Book Festival
Loved and Lost 2 – Book Launch
Date: Friday 05 August, 6.00pm
Location: Dixon Halls
Register for your free spot here.
Join author and local historian Bruce Downie for the launch of a revised and expanded edition of Loved and Lost: Govanhill’s Built Heritage, first published in 2019. The new edition includes several new chapters and more photographs.
Occupy! Occupy! Occupy! Graphic Novel Launch –
“Nae mair pie in the sky when we die”
Govanhill Baths Archive in partnership with Magic Torch Comics
Date: Friday 12 August, 4.00pm – 6.00pm
Location: Glasgow Zine Library
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2021 marked 20 years since the amazing occupation of Govanhill Baths by the Save Our Pool campaign. The celebrations culminated in a two day conference which explored industrial, community, environmental and student occupations in the central belt of Scotland. The graphic novel presents material from all occupations featured in the conference: Squatting (1946); Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (1971); Lee Jeans (1981); Lovable Bra (1982); Plessey Capacitors (1982), Faslane (1982-ongoing); Timex (1983); Price Waterhouse (1984); Stirling Park Sheriff Offices (1990); Caterpillar (1987); Pollok Free State (1994-1996); Netherton Primary (1996); Kinning Park Complex (1996); Govanhill Baths (2001); Free Hetherington (2011); Still Game For The Valley; Baile Hoose (2021).
Politics, Poverty and the Police, Author Talk by Darren McGarvey and Donna McLean
Date: Sunday 07 August, 6.00-8.00pm
Location: The Deep End
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Join Darren McGarvey, author of ‘The Social Distance Between Us: How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain’ and Donna McLean, author of ‘Small Town Girl: Love, Lies and the Undercover Police’ as they discuss their new books and the place of class and politics in their writing.
Little Donegal, Author Talk by Colm Bryce
Date: Sunday 07 August, 12.00pm
Location: The Deep End
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Author of an upcoming book about the Irish in Scotland, Colm Bryce will trace the various periods of Irish immigration from the famine/Gorta Mór years to the period of the war of Independence. Join us for this exciting look at the history of the Irish community and the cultural impact of their settlement in Scotland.
How Scottish Theatre became World Class, Author Talk by Mark Brown
Date: Wednesday 03 August, 6.00pm
Location: Dixon Halls
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Mark Brown – theatre critic, journalist, lecturer and author of the book Modernism and Scottish Theatre Since 1969: A Revolution on Stage – will discuss the renaissance of Scottish theatre over the last 50 years.
