Just do it: A Wall Is A Screen in Leith
How to create a pop-up, open-air short film festival? Just do it. When darkness falls city streets and blank walls take on a different identity. Is that a threat or a promise? […]
Cinema City: Glasgow Film Festival 2015
As Glasgow gets ready to celebrate a long love affair with cinema, guest blogger Lucy Brouwer prepares for Glasgow Film Festival 2015 by exploring what’s on this year – while reliving the adrenaline high of festivals past. […]
Exploring Strange Wales with Lucy Brouwer
We follow music blogger Lucy Brouwer as she ventures out of her comfort zone into the Strange Wales Festival celebrating the centenary of Dylan Thomas, a poet who was “rock ‘n roll ahead of his time”. […]
Meet the ‘Glasgow Girls’ who helped make the city
Our Clydeside Promenade audio tour explores so much of the river city’s history – but what about her-story? Over the centuries, the historical representation of women in Glasgow has been somewhat slim. Achievements have been swept beneath the metaphorical rug of history. Key women are not celebrated in the same way and to the same extent as their male counterparts. […]
Introducing Clydeside Promenade: The Story of Glasgow’s Living Force
“Why, I wonder, should it feel so moving just to be here?” asks writer Peter Ross. “Well, the Clyde is not Scotland’s longest river, and it is not the most beautiful, but it is, I would say, the river which lives most vividly within the minds and imagination of the Scottish people. It carries a freight of meaning.” And it is this very meaning that we explore in our brand new audio tour, Clydeside Promenade. Venturing along the river from Govan to Bridgeton, the tour takes in stops such as Water Row, Govan Pontoon, Broomielaw, St. Andrew’s Suspension Bridge and on through wilder reaches of Glasgow Green to the East End. […]
Beyond the Fringe: Special Edition Edinburgh Comedy Tour
Phew! The streets of Edinburgh are emptying fast but the party (do we mean hangover?) is not quite over. There’s another week of the official Festival to go so to celebrate the fact that we’ve all survived yet another bigger-and-better Fringe we’d like to invite you all to join us on our Special Edition Edinburgh Comedy Tour. […]
Lets all go Doune the Rabbit Hole
Summer seems a long way off but as snow falls Gemma Brown thinks warming thoughts of a creative event which has a very simple aim: “Making Scotland Happier”. Let’s all go Doune the Rabbit Hole. […]
Murder mystery and high tea on the great Cinema City Treasure Hunt
We had some last minute panic. What if it snowed? What if no-one turned up? How would we stop people filling in all the answers in a bar without setting foot on the streets? And where would we find a poison bottle? […]
Take to the streets with the ‘Merchant City Music Tour’
Just look at what is happening in the streets of Glasgow’s Merchant City during the last week of July. Walking, dancing, drama: fun and games of all kinds… and Walking Heads is delighted our Glasgow Music Tour is part of it. […]
Shutter art brings a touch of magic to Leith Walk
When the shutters come down the shop is closed but something magical happens in the street outside. At least it feels as if there could be a touch of magic about the ‘after hours’ Shutter Project which will be launched during LeithLate. Not least because the first shop shutter to spring into new life belongs to The Gamesmaster… […]
Walking the Walk with LeithLate
“Leith’s great and more people need to know that. Hopefully, by attending LeithLate, they’ll start to love Leith as much as I do.” Edinburgh is not short of festivals but the multi-arts event organised by Morvern Cunningham with The Skinny as media partners is something different. Celebrating creative life in what is now surely the capital’s most interesting street, LeithLate returns for a second year on Thursday 28 June when a night of quirky invention will spread along Leith Walk. […]
Persian New Year 1391
Guest blogger and Walking Heads contributor Rahe Milani takes a look at yesterday's Persian New Year. Yesterday was our second Persian New Year in Glasgow. It's one of the biggest celebrations of the year back [...]