✨May’s Member Meet
For this month’s Last Thursday meet up, we’re heading to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland's @rcsofficial Renfrew Street Campus be hosted by the BA Arts With Community student cohort!
Are you an artist, maker, creative practitioner or creative business working in embedded ways with Glasgow's communities - if you’d like to be featured as a spotlight contributor get in touch at [email protected]! 💌
🗓 Thursday 28 May
✨ RSVP at the link in our bio!
🥘 We can’t wait for PITCH POT!
The event is an opportunity to be among the very first to hear about the seeds of new creative projects in the city. The best part (apart from the food, the people, the vibes...) is that you get to contribute to awarding a micro-grant to your favourite just by buying a ticket.
We still have a few tickets left before booking closes tonight, so scoop them up and contribute to the pot!
🗓 Thurs 14 May
📍The Boardwalk, G1 1TF
✨Tickets available at the link in our bio!
💥CULTURE 💥MATTERS! 💥 A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for the second Culture Matters event that explored what kind of cultural legacy the 2026 Commonwealth Games could leave behind. It was a busy event, and we’re so grateful to our speakers for bringing such depth, clarity and care to the discussion and to @uofg_arc@uofgculture for creating space for these conversations to happen!
The next question we’re diving into is a big one: Does Scotland need a basic income for artists? Let’s discuss, Fri 12 June, grab your free spot at the link in our bio 🎟
Microgranting by the collective! 🫵
PITCH POT brings together eight Creative Glasgow members with bold pitches for projects: from pop-up museums and interactive city-wide games to design-led tours, workshops, and live performance!
Each project offers a different way to experience Glasgow: through its hidden histories, creative communities, cultural heritage, and playful participation.
On the night, you’ll share a meal, hear the pitches, and vote on which ideas receive microgrants to take their next steps. 🗳️
Come along and support your fav! @glasgowglassstudio@mindtomatterceramics@gooseinboots.art@kuttypress.studio@kirstyn.inglis@weehands.giada@rafael.tsantes
🗓 Thurs 14 May�
📍The Boardwalk, G1 1TF �
✨Tickets available at the link in our bio!
🌱 Thank you to everyone who attended Spatial Ecologies for Culture, our collab event with @collectivearchitecture !
Across a series of presentations from contributors as well as excellent conversation in the room - we heard different perspectives on how the city’s spatial ecology is shifting. We were also excited to launch a new project with Agile City @agilecity_ - more to come soon! 🚀
💛 This event was made possible through donations from our community, thank you for helping us keep this work going (and go to the link in our bio to donate!)
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Images by Gem Grumlig @gemgrumlig
📣 Calling Glasgow businesses!
Do you have a sustainability challenge you’d like to respond to and have a designer help you do it, fully funded?
We’re looking for commercial businesses to take part in a collaborative design project this summer!
With Creative Glasgow, @agilecity_@creativescots - you’ll be matched with a designer or design studio to work directly with you to build your sustainability credentials and give you a platform to raise the profile of your business and its commitment to environmental sustainability.
📩 Register your interest by emailing [email protected] by 17 May.
🚇 What a special Member’s Meet!
For April’s Last Thursday meet up, we went underground! HUGE thank you to the amazing @invisible_cities_glasgow for the tour of the Clyde Tunnel.
Invisible Cities is a social enterprise that trains people who have experienced homelessness and social hardships to become walking tour guides - follow them at @invisiblecitiestours and book a tour - we can’t recommend enough!
In the meantime, save the date for this month’s Member Meet: 28 May! 📅 More details soon!
At PITCH POT, you’ll ask questions, share a meal, network with fellow creatives, and help decide who walks away with funding. Here’s some more sneak peaks at our pitchers:
✨ Speak with your hands: @weehands.giada
This playful workshop series teaches Italian through clay, linking words and phrases to hands-on making! Participants will take home both handmade pieces and a lived experience of (new) language.
✨ From Mackintosh to Making: A Maryhill Design Experience: @rafael.tsantes
A design-led journey from Mackintosh’s iconic church into a hands-on workshop, connecting Glasgow’s past to its present through creativity and local discovery.
💥 Have your say! The money from your ticket will contribute to funding an incredible project. Microgranting by the collective!
🗓 Thurs 14 May
📍The Boardwalk, G1 1TF
Link in our bio for tickets!
💥 Commonwealth Games 2026: What Legacy for Culture This Time?
The second event in the Culture Matters series with @uofg_arc@uofgculture asks what kind of cultural legacy the 2026 Commonwealth Games could leave behind - meet some of the panellists chewing over this question!
Hosted by Dr Katherine Champion, Snr Lecturer in Creative Industries and Cultural Policy at University of Glasgow, panelists include:
�💥Gayle MacPherson, Professor of Events and Cultural Policy @uniwestscotland
💥Raidene Carter, Artistic Director and Co-CEO of @artsadm (and former Exec Producer Birmingham 2022 Games)
💥 Simone Stewart, Arts and Heritage Manager @govanhillbaths
💥 Phil Batty, Glasgow 2026 Organising Committee
📍 Advanced Research Centre @uofg_arc , University of Glasgow�
📅 Wednesday 6 May
🕕 Drinks from 5.45pm, discussion from 6pm�
🎟 Grab your free spot in the link in our bio!
PITCH POT 🥘
More projects that YOU can contribute to funding (and get some food, networking and excellent vibes in return) at our Pitch Pot night!
✨ Museum in a Box: @kuttypress.studio
Museum in a Box is a travelling, pop-up archive bringing Glasgow’s overlooked and underrepresented histories directly into public space. Co-created with communities through workshops, each “box” holds publications, prints, and objects that foreground stories often excluded from traditional narratives.
✨ between2seas Travel Journal Workshops: @kirstyn.inglis
These daily workshops invite locals and visitors to explore the city through fast, expressive drawing techniques inspired by artists from Van Gogh to Scottish Expressionists. A series of hands-on workshops where creating visual diaries of the city.
Discover so much more on the night, tickets still available at the link in our bio!
🗓 Thurs 14 May
📍The Boardwalk
Head to the link in our bio for 🎟️!
💥 CULTURE 💥 MATTERS 💥
Glasgow is hosting the Commonwealth Games again, and we’re gathering to ask what the global sporting event actually means for the city’s cultural sector, both twelve years on and imminently!
The second event in the Culture Matters series asks what kind of cultural legacy the 2026 Commonwealth Games could leave behind - who benefits, who gets funding, what stories are being told?
Free and open to all, with an amazing panel of speakers and drinks and networking before.
📍 Advanced Research Centre @uofg_arc , University of Glasgow
�📅 Wednesday 6 May�
🎟 Grab your free spot at the link in our bio!
👀 More sneak peeks at some of our PITCH POT pitchers!
Reminder, come along on the night to vote for your favourite - the price of your ticket will then make up the micro-grant (and include some tasty food, it’s a win-win!)
✨ Afro-Caledonia Exhibition: @mindtomatterceramics
Ese proposes an exhibition during Black History Month, spotlighting three Black-Scottish makers, celebrating craft, identity, and the vital role of underrepresented voices in the city’s creative future.
✨ #HeyGlasgowItsIlga: @gooseinboots.art
This project is an interactive city-wide adventure - follow a travelling puppet inviting people to complete creative challenges across Glasgow, building a collaborative, ever-growing story of the city and its people.
Come along, meet fellow creatives and contribute to the ever-exciting, ever-innovative projects being made in Glasgow.
🗓 Thurs 14 May
📍The Boardwalk, G1 1TF
✨Tickets available at the link in our bio!
