1pm
What does rising rent mean for culture on Sauchiehall Street?
What does regeneration mean for the communities that have lived here for decades?
What will we lose if we’re not careful?
Join workers and members of the Wing Hong Elderly Chinese Centre in a public cook out in protest at their untenable rent rises. Taste a dish, spark a conversation and question what cultures we wish to nurture in the city.
Location: outside Edward House, 199 Sauchiehall Street.
This is a one-off action, happening only at 1pm.
2pm
What do you imagine Sauchiehall Street will be like in the future?
Have a look at what young people in Garnetbank Primary School reckon as they take over the windows at McLellan Works.
Location: Windows of McLellan Works, 274 Sauchiehall Street.
These works will be installed at 2pm on Friday 11 April and will be in situ for one week, until Friday 18 April.
3pm
Have you lost love on Sauchiehall Street?
Is there someone stuck in your head as you move through the city?
Fragments from Karen Reynolds’ 1996 publication, Short Stories from Love and Hair, will leap out of the page and into the city. Celebrating queer history on Sauchiehall Street, this artwork offers an arresting, intimate and playful reflection on ways the city overhears our love life.
Location: 393 Sauchiehall Street, on the poster sites.
This will be installed at 3pm and will be in situ for one week, until Friday 18 April.
4pm
In the early twentieth century, there was a circus on Sauchiehall Street. Tightrope-walkers dared, equestrian spectacles dazzled and Glaswegians spent nights out amazed.
Now, the only visible memory of this circus is its namesake: the Weatherspoons. We wonder: are Weatherspoons custodians of our cities’ social history? What do we want from entertainment on the street now? And what night lies in store for you tonight?
We will install a hand-painted face-in-the-hole board at Hengler’s Circus Weatherspoon’s, depicting old poster images from the Hengler’s Circus. If you’ve clocked off early, what better way to bring in the weekend by taking a wee selfie in a photo booth of Sauchie’s circus?
Location: Hengler’s Circus Weatherspoon’s, 351 - 363 Sauchiehall Street.
This is a one off interaction and will only happen at this time.
5pm
‘It’s a shame what they’ve done to Sauchiehall Street.’
In April 1975, The Sunday Post led with this headline in a public rant about the state of Sauchiehall Street. The journalist bemoaned the loss of places like the Empire or Pettigrew and Stephen’s and campaigned against student hostels, offices and drab shops replacing the more iconic venues on the street.
Let’s face it: this article could be written now. It’s no secret that most Glaswegians wonder what’s happened to Sauchiehall Street over the years.
Must we acknowledge harsh realities in order to reimagine something better?
Are these frustrations cyclical, generational and inevitable?
Once we’ve had a moan, what next?
Location: Edward House, 199 Sauchiehall Street. This will be in situ for one week.
6pm
Where do you go to celebrate a birthday with your family?
Are there restaurants on Sauchiehall Street you miss?
When you taste an After Eight, where does it take you?
Anne Taggart and her crowd used to go to the Jade Garden Chinese restaurant. You had to climb up stairs to get there, and often the staff would congratulate you for just making it up! Anne thinks the hospitality at Jade Garden is second to none. Today, she repays the favour.
Read an alternative menu of Anne’s takeaways from this much-missed Chinese restaurant.
Location: around 305 Sauchiehall Street, near the site of the old Jade Garden.
7pm
Skipping Out – a banner for Mila.
A 4m banner is hung from a third floor tenement window on Sauchiehall Street reflecting on ‘Skipping Out’: what Mila Brown did most Saturday nights in 1969, aged 18, to dance freely at the Electric Gardens.
Location: 291 Sauchiehall Street (look up).
8pm
Did you jive, jig or jitterbug in Glasgow’s premier ballroom?
Did you kiss a stranger under the shimmer of a disco ball?
Or did an older relative tell you tall tales of nights here, twisting through dancehalls of yesteryear?
A tribute to the Locarno Ballroom. A tribute to Maureen McKeever, who danced in the Come Dancing West of Scotland Championships in 1962. A tribute to dancers, prancers, romancers, downright chancers or those of new generations looking for answers of how our Grannys and Grandpas danced through the years on Sauchiehall Street.
Gather outside Edward House, on the paved section of the street, for a glimpse of glamour with live piano music, personal memories and a wee dance.
Location: outside Edward House.
This is a one-off action that can be witnessed live at this hour only.
9pm
For Barney
A projection artwork on the gable end of Lauder’s Bar, celebrating Barry McCue, a projectionist at the GFT for 30 years, who previously had a 20 year career in cinemas around the city. With Cineworld in the distance and the GFT just round the corner, we share Barney’s memories in public space and celebrate the old technologies of film projectionist in mainstream cinemas.
Location: on the gable end of Lauder’s Bar, on the site of the old Victoria’s nightclub.
10pm
On the skeleton of the o2 ABC, gather to watch footage of old gigs performed here, visible once again – silent and haunting – on the ruins of the site.
Location: the old o2 ABC, for this hour only.
11pm
Join us for a drink at the Variety Bar, Glasgow’s irreverent art deco bar serving folk since 1970. Simply come along, order a drink and read stories told by regulars over the years.
Location: Variety Bar. Please note, texts will be visible on beer mats and the screens.
12am
A watermelon Bacardi Breezer, rejected and spilled.
The Six Nations Rugby lads night out takes an unexpected turn.
Metallica t-shirts, leather biker jackets and a matching pair of white trainers.
Couples who met at The Garage gather there once more, with stories of that first night exhibited in a range of ways around the club.
Location: The Garage, 490 Sauchiehall Street
This is a one-off action and to see this work or chat with the couples who met here, you will have to attend The Garage as a punter.
