Offline are proud to present MERLODRAMA! – a weekend dedicated to the enigmatic 1930s film star Merle Oberon.
Featuring screenings, workshops and discussions, Merlodrama takes place between 5 – 7 December 2025 at The Deep End.
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Rosemary has been contributing to Glasgow’s creative and cultural sectors for over 15 years. She worked in Tramway running their participation programme and was for many years part of Glasgow Life’s Arts, Music and Cultural Venues service. More recently she’s been supporting a range of creative organisations as a freelance research and development consultant, leading research into craft education with Panel and Craft Scotland, developing evaluations for Glass Performance and Take Me Somewhere, managing SCAN’s CLiC project, and running development workshops for Greenspace Scotland and Uni of Glasgow’s School of Culture and Creative Arts, among others! Rosemary is also completing a PhD in Media and Cultural Policy at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research exploring the role of Scotland’s maker-led organisations.
Tie joined Creative Glasgow in November 2024 as our Administrator, bringing over 15 years of experience in arts administration. She’s worked in a variety of roles across operations, finance, sustainability, creative learning, production, and events, with well-known Glasgow institutions like CCA (2014-2024), King’s Theatre & Theatre Royal (2008-2014), and Glasgow Comic Con (2010-2024).
Passionate about both the creative and practical sides of the arts, Tie is excited to help support and connect Glasgow’s vibrant creative community.
Lily joined GCAN in April 2024 as our new Youth Arts Coordinator. Lily graduated with a First Class degree in Sculpture and Environmental Art from Glasgow School of Art in 2022. Her work centred around natural dyeing, textiles and metalwork. With a focus on community building and engagement with our natural surroundings, Lily has worked with multiple community groups, leading workshops, creating and commissioning artwork, before, during and since graduating.
Offline are proud to present MERLODRAMA! – a weekend dedicated to the enigmatic 1930s film star Merle Oberon.
Featuring screenings, workshops and discussions, Merlodrama takes place between 5 – 7 December 2025 at The Deep End.
Join artist and illustrator Lindsay Grime for a workshop exploring DIY drypoint etching. This is a fun and accessible printmaking technique which uses found materials – Tetrapaks and a pasta machine – to produce genuine drypoint prints. The low-cost/recycled nature of it means it is something you can recreate at home, which is unusual as printmaking often requires access to specialist equipment. In this two-hour workshop you’ll get to grips with the technique and produce unique festive cards or prints!
There are two workshops running on Saturday 13 December as part of Spot Design Market (full of independent makers, great for a browse!) at Pollokshaws Burgh Hall: 11.15am – 1.15pm & 2pm – 4pm.
16 – 19 December
SaltSpace Gallery, 38 Albert Road, G42 8DN
Creative Glasgow member, Romina Frohar, is delighted to invite fellow members along to their upcoming exhibition. My Heritage for Sale transforms SaltSpace Gallery into a small shop where commemorative objects – postcards, scarves, ornaments, calendars, photos, and storybooks – stand in for two missing artifacts from Iran’s Pearl Palace: a teacup and a teaspoon once held at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. By restaging these absent objects as limited editions available for purchase, the exhibition turns acts of exchange and gifting into gestures of remembrance. Drawing on traditions of craft and ritual, My Heritage for Sale reclaims the intimate, handmade, and sentimental as political terrains. Through irony and care, the project makes visible how heritage is not only preserved in institutions but also carried in the gestures of those who refuse to forget.
Thursday 27 November, 5.30-7.30pm
Reid Lecture Theatre, The Reid Building, The Glasgow School of Art
FREE
Join us to share the love and celebrate the achievements of our membership community and the wider creative and cultural sectors in this festive get together co-hosted with GSA. There will be some seasonal refreshments and a chance to hear about novel developments and success stories from across our community.
We can’t wait to see you there!
Spotlight speakers:
Project Ability‘s Christmas fundraising exhibition “Feathered Friends” will run until 20 December 2025. This annual show celebrates the creativity and unique perspectives of artists working in our supported studio programmes.
This year’s theme is birds and features over 60 artworks across painting, drawing, print, photography, sculpture and mixed-media. All works are for sale, with proceeds supporting the artists and the ongoing work of Project Ability.
Last Updated November 2024
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