BUZZCUT

🐝 It’s An Afterparty ✂️ BUZZCUT x @ShitePop BUZZCUT Festival 2026 ends with a BANG on 18TH APRIL! 💥 2230 – 0300 📍Stereo (@Stereo_Glasgow ) We’re closing the festival the only way we know how: live performance, DJs, and beautifully controlled chaos, hosted by emcee Bishop May Down. Step into something electric and let loose – come celebrate with us 🎉 Expect wild energy, fresh cuts (yes, actual buzz cuts on site!), and a stacked lineup featuring Glasgow’s finest, plus a special guest set from COLLECTIF ECHOES. 🪩 DJs: Babyjaii @babyjaiixx HUNTRESS @Huntresss___ COLLECTIF ECHOES  ❤️‍🔥 Performers: Thrush @Just.Thrush Elle N. Degenerate @Elle_n_Degenerate Freedom Princess @MoroccanStyleChicken 🎤 Emcee: Bishop May Down @BishopMayDown ✂️ With buzz cuts by Ferris Has Bad Hair (@Ferris.Has_Bad.Hair ) Co-curated and designed by SHITEPOP and BUZZCUT. 💫 Come ready 🌟 Leave renewed 💫 🎟️ Early-bird tickets now live! Link in bio ::: Image description: A red and yellow graphic featuring a person with a bee dyed into their shaved head and abstract shapes. The text lists the date, time, and artists.

✂️BUZZCUT Festival 2026: Programme Announcement! 🐝 BUZZCUT Festival 2026 is a gathering of Live Art and experimental performance, a place to pull apart what performing can be, look & feel like.  We’re excited to present work by artists from Scotland, the UK, and beyond. With a particular focus on those whose lived experience and creative processes speak to alternative, experimental and counter-cultural practices. Expect curated moments that resists and stretches beyond conventional forms of theatre, dance, drag, cabaret, and performance. 📅15 - 18 April, 2026 📍Across Glasgow!  Catch us at @GlasgowTramway @StrangeField @TheGladCafe @TheHiddenGardensGlasgow & more 🔗Follow the link in bio for our full programme 🎟️Tickets Most performances are ticketed, with a sliding-scale option for each show! ⚫Access 🧏 All shows with text have BSL provisions or closed captions available, and all venues are wheelchair accessible. Check out the Venue Info & Access Provisions pages on our website for details. 🌀We’re so excited to share this with you and can’t wait to see you there! ::: Design by @korakonero Image description: A brightly coloured and highly detailed illustration of a person with light brown complexion and long dark hair licking a pair of glistening scissors. The text “BUZZCUT Festival 2026” is written in hand-drawn typography. ::: BUZZCUT Festival is supported by The National Lottery through @creativescots

🐝 Huge thanks to everyone who came to BUZZCUT Festival 2026! ✂️ We were blown away by the enthusiasm, generosity, and care of everyone who attended, and we want to extend a huge thank you to every one of you. 💗 We also need to express our gratitude to each of our artists, collaborators, partners, and the extended BUZZCUT Festival team. 💬Have your say & win a cash prize! As an organisation we want to continue to adapt, grow, and develop. We use audience feedback to shape our programme and approach – if you attended any of our events throughout the festival we’d love it if you could fill in our audience reflections questionnaire. 💸 As an added incentive we’ve set aside a £50 cash prize for one lucky audience member! 🔗 Link in bio! We do not gather any personal details through this form and all feedback will be anonymised before it is shared with any artists, partners, or funders. 📸 Image credit: 1 - 5 Tiu Makkonen @tiumakko 6 & 7 Najma Abukar @NajmaHusseinAbukar 8 Beth Chalmers

🗞️ Dispatch from Studio Somewhere: Do It Together edition! As part of @thisisliveart ’s Do It Together (DIT) project, we collaborated with @glasgowbuzzcut to host Gillie Kleiman’s project Disciplined. As part of the project, Gillie and a cohort worked together over BUZZCUT festival - they dug into the assumptions around Discipline: with conversation, hands-on experimentation and spending time with the amazing BUZZCUT programme together. Gratitude to everyone who brought their (undisciplined!) thinking, honesty and generosity to the project. ::: 
Photography by @tiumakko