We will be there from midnight.
1am
Do we need punk now more than ever?
What can anger do?
What role has Glasgow played in Punk’s history?
Nice n Sleazy has always been a home for Glasgow’s Punk scene. Made in collaboration with Goths, Punks and Metalheads who pushed Glasgow as a place to be Punk in the 80s, wear a badge and take a stance.
Location: Nice n Sleazy, 421 Sauchiehall Street.
This is a one-off action, but a small intervention only for those at the club and it is therefore not recommended audiences not already in Nice n Sleazy attend.
2am
Maestro’s on Scott Street. Glittering and galloping into the night. Public and private.
Post-Punk, it’s time for the New Romantics.
Location: Pop up intervention on Sauchiehall Street — please note we are not naming the location or advertising this in advance. Simply look out.
This is a one-off action, but a small intervention only for those passing by.
3am
Shawarma is a 24 hour project, from baking bread at 5am to last service at 5am. Overtaking donner kebabs as Glasgow’s late night snack, shawarma is also increasingly a daytime snack enjoyed by workers in Glasgow. In collaboration with owner Hajar Salih, a vinyl text will appear on the windows of Hajar’s Shawarma on Sauchiehall Street, celebrating his relationship with shawarma — the stories tied up in each ingredient, the people he has met and how he has diversified food cultures in Glasgow since his arrival from Syria in 2011.
Location: windows and screens at Hajar’s Shawarma, 450 Sauchiehall Street.
This will be a semi-permanent artwork.
4am
Sauchiehall Street is blighted by fire-ravaged sites, but what about the personal history of someone who experienced the first fire at the Art School?
Location: Mac building, projection visible from Sauchiehall Street.
This is a one-off action, but a small intervention only for those passing by and will be small-scale, so it is not recommended this is attended live.
5am
A road sign appears in tribute to Spandau Ballet – who famously found inspiration for Gold and True on Sauchiehall Street.
Location: Scott Street hill.
This will be in situ after the performance.
6am
6 personal confessions at 6am.
Lead Artists Molly and Craig install memories of life on Sauchiehall Street on printed correx boards to lamp posts or street signs along the street.
Location: along the section of the street nearest Social Bite and Poundworld.
These will be visible after the performance, until Friday 18 April.
7am
An instruction for passers by.
Statement exhibited on the windows of Edward House.
Location: Edward House windows (look up).
This will be available to view for one week after the performance, until Friday 18 April.
8am
Chapatis on the bus.
Pakistan Independence Day celebrated on Sauchiehall Street.
Bollywood films on a Friday night with the whole family.
In collaboration with South Asian communities who have lived, worked or spent significant periods of their lives on Sauchiehalll Street, pop into Keystore Express convenience store from 8am on Saturday 12 April. If you buy something in store, you can choose to carry it home in a paper bag exhibiting the stories of South Asian Glaswegians.
Location: Keystore Express, Sauchiehall Street.
These bags will be used throughout the shop until they run out, from 9am on Saturday 12 April.
9am
What songs sound better on vinyl?
Is there a song you could listen to forever?
If you can’t pick one, what one do you pick today?
Saturday 12 April is World Record Store Day, and to celebrate the revival of analogue forms of experiencing music, we have pressed to vinyl a mix tape chosen by customers at Assai Records. At 9am, we will play the mix tape, Songs to Listen to Forever, on vinyl outdoors for the whole street.
Songs chosen by Spence, Cam, Vili, Sinéad, Sarah, Stella, Laurie, Miller, Erin, Josef, Gordon and Dylan & Stella.
Location: Assai Records, 233 Sauchiehall Street.
This is a one-off intervention but you can pop into Assai Records after the performance and scan a QR code to access the playlist on Soundcloud.
10am
In the summer of 1941, Henry and Ingrid fled Nazi Germany and arrived in Glasgow. Meeting at the Scottish Refugee Centre on Sauchiehall Street, they fell in love against the backdrop of the Second World War. At the refugee centre, Henry and Ingrid would eat food that reminded them of home, speak their native languages and sing anti-fascist songs like Die Gedanken sind frei (Thoughts are Free).
At 10am, in collaboration with Garnethill choir and writer Chitra Ramaswamy, who has interviewed and written about Henry and Ingrid, this song will be heard once more. Gather in front of the Dental Hospital on Sauchiehall Street, where the refugee centre once stood, look up and listen to these stories fill the street.
Passers-by will be invited to pause, listen and reflect upon the impact war continues to have and human beings’ ability to find love amidst the cruellest circumstances.
Location: Dental Hospital on Sauchiehall Street.
This is a one-off action and will only happen from 10am.
11am
A public procession for Sauchiehall Street.
Meeting outside Driftwood, we will gather, bearing flags, unicorns and ribbons, and collectively enact a procession through the street. Joined by important people we have met during the process, with many chances for passers by to join us, we will conclude outside the former Victoria’s nightclub at the other end of Sauchiehall Street. The procession will be soundtracked by the choir, and everyone is invited to join in.
Location: Meet outside Driftwood, but find us anywhere on the street as we make our way down.
This is a one-off action and is only happening from 11am.
12pm
What are your hopes for Sauchiehall Street?
The procession gather around a small step and listen to several people from Glasgow offer five minute hopes for the future of Sauchiehall Street. Some might tell a story, share a memory, air a grievance, make a demand or simply speak freely about their relationship to this place and their hopes for Glasgow’s future.
Location: outside the old Victoria’s nightclub, near McDonald’s on Sauchiehall Street.
This is a one-off action and is only happening from 12pm and concludes 24 Things to Tell You — a 24 hour durational artwork about Sauchiehall Street.
