What's On Scotland 16-23 Feb: Glasgow Film Fest
Make the February transition from cosy sofa to cosy cinema with Glasgow Film Fest, get moody with Stranger Things soundtrackers S U R V I V E and dye some easter eggs at CCA...
Mid-February. Skies are clearing, nights are brightening and you've probably finished all of your Christmas box sets, left maniacally seeking a new form of escape. Enter Glasgow Film Festival – wahey! After its launch yesterday, Glasgow's annual movie jubilee is back in town until 26 Feb, bringing everything from horror to counter-culture, family flicks to warrior stories and extra special one-off events to cinemas, theatres, warehouses and breweries near you.
Keep on top of affairs with the Cineskinny, or read our top ten recommendations here (there's everything from a film featuring Kirsten Stewart as a ghost-communicator/celeb personal shopper(?!) to Dir. Claude Barras' celebrated animation My Life As a Courgette.
Or, if you want a recommendation on a PLATE, here it is: a special event at The Glue Factory featuring musical and sonic responses to David Lynch’s Factory Photographs and Chris Marker's La Jetée. Make sure your phone's charged – shit's gonna get interactive. 19 Feb, 7pm, £12-14.
S U R V I V E
The Art School, Glasgow, 20 Feb, 7pm
Indulge your moody February impulses with synth quartet S U R V I V E. You might recognise their expansive, chilling soundscapes from the Stranger Things soundtrack – band members Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein were charged with composing it, after all. Have a listen to the whole band’s 2016 sophomore effort, RR7349 and find out why you need to see ‘em live.
RSA New Contemporaries
RSA, Edinburgh, 18 Feb-15 Mar RSA, Edinburgh, £TBC
Head to the Royal Scottish Academy this week for the opening of RSA New Contemporaries 2017. Now in its ninth year, the exhibition will showcase the cream of the art graduate crop, taking in painting, sculpture, film making, photography, printmaking, architecture and installation from 66 artists. Image: Simona Stojanovska, 238 BSOM, (2016)
Dye-It: Exploring Edible Colour
Bakery47, Glasgow, 19 Feb, 3pm
Our foodie pick this week has to be bakery47 & Locavore Dye-It: Exploring Edible Colour. Head along in the afternoon to learn all about using natural foodstuffs to conjure up beautiful food colouring, then put your new hues to use and dye your own Pasche eggs. Bob’s your uncle – mad skills and a couple of months to nail the technique in time for Easter. Sounds smashing. Sorry.
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"We've been in a strange place, I'm coming out and blinking into the light… It's good to be playing again."
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds play the SSE Hydro this September; the first time British audiences can experience live songs from last year’s stunning Skeleton Tree. He'll play with an eight-piece touring line up and tickets go on sale 9.00am GMT on 17 February on DICE.
Braw Beard & Moustache Championships
Drygate, Glasgow, 18 Feb, 6pm
Do you have a big, burgeoning beard attached to your chin? Does your 'tache look like it was twisted by angels? DOESN'T MATTER. At the Braw Beard & Moustache championships, everyone's welcome, even spectators. Even people with hand-crafted prosthetic beards. And, as it's at Drygate, if the hairiness gets a bit too much, just make the most of your surroundings and grab a nice cold beer.
Image: Fran Caballero
Audacious Women festival
18-26 Feb, various venues across Edinburgh
Edinburgh’s Audacious Women festival returns this month with a sprawling web of wicked events, including everything from exhibitions to roller derbies, lectures to performances, not to mention workshops in dance, stonemasonry, DJing, knitting, songwriting, motorcycling and crafting.
Made in India
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 16-18 Feb, 8pm
The conversation about a human's right to reproductive autonomy is something we need to talk more about more often. Set in a surrogacy clinic in Gujarat, Satinder Chohan's play Made in India does exactly that. Catch it this week before it continues its tour of theatres in NW England and London. Image: Robert-Day
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