It’s the last day of BUZZCUT! Which means there’s still time to get your ticket for the BUZZCUT Afterparty! After a full day of experimental performance and Live Art at Tramway, we’ll be celebrating the conclusion of BUZZCUT Festival with even more performers plus DJs, an amazing Emcee, and live buzz-cuts from a hairdresser! 🎤 Emcee: Bishop May Down @BishopMayDown ❤️‍🔥 Performers: Thrush @Just.Thrush 🥚A egg has been found! Thrush will borned from it. Thrush wants to learn about the world. Will you help? Elle N. Degenerate @Elle_n_Degenerate 
Elle N. Degenerate is a Scottish Sri Lankan nonbinary drag artist, based in Glasgow. Their practice seeks to topple convention through absurdity- whether their performance interrogates the mundane or the surreal, Elle invites you to join them in viewing silliness as a mode of empowerment. Freedom Princess @MoroccanStyleChicken Freedom Princess joins us on a rare trip to Earth from her celestial home of Freedomia (she doesn’t come from anywhere you’d be able to identify on a map, so don’t ask) to regale and ramfoozle us with her trademark sense of guilt-free frivolity. 🪩 DJs: Babyjaii @BabbyJaiXX HUNTRESS @Huntress___ COLLECTIF ECHOES  ✂️ With buzz cuts by Ferris Has Bad Hair (@Ferris.Has_Bad.Hair ), 12 - 1.30am Big thank you to @ShitePop for co-curating this event with us <3

Thanks to everyone who came to the first day of BUZZCUT 2026! Beautiful documentation of Charneh Watson (@cjfrizz ), @MargotCondeArenas , Shona Macnaughton (@ShonaServices ), and @Dorine_Mugisha with their pals from @WhackingScotland 

Plus @ThisIsLiveArt & @TakeMeSomeWhere with Gillie Kleiman & the DIT cohort. Photography by @tiumakko If you’re feeling some FOMO, don’t worry! We’ve got three more days packed with experimental performance & Live Art this week. We’re waiting for you at Tramway today! Check out…
COLLECTIF ECHOES’ durational work Neuro-Nuttah which is unticketed, just (5.30 - 7.50) Sym Stellium’s Forgive me Lorde, for I am not a warrior (3 - 5pm) Daydream TV by Neil Joseph Price (8.15-8.55) A lot of shows have sold out, but ticket re-sales are live on OutSavvy and we’re allowing people in if there’s space! So join a wait list or try your chances on the door! Tickets are still available for the BUZZCUT Afterparty! Link in bio!

Jason hits the stage at @glasgowbuzzcut this Saturday, April 18th ! Don’t miss it ! Lucky to be at the beautiful @glasgowtramway ❤️ Here are some rehearsal photos taken by sweet @yaz.thehuman 📆 Saturday, April 18th 2026 ⏰ 6:30PM 🎟️ Ticket link in my bio 📍 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow Duration : 65 minutes Choreographer & Performer: Celia Green Collaborator & Dramaturg: Augusto Bitter Costume Designer: Malcolm Leblanc Lighting Designer: Karine Gauthier Rehearsal Director for premiere: Tia Kushniruk Created with the support of LA SERRE - ARTS VIVANTS @laserreartsvivants , The National Ballet of Canada’s Open Space Residency, and Toronto Dance Theatre @torontodancetheatre . The creation of this work was funded by the Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council

