Gatherings

This page will be updated with the Glasgow International Festival 2026 Gatherings Programme details in early May.



Gatherings are a series of events and activities taking place across the eighteen days of the festival that are free and open to all, and that usually require booking. This programme of live events, performances, workshops, talks and discussions provides opportunities to engage more deeply with points of exchange and recurring themes that exist across Glasgow International projects. They are also moments to come together with other festival visitors, participants and organisers around food, drink and conversation.

Gatherings feature events that draw out particular areas of concern within the festival programme and reflect a wide range of artistic practices exploring artistic experimentation and career trajectories, personal and ancestral memory, inter-generational kinship, and resonances that cross cultures and trace the textures and rhythms of different lands and waters.  These currents within Glasgow International 2026 reveal the ways in which artists, organisers and cultural theorists today are thinking about art’s social role, its material associations with the world around us, and the ways in which we experience art individually and collectively.