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On the eve of International Women's Day, the Glasgow Women's Library and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, are staging a public art event called March of Women.
Taking place on March 7 in Bridgeton, Glasgow, March of Women will start with a performance of the suffragette play A Pageant of Great Women by Cicely Hamilton. It will be the first theatre performance staged by Glasgow Women's Library at their new home on Landressy Street, and will be followed by a procession from the library to the Drying Greens on Glasgow Green.
Cicely Hamilton was a suffragette of Scottish descent who wrote A Pageant of Great Women more than 100 years ago. It was last performed in 2011 by Fragments & Monuments.
womenslibrary.org.uk
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A photographic exhibition comprising 22 portraits of blind and partially sighted people living in Scotland is being launched in Edinburgh on Thursday.
Connecting Visions aims to overturn perceptions of people with sight loss as passive and dependent. Its subjects include Dennis Robertson, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Gordon Anthony, an author of historical thrillers, Lindsay Scott, a café manager, Sandra Wilson, a retired careers adviser, and Jamie McDonald, a stand-up comedian. Edinburgh-based photographer Trudy Stade was inspired to put together the exhibition after watching McDonald perform live on stage alongside her husband, comedian Tom Stade.
One of the subjects is Partick-based Insight Radio producer/ presenter Jill Daley (pictured) who lost her sight when she was 19. "This exhibition is more about what people with sight loss can, rather than can't, do. Even I was astounded at what some of the people photographed here have achieved, despite sight loss," she said.
Connecting Visions runs until Sunday, March 8, at the Summerhall venue.
summerhall.co.uk
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The Ayr Choral Union and the City of Glasgow Symphony Orchestra is to perform J S Bach's St Matthew Passion at Ayr Town Hall on March 29.
The choir rehearses weekly at Ayr Community Church under the direction of chorus master and conductor Gerard Doherty.
ayrchoralunion.net
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The Glasgow School of Art has appointed global property and construction consultancy Gardiner & Theobald for the revamp of the Mackintosh Building. The company will act as external project managers to support The Glasgow School of Art in the restoration project "acting as the interface between the GSA and construction and design professionals." Its staff will work with Liz Davidson, the GSA's senior project manager and the lead consultant of the Architecture Design Team, which is due to be appointed at the end of March.
David Logue, senior partner of Gardiner & Theobald in Scotland added: "The building truly is one of Scotland's national treasures and we are honoured that Gardiner & Theobald have been entrusted to manage its restoration."
gsa.ac.uk
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