🐝 NEW PERFORMANCE ANNOUNCEMENT! ✂️ 🍷 Sweetmud 
Beloved Sara Zaltash 
(@BelovedSaraZaltash ) Sweetmud is a durational solo performance that moves through cycles of prohibition, transgression, and longing. Informed by their experiences as a British-Iranian girl shaped by religion, cultural expectation and rock’n’roll desire. Seven actions repeat in a continuous loop: sweeping coal dust; marking difference; ecstatic rebellion; wine cleansing; prayer whirling; fall; and redress. Through these cycles, Zaltash inhabits the female body as a target for idealised mytho-poetics in which oppression and transgression coexist. 📅Fri 17 April, 5.20 - 7.20pm 📍@StrangeFieldGlasgow ⚫Durational & unticketed ::: Image description: 1. A person walking down an alley in a grassy post-industrial urban area, graffiti covers the walls and they hold a bottle of red wine in one hand. Their long hair is wet & their dress is stained by wine. 2. A figure on their knees washing their face and hair with red wine, held in a heart shaped ceramic dish. 3. A photo collage of various elements, a hand holding a glass of wine, a face with black marks over the mouth, and degraded elements in the background Image credits: 1. Credit: Month of Performance Art Berlin: from Sweetmud 2015, Berlin, Germany. 2. Credit: Manuel Vason 3. Credit: Max Rushton

✊How can the performing arts sector respond to the right-wing currents in our political moment? We’re excited to announce Art Fighting Fascism, a presentation and panel discussion curated by @MoonSlideArts for BUZZCUT Festival.  In recent years the political climate both nationally and internationally has shifted drastically – attacks, agendas, and censorial campaigns from the political right can be felt across the sector. Join us for an open conversation which seeks to ask; is the performing arts sector facing this as it should? Are we satisfied with ourselves? And, through thinking collaboratively, what can we do moving forward? 🌀Featuring… Suzi Cunningham (Lead Artist @MoonSlidArts & @suzi.vc ) Angela Adams-Gray (Director @Articulation ) Lucy Medlycott (Director @ISACSIreland ) Simon Stewart (@GovanhillBaths ) Nicola Lawton (Artist, Producer, and Chair of @Articulation ) Ramesh Meyyappn (theatre maker/director/actor)
Leonor Lola Estrada (artist & activist) Emma Jayne Park (artist & activist) 📅Sat 18 April, 1.30-2.45pm ☕ Reception: 1.30pm 📍@GlasgowTramway ⚫Free & unticketed, no need to book
 ::: Image description: A photo of a light skinned man with brown hair and a moustache and a light skinned woman with blonde hair seen through a pane of glass, they wear dungarees and jumpers and have cleaning cloths stuffed in their pockets. The woman seems agitated and the man regards her calmly.

Jason….this time with a brand-new chest ! So excited to share at @glasgowbuzzcut next week on Saturday April 18th at @glasgowtramway Coming up soon!!! Tell all your friends in Glasgow please! And tell me places to visit while i’m there!! Updated illustration by amazing @makeurdaddyproud

🕯️forgive me, Lorde, for I am not a warrior @SymStellium Sym will call upon our Trans and Queer ancestors – channeling energies of courage, experimentation, and the erotic. Join them to commune, share, and attempt to find ways of enduring these times together. 
Using Audre Lorde’s ‘Uses of the Erotic’ as a grounding force – Sym re-centers notions of trans embodied presence and eroticism, through the ability to show up wholly and feel deeply, in both lamentation and joy. Join us for a ceremony of (self)possession – held in St Ninians Church – as we look back and bear witness to the struggles our ancestors lived and died through. Tapping into a wisdom that existed long before us. 📅 Thur 16 April, 3pm
📍 St Ninians Church
🎟️Tickets selling fast! 📷The Exhaustion of the Exorcised, Disaporas Now Tour 2022. Photo credit: Lulu Wang. Sigils designed by Sym 1. Audre Lorde: Erotics 2. Marsha P. Johnson: Courage 3. SOPHIE: Experimentation

🌊 El mar entre nostros (the sea between us) Margot Conde Arenas (@MargotCondeArenas ) Drawing on autobiographical experiences of movement, memories of ancestors, and of Latin American and European multicultural existence, Margot Conde Arenas explores the archive of water. Led by a lyrical voice interplaying with the performer’s own – she responds in abstract movement, interacting with the video projection and text as she becomes fluid like water. Exploring somatic expressions of internal relationships to diaspora(s), moving to find belonging in her body (of water), and experimenting with the melding of language and music from different cultures. 📅Wed 15 April, 5.45pm 📍@GlasgowTramway 
🎟️ Tickets selling fast!