Nordic Music Days Glasgow: Wednesday Festival Club

The CCA has long been a hub for adventurous, innovative, and experimental music making in Glasgow, and its spaces will be crammed with performances, installations and films from 22.00 each evening.

Emerging artists alongside established names, thought-provoking stillness following disco infused social commentary... the festival club could be a walk-through mixtape, or a chance to focus on one gig and then relax with a drink.

The Third Eye bar will be open each night, as composers, creators, performers, programmers, producers and audiences mix, socialise, and find new musical experiences behind every door. Wednesday night's programme in the Theatre jumps between the old and the new, with a Norwegian Psalm tune, a customised horn, and a special collaboration between musicians and storytellers that looks ahead to Hallowe'en. The Cinema screens a fascinating film that reflects on the history of the Finnish-Russian border, and the Club Room is filled with the melifluous sound of a robotic jazz trombone.

In the CCA Courtyard: 

Easterhouse Children’s Manifesto Co-created by Oakwood Primary School, Red Note Ensemble and Dumbworld. 

*also runs Wednesday to Saturday as part of the INSTALLATIONS, SOUND ROUTES AND EXHIBITIONS programme*

Inspired by the 1931 publication 'La Anarquia Explicada a Los Niños', an instructional manual for children published during the Spanish Civil War that explained the ideas and practises of anarchy -composer Brian Irvine and director John McIlduff in collaboration with the children of Oakwood Primary School in Glasgow and Red Note Ensemble have created a collection of 7 musical animated video posters that explore key elements of “anarchical” thinking such as autonomy, kindness and human connectivity from a child’s perspective.

The work was developed over a year long process of co-creation involving pupils, teachers, artists and musicians.

Born from Red Note’s 5 Places programme, which targets five locations across central Scotland. This programme aims to properly get to know people in their own neighbourhood at grassroots level, and work with them to make and create new live music together in the heart of their community over a number of years. This Easterhouse collaboration is based on the ideas and voices of Oakwood Primary School’s pupils and their partnered groups from the wider community. The project was led by composer Brian Irvine, who wanted to allow young people’s anarchy to direct us, the grown-ups, on ways in which we can uncover the best of what we as humans can be.

Full programme details for the Wednesday Festival Club are available here.

As part of Nordic Music Days Glasgow. Wednesday Festival Club programme is supported by the Augustinus Foundation, Arts and Culture Norway, and the Cockaigne Fund.

Tickets

Tickets £10/ £6. Booking here.