Platform What's On Guide: August - December 2022

W h at’s o n August – DeCember 2022

TAKING PART AT PLATFORM mon 29 august - sat 17 december 2022

visual art Clack & Yak Knitting Group

16+ YRS

Mondays | 11am-1pm Join this relaxed group for a chat and cuppa whilst knitting, sewing or crocheting. Beginners welcome.

Art Factory

16+ YRS

Tuesdays 12-1.30pm & 2.30-4pm A relaxed space for adults to get creative and inspired with a range of activities exploring different themes and materials.

Nu Gen Art+Design

11+ YRS

Tuesdays | 5-6.30pm Enjoy drawing, painting and sculpture - workshops inspired by interests, identity and what it’s like to be a teenager today.

Saturday Art Club

4-11 YRS

Saturdays 11am-12.30pm Art class for children offering a chance to be playful with materials and create artworks to take home.

multi-artform

Image: Euan Robertson

Play Cafe

0-5 YRS

Saturdays | 1-2.30pm Creative activities for early years, each week is different - join us for music, dance, theatre, arts and crafts for babies, toddlers and their adults. Healthy drinks and snacks provided.

Platform offers a wide range of weekly workshops and classes, with something for all ages. These are artist led, friendly and no experience is needed.

Sessions are offered on a Pay-What-You-Like basis allowing you to choose what to pay. Get in touch to book or for more details.

performance

music Platform Singers Community Choir

16+ YRS

Fridays | 2.30-4pm Led by a professional singer, our choir is friendly, fun and a great way to meet new people.

Guitar | Fiddle | Drums

Monday Night Drama

5+ YRS

Tuesdays & Thursdays Various times Music lessons are open to all levels of experience – from beginners to improvers. Tutored by professional musicians.

8-16 YRS

Thursday Night Drama

16+ YRS

Thursdays | 6-8pm Fun and informal weekly workshops for adults interested in performance projects.

Image: Euan Robertson

Mondays | 5-6.30pm Weekly drama workshops for children and young people interested in performance, fun and creativity.

AUGUST Artist Studio

Alice Dansey-Wright Commissioned & produced by Platform

Sat 9 Jul-Sat 10 Sep Mon-Sat | 10am-5pm Free | all ages

An exhibition of new paintings and sculpture celebrating Alice’s journey with Platform’s Taking Part art groups and featuring work created together.

PLATFORM Tea Dance

Platform, Jon Ritchie and That Swing Sensation Wed 31 Aug | 1pm Thu 1 Sep | 6.30pm | all ages Dig out your glad rags, get into the swing of things and join us for a waltzing, foxtrot of a time!

SEPTEMBER Lost in Music

Magnetic North Fri 16 Sep | 1.30 & 7pm | 12yrs+

Artist Studio

Gig-theatre show inspired by the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice’s journey to hell and back. Told by young musicians this unique theatrical experience combines live music, storytelling and micro-cinema!

Daytime Disco

Platform in partnership with Weekday WOW Factor Fri 19 Aug | 11.30am-1.30pm Free but ticketed | 50yrs+ Daytime Disco offers older adults a chance to chat, dance and sing to music of their choice with a DJ to keep the dance floor filled and memories flowing.

Ventoux

2Magpies Mon 19 & Tue 20 Sep | 7pm 12yrs+

Ventoux - the most fearsome mountain on the Tour de France.

Using breath-taking video and a pair of road bikes - this live performance asks how far will we go to succeed?

OCTOBER Stuntman

Time Machine

Physical, funny and tender live performance exploring the relationship between violence and masculinity and the impact this has on our perceptions of men.

Join this fiery and furious company of feminists for a tale of time travel, survival and human evolution in a bold, irreverent retelling of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine.

Dual Purpose

Unbecoming

SUPERFAN Fri 23 Sep | 7pm Sat 24 Sep | 1pm | 14yrs+

Maria Gondek

Sculpture Placement Group in partnership with Platform and Blairtummock Housing Association

A commission of new sculpture

by Maria Gondek that will be exhibited at Platform and then installed within Blairtummock Housing, as a permanent public artwork. Keep an eye on our website for dates and further details.

Jordan & Skinner Fri 7 Oct | 7pm Sat 8 Oct | 3pm | 12yrs+

Company of Wolves Sat 8 Oct | 1.30pm | 16yrs+ Solo performance in song, movement and text – this intimate portrait of a woman fragmented is an invitation to a private world, a unique space where pretence slips away. * Join us on Sat 8 Oct for an afternoon double bill OF Time Machine & Unbecoming *

Ferguson & Barton

Time’s Plague

Contemporary dance theatre loosely inspired by Hitchcock’s Vertigo, a show about communication, voyeurism and gender roles - can we ever really know the person closest to us?

Would we want to?

Celebrated performer David Hayman is Bob Cunninghame.

