Carnival Arts Yard

25/06/2024

Thanks to everyone who came to our Windrush Day celebration with Gathering Ground CIC at the weekend, Liming. We all had a great time, including the young people who've left their props for their performance with the National Theatre of Scotland, Wonder Lands.

22/06/2024

20/06/2024

We were honoured to have Black Star Steel Band play as part of our Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival event, and look forward to them opening our Windrush Day celebration, Liming, at Gathering Ground at 1PM.

20/06/2024

We love Gathering Ground, our local cafe on the canal. They pride themselves on serving as a platform to impact the community, build connections & inspire people to engage with good food. We're excited to be partnering with them this Saturday afternoon to celebrate Windrush Day - and that Caribbean menu they're serving looks really good!

26/05/2024

We're getting ready to celebrate Windrush Day with a fun event for all the family. What do your kids know about Windrush Day?

11/05/2024

Why is Windrush Day so important? Read all about it, before our upcoming celebration of the event this year.

29/04/2024

We loved collaborating with Glasgow Sculpture Studios for Alberta Whittle's Day of Joy at Glasgow International, and are really looking forward to their GI show this year. Joey Simons is an artist and writer who works with suppressed working-class histories and what they can teach us about contemporary social struggles, and in Beyond the Forbidden Gate he explores histories of enclosure, public housing, refugee organising and workers’ opposition in North Glasgow, with a series of talks and workshops in some of our favourite libraries, including the Mitchell, Woodside and Possilpark Library.

Which is a great excuse to visit these invaluable spaces.

15/04/2024

Happy World Art Day! We have happy memories of our Day of Joy, a collaboration with Maryhill Integration Network and Glasgow Sculpture Studiosture Studios for Alberta Whittle's hostile environment; business as usual (A REMIX) for Glasgow International. The first public engagement most of us had attended after lockdown, it was a deeply moving affair, and one that reminded us of the communal power of art.

17/12/2023

“It’s the talk of the Steamie!“ If you want talk of ‘The Steamie’, the Scottish classic that is, come to the Arts Yard for our screening of this festive favourite. 6PM tonight.

15/12/2023

Tony Roper on his classic play, "The Steamie".
'It broke new ground because it was written by an actor' (he's best known as Jamesie Cotter in Rab C. Nesbitt). 'That doesn't fit into the plan that actors act, writers write and directors direct. It also featured a lot of women which was unusual. Most plays were all men with a token woman. This was all women with a token man. On top of that, it was a play about women written by a man. At the time, all of the plays about women were feminist plays. They had a point to prove. Although "The Steamie" didn't preach a message, it was revolutionary for its day.'
Is "The Steamie" still 'revolutionary'? Come join us and Glasgow Anarchist Film Club this Sunday to find out!

14/12/2023

“If ye want to come and see me
Take a dauner down the steamie.”
Who’s coming to see our screening of the original classic version of The Steamie this Sunday at 6PM?

13/12/2023

It's two years now since we held our Shine a Light event for COP26 in Glasgow. What are we make of COP28? Historic recognition of the importance of phasing out fossil fuels, or cop out?

10/12/2023

Next Sunday at 6PM - join us and Glasgow Anarchist Film Club for a special screening of the film of the original version of Tony Roper’s classic play, The Steamie. Starring original cast members Dorothy Paul, Eileen McCallum and Peter Mullan. Come and share your memories of this Scottish festive staple, and traditional Glaswegian life.

07/12/2023

RIP the incomparable Benjamin Zephaniah.

04/12/2023

Our screening room looked good for Glasgow Anarchist Film Club's celebration of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Should we do it again for Christmas? What film should we show?

20/11/2023

About last night - celebrating fifty years of The Rocky Horror Show, with Glasgow Anarchist Film Club.

19/11/2023

We're ready - are you? Join us and Glasgow Anarchist Film Club today at 6PM for our 50th anniversary screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show.

18/11/2023

It's the 50th anniversary of the original stage production of the Rocky Horror Show! Join us and Glasgow Anarchist Film Club for a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and an exploration of how a transgressive musical homage to horror B-movies, rock n'roll and polymorphous perversity became such a beloved cultural phenomenon. Dressing up and joining in optional, and very welcome.

17/11/2023

Don't dream - be it! Join us and the Glasgow Anarchist Film Club this Sunday at 6PM for a very special screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original production.

10/11/2023

So proud to have been a part of the opening of Stockingfield Bridge. What a night.

Last night we scooped GOLD at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations PRide Award, in Edinburgh for Best Event for the official opening of Stockingfield Bridge. Congratulations to all teams and the communities of North Glasgow for helping to make happen. Sustrans Scotland Mackenzie Construction Transport Scotland Glasgow City Council SH Structures Make it Glasgow Carnival Arts Yard

02/11/2023

Happy Day of the Dead! Here's a tribute to dead ancestors. Alberta Whittle's Autumn Equinox - an awakening, from her exhibition currently running at The Modern Institute.

31/10/2023

Happy Halloween from the Arts Yard!

25/10/2023

A developer wants to demolish the beautiful polychrome brick City Sawmill building in Port Dundas, designed by George Bell in 1893 and currently used by Carnival Arts Yard.

It was listed after I made an application.

The owner appealed this.

I'm pleased that their appeal has just been rejected.

24/10/2023

Finally some good news – our building is now listed, as having cultural and historic status! We have Glasgow MSP Paul Sweeney to thank, for applying to Historic Environment Scotland, who have given it a C-listing, and saved it from being developed into yet another block of luxury flats.
Paul has commented: “The City Sawmills at Port Dundas are an outstanding example of Glasgow’s industrial past, of which we should be incredibly proud. As a city and as a population, we should celebrate our history and our heritage, including our industrial past.
“There is absolutely no justification whatsoever for demolishing it.”
As you’ll know if you’ve visited, our building isn’t the fanciest or grandest, but we agree with Historic Environment Scotland that it’s an important historical record of working class life in the city, and as a former saw mill, the importance of the timber trade. As their assessor said, “I find that the exterior of the building retains much of its original design and character. While the interior has been altered, overall, it retains features of architectural and historic interest.
“The building contributes to the understanding of the social, economic and cultural history of the nearby Forth and Clyde Canal and the surrounding area.”
And we hope to take a major part in the future cultural and social history of this unique part of Glasgow.

18/10/2023

We’re loving Alberta Whittle’s current exhibition at The Modern Institute, “Even in the Most Beautiful Place in the World, Our Breath Can Falter.” She promised Caribbean Gothic, and delivered on that. One of our favourite paintings from the show - ‘Autumn Equinox - abolition invocation’. Putting us in the mood for the Day of the Dead.

05/10/2023

We had a great time working with Alberta Whittle for Glasgow International, and are looking forward to her new exhibition at The Modern Institute, 'Even in the most beautiful place, our breath can falter'. Here, she uses poetry as inspiration to explore the relations between Britain and the Caribbean, and the Caribbean Gothic. We'll be at the private view tomorrow, exhibition opens Saturday.

29/09/2023

GET READY if you aren’t already for our gig coming up next week on saturday (30/09) at the as part of AMAZING lineup ✨✨✨✨👌

26/09/2023

This weekend, catch our Chief Chebe playing with his Glasgow African Balofon Orchestra as part of the cutting edge festival of experimental music and audio visual art, Sonica. Even better - it's free, as part of the celebration of 20 years of The Hidden Gardens.

The Glasgow African Balafon Orchestra (GABO) is a cocktail of musicians of all different backgrounds, bringing together the distinct flavours of the world through the joy of orchestral music. It is a unique blend and fusion of musicians, folklorists and storytellers representing the best musical fla...