What's On Scotland 27 Mar-3 Apr: Berwick Film Festival & more

This week we travel down technically to England (gasp!) for the 20th edition of the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, taking place in the seaside town of Berwick-upon-Tweed from 27-30 March. The programme kicks off with Your Touch Makes Others Invisible, an eerie docufiction work set in militarily occupied territory in Sri Lanka that lyrically examines the stories of missing people through a supernatural story of a son that disappears.

Elsewhere, there's a focus strand of short films by Brooklyn artist Ayanna Dozier, a documentary on Frantz Fanon by Raoul Peck, and a screening of seminal documentary Relax Be Cruel set around the Pier 34 warehouse project in New York and the counterculture that existed there in the 1980s. Tickets for individual films can be bought here, or get a day or festival pass.

Double Thrills: Alex Franz Zehetbauer
CCA: Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow. 1-3 Apr, 7pm
Part of Buzzcut’s spring programme of experimental queer theatre, this cabaret style evening features the likes of Craig Manson skewering the critically acclaimed solo show in Bunny, or Femme Castatrice’s anticolonial take on Christina Rosetti in Gobbling Market.

Marie Davidson (DJ Set) + Simon Hot Mess
La Cheetah Club, Glasgow. 28 Mar, 11pm
Beloved Edinburgh institution does a little guest spot at Glasgow's La Cheetah Club, bringing French-Canadian DJ and producer Marie Davidson to the decks for a night of big techno and acid, supported by another beloved Scottish institution: Simontron from Hot Mess.

Yuichi Hirako: Number of Trees
The Modern Institute, Glasgow. Until 21 May
A large-scale installation made up of paintings and wooden sculptures, Japanese artist Yuichi Hirako’s Number of Trees demands an interrogation of our relationship with nature, asking us to notice the intersections between human and nonhuman environments.

Kiosk
Sett Studios, Edinburgh. Until 29 Mar
Sett Studios have launched their Spring programme, and this week features a gorgeous exhibition and pop-up shop from Fiona Beveridge (aka Fibanshee). Find bright and colourful art, textiles, paintings, sculpture and zines, as well as reworked vintage items.

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Glasgow City Halls + Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow. 3-4 May

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↪ Orla Gartland
SWG3, Glasgow. 31 Mar, 7pm
Dublin-born, London-based singer-songwriter Orla Gartland brings her irresistibly fun brand of indie pop to SWG3's TV Studio this week as she tours her second album Everybody Needs a Hero.

→ After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989-2024
Stills, Edinburgh. Until 28 Jun
This major survey of working class photography brings together work by various artists, exploring how the end of the fierce countercultural period of the 1980s shifted radical practices and thematic concerns.

→ Anish Kumar (Ninja Tune) ⥊ Hobbes + more ⥊ Club_Nacht
The Bongo Club, Edinburgh. 29 Mar, 11pm
A rising star in the UK dance music scene, Anish Kumar heads to Bongo fresh off his BBC R1 Essential Mix, playing a range of house and disco alongside the likes of Hobbes, DRUMA and Mélanger le Miel.