1st – 17th May 2026
Explore & Enjoy
2026 Events coming soon – plus new Blythswood Festival Awards 2026 – watch this space & Facebook
Hebrides Ensemble return to RCS to perform a collection of new piano quartet works for Plug Festival including the winner of the Walter and Dinah Wolfe Memorial Award 25/26.
The finalists of the Classical Concerto Prize perform in the Ledger Recital Room for this coveted award. The winner will be given the opportunity to perform their concerto with an RCS ensemble in a future season.
The Mackintosh Tearooms, 215-217 Sauchiehall Street At leisure, explore our celebrated Exhibition in the original Willow Tearooms in Sauchiehall Street and see and learn of the vibrant city of Glasgow in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Times of exciting change and innovation. Learn about the growth of the tea rooms and hear the successful […]
The National Piping Centre, at the top of Hope Street An international centre of music and hospitality, world class tuition and performance. Visit the Museum of Piping at The National Piping Centre to explore 300 years of Scotland’s musical history in our permanent collection, and try the bagpipes for yourself! Enjoy fascinating films on the history, […]
Glasgow Art Club, 185 Bath Street In its 150th Anniversary Year, Paisley Art Institute supports and promotes art in its prize-winning 137th Annual Exhibition. With over 500 quality artworks – paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture – by 240 talented artists. Enjoy the Institute’s home-base in the unique Glasgow Art Club and renowned main gallery with […]
Compass Gallery, 178 West Regent Street For 57 years, Glasgow’s Compass Gallery has been the foremost contemporary gallery in the West of Scotland. Its role as principal talent spotter of new young Scottish based painters is widely recognised. The gallery also regularly shows the more established artists who see the need to be identified with […]
Gerber Fine Art, 178 West Regent Street Established in 1986 this gallery is an intimate Glasgow city centre space for art enthusiasts, collectors and first-time buyers to browse through an exciting collection of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture by prominent 19th to 21st century British artists, Glasgow Girls & Boys, Scottish Masters, Modern British, St. […]
The Mackintosh Tearooms, 215-217 Sauchiehall Street Bring your family along to bake and decorate historical Scottish sweet treats to take home! In this session our Head Chef, Jaz Spears, will teach you and your family how to bake Hazelnut Shortbread.While your sweet treats are baking, we will take you on a family-friendly tour of the […]
RGI Kelly Gallery Set in its modern Kelly Gallery near Blythswood Square, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts hosts a special exhibition. Inspired by the legacy of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow’s vibrant music scene and its popular crime stories, the gallery will host new work by current RGI members and entertain the viewers […]
Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street The art-deco Glasgow Film Theatre in Rose Street just off Sauchiehall Street, built in 1939 as the Cosmo, has been leading the way in art cinema for decades. The three screens show 100% specialised titles, first run world and independent cinema, artists’ experimental work, rarely screened classics and undiscovered […]
The Mitchell Library, Charing Cross A fully illustrated talk about the making of Glasgow’s first New Town built on the historic Lands of Blythswood. Up and over Blythswood Hill, creating all the streets west of a very new Buchanan Street. Laid out in splendid style.Its prime developer was weaver William Harley building its streets, first […]
Students from the Junior Conservatoire lead this concert performance in the Ledger Recital Room.