Bob’s in hospital, broken – like the whole world. Doesn’t stop his rants about injustice, laughing at everything, including himself - raging against the dying of the light…

Shotput Fri 30 Sep | 7pm | 12yrs+

Fair Pley Thu 13 Oct | 7pm | 14yrs+

Downs with Love

Cutting Edge Theatre Sat 15 Oct | 2pm | 12yrs+ Beth has a new support worker - Tracey - together they head to the pub to hear Mark, a local singer. Beth falls for Mark, Mark falls for Tracey! A fun and challenging show that packs a punch!

Rocket Post!

Constellation Points Mon 24 Oct | 6pm Tue 25 Oct | 10.30am | 6yrs+ A joyful mix of songs and storytelling, a tale of miscommunication, vaulting ambition and the magical discoveries that can happen when everything goes wrong.

NOVEMBER Enough of Him

National Theatre of Scotland & Pitlochry Festival Theatre Fri 4 Nov | 7pm Sat 5 Nov | 2pm / 7pm £10.50 / £6 / £4 | 12yrs+ Based on a true story, Enough of Him explores the life of Joseph Knight, an enslaved African man brought to Scotland by plantation owner John Wedderburn to serve in his Perthshire mansion.

Mining Seams and Drawing Wells: a living archive for Easterhouse

Keira McLean & Joey Simons Commissioned & produced by Platform

Sat 19 Nov ’22 - Sat 21 Jan ’23 Mon-Sat | 10am-5pm Free | all ages

From poets and theatre-makers to tenants’ associations, rent strikers and everyday activists, this exhibition will share the stories of the local community.

Histories are woven together through creative writing, oral history, walking inquiries and radical education.

TENEMENT SALON | LAUNCH EVENT Mining Seams and Drawing Wells: a living archive for Easterhouse Sat 19 Nov | 2pm Free but ticketed | all ages

“Mon in and get comfy!

I’ll stick the kettle on, I’ve got some story to tell you…”

Join Keira and Joey for an afternoon of stories, poetry and film in our new living room archive. Cosy up by the fire and have a nosy at a new exhibition and publication celebrating the history of Easterhouse.

These events are supported by the Year of Stories 2022 Community Stories Fund

CHRISTMAS AT PLATFORM SLEEPING BEAUTY

by Lewis Hetherington DECEMBER: Tue 6 | 10am & 7pm Wed 7 | 10am & 1pm Thu 8 | 7pm Fri 9 | 10am & 7pm Sat 10 | 2pm & 7pm Mon 12 | 1pm & 7pm Tue 13 | 10am & 7pm Wed 14 | 10am & 1pm Thu 15 | 7pm Fri 16 | 10am & 7pm Sat 17 | 2pm & 7pm Mon 19 | 10am & 7pm Tue 20 | 10am & 7pm Wed 21 | 10am & 1pm Thu 22 | 7pm Fri 23 | 2pm & 7pm TICKETS: £9.50/£6/£5 | 5yrs+

Michelle Hopewell in Mother Goose.

Image: Euan Robertson

FROM THE CREATIVE TEAM BEHIND THE MUCH LOVED MOTHER GOOSE FAE EASTERHOOSE

Family friendly and packed full of fun, Sleeping Beauty takes place in ‘Mattress World Kingdom’, where Big Jimmy is the King of Low Prices!

Jimmy likes to dress as Elvis to entertain the customers, but really he’s doing it all for his daughter Beauty and her dog Rocket! Until it emerges that an evil curse has been put on Beauty - who will save the day in time for Christmas?

BOOKING INFORMATION

platform-online.co.uk | 0141 276 9696 (opt 1) See back page for Box Office times.

Ticket Prices 8.50 (Standard) £5 (Concession) | £4 (Local Links)

Platform, the arts centre at The Bridge in Glasgow’s east end, offers a year-round programme of music, performance and visual art, alongside a varied Taking Part programme of workshops and classes.

We welcome audiences from across Easterhouse, the city and beyond - and our Local Links programme offers great discounts and priority access to those living in postcodes near Platform. Membership is free and you can enjoy a show for as little as £4. Eligible postcodes: G1 1, G1 5, G4 0, G31 1–5, G32 0, G32 6–9, G33 1–6, G34 0, G34 9, G40 1–4, G69 6–8, G71 7.

The Bridge is also home to a swimming pool, library and the Platform Café, so there’s lots to do when visiting.

For more information, visit our website, follow us on social media or get in touch – we’d love to hear from you.

Platform, The Bridge 1000 Westerhouse Road Easterhouse, Glasgow G34 9JW

platform-online.co.uk

0141 276 9696 (opt 1)

info@platform-online.co.uk

@platformglasgow

The Box Office phone line is staffed between 10am and 5pm every Tuesday and two hours before every live event.

At all other times, please leave a message.

Platform is programmed and managed by Glasgow East Arts Company, registered Scottish Charity No SCO34201.

All details within this brochure are correct at time of print.