Visual Art
Maggie’s Culture Crawl
City of Glasgow
Jan Patience
four stars
AT THE same time as a nation sat down to watch BBC's Scotland's Still Game, back on the small screen after almost a decade, I sat down in a pub not unlike Jack and Victor's howff, The Clansman.
The Molendinar Bar at Tennent's Wellpark Brewery was the fourth stop on Maggie's ten-mile sponsored Culture Crawl around Glasgow on Friday night.
Half pints in plastic glass, bag of ready salted crisps in hand, blethering about Jeremy Corbyn and the death of Labour in Scotland with pals. A ceilidh band playing in the corner. See me? See cultured?
Hundreds of walkers had gathered earlier at Zaha Hadid's distinctive Riverside Museum by the banks of the River Clyde for the cancer care charity's first ever Culture Crawl in Glasgow. We were cheered on our way by Zumba instructor LeeAnn Mitchell, gamely joined on stage by Partick-based PC Alan Dunsmuir.
Maggie's does sterling work supporting anyone affected by cancer at 19 centres across the UK, online and abroad. Many of the orange t-shirt clad walkers had their own personal reasons for taking part.
Our crawl took us via the bonnie banks of the Clyde and ended at Maggie's Centre in Gartnavel Hospital in the city's west end. En route we stopped at BBC Scotland's HQ, the Gallery of Modern Art, Wellpark Brewery, Theatre Royal, Kelvingrove Bandstand, Glasgow University and the Botanic Gardens.
At each stop we were royally fed, watered and entertained. A personal highlight was the chance to catch our breath and take weight off our feet at the Kibble Palace where Glasgow's own community orchestra Gamelan Naga Mas played traditional Javanese and Balinese by candlelight. On reflection, a special night for all concerned.
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