Join us at 6.50pm on Thursday 27th April at The Deep End on Nithsdale St for the second of our 2023 #SouthGlasgowHeritageNights events – an illustrated talk from the After The Garden Festival team, followed by Q&A.

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The 1988 Garden Festival changed how the world saw Glasgow, and how it saw itself. It lives on only in people’s memories as the buildings, objects and artworks from this temporary event are gone forever – or are they?

Join Urban Prehistorian Kenny Brophy, Project Maestro Lex Lamb, and Holder of the Official Garden Festival Umbrella Gordon Barr to learn how they have used crowdsourcing to build an ever growing digital record of the hundreds of pavilions, sculptures and attractions that made up the Festival.

“Items and memories are scattered across the globe with stories to tell: from the large (the Coca-cola Roller Coaster, now in Suffolk), to the small (a Garden Festival tea-towel, now in Papua New Guinea); we’ve identified surviving artefacts, ephemera and even some of the original plants and gardens that delighted visitors over that unforgettable summer, more than thirty years ago.

We’ll outline what we’ve learned so far about how the 1988 Festival was put together, taken apart and spread around the world, with the help of hundreds of individual submissions and leads, with plenty hidden in plain sight closer to home – and we’re learning more every day!

But we still haven’t found the giant tap, sorry.”

To donate directly to support the ATGF project please visit: https://tinyurl.com/AtGF1988

[Header image kindly reporoduced with permission. Photograph © Donald Whannell]

Book your tickets here on Eventbrite

TIMINGS:

6.50pm – Doors Open / Registration
7pm – Illustrated talk from the ATGF team followed by Q&A
8.15pm – Ends

More #SouthGlasgowHeritageNights coming soon

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BOOK HERE (free but registration required): https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-archives-heritage-group-scotland-network-conference-cop26-tickets-167455093693

VENUE ADDRESS:
The Point Community Hub, 180 Queen’s Drive, Glasgow G42 8QD (1 minute walk from Queen’s Park train station and Pollokshaws Rd)

Deirdre Molloy and Romy Galloway from SGHET will present on ‘Digital Dilemmas: Creating a Sustainable & Accessible Community Archive‘ sharing their archive design research findings and touching on some of SGHET’s key archive collections, including Southside Memories, Southside Lockdown Lens, and Pollok Free State.

In turn, they’ll explore some of the challenges digitisation and digital activity in general presents for a climate-conscious heritage archives sector, and to communities already being affected by the consequences of the climate crisis.

The event (9.30am-4pm) offers a varied programme of presentations, workshops and a ‘one-minute-mayhem’ session of rapid fire talks, plus refreshments. During the breaks attendees can browse a range of heritage stalls including ours, at which we’ll have our South Glasgow Heritage Trails guidebook on sale (cash only).

For those who can’t make it in person, there’s also a livestream of the event accessible from anywhere, bookable below.

BOOK HERE:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-archives-heritage-group-scotland-network-conference-cop26-tickets-167455093693

SPEAKER LINE-UP & EVENT SCHEDULE:
https://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/explore/community-archives/community-archives-and-heritage-group-scotland/sustainable-stories-capturing-an-age-of-change-in-community-archives/

TIMINGS:
9.30am – Registration & tea/coffee
10am-4pm (with 12.30-1.30 lunch break) – Conference programme

Follow the organisers Community Archives & Heritage Group Scotland on Twitter for updates:
https://twitter.com/CArchivesScot

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To piece together the new experiences, habits and feelings of the moment, we invite residents of South Glasgow to share photos from everyday life – images captured by you that reflect how it is being re-shaped and our moods and activities are changing in this new situation.

The new rhythms of life under lockdown…

How are you making the new norms of social distancing, social isolation, working/studying/schooling from home (and other new realities) manageable… what’s keeping you afloat, giving you hope, helping you cope and get through this?

What do you appreciate about your local area now that you spend most or all of your time in it… have your feelings changed about it?

Examples of things to share

Indoors: what activities are helping you or your family pass the time? What’s comforting or inspiring you and making lockdown bearable?

For example: art & drawing, games, decorating, cooking, family hairdressing, gardening, revisiting old stuff, exploring family history or heirlooms, mending things, making or getting into new things…

Outdoors: what do you see on your essential trips outside that strikes you or lifts your mood? What are you noticing?

For example: nature, parks, buildings, street scenes, new routes, pets on their walk, sunsets, skylines, chalked messages & games, posters, acts of kindness, community support projects, open & closed shops, cafes or pubs, traffic-free roads, other details large or small that catch your eye…

How to contribute…

• Share your photos (and any remarks you want to make about them) with us on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter using the hashtags #SouthGlasgowLockdown or #SouthsideLockdownLens – or just post them to our timelines or by tagging us if that’s easier.

• You can also email us your images direct to info@sghet.com with a short description or anything you want to say about them.

• Got any questions? You can ask questions about or comment on the project on social media or by email.

We look forward to seeing your photos and getting a flavour of how the Southside is keeping on, staying safe, finding hope and sustaining itself through this new COVID-19 era.

Ultimately we plan to create a community archive of this project, to document this period for the future. Join us in taking the first step!

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Note: We appreciate and respect that this is a troubling time for many, and some may not feel like contributing or be able to. If you’d rather just keep in touch, you can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram or sign up for our email newsletter.

Below are some photos from the SGHET team… we look forward to seeing yours.

By Deirdre Molloy, 6th May 2020

‘Stay strong’ chalked with art on wall beside Queen’s Park Rose Garden – spotted by Jen

Rainbow window display, former British Linen Bank (flats over Halloumi) Pollokshaws Rd – spotted by Deirdre

Learning to knit during lockdown – photo by Romy

‘Together we can do anything’ banner in Maxwell Park – spotted by Saskia

‘Fear not we will return’ sign at boarded-up Hell Yeah shop, Shawlands – spotted by Deirdre

‘We need rainbows’ painted Stones at Queen’s Park Flag Pole – spotted by Jen

Volunteer posters for Glasgow Mutual Aid – photo by Sarah

Using wild garlic foraged at Pollok Park to make pesto and focaccia – photo by Romy

Den made from cut down trees in Queen’s Park – spotted by Jen

Temporary home studio in the spare room – photo by Sarah

Social distancing sign at Pollok Park gates Haggs Rd entrance – spotted by Deirdre

Regrettable quarantine haircuts – photo by Romy

Cycling & discovering new parts of local parks: sculpture installation in Bellahouston Park spotted by Romy

Sign at Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice charity shop, Pollokshaws Rd spotted by Deirdre

[Other images: trying to propogate cuttings from Southside walks by Sarah; Love NHS chalked at Camphill House in Queen’s Park by Deirdre]

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