so many different organisations”.

Glasgow Media Luncheon Highlights New Era for City

Glasgow Media Luncheon Highlights New Era for City

When I sat down at the Glasgow Media Luncheon this afternoon, the gentleman next to me began to describe what the city was like 30 years ago. Its primary economy of shipping had suffered, and the city was getting a negative reputation that was not unlike New York’s at the same time, he said.
But just as New York in 2009 is nothing like New York in 1979 or even 1989, Glasgow has reinvented itself to become a beacon of culture and art in Scotland. About 30,000 people in a city of 1.2 million (including the suburbs) are employed in the tourism industry. Museums and luxury hotels are opening throughout the city (at least 2,500 new hotel rooms are expected to debut within the next five years; 160 of these will be in the Jumeriah Glasgow and 85 in the Blythswood Hotel) and a new National Arena will open in 2012 or 2013, just in time for the Commonwealth Games in 2014. Arts and culture festivals take place throughout the year, and 2009 has become a yearlong celebration called “Homecoming Scotland,” honoring the 250th birthday of Scotland’s most famous poet, Robert Burns. As hosts Scott Taylor, chief executive of the Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, and Nancy McLardie, head of PR for the same company, explained, Glasgow is growing its own culture rather than “poaching” from other destinations in the UK. The effort has paid off: Last August, the city was named the UNESCO City of Music, and Taylor and McLardie estimate that 127 music events happen in Glasgow every week.

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."